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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'll be presenting at this at The New School on April 18th. Talking about the role of Lazarus and Badiou in Haider's intellectual development.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Bruce Robbins on the vicissitudes of privilege: thebaffler.com/latest/the-g...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My poem, 'The Death of John Ashberry' is out in the latest issue of The Exacting Clam (@exactingclam.bsky.social). Have a squiz if you like nonsense. Hell, it's barely a poem.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Now this, this is a good fucking poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160609...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jared Pollen on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse. As the audience gets further away, the text becomes more hermetic. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is apparently comparable both to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Hofmannsthal’s Lord Chandos Letter. Which presumably means I won’t get around to reading it for a decade.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Louis Klee in the Sydney Review of Books on Clemens and Ford's Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius, a work of literary criticism that actually aims at something like criticism. sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/first...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Wrote about Gerald Murnane's Inland, and why we love him and his weird little books www.ronslate.com/on-inland-a-...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

From Pankaj Mishra's LRB piece: The Shoah after Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

My friend Josh has rejoined substack, publishing essays and reflections on what he has been reading. He reads lots of great stuff and occasionally he reads my stuff. joshreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/3

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Really enjoyed this review of Gerald Murnane's Inland by Bailey Trela curatorialaffairs.com/Landscape-Me...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Love this passage from Althusser's essay "Freud and Lacan", on what psychoanalysis could possibly be about

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I've been reading Platonov's Chevengur, which came out this week from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. This passage, right at the start of chapter 6, I found particularly incredible.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

The 6 best books I read this year: I read both The Plains and The Glass Bees in a fugue state, carried along by their authors' flawless prose and found Minor Detail and Love's Work extraordinary, two slim volumes of unique power. As for Exterminate all the Brutes and Ulysses? Classics for a reason.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

This book really is as incredible as everyone has been saying

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

This by John Ganz seems correct: Israeli's propaganda machine failed to sell mass death to civilians at the expense of global reputation and internal unity. www.unpopularfront.news/p/israel-has...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Presenting at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy conference in a few days. Discussing Foucault, Lazarus and Singularity. Haven't finished my paper yet! Should be a blast...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Thinking about the time Paul Bowles bodied Susan Sontag www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Excited to hear about the forthcoming release of Gillian Rose's lectures on the Frankfurt School www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/741204...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

A brief essay of mine on what moral clarity means in times like these. exitonly.substack.com/p/the-siege-...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Enjoyed this, by GD Dess, on Matthew Gasda's plays. themillions.com/2023/09/the-...

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

August reading. Really loved The Limit and Love's Work, two books on love, death and grief. Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics is probably the best intro to his work, but why would you want such an intro. Exterminate all the Brutes: incredible book. Eastbound: not good. And Oskala? Not bad.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Belben is a somewhat neglected writer, but this, due out in September from the NYRB classics series, is a truly remarkable book. I really stunning example of how to write deeply affecting story.

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World Spirit On Unemployment Benefits @duncanastuart.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Just finished this, which I cannot recommend enough.

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