Kenneth Novis
@saditious.bsky.social
3rd year Philosophy DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Researching Spinoza, Bayle and the French Enlightenment | also French and Italian Marxism (Weil, Althusser, Deleuze and Operaismo) | Ultraleftist Metalhead | 26 | he/him
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Kenneth Novis
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Boycott Watkins
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There's a new website for the Boycott Watkins campaign: www.boycottwatkins.com (Watkins is the company that owns Zer0 and Repeater books, as well as several other imprints).
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Get out there and grab yourself a copy! For any folks in Oxford, David's going to be here in early December for a book release in Blackwells: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Get out there and grab yourself a copy! For any folks in Oxford, David's going to be here in early December for a book release in Blackwells: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
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It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
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“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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The paradox is that even though class can be diagnosed as a form of misrecognition, its rectification cannot be accomplished via recognition. To recognize class as a moral injury is to recognize that recognition cannot resolve the misrecognition of class. QED
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The paradox is that even though class can be diagnosed as a form of misrecognition, its rectification cannot be accomplished via recognition. To recognize class as a moral injury is to recognize that recognition cannot resolve the misrecognition of class. QED
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The claim of the article is that a recognition theory of class can compliment a structuralist account of class, not by reducing class to subjective identity but by exploring how the structural vulnerability to economic domination is experienced first-hand as a form of injury to one's self-worth.
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The claim of the article is that a recognition theory of class can compliment a structuralist account of class, not by reducing class to subjective identity but by exploring how the structural vulnerability to economic domination is experienced first-hand as a form of injury to one's self-worth.
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🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
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Want a new textbook on the Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, for less?
Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships
The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, Engagingly written, and rich with real-world examples, The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships is a crucial resource for students, researchers, a...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Want a new textbook on the Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, for less?
Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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NYC event celebrating the upcoming publication of Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) at The New School on December 2 at 6pm featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber. Free and open to the public w registration event.newschool.edu/marxistfemin...
event.newschool.edu
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
NYC event celebrating the upcoming publication of Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) at The New School on December 2 at 6pm featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber. Free and open to the public w registration event.newschool.edu/marxistfemin...
At Historical Materialism last weekend, I got to speak with Michael Hardt a little bit about the history of Italian Marxism (picture taken candidly by a friend!)
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
At Historical Materialism last weekend, I got to speak with Michael Hardt a little bit about the history of Italian Marxism (picture taken candidly by a friend!)
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this is today at 5 pm (CET) - join us!
Next #DescartesLaboratory⤵️
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11th, with Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Carmine Taddeo to discuss Steven Nadler's The Good Cartesian👌🧠
The event is online, everyone is welcome
#Descartes #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #histmed
Email us for info!
fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/n...
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
this is today at 5 pm (CET) - join us!
I’m interested in thinking more about how sci-fi challenges anthropocentrism in philosophy. Kant is sometimes seen as an anthropocentric philosopher. But he also thinks that there could be (or even are) morally superior extraterrestrial agents. Does this matter at all for his anthropocentrism?
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I’m interested in thinking more about how sci-fi challenges anthropocentrism in philosophy. Kant is sometimes seen as an anthropocentric philosopher. But he also thinks that there could be (or even are) morally superior extraterrestrial agents. Does this matter at all for his anthropocentrism?
One of my friends got some photos of me during my presentation in Cambridge yesterday
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One of my friends got some photos of me during my presentation in Cambridge yesterday
Can't believe this is finally out!!!
Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
Althusser and Spinoza
Althusser and Spinoza
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Can't believe this is finally out!!!
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Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
Althusser and Spinoza
Althusser and Spinoza
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...
One of my coolest possessions -
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
One of my coolest possessions -
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This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
Claire Coutinho writing in the Times today that "Every day of delay over the guidance puts women at risk"
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
I've been asked to tutor a visiting student to teach them Aquinas' philosophy for 4 weeks. I'm really struggling to write this syllabus, it either feels like I'm assigning too much or too little from the Summa each week.
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I've been asked to tutor a visiting student to teach them Aquinas' philosophy for 4 weeks. I'm really struggling to write this syllabus, it either feels like I'm assigning too much or too little from the Summa each week.
I'm giving a talk next Wednesday at the University of Oxford's Philosophy DPhil Seminar, titled 'Spinoza and the Politics of Atheism.' Anyone in the city, feel free to come along!
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I'm giving a talk next Wednesday at the University of Oxford's Philosophy DPhil Seminar, titled 'Spinoza and the Politics of Atheism.' Anyone in the city, feel free to come along!
I've just about got all of the materials ready for my presentation at the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. I'll be delivering my talk on November 3rd at 17:00GMT. It'd be great to see some friends there!
October 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I've just about got all of the materials ready for my presentation at the Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period. I'll be delivering my talk on November 3rd at 17:00GMT. It'd be great to see some friends there!
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It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It’s here! My first physical copy of my book, out next month. @uchicagopress.bsky.social have a lovely traditional of sending the first copy straight from their offices in branded wrapping paper.
This looks really good! I've struggled a lot with the reactionary political attitudes that Spinoza explicitly expresses, but this book seems to suggest a reading of him that exorcises those attitudes.
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This looks really good! I've struggled a lot with the reactionary political attitudes that Spinoza explicitly expresses, but this book seems to suggest a reading of him that exorcises those attitudes.
I've now got all of my materials submitted for the exam Oxford has us do for admission into the third year of the doctoral programme - hopefully this all doesn't go as badly as the second year exam did for me
October 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I've now got all of my materials submitted for the exam Oxford has us do for admission into the third year of the doctoral programme - hopefully this all doesn't go as badly as the second year exam did for me
When people are gossiping, it's interesting that if you point out they are doing so, they will always reply that what they are not doing is gossiping. I suppose that gossip is seen uncontroversially as a bad thing, and nobody wants to admit that they are doing something wrong.
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
When people are gossiping, it's interesting that if you point out they are doing so, they will always reply that what they are not doing is gossiping. I suppose that gossip is seen uncontroversially as a bad thing, and nobody wants to admit that they are doing something wrong.
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