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William Paris
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William Paris
@whitherutopia
Assistant Professor of Philosophy @UofT He/Him Co-host @leftofphil My new book: global.oup.com/academic/produ…
- We are barely a month without woke and I’m seeing planes do things I didn’t know were possibleI’m at Pearson airport, where a Delta flight has just crash landed apparently due to some kind of flap failure. Terrifying.
- Replying to @oglynwilIf my pilot is not wearing a dashiki we’re 👏🏾 not👏🏾 going👏🏾
- The human mind wasn’t built for thinking about Pennsylvania every four years
- Du Bois has this phrase, "the fascism of despair," from 1938 where you see him wrestling with the problem of what type of political activity emerges from the growing foreclosure of emancipatory possibilities. 1/7
- Someone should tell Joe Manchin that he's getting absolutely ROASTED on twitter rn. Maybe it'll make him think twice
- Well now that the papers are signed and sent in I can announce that I will be joining University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor this Fall. I am enormously excited for this next step!
- Incredible to be mad at Adorno when he never stopped being right about American societyVice President-elect JD Vance invites Daniel Penny as guest for Army-Navy football game trib.al/zauDTbQ
- Replying to @whitherutopiaI think this is why I focus on utopia. Not because I think a naive optimism is what we need, but because I worry about what will emerge without any vision or real possibility of an alternate set of social relations. I worry about our profound disempowerment 5/7
- Amílcar Cabral on whether he is a "socialist": "We are not preoccupied with labels you see. We are occupied in the content of the thing, what we are doing, how we are I doing it, what changes we are creating for realizing this aim." I love this
- RIP Socrates you would have loved being a reply guy on Twitter
- No matter how annoying you find Derrida/Butler/whomever has a “hard” writing anti-intellectualism will advance no political project of the left
