Ben

Researches/Teaches Geopolitics, Popular Culture, Sport Politics. Has 1 Pomeranian.

[Alexander Aviña @Alexander_Avina]

“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”—Aimé Césaire, 1950

[Oliver Eagleton @Oliver_Eagleton]

An incredible analysis of how ICE and Border Patrol unions spent years laying the groundwork for the new security regime taking shape under Trump:

https://t.co/xpXanSJnk3

[Lou Rogers @louisagrogers]

I'll be at @SorbonneParis1 next week exploring how we can use fashion images as tools for critical pedagogy. I'll be using Kim K's robotic flirtation as a case study for starting dialogues with students around human-technology interaction, leisure and class.

[Gareth @g_f_red]

Labour and their hangers on have been pretending that the reason things are shit in Britain is because of 'blockers' (understood as environmentalists/ conservationists/quangos), only for their own failures to bring forth a movement actually committed to 'blocking'.

[Gareth @g_f_red]

The University sector is collapsing and this is the state of the education secretary, fining instutions for attempting to protect students.

[Rahul Rao @thariel]

Musk’s team of 19-25 year old dudes remind me of the Americans who ‘ran’ Iraq, as described by Rajiv Chandrasekaran in ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City’. What’s that thing they say about imperial technologies of rule coming home to roost? https://t.co/5dgvfmV6ZD

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

2017!

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

The far-right's popular aestheticization of the most brutal forms of domination imaginable sure is scary and disturbing.

[Alex Rubinstein @RealAlexRubi]

Not to make too big a deal of it but the idea that USAID is/was filled with "radical-left Marxists" is kind of insane given that much of their job was to enforce neo-liberal economic shock therapy

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If you have a social security number, Musk has access to that. If you receive any money from US gov't via direct deposit, Musk has access to that. And he's able to do this without any congressional oversight. This is a constitutional crisis. https://t.co/0OozKa5NX4

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

There is a certain irony in this moment.

China’s rise began with opening up to the world economy.

The collapse of the Soviet Union culminated in Shock Therapy.

Now Trump is trying to cement America’s power with protectionism and Shock Therapy dismantling state capacity.

[Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann]

Nothing that Trump does is new per se, the trade protectionism and retaliatory tariffs, threatening allies, doubling down on a culture war against ‘wokeness’, feminism, racial justice activism etc., but it has been turbocharged by 1.) the failure to impeach Trump for his role

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

They plagiarized our trillion dollar plagiarism machine?!

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

More than 10,000 buried under the rubble and uncounted with dozens of thousands of indirect deaths resulting from the obliteration of the medical sector, starvation and the destruction of all life sustaining infrastructures. The abyss.

[Sam Marsh @Sam_Marsh101]

Well! When I said yesterday that confidence was ebbing away, little did I imagine that over 10% of staff at @SheffieldUni would turn up to a joint-union held meeting to vote no confidence in UEB's leadership. 944 votes with 93.3% no confidence according to @SheffieldUCU. Brutal.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

The objective in Lebanon is the same as in Palestine. Complete pulverisation. This is the village of Mahbib, in southern Lebanon. Filled with explosive and detonated by the Israeli military. A village in its entirety.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

The mediocrity of Democratic consultants and party elites is stunning. How difficult could it possible be to put together a modest ten-point policy proposal that, despite its modesty, would galvanize voters?

[Adam Ramsay @AdamRamsay]

The Labour Party is the government of the UK, has a seat at the Security Council and is allowing arms exports to Israel. But they still like to pretend they have no real power.

[Dr Alex Burchmore @DrAlexBurchmore]

You mean mass redundancies, the evisceration of entire disciplines, rampant managerialism, and the fanatic embrace of a profit-driven model of scholarship haven't fostered a climate of open inquiry and big ideas?

Who could've known?! 🤷‍♂️

https://t.co/kwWkxhNUR6

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

"The Academic Question of Palestine," the full special issue of @MidEastCritique I co-edited with @walqaisiya is finally out. List of contributors and links in the MEC thread.
https://t.co/bz4f4hmwY1