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Front and back covers for Baudelaire's Shadow, forthcoming from Fordham University Press on March 3
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Nathan Brown
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Nathan Brown
@redwithoutwhy
Prof @Concordia / Author of Rationalist Empiricism; The Limits of Fabrication; Baudelaire's Shadow / Translator of The Flowers of Evil @VersoBooks
Montreal Beigetreten Eylül 2023
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@stephwakefield_ Gee, I don't know Steph, I guess we start propagandizing for Peter Thiel?
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We are the last humans of the long 20th century: the last to experience Writing, and the Image. We’re also the threshold generation, witnessing the accelerating disintegration of the forms we love into noise. What do we do?
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra
After Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video showing he is not dead yet, people are now speculating about why his coffee cup, which was filled to the brim, did not spill when he lifted it. This is now being called Coffeegate.
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@Permanentkritik And when capitalism ends, who knows what the result will be, but it will not be a return to the postwar epoch of Fordist compromise.
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@Permanentkritik I don't want to be unduly polemical, but that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the historical dynamics of capitalism. The movement from formal subsumption to real subsumption to the realization of the secular tendency of the rate of profit is irreversible.
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Habermas will become one of those thinkers that was huge in their time and then forgotten unless we make the world a better place than it is Heading
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@Permanentkritik Ah I see. But yeah that social democratic compromise depended entirely on conditions of rising profitability that are never coming back, so the ideologue of the postwar boom will have to suffer the same eclipse as Keynesianism.
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@redwithoutwhy So if he is remembered it won’t be because of the brilliance of his thought but because of some sort of movement to a similar compromise that ideas will resonate with and provide jobs for libs
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@Permanentkritik I'm confused then - forgotten unless we make the world a better place? A better world is a world in which Habermas is unforgotten?
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Never forget that those who seek to humiliate the honorable and destroy the truth can only do so if the true and the honorable let them. Susan Abulhawa’s integrity and intelligence shine like a beacon from the abyss. Listen.
susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى@susanabulhawa
my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.
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@_Zeets @ANNVYSHINSKY I’ve always found him annoying. I’ve never had any other idea about him.
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My study of The Flowers of Evil — Baudelaire's Shadow: On Poetic Determination — is out today from Fordham University Press.
fordhampress.com/baudelaire-s-s…
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Advanced copies! Available for pre-order now, publication on March 3.
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Video of my lecture yesterday at Université de Montréal (in which I discuss romantic irony and the romantic fragment while moving in and out of the video blur) youtu.be/Y3Zcu7sJyjo?si… via @YouTube
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The downstairs bookshelf in my new home featuring the wonderful handmade oak hammer and sickle bookends @plant_comrade made me for Christmas
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@synekura_audio Conceptually untenable, historically superficial, and art historically tendentious. Why Schoenberg and Proust rather than Malevich, El Lissitzsky, Le Courbusier, eg? But this approach to "time" and "space" doesn't even get off the ground, precisely bc of 20th C developments.
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Page for Baudelaire's Shadow now up at Fordham University Press: tinyurl.com/3ttzeh8k
“The most philosophically serious engagement with Les Fleurs du Mal that we have...An unusually stirring and eloquent tour de force.” - Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
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Upcoming events with NYC artist Cheyney Thompson at Concordia University, Montreal, Sept. 23 & 24. Details here:
centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2025/…
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Forthcoming from Fordham University Press, Spring/Summer 2026
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