@SamBaudinette

teaching at uchicago. scholar of religious studies, philosophy, and theology. also an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left.

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Joined February 2015
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David Lomas, “The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity.”
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"Communism is possible at every moment. To date what we call History is nothing but a set of roundabout means invented by humans to avert it."
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Since I’m teaching Marx this morning I decided to wear my *reddest* sweater.
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Kaknavatos, who was also a mathematician, discusses surrealism and objective chance in terms of the “chaos [that] signifies yet says not.” (Note his invocation of Lacan and Foucault!)
Samuel Baudinette@SamBaudinetteOct 16
“When language does nothing but serve Logos it destroys the luminous disorder of things; they in turn avenge themselves by burying language in their cinder.” From “Gear Box,” by the Greek surrealist Hector Kaknavatos
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“When language does nothing but serve Logos it destroys the luminous disorder of things; they in turn avenge themselves by burying language in their cinder.” From “Gear Box,” by the Greek surrealist Hector Kaknavatos
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Key when teaching Marx imho to help students identify his commitment to abolition. He does not desire the redistribution of property but the end of property. He does not desire to implement a living wage but the end of the wage relation. This is what makes his socialism communist
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I decided to remove the Dalai Lama lecture from my religious studies syllabus because I just couldn’t make sense of how to teach it alongside the other assigned reading. I’m having my students read some hymns from the Rig Veda and narratives from the Bhagavata Purana instead.
Samuel Baudinette@SamBaudinetteOct 13
One thing about me is that I am rarely impressed by the Dalai Lama whenever I read his work or hear him speak. His arguments about religion and politics are often cliché and he gives one the impression that he isn’t very philosophically and theologically sophisticated.
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Reading some more Simon Clarke this morning as I prepare to walk my students through Marx’s critique of political economy in its relation to the classical approach to political economy represented (on my syllabus) by ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith.
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the history of science in psychoanalytic terms as the overcoming, by science, of a resistance determined by a libidinal investment in the worldview that given sciences are trying to problematize and transform
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in order to develop scientific theories and methods that can more adequately test or verify the reality that science as such encounters)
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Communist Unity@communist_unityOct 18
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Christoffer Jonsson
@kurrejonssonOct 17
Jag vill inte längre höra folk säga att det rör sig om ”vanliga” skolprotester. Bilderna och filmerna från Frankrike visar på ren och skär ondska.
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Alberto Lavín@laviincompaeOct 18
Vuelven las barricadas, vuelven las banderas rojas, vuelve el octubre rojo y esperemos que se prolongue hasta Le Temps des cerises. Auténticamente SPOOKY SEASON: un fantasma vuelve a recorrer Europa y a aterrorizar a los Macron, los Sánchez, las Meloni, los Abascal y los Feijóo.
Hugo Francés@hugo__francesOct 17
‼️Lyon : barricade impressionnante montée par des manifestants à proximité de l’hôtel de ville. Des pavés d’un chantier à proximité ont été utilisés pour dresser un mur. Certains assurent vouloir rester toute la nuit. @leprogreslyon
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m.@poetcinematicOct 17
here’s to another may ‘68. thinking of students in paris, tirana, and everywhere else who are brave enough to ask for a brighter future 🤍
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Jason Burne
@Monty_Brogan69Oct 18
La France quand il s'agit d'assembler symboles et révolte, c'est injouable.
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⋆⭒˙loane.⋆⟡@leaulauloOct 17
paris de nuit
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I probably should’ve done this ages ago.
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A very tiresome person who rarely has anything interesting or meaningful to say (in my opinion).
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At least on this particular social media platform.
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“The falsification of reality corresponds to the false poetry… which entertains the bored crowd with imaginary parodies of its own life” “The victory of the Imaginary may be effected by the peculiar way in which a child watches a spectacle—that is, with faith in its ‘reality’”
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Here we see how, in a letter to a young poet, the Greek surrealist Nanos Valaoritis offers an argument against the society of the spectacle, and particularly its tendency to domesticate or recuperate transgressive poetry, that relies upon Lacanian concepts.
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