James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026finally an answer to the question that has kept me up at night: do blue tongued skinks see blue? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26185113/ 130
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026people ask how is Diablo doing. great question. he’s good, he’s been walking Cat & I by this one specific pile of pine straw so he can shove his whole face once again into a hole he made by previously shoving his whole face in the pile of pine straw 0170
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Little Thing update: “good at climbing” & “very spicy,” had a nice afternoon playing outside in the grass with several dogs & people 1180
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the high goblin council has convened to decide your fate 1130
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Little Thing update 2: we heard she is “such a good player” & oh boy does she love showing off. she has also learned how to use a litter box (sometimes) & is having fewer “feral frenzies” 2210
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Little Thing update: Cat the dog & I visited her tonight & she is being spoiled (pictured: being ferried around on a fake grass cat toy puzzle she likes) after a long day of sleeping & peeing on both inhabitants of her new home 1140
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026imo a good way to define dialectics would be: the suspension of the principle of contradiction (PC) in post-Aristotelian (from medieval Islamic to modern European) philosophy. it links dialectics to schools/traditions outside the “Western canon” that the PC doesn’t map onto well. Sorry Aristotelians 3222
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026after a very sleepless night of kitten hijinks (4am escape + hiding behind my fridge / in closets & screaming until i found her, screaming in general, peeing virtually her full body weight of pee on me as she was falling asleep again), Little Thing as I call her has been handed off to the neighbors! 1200
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026exciting update: a neighbor found a feral kitten lol currently staying at my apartment while he goes to work 2281
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wanted to translate “umwälzen-“ / “Umwälzung-“ as “upheaving” (as distinct from the use of “verändern-“ / “Veränderung-“ & “revolutionieren-“ / “Revolutionisierung” in the same text) so used in several times til I realized (1) “overturning” is a word that exists; (2) “upheaving” sounds like vomiting 051
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I do think the history of slave revolts, peasant uprisings, proletarian insurrections, inmates seizing their asylums at once gives the lie to & realizes the truth of all the utopias of the philosophers since Confucius & Plato, & puts them to shame. Some of us are still orthodox communists, you know. 0223
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026a favorite tik tok account lately: this woman posts “bug day” hand feedings for her chameleons, & one of her chameleons, named Hyacinth, is absolutely convinced her eyeballs are bugs. forbidden shiny juicy bugs just out of tongue’s reach. & one of these days Hyacinth WILL get one 1150
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026someone sent me the clip from always sunny where Charlie explains that to get to sleep he eats cat food, huffs glue, & drinks beer so he feels sick & lays down. well i did just chug a can of Boba milk tea since my lactose intolerance makes me feel poisoned & sleepy. #lifehack #foodpoisoning 080
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026watching the raccoons that live by the dumpster is a fun night time activity to do with friends 0140
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyone have a way to reach the folks at the Horkheimer Nachlass in Frankfurt aside from the general contact info on the Frankfurt uni site? For some reason, the digital pagination is now completely different & pages of the scans seem to have been broken up & rearranged at random. Kinda panicking lol 141
Reposted by James CraneJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We got it all: communist phronesis of self-critique for revolutionaries in defeat, nested dialectical-biological dissolutions of the individual, setting up a speculative deduction of homosexuality, dialectical-logical vanishing acts, & our forays in materialist history of philosophy! tap in freaks 06016
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026oh sorry am i interrupting “sit on the floor face to face & sniff each other’s burps” time 1110
Reposted by James CraneCritical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026EP28: in this episode, we discuss Pietro Daniel Omodeo’s Political Epistemology. We examine Omodeo’s enlarged conception of ideology, what political epistemology even is, and how action, understood as the unity of praxis and poiesis mediates history. buff.ly/KTS4I95 064
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026lol posted this same thing to X & had both liberal Jungians & straight up fascists in my replies for the last 2 days 4191
Reposted by James CraneJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thanks to everyone who came through! Recording for this session will be posted soon, & more reading groups for you soon too! & if you’ve had a chance to check out Margin Notes 2 & smell what we’re stepping in, we’d love to hear from you! 083
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thanks to everyone who came through! Recording for this session will be posted soon, & more reading groups for you soon too! & if you’ve had a chance to check out Margin Notes 2 & smell what we’re stepping in, we’d love to hear from you! 083
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026we’re live now! apologies to GMT people one of the editors (it was me lol) got time zones confused, which will be remedied with the end of time discipline & the creation of the communist federation of independent times. come through! 160
Reposted by James CraneJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026join us this upcoming Saturday at 1pm Eastern US time / 5pm GMT — we’ll be talking Margin Notes 2: Excavations, from young Lukács & Julius Schaxel’s dialectical biology to Adorno-Horkheimer’s “dialectical logic” & more! 0158
