Professor of German in Kansas. Author of a book on Karl Kraus. Into critical theory, Marxism, and German Jewish Studies. Look left Also like basketball The radical is the rationalhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3mnumnwkchs2sA more agnostic take: The mayor supreme Knicks tix still (at least) 9k Series decided by Brunson’s fadeaway09 Jun 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnumnwkchs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lxuiv2p4sk2sSovereign are they who determines the needs of others.02 Sep 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxuiv2p4sk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lwwsl2al4223https://read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-critique/issue/52/2%20(155) New piece out on Adorno and actually existing socialism21 Aug 2025 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwsl2al4223https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3ltzuapx23c2xWe are being ruled by literal psychopaths. Those who support these people are, too, psychopaths.15 Jul 2025 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzuapx23c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lrbriuvno222If you’ve wasted the last 43 years NOT reading Rattansi’s Marx and the Division of Labour, waste no more time!10 Jun 2025 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrbriuvno222https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lqco7xnwn22nAre there any good essays out there on Marx, AI, and the law of the falling rate of profit?29 May 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqco7xnwn22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lo33ngtc2c2yAh to long for the days when at least career politicians ruled the earth instead of bankers, real estate moguls, autocrats, and techbros.01 May 2025 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo33ngtc2c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lk2fhzpks22aOnly half-joking when I suggest that we repackage environmental humanities as “agricultural humanities,” or AgHum. There might be some funding left for that?10 Mar 2025 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk2fhzpks22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3ljpouvwgtc2gDystopia is a tooth fairy who delivers bitcoin06 Mar 2025 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljpouvwgtc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3ljiodwkzwk2iThe oligarchy is beginning to take on its international form: the US, Russia, Israel, India, …?03 Mar 2025 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljiodwkzwk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lixov7nftk27Can’t speak highly enough about this interview on modern psychiatry, among many things https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=100069317784325 Feb 2025 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lixov7nftk27https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lin2fbewbk2qhttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-reality-of-settler-colonialism/ Read this now20 Feb 2025 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lin2fbewbk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lfnizxzxls2dOrder copies for your institutional libraries, folx! It’s finally out, seven years later. I also have a piece in it on Kraus, Adorno, and Heidegger. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111364599/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqk1YF9nQY8HlObmDW-1C0mIF6sA5qYWqlPVVKgQFaIR-z5sPtL#contents13 Jan 2025 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfnizxzxls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3ldctdy7v3k2s@cgelderloos.bsky.social Hi!15 Dec 2024 03:04 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldctdy7v3k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3ld4vzg6mic26A dear friend is having a baby soon and mentioned they were going to read ‘bringing up Bebe,’ I reminded him that the French are likely to turn fascist so let’s not think too highly of their celebrated childrearing practices12 Dec 2024 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld4vzg6mic26https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lcond2nia22sThe war against Xmas07 Dec 2024 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcond2nia22shttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lclg5qemt22qHa, just picked up a box of books for my students—Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline—from my institution’s administration building.05 Dec 2024 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lclg5qemt22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lcg2iuazbc24@quinnslobodian.com Really enjoying your and Wendy Brown’s discussion on the Dig. Especially like the reference to ‘motion smoothing’—I could go on for hours about this aesthetic abomination and its social implications.03 Dec 2024 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcg2iuazbc24https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lcdsnuybl22jA (potential) thought: abstracting a bit from Freud himself, we might say that capitalist society is one in which the collective or institutionalized id dominates the ego but which *presents itself* as one in which the ego dominates the id.02 Dec 2024 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdsnuybl22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lccackkxj225https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/naples-1925-martin-mittelmeier-book-review This book looks more interesting than I initially thought it would be, largely because it appears that Sohn-Rethel gets some serious recognish.02 Dec 2024 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lccackkxj225https://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lbfdei6lis2jPhilosopher/critical theorist colleagues: I am currently reading Kate Soper’s *On Human Needs*. It’s really good. Can you recommend other works of Soper’s I should read?20 Nov 2024 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfdei6lis2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3latrssud4f2iI might have to raise the enrollment cap for my Marxism and Critical Theory in the spring. Put that in your vape and smoke it, Board of Regents13 Nov 2024 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3latrssud4f2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3lap23blhzs2cA friend was telling me about their kid’s experiences at a local montessori: collective and shared meal preparation; intensive, intentional learning; goats; ONE-HOUR recesses. Why does socialism have to be so expensive?11 Nov 2024 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3lap23blhzs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/arilinden.bsky.social/post/3l7drzg4tok2rWhat we often call ‘globalization’ Marx called the ‘annihilation of space through time’.25 Oct 2024 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:5twemmwqyoi2ytmgrape6het/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7drzg4tok2r