jessecohn.bsky.social
Board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS): https://anarchiststudies.org/
I teach English and translate a lot of things into it
Interested in New Materialisms, Indigenous struggles, SFFH by BIPOC, Kafka, Yiddish...
Antifascist. He/him.
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Well, several people, but I'm among them.
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Right, we live in a land of civil rights... where you can be disappeared off the streets by special police without warrants or the right to contact a lawyer. Keep telling yourself there's no problem.
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Capitalism is a cult.
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This conception of art as smashy-smashy begs a lot of questions. It's very white and male and modern, for one thing. Is it really necessary to affirm it just to negate right wing "art"?
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Kafkaesque
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It's so fucking awful.
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They steal everything. They're stealing my hometown.
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I was gonna say the opposite? It doesn't sound like the writers characterized that character in a very responsible way.
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Processed World did that back in the 80s! Damned if I can find it, though... "Part man, part machine, all pontiff!" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process...
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I've been quoting from this book extensively in the conclusion of my book about postfascism and post-truth. He really gets it.
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It's great when you have all the power of an empire and you get to treat entire groups of human beings as little imaginary tokens to be moved around a map.
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I'm writing about this right now. Reading some great work on the subject by Dan McQuillan and others.
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Wait, you're Mr. Dignity all of a sudden?
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Sorry, this model doesn't transmit feelings or permit empathy!
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What kind of Severance ass bullshit is this?!
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I spent Friday afternoon listening to a committee debate the difference between "chairs" and "heads" of departments.
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Two terrible tastes that taste terrible together
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It's a welter of contradictions that nonetheless functions.
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I don't think coherence is the source of its strength at all. Yes, the same usual suspects (white cis hetero Christian men) are its _beneficiaries_, but its morality is completely hypocritical, its foreign policy is trying to be isolationist and expansionist at the same time, etc.
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It once gave me the sentence "My cat is still unemployed" (which, true)
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Pound-for-pound, there isn't a worse publication than the Atlantic. Every bullet the IDF sends towards the head of a toddler is a whimsical puzzle for the Atlantic staff to show its brilliance in mental gymnastics. "Let me show you less enlightened folks how this barbaric act was actually good"
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Is someone looking to scholars to lead the next general strike?
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Free link: archive.is/https://on.f...
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Jane Smiley, _The Age of Grief_
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Source(s)? I want to believe.
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"Smugly"? Many of these were people terrified and grieving for lost family.
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Well said
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It's a real mindfuck. I go to school and teach as if everything were normal, because I've had my classes planned since October, but it just isn't. I asked my students tentatively: "Any of you keeping up with the national news?" but just got blank looks.
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Goodness! I see I was wrong about that.
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NAFTA wasn't signed until 1992, going into effect in 1994
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