sandipto.bsky.social
Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Currently, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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I am not giving a definition of democracy, which surely requires more than a tweet :) I am just trying to explain what I think it meant for people to feel that the current state of affairs were not particularly democratic given the way power is structured and operates.
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In the sense of popular aspiration and opinions being reflected in government and laws, the sense that it is a government for and of us etc., I don’t think many felt that way.
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No. Did not know about this. Thanks for sharing. Its beautiful.
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Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.
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5/ These fires are not brush fires. 1 in 3 US homes are in Wildland-Urban Interfaces. WUI blur artificial Nature/Society boundary. These fires are fueled by the homes 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴...that are seldom included in the fire models used to predict fire.
...Almost impossible to stop until winds die down.
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A historian once told me that Bloch's work is appreciated more by other disciplines than historians. As someone who benefits a lot from historians there might be some value for the rest of us in less caution and more big concepts
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It is an abstraction that is necessary for any thinking that aspires to go beyond the specific and/or descriptive. No concept - democracy, colonialism, liberalism, law - can withstand high levels of empirical scrutiny. But we cannot do any political/social theory without them
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From the Preface. It is a word (like democracy etc) that exists in our political vocabulary and hence should be the starting point for thought rather than object of empirical refutation into nothingness. IMO the book demonstrates how to do this well self-reflexively
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Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread, meat, shoes, coal,& light”
In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything"
@katemac.bsky.social on how countries & societies are being beat back into poverty
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Time to close the book on biopolitics