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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There needs to be a name for a law (akin to "Murphy's Law") that describes the following pattern: No matter how many books you drag with you (to the library, work, home etc), it will always be the book you left behind that you most desperately immediately need.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Came true. Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The copies of "Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism" are here! (Available in paperback, the code NUP2026 gets a 25% discount.)

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"After collapse of Athenian democracy, Plato built a political philosophy centred on the exclusion of the multitude. After the failure of Republic in Netherlands, Spinoza was the first philosopher not to write a new private political Weltanschauung against the real movement of the masses." (Bove)

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hot take: in this age of AI, classes on penmanship should be a requirement in school and first year of college.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"But God, insofar as it is explained by external causes, has yet to grant me enough time!"

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In an interview, Pierre-Francois Moreau asks Alexandre Matheron: "What about the book you are currently writing?" Matheron responds: "There are many that I was supposed to write. But I am very lazy." I hear you, Alexandre, I hear you.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My book "Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism" now has a cover, and it is available for pre-order, both in hardcover and (luckily) paperback.

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“‘The compact represents a total violation of academic freedom, shared governance and an open democracy,’ [AAUP-Penn president Jessa Lingel] wrote. “So now we'll get to see what kind of university we have—one that stands up to tyranny or one that capitulates.” www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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Campus, civil rights groups criticize agreement presented to Penn tying adherence to funding advantage

“When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation,” the AAUP-Penn wrote.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Your Excellencies, Your Worships, Your Honors, and Citizens, the Emperor and Autocrat of All the States, Ruler of Washington and Mar-o-Logo, the Chairman of Culture and Education, is cutting the beards!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

creating yet another signal chat as a form of torture

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wait, is cheering for St Pauli illegal in the US? Or can get you fired? … asking for a friend.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ok- technically, I’m writing on Tronti’s distinction about c mode of production and c society, seeing what it does for us today, and ended up veering into v3 and these debates. Will let you know if what emerges is relevant to your interests.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Thanks so much! If you send me the articles you had in mind, I would very much appreciate it!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I had no idea!! Please do, thank you, that would be very helpful!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I have Pasquanelli’s book, but haven’t read yet. Anything specific I should look at? And, yes, re lit on platforms and what preceded — that is of central issue to me (but am new to this discourse, so pointers help)

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I’m reading/ writing on v3, ground rent specifically. You mean the automatic fetish? Haven’t read, thank you!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Best literature on land, labor, money— as things that don’t have value (but can be sold, have a price). What you got?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

AI chat bot resembles Plato's dialogues. Whatever you (Socrates) ask, it spits out the affirmation of whatever presupposition you smuggled in and ends with a QED, a definitive proof of what you always already knew.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I always find it strange when people refer to countries with gendered pronouns. Russian is she/her; England is she/her. Any they/them countries out there?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Or a Hungarian / Romanian / Albanian / Slovak person?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Signing my email up to "Christian Mingle" platform is, of course, a good prank. But whom did I piss off that much to warrant the punishment?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

As an immigrant, there is nothing more that I hate than some immigrants--more established, more "white", more safe--turn on other immigrants.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

no doubt, that's the function of the "limit" in the title

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My book finally has a title: Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism, and it is now officially in production with Northwestern UP.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I mean, sure, I say what I think in public, but what is the snitching policy in these places?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

getting invited to speak at a frat house because "a number of brothers of the fraternity" found my classes "nothing short of inspiring" -- was definitely not on my bingo card for this year

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ah, yes, of course, the classical distinction. I was asking specifically about the emergence of the "capitalist" society vs let's say bourgeois society (which Tronti correlates, interestingly, with the emergence of the working class vs the proletariat).

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Can you elaborate? Capitalism and capital society? Or the society is only bourgeois? (In the sense of civil society?)

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tronti identifies a difference between capitalist mode of production and the emergence of "capitalist society" proper (applying only to the post-WWII). Has anyone done further work on this differentiation between "capitalist mode of production" vs "capitalist society"?

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

when you start naming your drafts not by month-day, but by the current year only...

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I think your first translation is great and what a great book by Z. Looking forward to this one too!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I actually didn’t know the last part and thought it was a coincidence in name!

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"In Spinoza, it is the case that things only exist as formed, and that the whole problem is a problem of form. Unity is simply unviable, amounting to an illusion; it is not itself that lives, but rather a plurality of forms grappling with others and which can only be destroyed." (Zourabichvili)

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Finally getting to Zourabichvili's "Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism", and it's absolutely great. It poses the question of the limits of radical change without death or ruin, both on the level of individual and society. The very question my book on Spinoza and Novalis asks, but Z does it better.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

As Spring semester is wrapping up, this is what my Fall semesters looks like:

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I call my parents “the last Soviet generation”— with a touch of tenderness—but we will be known as “the last capitalist generation”—with a full volume of disgust and hatred.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It’s crazy to realize that capitalism will come to an end - in one form or another - within our lifetime.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 20/03/2025

The coalition delivered a petition that included calls for the university to fill gaps amid federal funding cuts; uphold diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and stand up for LGBTQ+ members of the Penn community.

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Penn unions rally to encourage administration to oppose federal funding cuts, canceling of diversity initiatives

Penn unions delivered a petition that included calls for the university to fill gaps amid federal funding cuts; uphold DEI efforts; and stand up for LGBTQ+ members of the community.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It used to be when I got academia_edu notifications, I thought: 'How nice, somebody is interested in my research'. Nowadays, it's: 'What in the world did I do and what trolls are after me now'. Age of paranoia.

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S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

When COVID started, I taught Lucretius on the plague of Athens; after Jan 6th, I taught the Eighteenth Brumaire. I am currently teaching Lacan's Seminar II (on Ego and Technique) and Chernyshevsky's What is to Be Done?. Make it make sense.

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