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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
duncanstuart.wordpress.com
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Bryan Johnsontown Massacre retweeted
Last week, amidst the big blue wave, DSA elected over 100 candidates into office. This comes a year after Zohran's election win to become mayor of NYC. Are winning elections and passing policy really sufficient as a criteria of success for socialism today?fracturemagazine.com/interventions/…
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Just write a paris review article about a guy and wait two decades
doing a bank robbery except breaking into the nyrb offices during working hours and aiming an antebellum pistol at myself until they let me write the introduction to an unjustly forgotten midcentury british novel written by a closeted gay man
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there are many ways for graduate students to make some extra money, such as start a lucrative poetry press or give an excellent conference paper
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One cant spend their free tuition at the grocery store, nor do landlords accept it as credit.
A $51,000 annual stipend, combined with free tuition and health insurance, produces a total annual compensation package exceeding $100,000. In exchange, students work approximately 20 hours per week for say four 14-week semesters over five years. This amounts to just 1,120 hours of work over the entire five-year period, yielding an effective hourly compensation of more than $450 -- over 18 times the median hourly wage of an American worker. Even if you write off the free tuition, this wage is around 9x that of the median US worker.
Not to mention that you walk away with a Harvard PhD when all is said and done. Good work if you can get it.
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That’s because they’re not reading my substack, Exit Only, the only substack as tedious and esoteric as a university press paperback, journal article or 90 year old professor’s office hours
anyone who tells you that reading or writing substacks is the same kind of intellectual engagement as a phd is lying to you lmao
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Jay-Z: I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan: I'm not a government man, I'm a government, man
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan: I'm not a government man, I'm a government, man
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Gaddis is easy! Nothing is hard! You’re all cowards! You don’t have to understand everything to read a book! Just read it!
Saw someone say that Gaddis is beloved by snobs because he is difficult and obscure, but all of his novels came out through major publishers and two of them were Penguin Classics!
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increasingly feel this is the attitude we should all have about this kind of performance of politics online, no responding, quote dunking, whatever, because it is not worth taking seriously or giving it airtime
I love you all but please stop asking me to review the Liu book. My view: it is not a serious piece of work and I am not going to take it seriously. For anyone who can still get it up to rehash if woke has gone too far, have fun w it! Personally I find whole convo washed xo
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Our first issue is available to read in its entirety on our site! We are finalizing the print version, so subscribe if you haven’t already to receive a free copy (link below)
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i went to arizona in august, at the height of summer, to answer a nagging question: why are there so many data centers, not to mention a water-guzzling chip factory, in the desert?
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Come find me and my work on the Colon Elephant website
I love great writing and hate how it's treated on the internet. So I built something to try to fix that.
If you wish there were a better place to share your writing, to discover new work, to talk culture and books, then I invite you to read—and to join me.
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Bryan Johnsontown Massacre retweeted
I love great writing and hate how it's treated on the internet. So I built something to try to fix that.
If you wish there were a better place to share your writing, to discover new work, to talk culture and books, then I invite you to read—and to join me.
If you wish there were a better place to share your writing, to discover new work, to talk culture and books, then I invite you to read—and to join me.
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I’m in this bad boy with a little essay on the posters of May 68 and visual language in times of rupture. ameniafreereview.site/pages/Issue2/S…
Issue 2 is LIVE:
feat.:
- Iran + the struggle with imperialist feminisms
- Prairieland + the role of the writer
- Shklovsky + formalism's relation to revolution
- first Eng. translation of René Menil's "The Passage from Poetry to Philosophy"
- ofc, experimental literature
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