The Golden Voice That Tickles the Eardrum like Tito Puente on his Conga | Editor @_fracturemag_ | Recent Words: @SydReviewBooks @the_met_review @NegationMag

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined August 2018
I've launched a blog in order to collate all my writings in one place. Right now everything I've written from 2015-2018 is up. 2019 writings and some new stuff to follow soon. Will also upload presentations and talks. duncanstuart.wordpress.com/
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We published our first article on our Interventions page a week ago on Harlan County, USA, the Oscar winning documentary about the 1973 miners strike in Eastern Kentucky fracturemagazine.com/interve…
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Is Proust a feminist? Is Thomas Mann a queer ally? Is this modernist novel my friend?
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Coming in January
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“Three lonely men…” this whole page still gets me 🖤
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Fracture discusses Althusser throughout our first issue
Nobody talks about Althusser anymore, whatever happened to that guy
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While it’s true Althusser is kind of out of fashion, with some of the most famous pieces of what was once “high althusserianism” having a kind of 1960s smell, this disappearance is also apparent, imo. You can’t see Althusser because he’s everywhere already, his main +
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If you want to know what ever happened to Althusser, read @_fracturemag_
Nobody talks about Althusser anymore, whatever happened to that guy
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Some people asked for the syllabus, here is its last iteration.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Harlan County, USA, the Oscar winning documentary about the 1973 Brookside miner strike in Kentucky. Here we offer a translation of a 1978 review by Natacha Michel, alongside an introduction by Patrick King: fracturemagazine.com/interve…
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Late to the trend but here are the 9 books that had the biggest effect on me, all things considered
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It may not be the book you wanted, but it’s the book you need
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Saw a post from a guy whose whole deal is making missiles that don’t work saying bring back public executions. All you need to know is that like all of these tech buffoons their argument is ahistorical and anti-sociological at the deepest levels.
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Well surely this is some kind of moral improvement for our beleaguered antihero!
Incidentally, Ross Barkan, who wrote these words about gendered reading habits in a retrospective on Lonesome Dove published in @jacobin yesterday, lifted them wholesale from his own 2024 Substack piece about the lack of male writers.
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Self plagiarism is 1) a non issue 2) puts you up there with the greats like Slavoj Zizek
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"Thinking politics by starting from the existing situation is what I call a politics of the conjuncture. Every militant finds themself thrown into a situation — thus: what is to be done?" fracturemagazine.com/issues/…
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Can my boy Tu Fu get as many likes as my post expressing doubt about AI solving math?
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Hi if you have a blue check and you replied to this I think you are either a bot or the dumbest guy alive
Probably the correct take on “AI can solve math now”
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