Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social

Prof of Politics and International studies, Murdoch University. Tweets are in my personal capacity.

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

My review essay on the crisis of social reproduction and the development state in JCA with a focus on the excellent book by Jamie Doucette Postdevelopmental State: https://t.co/JYNLgUnFWK

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington), top ranking Democrat on the committee, says that of course he does not like Netanyahu (like all good Democrats say now) but that "we benefit from that technology partnership..Israel's been actually having to fight."

This is known as the "Palestine Laboratory." Israeli weapons are tested in real time on the bodies of Palestinians, which the Israeli weapons industry uses in its marketing. Smith is arguing that we should benefit from that human experimentation too.

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

Derek McDougall reviewed SEARCH FOR SECURITY in The Round Table.

Read the full review here: https://t.co/X91IUDVqqu

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

ABC star Charlie Pickering called a new podcast launched by the national broadcaster and former Australian of the Year Grace Tame “problematic.”

Whilst doing a interview with Avi Yemini......

#auspol

[Amanda Murdie @AmandaMurdie]

I am devastated by the news that my good friend and coauthor, Dr. @raulpacheco, is no longer with us. It's beyond comprehension.

Raul was a unicorn in our business, a combination of a brilliant mind and a kind heart. 1/5

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

The real problem with the notion of institutional neutrality - that certain US Universities, like Stanford and Chicago, are now promoting -is what counts as political. For example, why is a tie-up with Defense corporations or AI companies not seen as political? 1/2

[rohan advani @rohadvani]

Pleased to share my latest article, “Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore,” published at Social Science History. https://t.co/AspDmvguip

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

This is deeply concerning for anyone who wants to protect academic freedom and democratic space within our Universities. https://t.co/OyEB1xErlO

[Jaffrelot Christophe @jaffrelotc]

In this issue, you’ll find outstanding texts by Soma Basu on the Delhi riots, by Vihang Jumle on the situation of Muslims in Mumbai today, by Nidah Kaiser on the many facets of anti-Muslim persecution in UP & Fahad Zuberi on the Hindu nationalist use of bulldozer.
@sciencespo

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Where are the comedians decrying cancel culture now?

[Lorenzo Elijah, PhD @LorenzoElijah]

I’ve read many undergrad essays over the years.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that mankind has pondered an awful lot of stuff since the dawn of time.

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

It is project of militarised social democratic neoliberalism that finds support within the right of the Parliamentry labour party and so called 'blue labour' 3/3

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

social democracy with militarised neoliberalism and US far-right politics. The clear emphasis on : increased military expenditure, AI and tech industry sector and accommodating the US denotation of international multilateralism , and attacks on migration. 2/3

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

I know that it is easy to label Blair’s intervention as warmed-up third-way politics. This would be a mistake. Just as the Third Way was a means of reconciling social democracy and Thatcherite neoliberalism, this new intervention seeks to reconcile 1/2

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

I think this is interesting - but aspects of this strategy can already be seen in AUKUS and its pillar 2 but it reaches even more broadly into the research and education sphere. @TrissiaHebe_W - Neoliberal militarism

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before."

Here's the story: 🧵

[Ben Freeman @BenFreemanDC]

"At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before."

Here's the story: 🧵

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

Really interesting piece by Riley on the way Lukacs sought to mediate Marx and Weber.

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

Dylan Riley (@DylanRiley6216) on comparing Marx and Weber:

‘A general lesson is contained here: standpoints are politico-epistemological achievements, not unmediated expressions of social being.’

https://t.co/Aued9sWObI

[Antony (Tony) Walker @tonywalker1]

Read in disbelief 👇 https://t.co/Mvhi8GFKHD

[Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social @fafner100]

@SamRoggeveen Perhaps they think they can get a comparative advantage.

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

Really enjoyed learning over these last few months from @Rajni_Gamage & @BhagyaS13 in a series of discussions about contemporary Sri Lanka, where domestic demands for change are heavily constrained by international structural realities. Two essays by them out now at @NBRnews .

[David Brophy @Dave_Brophy]

Old story, still just as damning. From @Jeff_Sparrow's excellent essay: https://t.co/2ofFOIuAaN