Taylor R. Genovese
@taylorgenovese.com
assistant professor of philosophy and religion. filmmaker and photographer. radical publisher.
interested in cosmism, science, tech, spaceflight, marxism, nostalgia, borderlands.
taylorgenovese.com / kuznitsa.media / iskrabooks.org
views my own
interested in cosmism, science, tech, spaceflight, marxism, nostalgia, borderlands.
taylorgenovese.com / kuznitsa.media / iskrabooks.org
views my own
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The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the ...
www.tandfonline.com
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism
Following the provocation put forth by China Miéville in which he proposed the development of an “apophatic Marxism,” this article seeks to advance his suggestion of transmuting Marxism beyond the ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My article "The Dialectics of Melancholy and Nostalgia in Apophatic Marxism" has now been published in the latest issue of Political Theology.
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
First-come-first-serve 50 free downloads at the link below (but it's also up on my website and PhilPapers 🤫).
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAEJ7...
Back during my archaeology days before I my Dark Turn™️ to sociocultural, I used to knap all the time. I still have my leather, antlers, stones, and a stash of cores somewhere around...
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Back during my archaeology days before I my Dark Turn™️ to sociocultural, I used to knap all the time. I still have my leather, antlers, stones, and a stash of cores somewhere around...
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
I even made an atlatl and spears to throw them with too.
This is probably the best point I made out of basalt.
Course name poll.
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Course name poll.
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
Which do you think will attract early career undergraduate students?
1. Life Beyond Earth: Astrobiology and the Philosophy of Outer Space
2. Cosmic Others: Philosophy of Astrobiology and Space Exploration
(Or feel free to tell me other ideas or combos)
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For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
My goal in the next few years is to develop 2-4 new courses since my college only has intros to philosophy, ethics, & major religions.
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My goal in the next few years is to develop 2-4 new courses since my college only has intros to philosophy, ethics, & major religions.
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Currently crafting syllabi for Philosophy of:
Mysticism & Magic
Astrobiology & Space Exploration
Time & Time Travel
Radical Political Thought
Not even in my most angst-filled, irreverent undergrad phase would I think it's appropriate to send an email to a professor who told me to read the syllabus for an answer to my question with an email that just says "?"
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Not even in my most angst-filled, irreverent undergrad phase would I think it's appropriate to send an email to a professor who told me to read the syllabus for an answer to my question with an email that just says "?"
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Some Gen-Z students have been so conditioned to entitlement.
Benzodiazepines are the only reason I'm probably still alive being forced to live in this regime, especially for the past 15 years or so.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Benzodiazepines are the only reason I'm probably still alive being forced to live in this regime, especially for the past 15 years or so.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
I wish there was a way to escape this place that didn't create even more instability and anxiety.
This world that was created for us is beyond cruel.
Filled my @letterboxd.social milestones a few days ago. Pretty interesting spread.
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Filled my @letterboxd.social milestones a few days ago. Pretty interesting spread.
“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.”
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die.”
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Rewatching Station Eleven is sending me into existential crises 😭
I love this miniseries so much…
Our inaugural conference for SPINE was absolutely amazing yesterday. Incredible conversations, multimodal & politically disciplined proposals for moving forward in our current times, and many networking connections being made.
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our inaugural conference for SPINE was absolutely amazing yesterday. Incredible conversations, multimodal & politically disciplined proposals for moving forward in our current times, and many networking connections being made.
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Join us: www.spine.ju.mp
Those of us who lived through 2008 know the kind of suffering that is on the horizon—and this looks like it'll be even worse; not just quantitatively, but also due to the regime's planned incompetence that is purposefully ill prepared to keep capitalism and the state in tact.
U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Those of us who lived through 2008 know the kind of suffering that is on the horizon—and this looks like it'll be even worse; not just quantitatively, but also due to the regime's planned incompetence that is purposefully ill prepared to keep capitalism and the state in tact.
In the online section of my introductory philosophy class of 26 students, all but one (1) student used AI on my Midterm.
We're toast.
We're toast.
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In the online section of my introductory philosophy class of 26 students, all but one (1) student used AI on my Midterm.
We're toast.
We're toast.
Are there journals out there that publish article-length translations?
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are there journals out there that publish article-length translations?
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
I've translated Bogdanov's “Between Man and Machine: About Taylor’s System" which I'd love to see in the English speaking world.
It speaks to a lot of what's going on technologically as well.
Dug a visual essay project out of mothballs to start working on again that's a very different kind of photography than I've done in the past.
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Dug a visual essay project out of mothballs to start working on again that's a very different kind of photography than I've done in the past.
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
I feel like I'm back working in archives!
New profile pic courtesy of @dajveism.bsky.social.
I'm always being a weird little guy perched on the side of a cliff with my camera.
I'm always being a weird little guy perched on the side of a cliff with my camera.
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New profile pic courtesy of @dajveism.bsky.social.
I'm always being a weird little guy perched on the side of a cliff with my camera.
I'm always being a weird little guy perched on the side of a cliff with my camera.
I've been using the Hobonichi Techo as a diary since 2023 & I use the My 100 page to record my first-watch films & miniseries for the year.
I always fill it up before I get to December (e.g. watched my 100th yesterday) but I like being able physically flip through past watches.
I always fill it up before I get to December (e.g. watched my 100th yesterday) but I like being able physically flip through past watches.
September 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I've been using the Hobonichi Techo as a diary since 2023 & I use the My 100 page to record my first-watch films & miniseries for the year.
I always fill it up before I get to December (e.g. watched my 100th yesterday) but I like being able physically flip through past watches.
