Joseph Staten

@joseph_staten

PhD student ; member . aesthetics & politics, culture & capital, party & bullshit

Chicago, IL
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    11 Dec 2017

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  2. 25 Jul 2020

    "Inasmuch as the public sphere is less a free market of ideas than a market, what is publicly visible registers nothing but market forces" -Russell Jacoby

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    27 Jun 2020

    and I spoke to on his lovely political biography of the Economist, probing a bit deeper on liberalism's relationship to democracy, capital, the state. Available at .

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    25 Jun 2020

    Amid America's disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system was awful & the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations' COVID responses prove it. The truth: (1/6)

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    23 Jun 2020

    Celeb home YouTubes are glimpses into an art market. This is Jennifer Aniston's Motherwell

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    23 Jun 2020

    I‘ve unraveled the mysteries of time for the Times.

    This week's Letter of Rec: on the Pomodoro Technique, a simple time-management tool that warps your reality.
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  7. 22 Jun 2020

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  8. 22 Jun 2020

    Sucks that this piece is being trashed on here, since the very real problem of unnecessary treatment in our system is actually another great argument for socialized medicine!

    NYT gonna start pushing Abolish Healthcare
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    21 Jun 2020

    U.S. ranked worst for workers’ rights among major economies

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  10. 21 Jun 2020

    “You are looking to replace the poorest, least profitable patients with the highest paying ones”

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    20 Jun 2020

    this was literally the entire MO of the post-1968 left and it brought us to this point, so i think we know exactly what it would be like

    What if...Marx actually isn't important anymore? What if we build a justice-based left not reliant on a 19th century economic philosopher who was wrong about as many things as any other 19th century thinker? What would that left be like?
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  12. 20 Jun 2020

    Even left critiques of cancel culture, which I largely agree with, fail to account for the material dynamics of the platform on which this all transpires. Kind of ironic!

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  13. 20 Jun 2020

    Deeply frustrating how little the cancel culture discussion takes into account the way this website structurally undergirds the entire thing by incentivizing certain kinds of interactions and disincentivizing others

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  14. 11 Jun 2020

    The fundamental move of neoliberalism: to make the structural reappear as the personal

    The juxtaposition is so striking: celebrities recognizing the devasting material consequences of racism, but their solution is.... denouncing microaggressions and racist comments by "making their presence known," "calling out hate" and "stepping up."
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    9 Jun 2020

    The craziest thing is that King Leopold II never even set a foot in the Congo. He held a territory 76 times the size of his home kingdom as personal property for more than 20 years, exterminated the population for rubber profits, muffled critics, and never bothered to go there.

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  16. 4 Jun 2020

    The interesting thing about the NYT is that its editorial ethos is the perpetuation of the status quo, while its journalism provides thousands of case studies demonstrating why the status quo is cruel, violent, and intolerable

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    3 Jun 2020

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    1 Jun 2020

    These are some of the groups taking care part of Pilsen, still a predominantly Latino neighborhood. After hearing concerns circulating on social media that Latinos (particularly gangs) are targeting all Blacks in the neighborhood, they said Black residents can feel safe.

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  19. 27 May 2020

    reading is repairing my brain

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    31 Mar 2020

    Plies speaking the truth: pay people like they’re risking their lives, because they are

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