Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.
One thing is certain: no encampment has yet negotiated with the administration in the context of a genuine strike by academic workers on the campus. If this outcome does come to pass in UC, and we prove that it can be done, others will take up the call on an even wider basis.
For no particular reason, a great poem by a great poet: “and Norman Morrison, Quaker, of Baltimore Maryland, burned what he said was himself.”
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Breaking: last night we, @uaw2865 workers in STEM + @ucsb_ftp & SJP activists shut down an internship recruiting event featuring Northrop Grumman, the 4th largest military company in the world. Northrop Grumman produces laser & longbow missile delivery systems for the IDF. 1/
A 1981 Dakota-AIM newspaper described Israel and the USA as "natural allies" because they're "artificially-created state[s]." While $15 million a day goes to "eliminate the Palestinians," the paper noted, the USA demanded funding "cutbacks" to uphold Native treaty rights.
Instead of studying Locke, or writing---I go make an apple pie, or study the Joy of Cooking, reading it like a rare novel. Whoa, I said to myself. You will escape into domesticity & stifle yourself by falling headfirst into a bowl of cookie batter. 2/25/57
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad, the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
In a city that is devoid of face, we move from thought-to-thought, relationship-to -relationship, room-to-room, escaping the world's voice, never listening.
Thrown out of orbit, the self can never develop a connection with the other, so it develops an unstable self-image.