Sideeq Mohammed

Lecturer @UniKent interested in organizations, Deleuze and Guattari, ethnography, the anthropocene and being insufferable. Associate Dean of Education @KBS_Kent

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My book, "Stories and Organization in the anthropocene", is finally out! https://t.co/rMskWA17mr

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The paper is really interesting, but the framing of the reporting around it is honestly hilarious.

"Honey, we're going to have to cut back on our climate change this year. With the car payments and little Timmy's braces, we just can't afford it."
https://t.co/uzVMUGzbmj

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We'll be welcoming all of the new undergraduate students to @KBS_Kent over the next few days. As part of my "Welcome to KBS" talks, I give them all these challenges for their first year.

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@Jugistoteles Here's the reading list for my Intro to Management class: https://t.co/SgsnCILDzb

My tip would be to balance good and focused examples/case studies with thinking about organizing systematically. Have to pull connections and themes out of the "one week/one topic" formula somehow.

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"Doomist thinking is dangerous because it breeds paralysis and disengagement, which is precisely what the forces of climate inaction seek" is a really interesting mechanism of affective control/a way to enforce mandatory hopefulness.
https://t.co/gCo9nNqnTm

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I apologize in advance to anyone in my life who comes to me with a genuine problem in the next year, and has to watch me pause, think carefully, and then say "I have a solution: Wolves".

In my defence, it's a good solution. https://t.co/EYxPxZjKZA

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going to apply 'I have a solution: wolves' to as many contexts as possible

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Resisting is a part of the process & even the acceleration of capitalism's destructive tendencies can easily become part of its process.

We thus conclude that teaching in a business school is a necessarily depressing affair.

Thanks to @fdevaujany for the editorial support 4/4

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Happy to see this paper out.

If one wanted to encourage critical, revolutionary, sociopolitical change, what would one teach in a Business School? 1/4

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Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, we explore a vision of capitalism that fully grapples with its ability to liberate desire. Under such a reading, any strategy that one adopts will be re-appropriated and recaptured by capitalism and used to further its own ends. 3/4

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Spent the last week greenfield camping in a field in Barham with the @scouts and other leaders of 16th Canterbury. Everyone had an amazing time doing archery, air rifle shooting, incident hikes, cooking over fires, and telling stories etc.

Now to get home and have a proper wash!

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@musical_lou I mean, sure? It depends on what you want? If you want to read a series of moving queer love letters, then yes. If you want to track hyperstitional story threads to understand that narratives of a "time war" are stagnating in our collective imaginary, then also yes(?).

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As epistolary, queer, posthuman, romance: 9/10. Beautiful. Heartrending. Involving. 

As a metaphysically challenging book about a time war: 0/10. Contains no mention of syzegetic lemurs.

Sometimes book covers can in fact be misleading.

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Still cloudy on the Munros so I did the ridge north of Glenmore.

Meall a' Bhuachaille to Creagan Gorm to Craiggowrie.

Finished with a drink at the Pine Marten bar. A great day.

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Behold! The breathtaking Scottish vistas visible from the summits of Ben Macdui and Cairn Gorm.

I have not gotten soaked through like that in ages.

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Scotland! I love it here more than I have words to say.

Braeriach via Lairig Ghru. A chill 30k.

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It's always great to cheer on our @KBS_Kent graduates. Congratulations to all of the students who got their awards over the last week.

We're so proud of you.

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Hugely supportive of this, really great to see this kind of leadership on the international stage. https://t.co/wcOnLtDpKR

The sun is a Lovecraftian horror that must be destroyed. #blackenthecursedsun #saynotosunshine

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Don't mind me, I'm just collecting stories about sewage for very normal reasons that have nothing to do with spending too much time reading Libidinal Economy. https://t.co/yquEeHwxZr

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Paper submitted for the @egosnet conference. Really looking forward to reading the others in the "System Change, Not Climate Change" stream. Cagliari here we come...

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Played a show with @NotAboveEvil for the first time in years. Thanks to everyone at Rebellion in Manchester for having us!

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@PhilAnthony4 I choose to read all of these at face value because they remind me that despite its challenges, I really do love academia.

Question: How do you feel?

Answers:
"Helpful for research"
"A challenge!"
"Critical"
"A total disaster"