Anndal Narayanan

Historian of counterinsurgency & the end of empires. Book on French veterans of Algeria coming out with @UnivNebPress. Teacher, student, scholar. Errors my own.

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

You call it 'time blindness'; I call it 'being well acquainted with eternity'

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

https://t.co/g9oPOHmHGg

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

What's old is new again, with a twist.

‘ “abundance,” an establishment political movement within the Democratic Party whose essential thesis is that real neoliberalism has never been tried’

https://t.co/FeQH0K6SWt

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@msiobhanjordan @girlziplocked You definitely shouldn't if they put you in a nursing home.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

A podcast where students try to describe the essay ChatGPT just wrote for them

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@SteveCicirelli Thinking is painful and costs glucose.

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@Kidfears99 I, too, have the title of Doctor and can spread bullshit on the internet. (I do my best not to)

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@providenceluvr Eugenics came out of precisely the same intellectual and socioeconomic milieu as the ideas of 'natural selection' and 'survival of the fittest.'

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@StewMama71 @feelsdesperate Racism is a sin, but these people don't believe in sin, only themselves and the general will.

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@feelsdesperate (Didn't need a reminder)

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@starmack86 @mamashchamuda I thought that was 'schlub' 🤔

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@mamashchamuda Sounds like Yiddish might have even more kvetching built into it than French!

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@waxmittert Have you consulted a physician?

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@NC_Renic ‘Every one of these things has got to go on, somehow or other.’

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@dvassallo Congratulations! I am glad I discovered Gumroad recently. I am late to most parties.
How long do you plan to offer the discounted lifetime membership to Small Bets?

[Anndal Narayanan @DrN1958]

@NC_Renic What are you, a completionist?!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

1) read article
2) spot footnote
3) read new article
4) spot footnote
5) continue forever, finishing nothing

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Me: “My draft is almost ready”

The draft: