Damon Young

Berkeley prof and author

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

Excited that "Proximities: Reading With Judith Butler," our special issue of @rep_journal is out today, open access. Fantastic essays by Saidiya Hartman, @TavNyongo, Jack Halberstam, Maggie Nelson, Jasbir Puar, Lee Edelman, @KadjiAmin and more https://t.co/apHiOpS83l

[Nico Baumbach @NicoBaumbach]

this issue is now open access and it's really very very good.

brilliant essays by
@annashechtman -"the voice" of the internet
@kukukadoo -emblems as the ur-meme
@immanenceftw -meme as compression
@genevieveyue -chatbots +dogs
+ super intro by @HowManyCooks, @miaminjungyou

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

Out today! Meme Aesthetics, co-edited w Stephen Best and @miaminjungyou. Available open access for a short time.

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

The #WeeklyRead is "Revisiting Postmodernism: An Interview with Fredric Jameson" with Nico Baumbach, Damon R. Young, and Genevieve Yue. The interview was published in a special issue of Social Text (127). Read the interview for free: https://t.co/w2Yc1bPvyQ
@STCollective

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

10th anniversary issue of Porn Studies out today with a series of sparkling pieces revisiting the work of Linda Williams and developing new theories. My introduction, “The Fantasy of Pornography,” is open access.

https://t.co/wVDCfbmN2B

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@gavinmuellerphd this is great, and helpful thx!

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@bungarsargon batya, when did you decide to make a career out of saying things you know to be untrue? i hope you have a good analyst.

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

Berkeley Film & Media is also seeking an assistant professor working in any area of film or media history/historiography:

https://t.co/2P3287gJ6R

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@HZeavin @bookforum great piece

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

Berkeley Film & Media is seeking an assistant professor of Native American/Indigenous media, which could be in terms of production/art practice and/or history and theory.
https://t.co/DJMfEYScgm

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@Eve_Barlow “rat tunnels”? Are you aware “rats” is an antisemitic trope you are deploying against Palestinians? (Can you recognize the existence of Palestinians or as anything other than “terrorists” - or “rats”?) From a grandchild of Holocaust survivors : Learn from history please.

[tey meadow @dr_tey]

in which they failed to defend crucial values of academic freedom, the police action seems like capitulation to forces outside the university that would like to curtail academic freedom and freedom of expression. (10/16)

[tey meadow @dr_tey]

Third, the decision to call the police into campus violated also the important principle of protecting free expression on campus. Coupled with the testimony given by the President Shafik and members of the Board of Trustees in Congress, (9/16)

[tey meadow @dr_tey]

As quoted in the Columbia Spectator, the NYPD Chief asserted that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” (5/16)

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@medieninitiativ fantastic!

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@gem_neves exciting!

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

@bungarsargon Absolutely craven misquotation, Batya. What happened to you?

[Nico Baumbach @NicoBaumbach]

i reviewed Doppelgänger by
@NaomiAKlein

the book has already received a lot of press but i explored the politics of social media in ways i haven’t seen done elsewhere

https://t.co/ZhQs7APTfR

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

YouTube livestream:
https://t.co/hm8jX8Mn8y

[Damon Young @HowManyCooks]

today! 2-5pm PST