Hardcore for Nerds

"Why sneer at the intellectuals?"*
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*from the title of a review of Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure by Michael Foot, Evening Standard, Nov. 26, 1943.
Jan 26
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It was a cracker of a Michael D speech: we counted a head-wrecking nine paradigms along the way, although a few may have slipped through the “interstices” as we considered how “utopian alternatives must be accompanied by a praxis that is envisaged and one that is applicable within, and in the context of, institutions”. As Ernst Bloch might have said, before we cantered through the reconstruction of 19th century Europe, the Glass-Steagall Act and the libraries of Alexandria.

First they came for our sociologists, and I did not cry out because I was not of that faculty…

feeling a bit reductio ad hitlerum today (in an ironic way)… maybe I should go back and do my PhD in 1930s European Communism.

irish politics hitler runoff Michael D. Higgins
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