Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.
Jared is correct. Read Theory
"Whatever states are today, they are not what they once were—in part because, as Dasgupta chronicles, the state now faces serious competition for center stage in the organization of human society."
www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...
🚨🚨🚨A slew of new book reviews and review essay in Political Theory 🚨🚨🚨
First up, David Froomkin reviews The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power by Richard Primus
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Freiheit ohne Gleichheit ist Ausbeutung.
Gleichheit ohne Freiheit ist Unterdrückung.
Solidarität ist die Quelle von Freiheit und Gleichheit.
Rosa Luxemburg,
geboren am 5. März 1871
Welcome to the world outside your apartment, that will be $1000
Connolly’s obituary asks that contributions in his memory be sent to the Goucher Education Prison Partnership (www.goucher.edu/learn/gouche...) or The Village Learning Place (www.villagelearningplace.org/get-involved) or Greenpeace.
Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1
I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.
Today, February 24th, is publication day for my latest book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by @versobooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/_Y7YLX-ASGY?...
"The fact that the factory owner crumbled without resistance, but also without his downfall having any purpose or meaning, makes his dream a perfect parable for the creation of the submissive totalitarian subject."
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).
I’m grateful for the experience of editing this symposium for our teacher Kirstie McClure with my friends @megangallagher.bsky.social, @arashdavar.bsky.social, and @fredleept.bsky.social. I am also grateful for the pieces by our contributors which I think do justice to Kirstie’s memory.
Now that all of the pieces in our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure are available online from Philosophy and Global Affairs, here's a little thread with each of the pieces. (1/8)
willkommen auf der welt
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help.
We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today.
Let’s make a list of things that could help.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
The introduction for our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure at Philosophy and Global Affairs is now online. I am grateful to have written this piece and organized the symposium with Arash Davari, Megan Gallagher, and Fred Lee and I hope that many will read it in remembrance of Kirstie.
MS NOW Lures New Viewers With Rotating Gyro Spit In Corner Of Screen
"Three awards of $7,000 each will be given to early-career scholars for papers that address the meaningful decommodification of access to basic needs in America." mailchi.mp/law/freedom-...
really cool article - "Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital" by Christina Chalmers
muse.jhu.edu/article/908409
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