Zhe Yu Lee

historicizing technocratic ag policy in Indonesia/US in part by studying the history of @UWMadison|@UWMadisonGeog PhD candidate on the (non-acad) job market

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Let's finally drop the pretense of legal, scientific, technical neutrality, however helpful it has been in constraining some of the worst excesses of unbridled market logics. Its dark side of insulating expertise from democracy/publics has contributed to institutional 1/n

[Emily S. Bremer @emilysbremer]

The hard part--especially in adminsitration--is that the line between law and policy can be quite blurry. So de novo on law, deference on policy = two steps that are often difficult to distinguish in hard cases (a.k.a. the ones that reach courts and become high-profile).

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Mid 20th century affinities between capitalist and socialist governmentality continuing to mutate in the present

[Cape/Extra Record 🇰🇷🇹🇼🇺🇸 @TohsakaPsycho]

We live in a hilarious time of juxtaposition

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Replaying the Science wars all over again might actually not be a bad idea right now as scientism is being attacked (and rightfully so) across the ideological spectrum, barring the technocratic center

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

well, there's an article to be written to assess the ideology of this article itself

[Theory and Society (Springer Nature) @Theory_Society]

New in @Theory_Society, the first systematic, cross-disciplinary, assessment of ideology in social science, drawing from ~600,000 social science abstracts across ~60 years.

Check it out here (open access!): https://t.co/B9l5HBJOda

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

who says foucault is not relevant?

[Trevor Fitzgibbon @TrevorFitzgibb1]

🔥🔥MAHA Leaders Launch War Powers Campaign
https://t.co/JByqutgZNf

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@barbarismcrit The LaFollettes would like a word

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Time to replay the parity politics of early 20th century US agricultural policy!

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

As of today, two major left-leaning think tanks -- @rooseveltinst (pictured below on the right) and @amprog (pictured on the left) -- have called for price caps on a basic basket of groceries, inspired by Mexico's success with a similar approach. 1/

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Bad bunny doctrine

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Basically the Midwest and New York

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Progressivism in the United States politicians list on Wikipedia

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

There has never been such a thing as free market capitalism, only different varieties of state capitalism

https://t.co/v380CEPTBO

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@L__a__n__e @cedric_durand @JKSteinberger @cornelban73 @CeciliaRikap @tom_krebs_ Looks like it's available here
https://t.co/hos9hX2Msd

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@provisionalidea @advaitarun_ they're trying to scientize STS without realizing that only AI can be STS-ed and not the other way round

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@RossBarkan Well he did drop out of the University of Wisconsin

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Mahmood Mamdani achieved what Joseph Buttigieg and Donald Harris couldn’t

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

liberals to the left: purity tests for me, not for thee

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

David Remnick:
Jon, you’ve been on Rogan a couple of times… What did you think of that experience?

Jon Stewart:
I enjoyed being on Rogan. I think he’s an interesting interviewer.

Remnick:
In fairness, he’s had people on who are kind of Nazi-curious. That’s not good.

Stewart:
I mean, I’ve interviewed Kissinger. And he was carpet-bomb-curious. It’s very easy to castigate.

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@MaxMMillerAT Henry Wallace would have much to say about this and the World Food Prize banner hanging on the state capitol in part because the positives, contradictions and failures of his agriculture and political career is constitutive of this moment. What a juxtaposition!

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Foucauldian biopower taken to its logical endpoint. He must be rolling in his grave.

[Noor Siddiqui @noor_siddiqui_]

What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently?

What if you could have stopped it…
but chose not to?

That’s the question @OrchidInc’s embryo screening forces.

You optimize everything… career, diet, skincare… but you’re going to chance it on your child’s genome, one of the most significant determinants of their health?

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Dual economy thesis is back y'all

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

The top 10% of earners now account for 50% of consumer spending. Instead of expanding markets by increasing output and lowering prices, firms are raising prices to maintain revenue projections.

In an unequal society, essential goods become luxuries.

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

@RobertSecundus @pourfairelevide @drgurner I mean scientism plays a fundamental function in the psychology of many psychologists

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

Anyway, this STS classic remains as relevance as ever

https://t.co/f3Urjjl7tS

[Zhe Yu Lee @leezy1990]

We need to go beyond a fake/real dichotomy to make sense of the "reality" of economic statistics and the role they play in a democratic society. Numbers have inescapable social and political lives and they do much more and much less than objectively represent "reality."

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

With Trump about to try to fake economic stats, it's not very helpful for leftists to say they were already cooked. They're not. I follow this stuff very closely and have for years. They're very good and assembled by civil servants who take their jobs very seriously.