Cam McDonald (shyhunter)

🇻🇮 Cultural anthropologist, writer, DJ. Working on religion, race, gender, sexuality, migration, citizenship, and queer nightlife. Spain/US.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

this is correct

[hugeasmammoth.films @hugeasmammoth_]

this being one of the most romantic scenes in cinema history like I’m not even being hyperbolic

[Juliana 👁‍🗨 @Dubious_Angel]

The Abject Force of Stomp Clap (Duke Univ Press, 2027)

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

The guys on our block rented a massive projector screen and were playing the game in the middle of our small residential street. Love.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

@postdiscipline This the part that lost me. It’s such a simplistic misreading of anthropology that one has a hard time seeing the whole report as much more than flawed assumptions and bad faith arguments.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

As a scholar I just want to say: this report is so busted

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Irony is dead.

Widely circulated report that slams the humanities for a lack of rigor is ... not itself rigorous.

Humanities certainly have lots of issues, but we can do better than this.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

@vjoshuaadams It’s also a very narrow group on the whole. Strong boot licker vibes here.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

This was also due to chronic (and documented) financial mismanagement and administrative bloat over many years

[artforum @Artforum]

The New School has laid off 68 staffers and 19 full-time faculty—more than half of them tenured—as it confronts a $60 million budget deficit driven in part by Trump administration restrictions on international students, who made up 36% of its student body in December 2025.
https://t.co/O4v8lR0DvJ

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

And I don't regret those decisions. I have never since experienced the same level of intellectual curiosity, rigor, creativity, and collaboration as I did as a grad student at the New School.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

As a grad student, I turned down Berkeley and Duke to be at the New School. Others turned down Chicago, Columbia, etc. It took years for many faculty to consider leaving after being pursued by other universities with better salaries. And that's bc NSSR was wholly unique. No more

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

The New School for Social Research was a very special place. Many grad students & faculty (myself included) turned down "better" PhDs & jobs bc of a shared mission & unmatched intellectual energy & political commitment. These cuts have likely destroyed that forever.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

@djc84156279 @dbessner Lang and NSSR will be one unit, but it's unclear what will be left at the graduate level. Anthropology, sociology, and history are no longer undergraduate majors, for example.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

The New School for Social Research was a very special place. Many grad students & faculty (myself included) turned down "better" PhDs & jobs bc of a shared mission & unmatched intellectual energy & political commitment. These cuts have likely destroyed that forever.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The Guardian: “Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions.”: https://t.co/7j71V8G5xL

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

@ragandboneshop @DoloresGMorris Bingo

[Giles Goat-Girl @nadienadianadie]

i'm very skeptical of ai consciousness, but Ted Chiang continues to be a hack, his arguments in his latest article for the atlantic are all very silly. Also his writing sucks.

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

Fierce if true

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

Father-in-law on ‘70s NYC publishing:

“I had a friend at Macmillan. He wanted to quit & also wanted to go to Paris. So he wrote a pitch for a fake novel under a fake name, got the advance, left town before they could find out, never wrote the book, & never heard about it again.”

[Ernesto Reséndiz Oikión @eroerny]

El 3 de junio de 2025 murió Edmund White en su departamento de West 22nd Street, en Chelsea, Nueva York.
Pionero de la literatura gay. Francófilo total y biógrafo de Marcel Proust, Jean Genet y Arthur Rimbaud.
Co-fundó Violet Quill y la @GMHC.
📷 Slava Mogutin, 2016.
🌈🔥

[Cam McDonald (shyhunter) @Anthro_CAM]

Bingo

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

Maybe will seem like a niche grievance against AI-generated prose — but when I’m writing, I am often writing AGAINST the content, form, and interventions of other authors. A great deal of published nonfiction writing is twee, insubstantial, sentimental, conventional, and mediocre

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

Well this is embarrassing! The Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity at WSU gets caught using AI to write an op-ed in defense of how universities are embracing AI. And the piece is then retracted for inappropriate use of AI. https://t.co/USEAGHJ1sG