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 Chai
Joined May 2016
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Fantasy author asks me about good texts on world building I’m giving them Imagined Communities
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I think it’s very unfortunate that Williams’ being central to the emergence of “The New Left” obscures the fact that he is more or less a post-colonial or de-colonial theorist; that his being Welsh makes this impossible to assert coherently
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Comparative Literature is not the Olympus of the Humanities
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It’s so cool that nobody involved seems to be aware of how pathetic this is. “You have to actually read a whole book every week, show up to class, and can’t use Phone.”
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your love is true, yet i marvel that fate should decree our separation. it is as though we revolve in the same celestial sphere. when you disappear from sight, i appear. — ibn khafājah al-andalusī (d. 1138)
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Afropessisism as a species of political realism is the prelude of George Padmore’s Pan-African Historiography
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'Even the pious man wants to be blessed and saved' is the best Hegel line
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“The Catholic Church is the only reason you expect nurses to behave a certain way” —Jacques Derrida, Plato’s Pharmakon
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Hegel was one of the first to oppose the Whig conflation of Civilization with Industry in a systematic way—Fichte formalized it through his teleological medievalism
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Everything I could have wanted to say about brain drain and transatlantic bourgeoisies has been said here by Archie Mafeje. Thank you @HillsJah
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None of the formal problems posed by are unique. They are those of all western art music
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Moments from Mahler’s Ninth stripped more or less directly from Bruckner—but who did Bruckner get it from?
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An essay that might as well be subtitled “On the Coming of Bismarck”
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The American revolution did not spell the culmination, but the end of the Enlightenment—rendering that second blooming a Sturm und Drang which neither art, literature, or politics ever overcome. Goethe’s Kant is the Kant of antinomies—the notion of polar, irreconcilable, yet
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constitutive, opposites, which in reality is nothing more than the terrain of Classical Metaphysics, was and remains the only leg that modernity has to stand on. Nothing is more or less perfect.
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Any critique of Friedrich Wilhelm II is a critique of the American system
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No major work of the Harlem Renaissance mentions Ota Benga, and the proletarian or social realist novels describing negro “low life” cannot replace, cannot speak to, an inhumanity which, for even the most downtrodden urban negroes, only existed in fiction. If we say that the
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Harlem Renaissance was a bourgeois affair, this is why—and not even Hughes or McKay, at the radical fringes, are exempt from the singular failure of the negro intellectual to take his life and tragedy as their creative starting point
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Any discussion of fugitivity and emigration cannot occur without bringing up Goethe
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"Thus the essential task of Marxism is to find a violence which recedes with the approach of man's future. This is what Marx believed he had found in proletarian violence, namely, the power of that class of men who, because they are expropriated in present society from their
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country, their labor, and their very life, are capable of recognizing one another aside from all differences, and thus of founding humanity."
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