Jonathan Beller

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

The #WeeklyRead is "The Question of Genocide," a written dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh, published in Social Text issue 161.
@STcollective

Read it for free through 3/31: https://t.co/8K53vCn9i4

[Social Text Journal @STCollective]

"The Question of Genocide," a dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh, studies how the question of genocide has infiltrated media ecology and come to permeate every meaning, gesture, and relation since October 2023 | https://t.co/ZH7sEIUVMm

[Social Text Journal @STCollective]

Social Text 161 is now out, featuring work by David Nichols, Kerry Keith, Marc Kohlbry, and Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh | https://t.co/THqdOcPPE3

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

https://t.co/AEbwG9l4o2

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Legendary Marxist critic Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) spent his life and career committed to socialist ideas.
In Jacobin last year, Jameson, argued that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is, in fact, possible. https://t.co/KKDdMM0vjH

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

Shafik demonstrates what we have long suspected. University presidents have neither intellectual integrity nor intellect. Rather, they are corporate figureheads who got where they are by being good at groveling before wealth and power, and they make decisions  advised…

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

by trustees, fund managers and lawyers. The failure to challenge a single premise proffered by a fascist congress, or to defend anything at all about the University, but instead portray professors as coddled imbeciles and unhinged radicals irresponsibly ranting their extremist…

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

ideas as if out of touch with reality, and thus in dire need of discipline from higher authority, was sickening. And the lack of respect for students who, rather than being seen as beacons of a future we might want to live in, are seen only as wards of a carceral-minded state…,

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

was disgusting. Fuck her.

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

was disgusting. Fuck her.

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

ideas as if out of touch with reality, and thus in dire need of discipline from higher authority, was sickening. And the lack of respect for students who, rather than being seen as beacons of a future we might want to live in, are seen only as wards of a carceral-minded state…,

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

by trustees, fund managers and lawyers. The failure to challenge a single premise proffered by a fascist congress, or to defend anything at all about the University, but instead portray professors as coddled imbeciles and unhinged radicals irresponsibly ranting their extremist…

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

Shafik demonstrates what we have long suspected. University presidents have neither intellectual integrity nor intellect. Rather, they are corporate figureheads who got where they are by being good at groveling before wealth and power, and they make decisions  advised…

[Steven Salaita @stevesalaita]

My book An Honest Living is now available. It’s about the ostracism and loneliness and alienation (and vitality and joy and regeneration) that comes of being loyal to the oppressed and downtrodden of this world.

https://t.co/T72g5ZSbLA

[Maya Wind @mayaywind]

So grateful for the scholarship of the brilliant @DavarianBaldwin, whose pathbreaking work on the university is a model for us all and an inspiration for the book. I'm deeply honored by your support.

[Jonathan Beller @cinemode]

@yanisvaroufakis https://t.co/d1GK0SmOae

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

John Hope Franklin award winner Neferti Tadiar holds her book Remaindered Life
#2023asa