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John Hope Franklin award winner Neferti Tadiar holds her book Remaindered Life #2023asa

So grateful for the scholarship of the brilliant Davarian L. Baldwin, whose pathbreaking work on the university is a model for us all and an inspiration for the book. I'm deeply honored by your support.

My book An Honest Living is now available. It’s about the ostracism and loneliness and alienation (and vitality and joy and regeneration) that comes of being loyal to the oppressed and downtrodden of this world. fordhampress.com/9781531506353/…

Shafik demonstrates what we have long suspected. University presidents have neither intellectual integrity nor intellect. Rather, they are corporate figureheads who got where they are by being good at groveling before wealth and power, and they make decisions  advised…

by trustees, fund managers and lawyers. The failure to challenge a single premise proffered by a fascist congress, or to defend anything at all about the University, but instead portray professors as coddled imbeciles and unhinged radicals irresponsibly ranting their extremist…

ideas as if out of touch with reality, and thus in dire need of discipline from higher authority, was sickening. And the lack of respect for students who, rather than being seen as beacons of a future we might want to live in, are seen only as wards of a carceral-minded state…,

was disgusting. Fuck her.

Legendary Marxist critic Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) spent his life and career committed to socialist ideas. In Jacobin last year, Jameson, argued that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is, in fact, possible. jacobin.com/2023/01/freder…

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Social Text 161 is now out, featuring work by David Nichols, Kerry Keith, Marc Kohlbry, and Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh | read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/is…

"The Question of Genocide," a dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh, studies how the question of genocide has infiltrated media ecology and come to permeate every meaning, gesture, and relation since October 2023 | read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/ar…

The #WeeklyRead is "The Question of Genocide," a written dialogue between Jonathan Beller and Ali Musleh, published in Social Text issue 161. @STcollective Read it for free through 3/31: buff.ly/42dpDUV