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we are all edward hopper paintings now

I would be reticent to call this the end of neoliberalism never mind the end of capitalism. I would not be in the least bit surprised if on the other end of this crisis the government immediately pivots to austerity 2.0 with the justification to reclaim the money being spent now

"If only things would go back to normal.."

Just in case anyone needed a reminder versobooks.com/blogs/4623-thi…

unable to adequately convey my frustration over the fact that the 100+ books I wish to read as part of my self-education on epidemics and political-economic paradigm shifts are sitting 2 miles away and I cannot access them due to an epidemic

Read this on the affective politics of the South African lockdown: white melancholia, black Afro-pessimism, and the quest for (false) equality in suffering. africasacountry.com/2020/04/out-of…

Wondering about death toll calculations using previous years as baseline (“X more no. of ppl did this March vs last”) - surely these don’t account for stuff like, massive fall in traffic accident deaths due to lockdowns? Would mean virus is even deadlier?

Peak Soviet scenes at the farmers market this morning: Queuing for hours to comply with social distancing - but nobody complains. Maybe we care less about efficiency that some would like to have us believe.

This is disingenuous when Will Hutton, head of Hertford College, Oxford & signatory of this letter, wrote in The Guardian in 2015 that British the Empire bequeathed South Africa with ‘courts, rule of law, free press, freedom of association and expression.’ theguardian.com/world/2020/jun…

Postone's last article: rejected by the anthropologists because it did not have enough anthropology in it; rejected by the Marxists because it did not have enough Marxism in it.

Another benefit of #DecolonisetheCurriculum is that more people might have the fortune of being taught by profs like Simukai Chigudu - every 👏🏼 single 👏🏼 word 👏🏼

As one of Oxford's few black professors, let me tell you why I care about Rhodes | My op-ed in The Guardian #RhodesMustFall #BlackintheIvory #BlackLivesMatter theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Finally! #RhodesWillFall

So now that we’ve dissected the political and economic incentives behind sending students back to uni, are we going to talk about Oxford threatening them with expulsion if they don’t comply with Covid regulations (stricter than gov’t ones)?

The next is from Leonie Hoffmann!

Communist Party of Austria wins the municipal election Graz, with 28.8% of the votes. Candidate Elke Kahr will become the first female KPÖ mayor of a state capital in Austria.

Looking for an educative yet not-too-heavy Sunday afternoon read? My review of Christine Jeske's The Laziness Myth (2020) is out. Of interest to South Africanists and those concerned with (re)thinking work & related subjectivities. DM me for full access. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The postgraduate group of Oxford UCU Oxford has created an FAQ related to the upcoming strikes for students at University of Oxford, including resources to support the strikes. Please have a look and retweet! tinyurl.com/uni-strikes-in… #ucuRISING