Happy birthday to the one on the left. He got a few things wrong, but a lot right. Who's ever given the commodity such a poetic treatment?

For animal studies scholars, 'Communist Pigs' is a great book. Forget porcine capitalism; let's discuss porcine East German communism. To think the NYPD got that hands on it on Hamilton Hall....

Yesterday's discussion of 'Marx for Cats' with Barbara J King and Amit Baishya explored why didacticism re: animal agricultural rarely convinces. How best to show that a new pandemic might well be afoot? That animal ag. kills more than farm animals? These are genuine questions.

A wildcat strike is afoot @cuny on this day, May 1, international working people's day and a moment of state repression. Follow CUNY Out Sick for Palestine for updates. And here's the note from the CUNY faculty union. The reality of labor organizing in NY STATE--state & union threaten jail....

A new occupation has begun.

FYI (pic mine)
In support of Wesleyan students’ rights to orderly protest and free speech (inculding demonstrations and sit-ins) & to avoid direct conflict with a student-planned rally today’s MARX FOR CATS by Leigh Claire La Berge will be delayed by one hour to begin at 5:30pm.

Sad sad news of Marina Vishmidt’s passing. What a mind she had for aesthetics and its many forms.

This should be play about Fidel Castro and his lover, Natalia.

Who can recommend a good biography of Anna Freud? Alex Colston ? Hannah Zeavin ? Others?

For Immanuel Kant's 300th birthday, let's put the cat back into the Categorical Imperative.

A cat named Edward Said at Columbia in support of the Gaza encampment. Jodi Dean -- this one's for you!

My morning's fun, broad-strokes generalizations:

Even the most hardened Marxists talk to their animals. Even the most technocratic object-oriented ontologists know the difference between a community of rocks and that of dolphins.

I just experienced the freedom of writing a footnote without including place of publication. To think that could have been my life.

A coffee machine in the English department office or a visual metaphor for all English departments?

“The family is truly a tax haven in a heartless world,” Cooper writes.' From Sarah Brouillette in the LARB on Melinda Cooper's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tax-…

Join us at the Mildred’s Lane residency this summer for five days of interspecies exploration. Some scholarships available. Please share. Mildred's Lane

So important that we stand in support of Jodi Dean. A true COMRADE.

Joke draft of acknowledgements for my next book.
'Sadly, I’ve also got to name a few people who stood in the way—those without whom the book would still have been written and would likely have been better.'