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I've launched a blog in order to collate all my writings in one place. Right now everything I've written from 2015-2018 is up. 2019 writings and some new stuff to follow soon. Will also upload presentations and talks.
duncanstuart.wordpress.com/
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Bryan Johnsontown Massacre retweeted
While it’s true Althusser is kind of out of fashion, with some of the most famous pieces of what was once “high althusserianism” having a kind of 1960s smell, this disappearance is also apparent, imo. You can’t see Althusser because he’s everywhere already, his main +
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If you want to know what ever happened to Althusser, read @_fracturemag_
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Some people asked for the syllabus, here is its last iteration.
I'll be teaching this course at BISR beginning November 18. We'll be reading Aimé Césaire, Ghassan Kanafani, Lorraine Hansberry and thinking about "the entry of the chorus, of the ex- slaves themselves, as the arbiters of their own fate" (C.L.R. James).
thebrooklyninstitute.com/ite…
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Harlan County, USA, the Oscar winning documentary about the 1973 Brookside miner strike in Kentucky. Here we offer a translation of a 1978 review by Natacha Michel, alongside an introduction by Patrick King: fracturemagazine.com/interve…
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Late to the trend but here are the 9 books that had the biggest effect on me, all things considered
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It may not be the book you wanted, but it’s the book you need
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Saw a post from a guy whose whole deal is making missiles that don’t work saying bring back public executions. All you need to know is that like all of these tech buffoons their argument is ahistorical and anti-sociological at the deepest levels.
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Well surely this is some kind of moral improvement for our beleaguered antihero!
Incidentally, Ross Barkan, who wrote these words about gendered reading habits in a retrospective on Lonesome Dove published in @jacobin yesterday, lifted them wholesale from his own 2024 Substack piece about the lack of male writers.
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"Thinking politics by starting from the existing situation is what I call a politics of the conjuncture. Every militant finds themself thrown into a situation — thus: what is to be done?" fracturemagazine.com/issues/…
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Hi if you have a blue check and you replied to this I think you are either a bot or the dumbest guy alive
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Congratulations to Anne Carson for winning the Nobel Prize in Young Adult Literature
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Who’s winning the Nobel prize in literature?
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Scholastic Mindfuck
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Tucker Carson
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Canned Shoe
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Jerry Mundane
10 votes • Final results
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Bryan Johnsontown Massacre retweeted
Look at him, thats my Qual.
Your what?
My Qualitative! My vibe specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.
I'll give you a hint, his name is Jayden. He won a local poetry competition in bushwick! Yeah I'm sure of the vibe.
Quant firms are hiring idea guys, not quants
I've been skeptical about the whole - software is commoditized, ideas are the moat argument
But I've seen first hand the best quant and technical firms in the world hire thinkers, liberal arts grads, and generalists
I predict the trend accelerates
Letter from @AQRCapital below
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