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Kevin Georgas
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Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Humanities teacher at Insight Co-learning. Trying to get Duke to pay their fair share.
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My favorite reads this year!
January 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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December 22, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Y'all, we went back and forth for 6 months! The whole time, itching, swelling, nerve pain like shingles, even on Allegra and Benadryl. This was me for 6 months while their AI or some vampire ex-doctor made up reasons why I didn't need medicine:
December 12, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Preached about heaven this morning
“But what if the standard skepticism toward an afterlife has less to do with being rational and more to do with what it means to be a self under capitalism? In our world, who you are, your sense of self, depends on your production and consumption, what you make and what you buy. We're taught that our purpose, our vocation, is tied to our work, so that young people haven't figured out their "calling" until they've landed on a career. And then we show people who we ar (we show ourselves who we are) through our purchases, stylizing our bodies and our living space through our consumer choices. (You'd be embarrassed for me if you knew how much of my self-perception is tied up in books and sweaters.) This is impressed on us to such an extent that it's nearly impossible for us to imagine our selves at all apart from these acts of producing and consuming, and so death, a state in which we can't produce anything and can't consume anythin can only be the loss of existence, can only be nullity, because what are we if not our callings and our appetites? That's a more subtle kind of dismissal than the one represented by hell, but it's a dismissal all the same. This supposedly less superstitious, more rational, clinical approach to the end can do just as much to reinforce the status quo as theologies that see us abandoning earth for heaven.
November 24, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Super excited to discuss Benjamin's absolute banger in class today
Last paragraph of Walter Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: "Imperialistic war is a rebellion of technology which collects, in the form of “human material,” the claims to which society has denied its natural material. Instead of draining rivers, society directs a human stream into a bed of trenches; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way. “Fiat ars—pereat mundus,” says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art."
November 22, 2024 at 1:49 PM