becoming-ghost
@whatremains.bsky.social
neighborhood ambler | assistant professor of philosophy | writing a book about deleuze & spinoza
absolute insanity.
Ben Smith: "What you saw with Mahmoud Khalil is that in some ways he is *less* vulnerable than Jimmy Kimmel. The people who are most vulnerable are the employees of big consolidated megacorporations—"
Chris Hayes: "Yeah, although he's about to get deported."
Chris Hayes: "Yeah, although he's about to get deported."
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
absolute insanity.
affective crepuscularity
September 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
affective crepuscularity
Kind of intolerable to constantly be in the position of having to defend the worth of things whose worth is self-evident to oneself.
September 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kind of intolerable to constantly be in the position of having to defend the worth of things whose worth is self-evident to oneself.
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Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening:
"I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
"I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
September 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening:
"I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
"I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
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oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
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ok ok, a downeast fisherman who hates the oligarchy and wants universal healthcare.
I'M LISTENING???
I'M LISTENING???
NEWS: 40-year-old veteran & oysterman Graham Platner demands corporations pay for climate change. He believes the US should fund universal healthcare instead of endless war. And he says the genocide in Gaza is the “ultimate moral test of our time.”
And he's running to beat Susan Collins in Maine.
And he's running to beat Susan Collins in Maine.
Meet the Disillusioned Veteran Who Thinks He Can Beat Susan Collins in Maine
Oysterman Graham Platner is challenging the establishment, demanding corporations pay for climate change, and says the genocide in Gaza is the “ultimate moral test of our time.”
zeteo.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ok ok, a downeast fisherman who hates the oligarchy and wants universal healthcare.
I'M LISTENING???
I'M LISTENING???
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Stop rolling out the welcome mat for fascists by pretending that refusal is beyond human capacities. It isn’t.
It’s just hard and costly so we would have to do it together
It’s just hard and costly so we would have to do it together
August 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Stop rolling out the welcome mat for fascists by pretending that refusal is beyond human capacities. It isn’t.
It’s just hard and costly so we would have to do it together
It’s just hard and costly so we would have to do it together
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people should stop pretending that because there are consequences for resisting it is impossible.
August 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
people should stop pretending that because there are consequences for resisting it is impossible.
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New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country
Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.
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thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
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AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Pretty soon science will realize that time and space are just different ways of expressing the same thing. They’re very close now.
Spinozism is inevitable.
Spinozism is inevitable.
July 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Pretty soon science will realize that time and space are just different ways of expressing the same thing. They’re very close now.
Spinozism is inevitable.
Spinozism is inevitable.
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the jet lag is monstrous. the jet lag has teeth. i am not well!
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
the jet lag is monstrous. the jet lag has teeth. i am not well!
and if you’re not putting carrots in your bolognese !!
July 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
and if you’re not putting carrots in your bolognese !!
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My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits, Qui Parle (2025)
This essay explores two key concepts in the work of Karl Marx and argues for their essential interconnection: species-being and natural limits. The first section provides a general account of the idea...
www.academia.edu
July 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle
who else out here constantly varying the ratio of peanut butter to jelly on their little sandos ??
July 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
who else out here constantly varying the ratio of peanut butter to jelly on their little sandos ??
‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward the singularity, or like, living on mars in a bunker or something’
AI just is a theodicy at this point
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward the singularity, or like, living on mars in a bunker or something’
AI just is a theodicy at this point
July 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
AI just is a theodicy at this point
what Mbembe says about Marx in the necropolitics essay is kind of wild, yeah ?
June 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
what Mbembe says about Marx in the necropolitics essay is kind of wild, yeah ?
a profound moment from Deleuze’s lectures on Spinoza
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
a profound moment from Deleuze’s lectures on Spinoza
so the next step in the playbook seems to be: iranian sleeper cells are in every major city in the US, just waiting to be activated.
more nonsensical, preemptive justification for the detainment, harassment, and deportation of basically whomever this regime wants to target.
more nonsensical, preemptive justification for the detainment, harassment, and deportation of basically whomever this regime wants to target.
June 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
so the next step in the playbook seems to be: iranian sleeper cells are in every major city in the US, just waiting to be activated.
more nonsensical, preemptive justification for the detainment, harassment, and deportation of basically whomever this regime wants to target.
more nonsensical, preemptive justification for the detainment, harassment, and deportation of basically whomever this regime wants to target.
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This is an unjust, unprovoked war of aggression.
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is an unjust, unprovoked war of aggression.