Writing Program Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University
Joined June 2012
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Quinn Lester retweeted
Jun 14
Jalen Brunson, espousing Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”, brings a championship to socialist New York City
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"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"
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New York gets sewer socialism and rediscovers mass popular culture at the same time. True Gramscianism
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Which Duke book will have this cover?
Motocross riders perform aerial stunts on a ramp setup on the White House South Lawn ahead of a UFC event scheduled at the White House, June 2026.
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Jun 10
Revising the Du Bois chapter for the book from the diss (first written in 2019!) does mean I get to update all the citations to my friends's great work on Du Bois from unpublished to journal citations
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Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misapprehended as a straightforward “Marx revival.” @chrisokane_nyc
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Jun 6
The resurgence of liberal/civics education is correlated with the death of the post-war research/multiversity. The Straussians are outliving their greatest nemesis
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I think one of the good faith critiques of Platner from the left is skepticism over his "working class" image; it is noted he went to private school, his parents had money (attorney, restauranteur). But this is a misunderstanding of how capital is distributed in the US today:
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Quinn Lester retweeted
Jun 4
I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era
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Quinn Lester retweeted
Jun 4
police?! I'd like to report a murder!
You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:
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Quinn Lester retweeted
Jun 3
twitter vindicating me today as usual
May 30
The Afropessimist take on Backrooms writes itself—the interracial relationship does not exist, the backrooms are the hold, the monster is blackness (figured here specifically by reference to both its Islamic & Atlantic origins). Have fun, whoever wants to write it.
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Jun 2
Frasier: Hello! Hello! Anyone in the relaxation grotto!
Niles: Frasier, I told you the tape door would not be better than the Gold Door.
"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs."
"Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"
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May 21
Shocking news: local area man learns that writing the hardest part of a thing is indeed hard
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May 15
Has anyone written on fin-de-siecle Marxism as a thing? Marxists show up in a lot of these fin-de-siecle histories but are rarely focused on and are not depicted as a "failing" tradition, though ironically this is the kind of Marxism most ignored now in the Second International
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May 15
Final grades are in and his summer has just begun. Now give him three mutually contradictory reviews. The editor says he must respond to all of them. The deadline is in a month.
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May 13
Is Black Studies the only field where 00’s New Materialism (very broadly construed) remains a central research agenda? How to account for this based on both several key texts of NM not discussing race much and the denial from many that ontology has any place in Black Studies?
🚨📚I am very proud to announce my new article, “Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn,” published with Hypatia. This article accounts for intersectionality’s decline in recent black feminist thought, and the subsequent turn to Wynter, Spillers, Hartman others.
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A more worthwhile approach to try to understand what pied pipers claims to provide?
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Could this still be said to characterize even a predominant grouping in contemporary political theory?
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