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026see you all tomorrow—& if you can’t make it but want to tune in, we’ll be posting a recording after! Also: lmk if you have a burning question about the dialectical logic fragments/project you want me to try to answer & i will! 1102
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026read a Jungian complaining about how “Freudian interpretations are always, in a certain sense, unfalsifiable”—brother you do not get to whine about pseudo-science when your guy thought he was the arch-magus of psychic race science. have a little self-awareness please good lord 2365
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of the goofiest things about Schelling reception is how anxious people are to immediately qualify that when Schelling (often!) says “dialectic” he doesn’t mean Hegel’s. Not only is it usually based on a cartoon bogeyman read of Hegel, but more importantly: Schelling could not have cared less lol 1100
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026feeling this Roque Dalton poem “On Headaches” (1969) especially strong today since i’ve been leveled by a migraine since this AM! “Communism will be, among other things, an aspirin the size of the sun.” communistpoemaday.substack.com/p/roque-dalt...communistpoemaday.substack.comRoque Dalton, “On Headaches”from Tavern and Other Places (1969) 0152
Reposted by James CraneJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Been quiet on the blog to focus on the diss, so I put this translation together from diss work: Schelling’s “On so-called Weather-Shooting” (1811)! An odd little text on unconditioned nature, radical fallibilism, & a utopian vision of a new Platonic academy! jamescrane.substack.com/p/fwj-schell...jamescrane.substack.comF.W.J. Schelling: On so-called Weather-shooting (1811)A short essay on the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of (natural) science. 0174
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Been quiet on the blog to focus on the diss, so I put this translation together from diss work: Schelling’s “On so-called Weather-Shooting” (1811)! An odd little text on unconditioned nature, radical fallibilism, & a utopian vision of a new Platonic academy! jamescrane.substack.com/p/fwj-schell...jamescrane.substack.comF.W.J. Schelling: On so-called Weather-shooting (1811)A short essay on the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of (natural) science. 0174
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026join us this upcoming Saturday at 1pm Eastern US time / 5pm GMT — we’ll be talking Margin Notes 2: Excavations, from young Lukács & Julius Schaxel’s dialectical biology to Adorno-Horkheimer’s “dialectical logic” & more! 0158
Reposted by James CraneJames Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2025*1942 ISR “Needs” seminar with the other Cali Weimar refugees* Hans Reichenbach: But what will happen to bourgeois art and artists in classless society? What will happen to you and I? Adorno: 1258
Reposted by James CraneNick @dfmanufracture.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This Schaxel translation (and the intro written by @damashummus.bsky.social ) absolutely rips. Absolute must-read essay on the mystification of "the individual" in the field of biology, a lesson with philosophical and political dimensions that remain more important than ever. 253
Reposted by James CraneCritical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026For EP27 we are joined by @germainequeer.bsky.social to discuss her forthcoming piece 'Charaktermasken: Value, Relation and Performance in Marx's Critique of Political Economy.' The Q: how can we rethink the relation between personification & reification? buff.ly/SPWZrH4 0126
Reposted by James CraneCritical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Critics & theorists! We invite you to our discussion of “Excavations,” Vol. 2 of our Margin Notes: A Journal of Critical Theory, on Sept 19 (time TBD). This event will be held on Zoom and recorded for our Patreon. It will feature a brief presentation + Q&A. buff.ly/VeXcPPU 1125
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026constantly seeing everyone from Althusser to Richard Wolff repeat the “Marx has no theory of the state” cliche makes me feel like I’m insane. Did everyone just dismiss / skip these because they’re supposedly just “historical journalism” or something 4324
Reposted by James CraneBenjamin Norris @benjaminnorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Join us online Saturday October 3rd to discuss "Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel, Schelling and the End of Alterity" by Gregory S. Moss (@philosophermoss.bsky.social)! Take note that the time on the poster is Hong Kong time (GMT +8) so check your local time so you don't miss out. 076
Reposted by James CraneEmily Zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion (1702). I consider this to be the worst English prose I have ever seen 1203
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Had a dream that Lenin’s corpse being embalmed was part of a Stalin-era Kenjaku plot to resurrect Lenin himself like Sukuna for a culling game to simultaneously awaken & weed out communists to toughen them up again after the fall of the golden age of the Soviet Union 0142
Reposted by James CraneCritical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/3_p... 👇🧵 16738
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026my friends inviting me to events in public sending me gentle reminders beforehand strongly suggesting i do things like wear shoes that don’t smell like animal urine, wear nice clothes without what i like to call “adventure stains,” shower if possible, try to look & act like a human person, etc 1150
Reposted by James CraneSymphilosophie @symphilosophie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Issue 8 (2026) of SYMPHILOSOPHIE on "Symphilosophizing" is now published!! 320 pages of new research on German romantic philosophy fully open access: symphilosophie.com/issue-8-2026/ It's a special issue of the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2025 at University of Bonn. 22114
James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026ok instagram targeted ads. my interest is piqued 1280
