I expect the larger response to these encampments to be in tune with the move to abolish humanities/social departments and make the university system a combination of scientific research subsumed by industrial/military interests, business schools, and pre-vocational training

Jason and I went to grad school together and I want to hype this Cajun's book! Esp if you are interested in o&g, enviro history, Lousiana, etc. #hatm

Out now: 'Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel's ghost: A critical engagement with water infrastructure, authority, and social complexity' in 'Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space' including my article on Kathmandu's Melamchi project: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epcb/37/7

When Wittfogel has no source but wants to say something smart about 'China' as a typical 'hydraulic society' (and its implications on the interaction between different sub-types of hydraulic society)

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one to feel haunted by the ghost of Karl Wittfogel. #envhist 👻

'Having realized that my research program is a dead end while private school tuition for my children skyrockets, I enthusiastically submit this application for Vice Provost of Snipers...'

it's actually good to do good things as a result of social pressure to do them. even better when you socially pressure others in turn

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did my homework with a paper book this morning instead of a screen for the first time in four years, shit rocks

I've read a lot of calls to 'democratize money and finance' coming from certain quarters over the last decade. If we put it to a straight up democratic vote, do you think US voters would choose to

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi spoke about the police crackdowns on American campus protesters for Gaza in his address to Yemen today:

'They boast that they are committed to knowledge, education, and universities. All of that is over.'

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

Noelle McAfee, the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest on campus.