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I wrote for @defector.bsky.social about the NIH cuts, the war on higher ed, and what it means for all of us. The takeaway: let's not just defend a failing status quo againt Trump and Musk, but follow labor in fighting for a transformed higher ed landscape. defector.com/the-nih-cuts...

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Deadline tomorrow: applications for the Melvin Richter Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the history of political thought.

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Jairus Banaji's recent talk at UCL is now published. A great introduction to the origins of capitalism debate and his own contributions to it. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

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Event on @brunoleipold.com's brilliant new book 'Citizen Marx' at the New School for Social Research. With comments by Corey Robin Tuesday, 25 February. 6 - 8 PM Open to public. Please register below. event.newschool.edu/citizenmarx

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Here is how to disable Copilot in Word on a Mac. My version was slightly different. It was this: Expand "Word" menu > Preferences > Personal Settings > Privacy > go down to "Connected Experiences" and click Manage Connected Experiences > uncheck all the boxes > restart Word (cont'd)

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This is the L train in the evenings

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My two cents on this is the reason that 'save democracy' did not work as a political rallying cry against Trump is not because voters do not care about democracy, but because a significant number of them do not believe that the current regime is what democracy is

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What a Beauty! I'm delighted to share the cover for my forthcoming book on Indian history... all of it. 5,000 years, dozens of languages and cultures, 1 author. Coming from @princetonupress.bsky.social to wherever you buy books on June 3, 2025. Preorder: princeton.press/8r8idcye

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This @husseinomar.bsky.social piece on the poetry of Fady Joudah is both beautiful and sharp -- it moves and unsettles. On the possibilities of poetry, and language itself, in the face of unspeakable loss and destruction. One of the best I have read in a while.

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Especially grateful to be mentioned in this list of 2024 readings recommended by leading Kashmiri writers and scholars

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These are some beautiful reflections by Pepe Mujica, the former Uruguayan president who is in his deathbed. The most decent and honorable -- the most human -- head of state of my lifetime. archive.is/Kil4J

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The anti commodity fetishism rug!

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The historical unity of the ruling classes is realized in the Mar-a-Lago.

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Prof Franke not pulling her punches: "In a time when assaults on higher ed are the most acute since the McCarthyite assaults of the 1950s, the University's leadership & trustees have abandoned any duty to protect the university's most precious resources: its faculty, students, & academic mission."

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This checks out with my own experience. Zohran is the clear frontrunner for the leftwing vote. From @cityandstateny.bsky.social

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In their coverage of the LA fires, neither the NYT Daily podcast nor the NYT Morning Newsletter addresses climate change at all. The Daily has a single throwaway mention but doesn’t actually talk about it and the newsletter just ignores it. Again, climate chaos’ central role is conspicuously absent

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Editors, producers, reporters: we've got SIX open positions at @propublica.org — take a peek, some have fast-approaching application deadlines: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...

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F&E has received 151 submissions in 2024—from Sept 13, the day we launched, to Dec 31. That’s roughly 42 submissions per month. We are very grateful indeed to the academic community for this tremendous support in the transition to the new model. #philsky #poltheory #moralphil #polisky

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Chanced upon a book on Soviet film posters from 1924 - 1929. Perhaps the greatest era for film posters

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Regardless of whether you accept its methods & findings, these are questions every university should be using everything its staff know about cognition, pedagogy & human behaviour to address. The underpinning study is published open access: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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Free ad Equal, the new open access journal outside and against the extortionate academic publishing industry, by the former edit. team of Philosophy and Public Affairs, just published its first two article. Hope that this becomes a model that many would follow. freeandequaljournal.org/articles/

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Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

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Some thoughts on a debate on twitter as to whether or not it makes sense to use the word/concept Feudalism. I think the best answer still comes from Marc Bloch

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I recently watched Mandabi on Criterion and it was one of the best films on neocolonialism/ postcolonial disenchantment that I have seen

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Happy New Year. Despite Gramsci:

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Marx to Engels, 1861

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This is an incredibly ambitious paper, my god. (with a bunch of interesting implications)

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I want Palestinians to have “the dignity of ordinary days.” I cannot comprehend that we are witnessing the extermination of a people and we are unable to stop it.

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Sunil Janah's surprisingly poetic photos of post-independence industrialization, from the 1950s and 60s. Silver gelatin prints.

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This is not going to end well

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On a burning planet where most can barely make do, our scarce collective resources will be placed entirely in the hands of a cartel of multi-billionaires to innovate more efficient means of repression and killing

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Good time to tell everyone that I’m writing a Verso book 😊

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It's the end of the year so I will allow myself some soppiness: I sincerely hope that my words justify the care with which so many have treated them.

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Pep Guardiola - who rose to prominence in 2008 as the cool leader of a leftwing popular club, to then spend his career at an institution that exemplifies the oligarchic capture of football - is such an Obama era figure that his shocking implosion feels very of this moment.

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Does this vindicate Adorno? Extraordinary article about how Spotify creates 'tracks by cheap, fake artists' to populate its playlists, to avoid royalties. Made possible by how most people consume music as ambient sound curated by pre-packaged playlists. harpers.org/archive/2025...

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It’s @patblanchfield.bsky.social on assassination/political violence: routine to extraordinary; authored by state, capital, left, right, unwell, alienated; anxiety, fantasy, morbid symptom; expressing distinctively American logics of domination/human disposability www.thedigradio.com/podcast/assa...

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