Old Ric
@oldric.bsky.social
Philosophy professor • i love spinoza ☭
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December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
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Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Adorno-Horkheimer: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses’ (Jun./Jul. 1941).
Letters towards “Walter Benjamin zum Gedächtnis” (1942).
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Finally reading Lukács and it’s pretty cool to read a robust account of something like alienation so early in the 20th century
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Finally reading Lukács and it’s pretty cool to read a robust account of something like alienation so early in the 20th century
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i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
happy wednesday what are we reading this week team?
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
happy wednesday what are we reading this week team?
<explaining lecture to my students> imagine an hour-long tik tok! <boos>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
<explaining lecture to my students> imagine an hour-long tik tok! <boos>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Ok imagine 6 ten-minute long tik toks <some thoughtful nods>
Imagine 60 1-minute long tiktoks <loud applause>
imagine 600 10 second tiktoks! <the class is overwhelmed with applause and hollers>
Every political development leads to the conclusion that utilitarian and pragmatic choices have to be resisted, and we can only be guided by what is true and just. Every attempt to turn politics into a game played to win will lose for the simple fact that politics is not a game, and has no rules.
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Every political development leads to the conclusion that utilitarian and pragmatic choices have to be resisted, and we can only be guided by what is true and just. Every attempt to turn politics into a game played to win will lose for the simple fact that politics is not a game, and has no rules.
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microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
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Gillian Rose reveals the uncomfortable truth that reckoning with Neo-Kantianism gives dividends.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Gillian Rose reveals the uncomfortable truth that reckoning with Neo-Kantianism gives dividends.
So @misrecognitions.bsky.social , is there a … missus recognitions? 👀
September 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
So @misrecognitions.bsky.social , is there a … missus recognitions? 👀
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back in Sartre’s CDR for something & it feels so good
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
back in Sartre’s CDR for something & it feels so good
@exiledpistol.bsky.social i respect that you're working to post here. it's inspiring. but. not enough for me to set up shop here full time. not yet.
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@exiledpistol.bsky.social i respect that you're working to post here. it's inspiring. but. not enough for me to set up shop here full time. not yet.
Curious: is anyone talking about how a ton of theory books are out of print such that the used book market will likely disappear for anyone who isn't willing to pay more than $40 for a book? Or am I making this up?
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Curious: is anyone talking about how a ton of theory books are out of print such that the used book market will likely disappear for anyone who isn't willing to pay more than $40 for a book? Or am I making this up?
* It’s UO, not OU
* Union was won a while back; retaliation doesn’t make sense. It did however make a credible strike threat this March
* UO has long been undergoing neoliberalizatjon spurred by state austerity and Phil Knight—google University of Nike.
* Union was won a while back; retaliation doesn’t make sense. It did however make a credible strike threat this March
* UO has long been undergoing neoliberalizatjon spurred by state austerity and Phil Knight—google University of Nike.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
* It’s UO, not OU
* Union was won a while back; retaliation doesn’t make sense. It did however make a credible strike threat this March
* UO has long been undergoing neoliberalizatjon spurred by state austerity and Phil Knight—google University of Nike.
* Union was won a while back; retaliation doesn’t make sense. It did however make a credible strike threat this March
* UO has long been undergoing neoliberalizatjon spurred by state austerity and Phil Knight—google University of Nike.
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YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE WOODS, MOUTH FULL OF BUGS /
MAMI I GOT THE STICK IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MUD /
I KEEP THE STICK TO FLIP THE LOGS WITH POISON SLUGS /
SO COME CHECK OUT THIS SLUG IF YOU INTO POISON SLUGS
MAMI I GOT THE STICK IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MUD /
I KEEP THE STICK TO FLIP THE LOGS WITH POISON SLUGS /
SO COME CHECK OUT THIS SLUG IF YOU INTO POISON SLUGS
August 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE WOODS, MOUTH FULL OF BUGS /
MAMI I GOT THE STICK IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MUD /
I KEEP THE STICK TO FLIP THE LOGS WITH POISON SLUGS /
SO COME CHECK OUT THIS SLUG IF YOU INTO POISON SLUGS
MAMI I GOT THE STICK IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MUD /
I KEEP THE STICK TO FLIP THE LOGS WITH POISON SLUGS /
SO COME CHECK OUT THIS SLUG IF YOU INTO POISON SLUGS
CIA-funded theorists (selection):
Judith Butler
Kostas Axelos
Walter Benjamin
Martial Guerolt
Non-CIA funded theorists (exhaustive):
Gabriel Rockh*ll
Vijay Prashad
István Mészáros
Nate Silver
Ruth Barcan Marcus
Judith Butler
Kostas Axelos
Walter Benjamin
Martial Guerolt
Non-CIA funded theorists (exhaustive):
Gabriel Rockh*ll
Vijay Prashad
István Mészáros
Nate Silver
Ruth Barcan Marcus
August 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
CIA-funded theorists (selection):
Judith Butler
Kostas Axelos
Walter Benjamin
Martial Guerolt
Non-CIA funded theorists (exhaustive):
Gabriel Rockh*ll
Vijay Prashad
István Mészáros
Nate Silver
Ruth Barcan Marcus
Judith Butler
Kostas Axelos
Walter Benjamin
Martial Guerolt
Non-CIA funded theorists (exhaustive):
Gabriel Rockh*ll
Vijay Prashad
István Mészáros
Nate Silver
Ruth Barcan Marcus
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The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.
newrepublic.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
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Lewis White Beck exercising executive privilege to talk about aliens in his 1971 address to the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.
www.jstor.org/stable/31297...
www.jstor.org/stable/31297...
July 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Lewis White Beck exercising executive privilege to talk about aliens in his 1971 address to the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.
www.jstor.org/stable/31297...
www.jstor.org/stable/31297...
Flyer for a 1986 march on Lesbian/Gay Pride Day in Chicago featuring the Dykes and Gay Women Against Racism along with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.
July 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Flyer for a 1986 march on Lesbian/Gay Pride Day in Chicago featuring the Dykes and Gay Women Against Racism along with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.
Lincoln expressly disavowed John Brown in an attempt to defend his party. The South neither cared nor was convinced.
June 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Lincoln expressly disavowed John Brown in an attempt to defend his party. The South neither cared nor was convinced.
>--<MONDAY READING CHECKPOINT>--<
you must share what you're reading to continue
you must share what you're reading to continue
June 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
>--<MONDAY READING CHECKPOINT>--<
you must share what you're reading to continue
you must share what you're reading to continue
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The enemy is making leaps and bounds in the field of shoving a tinwhistle up their asses and farting yankee doodle dandy while we sit around not doing that!! we can't cede this crucial line of struggle!!!!
June 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The enemy is making leaps and bounds in the field of shoving a tinwhistle up their asses and farting yankee doodle dandy while we sit around not doing that!! we can't cede this crucial line of struggle!!!!
Starting my time on Bluesky fresh.
June 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Starting my time on Bluesky fresh.