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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I've always liked this argument from @CoreyRobin, which I first recall from a blog post of his some years ago. Glad that he and @alexgourevitch gave a full length journal treatment https://t.co/hswnmEXDZJ — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@davidfucillo this debate is so enraging. every advanced stat says that dak is <ahem> elite, but he threw inaccurate passes in a few clips so the worst fans of my team don't want to pay him — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@davidfucillo oh no there's something else for me to be mad about?!!?!?!?!?! — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Me: I'm going to do something productive today! Also me: <spends an hour arguing about Adorno and Foucault on Twitter> — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@lionel_trolling im sorry im sorry im trying to remove it — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Ooh I would be very interested in reading that! — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet This is *very* hard to boil down in tweet length, obviously. But I think Foucault's friendliness towards the Iranian revolution reflects a deeper problem here that's connected to Adorno/Horkheimer type arguments. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Hah, it was a lot crammed into a single tweet. I think the assignation of blame to the Enlightenment project among *some* postmoderns helps explain indifference to liberal democracy among *some* intellectuals, seeing it as a sham and even root cause of modern evils — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Nuances here (obviously, in this conversation). I think the "Enlightenment invented racism" argument is on much stronger empirical footing than "Enlightenment caused the Holocaust" argument, the latter of which has encouraged a kind of troubling indifference to democracy. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@cjane87 @MattFay1 oh my god — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Put differently, rational planning isn't what caused Nazis to conceive of an extermination project. It gave them the tools to do so more effectively, but that doesn't mean mass murder is the necessary outgrowth of the idea of rational administration or managing populations — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet Dammit, I meant College de France *lectures* Anyway, that's kind of my point. The idea of killing animals for food and pleasure obviously predated modernity, doing en masse is an extension of premodern moral logics using new techniques. That's a shallow linkage imo. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @lionel_trolling @HeerJeet It's the "in a deep sense" that I contest. I think that part of the argument links its to the normative project of modernity which is imo a huge mistake, one Foucault also makes in that part of Vol. 1 and in the College de France essays — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@lionel_trolling @dbessner @HeerJeet see i think it's not only clearly wrong but extremely damaging to a certain kind of left analysis of liberalism — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling granted it's been about a decade since i read the book carefully so it's possibly i'd like it more now — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@dbessner @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling the central argument! that nazism was a kind of necessary outgrowth/regression of enlightenment thinking, something inevitably produced by enlightenment liberalism rather than a contingent backlash to it — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@HeerJeet @lionel_trolling @dbessner #actually Dialectic of Enlightenment's analysis of the Holocaust is the worst part of his legacy, fight me — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
This is excellent — at once an extremely persuasive piece of writing, a damning journalistic indictment of the US immigration and criminal justice systems, and a rebuke to some of the cruelest, most-bad faith actors in the Discourse — PolitiTweet.org
Jia Tolentino @jiatolentino
My parents recently pointed out to me that some misinformation about them had been spreading online; it's since tak… https://t.co/I6YAt4AMFR
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The Hungarian model for America https://t.co/4tOmA1DIsb https://t.co/0QfNb7YVvH — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The American right’s embrace of Orban says something ominous about democracy at home https://t.co/4tOmA1DIsb — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Hungary is a test. And conservatives flunked it. https://t.co/AOuqvoJbE9 — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@shadihamid @IChotiner incredibly, still writing coronavirus takes https://t.co/vZuW0JUuVr — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @aedwardslevy: Nearly 70% of Americans say wearing a mask near others is respectful. Just 8% see it as a sign of weakness. https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@SWGoldman @shadihamid I agree with your middle tweet — said so myself! But I think the closing of Ross' piece went too far in the "NBD" direction, though it overall was one of the sharper pieces in the general genre https://t.co/kLQYdZJplp — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@AdamSerwer if there’s one thing i know about donald trump it’s that he hates having his name attached to big buildings — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@shadihamid @SWGoldman you say that but it is, for some people. the related argument, about interest, is addressed in the second tweet in my thread — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
In conclusion, the orange man is bad for not one but many reasons — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
It can be the case that Trump primarily wants attention and adoration rather than power but also that his ways of pursuing his those aims — turning the Justice Department into a tool of his personal influence, calling his opponents illegitimate — work toward authoritarianization — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@HeerJeet The classical fascists were famously incompetent administrators! — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
I'm very surprised at the number of smart people who think that "Trump is an incompetent administrator" is an effective response to "Trump's flailing is doing serious damage to American democracy" — PolitiTweet.org
