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Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles https://boxd.it/6oFrP
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Re NYT piece, some folks including myself in the JVP Academic Council wrote a long analysis of Project Esther this past year, which I think is worth reading for a longer, more historicized understanding of the origins and implications of the document contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

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I keep thinking about the movie “The Rover” (2014)

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say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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if you do one thing this week, please make it either donating what you can to The Appeal, or sharing this ask -- their reporting is so, so vital, and because of a bleak funding landscape they're at serious risk of not being able to do that vital reporting at all anymore.

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Hungry, hungry guillotine www.inprnt.com/gallery/thou...

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This is continuing today. So much fear and pain.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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Dr. Badar Khan Suri officially freed from ICE detention.

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I was unaware that this existed until today and my 9yo self switching between Rage Against the Machine and Weird Al is overjoyed youtu.be/C-CG5w4YwOI

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“One day, you might ask why people are punished for standing up for Palestine, why truth and compassion feel dangerous to power. … I hope our story shows you this: the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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LA jails just posted their 19th death for this year:

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By all accounts, he was dead behind the eyes at 17 and the fact that he wasn’t vigorously and persistently drummed out of public life in every institution he ever inflicted himself on is ample evidence of the need for thorough-going 21st century denazification.

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This is why I liked the Daily Show in high school. (from 2002) youtu.be/gd7P78w8cdA

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As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

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We all need to start responding with strategies adequate to the stakes. 🧵

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EXPROPRIATION NOW

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A close friend had an external fixator for months after a car hit her and crushed her hip. It was a grueling, demoralizing recovery where she could never find comfort and faced constant limitations. That was with excellent, consistent healthcare and first world family support. This is beyond me.

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This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

submitted 19 days ago • 104 comments

@hilaryagro.bsky.social have you seen the short film, “Surviving You, Always” directed by Morgan Quaintance and released in 2021? I’m thinking about using it to teach and wanted yo see if you knew of any writings on it? www.criterionchannel.com/surviving-yo...

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“You are coming home to your self. You are becoming more than your fear. Let that protect you.” Phew!

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The Trump administrations (both of them) give cause to drum a very large segment of people out of mainstream public life as bigoted, know-nothing, authoritarian sadists who have no place in a democratic polity. This is the work of anyone + everyone who want the institutions of modernity to persist.

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Ah god dammit. Joshua Clover wrote about both people and music as if he loved them so much he couldn’t bear it, & indeed he really did love them like this, to the joy of those he knew & shaped, & to the consternation of those who loved either less. What a loss. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/11...

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