The resurgence of liberal/civics education is correlated with the death of the post-war research/multiversity. The Straussians are outliving their greatest nemesis
I keep thinking about Backrooms, that it’s a movie made by someone young now, about people being trapped in and forced to wander and sift through the banal and garish detritus of the late 20th century, warped and monstrous things being built from flimsy memories of that era
"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs."
"Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"
Has anyone written on fin-de-siecle Marxism as a thing? Marxists show up in a lot of these fin-de-siecle histories but are rarely focused on and are not depicted as a "failing" tradition, though ironically this is the kind of Marxism most ignored now in the Second International
Final grades are in and his summer has just begun. Now give him three mutually contradictory reviews. The editor says he must respond to all of them. The deadline is in a month.
Is Black Studies the only field where 00’s New Materialism (very broadly construed) remains a central research agenda? How to account for this based on both several key texts of NM not discussing race much and the denial from many that ontology has any place in Black Studies?
🚨📚I am very proud to announce my new article, “Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn,” published with Hypatia. This article accounts for intersectionality’s decline in recent black feminist thought, and the subsequent turn to Wynter, Spillers, Hartman + others.
BLUE POWER: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves is out TODAY from @BasicBooks! Pick it up from your favorite infoshop, like @redemmas, where I'll be speaking about it tonight at 7pm.
The flagrant irrationality of Trumpism would have required a psychoanalytic turn in political thinking, if one weren't already underway, and @leninology is better at this than just about anyone