When I started writing my book, I thought that bringing the romantic moment and nature-philosophy of German Idealism to present trends would mount a valiant attack on new materialisms and realisms of sort. By the time I finished, I realized that history would take care of that.

Friends, you can pre-order my translation of Valery Podoroga's Mimesis II (a shorter volume with chapters on Platonov and Oberiu) from Verso now (out on July 2nd): versobooks.com/products/3078-…

“Researching into nature we are pantheists, writing poetry we are polytheists, morally we are monotheists.” Goethe

Leadership

This is very true— looking forward to reading. That’s why you read Marx in German. Learn your Konjunktiv I and Konjunktiv II, people.

One summer as an undergrad, my friend and I read 30 pages of Badiou’s Being and Event a day every day (and drank beers the rest of the day). Is that good or bad? Confusing discourse.

my book -- on romanticism and the common -- will finally be out in a few weeks. right now Stanford Press is having a 50% off sale (til Aug 2), & you can pre-order it for the more reasonable price of $35. sup.org/books/title/?i…

Tell me your top five Spinoza's Ethics propositions, and I will tell you who you are.

There are academic books and then there are books of philosophy. They are rarely the same.

"An absolute drive for perfection and completeness is morbid, as soon as it shows itself to be destructive and adverse to what is imperfect, and incomplete." (Novalis)

Fracking is good, cops are good. Across the partisan lines. That’s where we’re at, folks.