I always fill it up before I get to December (e.g. watched my 100th yesterday) but I like being able physically flip through past watches.
there it is
again
that
funny feeling.
again
that
funny feeling.
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
there it is
again
that
funny feeling.
again
that
funny feeling.
The zeal in which most of the professors that I work with implicitly want to put themselves out of a job with AI is staggering and made my soul leave my body today in a committee meeting.
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The zeal in which most of the professors that I work with implicitly want to put themselves out of a job with AI is staggering and made my soul leave my body today in a committee meeting.
Register before October 1st for our hybrid conference!
See you in Philly (with a table full of Iskra books 👀)
See you in Philly (with a table full of Iskra books 👀)
🚨REMINDER🚨
📝 Registration for the Inaugural Conference of the Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE) is OPEN! Use the link below to get tickets! Organised with
@CTW_ATC
October 18, 2025 at Villanova University.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-confe...
📝 Registration for the Inaugural Conference of the Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE) is OPEN! Use the link below to get tickets! Organised with
@CTW_ATC
October 18, 2025 at Villanova University.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-confe...
September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Register before October 1st for our hybrid conference!
See you in Philly (with a table full of Iskra books 👀)
See you in Philly (with a table full of Iskra books 👀)
Getting hyped!
My chapter in this important book—"The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism"—will be published by MIT Press in May. I've also heard it will be published open-access, so despite the high book price, everyone should be able to have access.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...
My chapter in this important book—"The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism"—will be published by MIT Press in May. I've also heard it will be published open-access, so despite the high book price, everyone should be able to have access.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...
Reactionary Worldbuilding
Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “norm...
mitpress.mit.edu
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Getting hyped!
My chapter in this important book—"The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism"—will be published by MIT Press in May. I've also heard it will be published open-access, so despite the high book price, everyone should be able to have access.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...
My chapter in this important book—"The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism"—will be published by MIT Press in May. I've also heard it will be published open-access, so despite the high book price, everyone should be able to have access.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...
Created a @letterboxd.social list of the films that we'll be watching for my Radical Aesthetics independent study (syllabus here: trgenovese.github.io/syllabi/PHI2...)
letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...
letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...
PHI 273 (Radical Aesthetics) Films
A list of 24 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Battleship Potemkin (1925), Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Strike (1925), Interplanetary Revolution (1924) and Stalker (1979).
letterboxd.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Created a @letterboxd.social list of the films that we'll be watching for my Radical Aesthetics independent study (syllabus here: trgenovese.github.io/syllabi/PHI2...)
letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...
letterboxd.com/trgenovese/l...
Reposted by Taylor R. Genovese
My short film on Lenin in eastern Germany, using Langston Hughes' poem as an anchor, has ended its festival run and can now be watched for free!
Watch it here: vimeo.com/893084975?sh...
Log and rate it here: letterboxd.com/film/the-sun...
Watch it here: vimeo.com/893084975?sh...
Log and rate it here: letterboxd.com/film/the-sun...
THE SUN SETS LIKE A SCAR (2024)
Engaging with the poetry of Langston Hughes, this film investigates the afterlives of Vladimir Lenin in eastern Germany. ◇◇◇ Director, Cinematographer, Editor:…
vimeo.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My short film on Lenin in eastern Germany, using Langston Hughes' poem as an anchor, has ended its festival run and can now be watched for free!
Watch it here: vimeo.com/893084975?sh...
Log and rate it here: letterboxd.com/film/the-sun...
Watch it here: vimeo.com/893084975?sh...
Log and rate it here: letterboxd.com/film/the-sun...
Some privileged filmmaker problems, I know, but it has been a nightmare trying to switch back to, and relearn, FCP after using Premiere for 15+ years.
I learned to edit on FCP 6 in film school but that was in 2008...
Maybe I'll watch some YouTube tutorials.
I learned to edit on FCP 6 in film school but that was in 2008...
Maybe I'll watch some YouTube tutorials.
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Some privileged filmmaker problems, I know, but it has been a nightmare trying to switch back to, and relearn, FCP after using Premiere for 15+ years.
I learned to edit on FCP 6 in film school but that was in 2008...
Maybe I'll watch some YouTube tutorials.
I learned to edit on FCP 6 in film school but that was in 2008...
Maybe I'll watch some YouTube tutorials.
Today is the birthday of my main man Aleksandr Bogdanov, born today in 1873!
One of my proudest achievements is bringing "Art and the Working Class" into English for the first time.
You can download it for free from @iskrabooks.bsky.social or get a low-cost pb!
www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...
One of my proudest achievements is bringing "Art and the Working Class" into English for the first time.
You can download it for free from @iskrabooks.bsky.social or get a low-cost pb!
www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...
August 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today is the birthday of my main man Aleksandr Bogdanov, born today in 1873!
One of my proudest achievements is bringing "Art and the Working Class" into English for the first time.
You can download it for free from @iskrabooks.bsky.social or get a low-cost pb!
www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...
One of my proudest achievements is bringing "Art and the Working Class" into English for the first time.
You can download it for free from @iskrabooks.bsky.social or get a low-cost pb!
www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...
Reposted by Taylor R. Genovese
The above quote from @taylorgenovese.com's translation of 'Art and the Working Class', available as FREE PDF or beautiful pocket book - www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...
Art and the Working Class | Iskra Books
www.iskrabooks.org
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The above quote from @taylorgenovese.com's translation of 'Art and the Working Class', available as FREE PDF or beautiful pocket book - www.iskrabooks.org/art-and-the-...