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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve never seen a train station more committed to hostile architecture than the Frankfurt Hbf

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of these books is about how repeated conditions of bondage create dynamics of fetishization and psycho-social domination. The other is 50 shades of grey

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day / Thou art more lovely and fucking temperate

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sorry dude you have to get your name on the playhouse the same way Lincoln did.

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A great piece on Deleuze’s thinking about Israel and Palestine. When political theory meets political reality. illwill.com/forbidden-de...

illwill.com

The Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide • Ill Will

For Pasquale Liguori, Deleuze's pro-Palestinian writings offer a paradigm for political individuation.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s important to remember that Ed Sheeran has always sucked and his music is terrible.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When a job search committee demands 100+ pages of documents, even though they’re def not wading through all of them, it’s enough to want to give up. What deep insight will you glean from a “portfolio” that is not available in my teaching/research statements, cv, cover letter, and course evals?

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

With mounting fights against IHRA around the world, sharing my piece on IHRA definition I argue IHRA defn is state-sanctioned legislative tool of anti-Palestinian racism. It suppresses opposition to Zionism thru liberal & colonial "anti racism" strategy. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

policyalternatives.ca

Colonialism, racism and the IHRA | CCPA

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One thing my Bluesky feed is missing is people squabbling over the precise meaning and application passages from The Grundrisse and I think this should change. Someone else start though. I’ll be the guy who says it’s wrong and then quote a letter Marx wrote to someone.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just this once i will choose to believe that the self-help book author and motivational speaker, James Clear, enjoyed reading my book on literary theory and form.

Email sign off from James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. The email is obviously AI.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Got my certificate, ask me anything

Certificate for completing the short course, “History of the Indian Communist Movement,” offered by Tricontinental, signed by Vijay Prashad

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s several months too late to bring it up, but I do find it strange that Jacobin didn’t write an obituary for Michael Parenti.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton taught me it was ok to be universally beloved

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It isn’t, but in a way, it is 😔

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How do you all publish and write and read so much uuuuuugh 😩

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I cannot for the life of me find that video of Jordan Peterson crying over Geppetto. I need it please. For reasons.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

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👻 Ghoul Named Cru 🦇 @carnitas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

quoth the raven f u c k a a s b i t c h

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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

People on the ostensible left are helping rewrite a period of mass political mobilization as an embarrassing cultural excess rather than a response to identifiable material conditions to convince you mass mobilization itself was illegitimate and returning to it would be irresponsible. That is all.

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.

My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

varsity.co.uk

Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday has been found dead. The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief. Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations. And now he is dead.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 14/08/2026

So if your response to someone possibly committing plagiarism is to hound, humiliate, and harass them until they kill themselves, you're a far, FAR worse person than any plagiarizer. Hope this helps.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🚨Publication Day Alert!! 🚨 I’m pleased to share my chapter, “Striking Kinopoetics” in the newly-released volume, “Narrated Belonging.” I extend and modify some conceptual/theoretical terrain I begin to chart in my book and approach proletarian migrant fiction from a movement-oriented perspective.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Vonnegut, “The Sirens of Titan.”

“I miss her,” he said.”
“You finally fell in love , I see,” said Salo
“Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Eighteen years ago today, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, passed away. Through his poetry, he gave voice to exile, identity, memory, and belonging, becoming one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic literature. Read his biography on #PalQuest: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

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Mahmoud Darwish - Poets (1941 - 2008)

Biography - Mahmoud Darwish was born on 13 March 1941 in the village of Birwa (Acre district) to Salim Darwish and Huriyya al-Biqa‘i. He was the second child in...

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New place opening on the canal in Vienna. If they don’t serve natty ice or four loko then this Florida Man ain’t interested.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What is politically committed literature? Lea Ypi writes for Tribune on the role of the writer in reviving the lost promise of emancipation.

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The Meaning of Commitment

Universal literature is endangered in a world where modern notions of freedom and equality have lost their power. Its crisis mirrors that of the left.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We’ll be watching each and every one of your posts.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Finally say the film everyone’s talking about and my sophisticated take is going to blow the lid off of all of the takes. Get ready. Meh.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You have to tell Waffles you think her new haircut is pretty

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Both Losurdo and Rockhill completely take Deleuze’s quote about the obvious failures of revolutions completely out of context, choosing to ignore what he’s responding to. Not surprising, given that it’s a pattern with both of them. But I want to register my annoyance.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When autumn rolls around I’m in desperate need of a tacky sweater with my dog’s face stitched into it.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A writer just claimed on social media that using AI to write is no different than “using glasses to see,” and critiques of AI are “ableist.” Disability is a concept invented by capitalism to discipline & standardize the labor force thru the uniformity of industrial work. AI is a technology 1/2

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I got a free bookshelf today and honestly it fits my apartment perfectly. I need to share it with the world.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Okay I am willing to concede that there are MAYBE two. But multiple? Be serious.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 27/07/2026

"Death of the author" is a literary theory that emphasizes the personal interaction and connection to an artistic work over the concept of an authorial ultimate meaning. "Separate the art from the artist" is a catchphrase to mumble to yourself so you can justify buying more Harry Potter shit.

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

That drum solo part in Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight”

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