Eric

Writing about ethnic studies and higher ed in the long downturn. VAP in Black Studies @Middlebury. PhD in American Studies @GWUAMST.

[Eric @Eric31455217]

Soooo are we still eating frozen fruit? 😅

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Don’t work as a doctor in Gaza or you’re a terrorist. Don’t work as a journalist in Gaza or you’re a terrorist. Don’t send money to Gaza or you’re a terrorist. Don’t sail to Gaza or you’re a terrorist. Don’t speak about Gaza or you’re a terrorist.

[Eric @Eric31455217]

Comrade Ygelsias comes out against left electoralism

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

Amazing admission from Matt Yglesias - politics shouldn't try to shift public opinion.

He fundamentally does not understand what politics is. This is why DNC politicians and media allies offer no political vision — they don't think you should have one!

[Protean Magazine @proteanmag]

“McClanahan issued a challenge of sorts: that all of us in that room begin to identify ourselves with a label many academics have shied away from, dismissed as politically unnecessary, or even looked down upon—that is, to understand ourselves as workers.”

Review link below:

[Sera @schwarz_seher]

PSA: lily hu just wrote the definitive article about AI and philosophy for the berlin review, and literally everyone should be reading it https://t.co/0SDOyGqzT8

[Eric @Eric31455217]

@rafkhach @chrisokane_nyc https://t.co/2fHHouOtvB

[Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler]

TWA: "Reification itself is the reflection-form of false objectivity; to center theory on it, a form of consciousness, makes critical theory idealistically acceptable to the dominating consciousness...There is no lack of irony that the brutal and primitive functionaries who>

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Treating class as an individual identity has a lot of limits, especially when you try to make it translate politically https://t.co/HdFjTunjId

[Lake Eater @lakeeater]

points like this really give away the game with the debunking-deflating drift of Heinrich-style marxology

only reasonable response to a lot of "what Marx really meant" stuff is "well okay what I thought he meant was more interesting and useful so let's go with that"

[Eric @Eric31455217]

@lint_ax everyone's a vulgar Bourdieusian on here!

[Arbeitology @Arbeitologist]

For me, this is one of the merits of so called VFT, clearing away some of the sedimented political common sense of the marxist tradition. The articulation marxist-leninism (and whatever else) is a historic contingency, a return to the text may produce different articulations

[Eric @Eric31455217]

@stalecooper They will pry the em dash from my cold dead hands!!!

[Eric @Eric31455217]

Still haven’t recovered from the intellectual mindfuck of encountering this essay + Endnotes in the same calendar year

[Ndumiso Mdayi @mbiratafari]

Hortense Spillers, “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

this is a great book about how many conditions have to be in place for people to pick up reading as a hobby (it was published in 1957)

[Eric @Eric31455217]

@dwkamish My sense is that coming up in the habitus of pre-crash Marxisms — ones that had, h/w generatively, remade themselves to fit on the liberal multicultural cafeteria tray of the aesthetic humanities — definitely gives value form stuff that strange, alien sheen!

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

This is an amazing clip for the DSA, best possible line you could get from Richardson, as a leader and representative of her substantial readership

[Maia @maiamindel]

i mean that's basically reading why nations fail

[Eric @Eric31455217]

Glute day inflicted sciatica two yrs running?!? Don’t mind if I do

[Bruno Monfort @valueformhater]

Gillian Rose on Adorno, critical theory, and utopia:

[csz @cszabla]

atlantic “end of reading” piece may be the first I’ve seen to connect mockery of “performative reading” to the decline of the humanities as part of the lost status of literacy as short form video influencers become “the guardians of culture”