Jason Read
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
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- Mad Max: Fury Road was released ten years ago today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2015/05/tale...
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- Reposted by Jason ReadBen of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
- It is not unusual for cities to play other cities in the movies, but what is striking, at least for someone who grew up in Cleveland, is that the Superman trailer has two of Cleveland's more iconic structures standing in for Metropolis.
- The best list to be on.
- I am currently reading Eribon's The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman and as with his previous book I am finding his ability to think about his own family through the broader transformation of class in society to be really helpful. www.unemployednegativity.com/2023/02/tran...
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- Reposted by Jason ReadThe antisemites in the White House—who talk of Good Jews and Bad Jews, do Nazi salutes, push white nationalist conspiracy theories, and dine with open Jew haters—are not fighting antisemitism. That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education. Not subtle.
- Reposted by Jason ReadI struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
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- So now that Andor has demonstrated that television and drugs exist in the Star Wars universe it is that much more likely that Han Solo and Chewbacca got high and watched TV.
- Reposted by Jason ReadIf you make it your life's goal to defund things like this, you are my enemy and I hope you die alone and afraid. Stevie Wonder performs a fire version of "Superstition" on Sesame Street. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7...
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- "A table covered with fast food combines opulence and accessibility: it is both a symbol of unimagined wealth and approachability, or, to use the parlance of our times, it is "relatable." www.unemployednegativity.com/2021/04/woke...
- Thinking about spontaneous ideology and the spontaneity of ideology again. www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/11/cons...
- Taking a break from grading to read outside
- Reposted by Jason Read40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
- One of the difficulties of making sense of the current wave of corruption is that Trump is both a career conman and a longtime mark, thus challenging the principle of non-contradiction.
- A program bringing internet access to rural Maine, i.e. some of the whitest places in the country, was cut because the program had the name equity in it. www.pressherald.com?p=7454861&uu...
- Reposted by Jason ReadAn electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant, writes @harikunzru.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
- Beautiful day
- Declaring white South Africans to be the only legitimate refugees is a huge step towards determining that “reverse racism” is the only real racism.
- I have long considered Malcolm X’s statement that “racism is like Cadillac’s, they come out with a new model every year” to be true, but lately it has seemed more a PT Cruiser, a shitty copy of some ideals that were always stupid.
- Rereading this remarkable little book, which is as much on Spinoza and Marx as it is on Marx. www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/04/wave...
- "Q: What is Sinners about? A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things." What To Know About ‘Sinners’ — theonion.com/what-to-know...
- Anthropologists tell us that we can learn about a cultures values and ideals by looking at their rituals and practices with respect to death. Dealing with my mother's death has shown to me that in our society we are merely just substrates for property relations.
- Children of the general intellect and Coca-Cola? www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- Who wore it better?
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- Reposted by Jason Read"Welcome to the American Petrostate" thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
- Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” Trump is going for all three like an EGOT
- Reposted by Jason ReadSasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social
- Never work with dogs or children
- Reposted by Jason ReadCovid is not “mild”. It’s not just a cold. infections don’t make you stronger & can cause significant harm Grateful to anyone with a platform who speaks out about their struggles. People need to understand repeat infections aren’t inevitable. Masking & clean air works. We just have to do it
- CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects' Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...
- Reposted by Jason ReadThis is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs
- After watching Freak Tales here is my ranking of best punks in film (narrative films, not documentaries). 1. Green Room 2.We Are the Best 3. SLC Punk 4. Freaky Tales 5. Repo Man 6. Return of the Living Dead 7. Out of the Blue 8. Suburbia 9. Sid and Nancy 10. Summer of Sam
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- Mother’s Day read. This book has been helping me think about the last year of my mother’s life and all of the struggles with her health and institutional care.
- Finally finished Season 2 of Severance. I have to say I agree with Aaron Bady about the progression from the first to second season. prospect.org/culture/2025...
- Reposted by Jason Readpulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
- You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- I knew that there was a scene set in Gilman Street, I did not know that it would include a band playing the part of Operation Ivy. www.kqed.org/arts/1397390...
- Reposted by Jason ReadOur trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.
- I am mostly grading now, but when I take a break it is with one of these books, all excellent.
- Reposted by Jason ReadSo let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
- Juniper bonsais and Venus flytraps are sold everywhere, but seldom is it mentioned that the plants need to go dormant for the winter, or how much light they need. Here are mine emerging from their wintering into the light.
- I started reading Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards: just as Melinda Cooper’s Family Values demonstrated that a repressive politics of the family was always a part of neoliberalism this book shows that the focus on race is not a populist deviation from neoliberalism but always a part of it.
- There is straight line from the plot of Armageddon to the defunding of NASA, NOAA, NIH, and NSF.
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- Reposted by Jason ReadRümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail “She has been imprisoned [45] days for simply writing an op-ed that called for human rights and dignity for the people in Palestine.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Jason Read“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
- Vertigo premiered on this day in 1968. www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/04/trip...
