I'm far closer to a Gramscian than an Afropessimist, but Frank Wilderson's "Gramsciβs Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?" is one of the most original polemics I've read.
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Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
I'm far closer to a Gramscian than an Afropessimist, but Frank Wilderson's "Gramsciβs Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?" is one of the most original polemics I've read.
13.11.2025 02:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried. www.courant.com/2025/10/23/u...
25.10.2025 12:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Union organizer job in Las Vegas NV
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Fear of non-recognition for those without recognition; status anxiety for those with status. Fear and anxiety as "world making."
07.09.2025 20:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's no significant difference between doing tourist activities 50 vs 5000 miles away. Just passing through.
24.08.2025 14:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In _The Dispossessed_, Shevek says that Urras is hell compared to Anarres and Keng replies that it is heaven compared to Earth. It's a great follow up on the perspectivism theme, as posed by the earlier question of "which is planet and which is satellite"?
13.08.2025 17:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My superpower is reading books that academics only pretend to read
21.06.2025 01:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All actions have consequences; some actions are meaningful; none of them occur as intended. All, some, none.
22.05.2025 01:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Atro was the foremost living physicist on Urras. There was about him not only the dignity of age but also the blunt self-assurance of one accustomed to respect. This was nothing new to Shevek. Atro had precisely the one kind of authority that Shevek recognized. βUrsula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
12.05.2025 04:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βItβs just a phaseβ isnβt an insult. Itβs all just a phase. Some phases are just a lot longer than others.
29.04.2025 03:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not that it is the worst. Still, the feeling that this society is the best we can do is some mixture of arrogance and misanthropy.
29.04.2025 03:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Teaching that _confidence_ is more important than _competence_ (or more complexly that the only real competence is in the art/craft of confidence) is the premise of all con-games, public relations, and corporate marketing.
14.04.2025 15:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There is not too much art being made. There is too little time to appreciate it.
05.04.2025 12:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In January's #ClassicsRevisited, we asked seven authors to reο¬ect on the enduring significance of Iris Marion Youngβs βJustice and the Politics of Differenceβ, ο¬rst published in 1990. You can read all seven reflections & an introduction by Alyson Cole here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
25.03.2025 12:37 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 4 π 0I was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It has not recently come to my attention that I have been living in a foreign country my entire life.
25.03.2025 19:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βEquality,β I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
Iβm younger than that now
-Bob Dylan
A graph showing that in the years since the Covid-19 outbreak, an additional 5 million Americans have reported having a disability
This is a remarkable change: since Covid, an additional 5 million Americans report having a disability. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Everything is connected to everything. But it is not as if there were one string running through them all. The threads are invisible and infinite.
06.03.2025 20:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The proliferation of post-apocalyptic fiction expresses both the βprogressiveβ desire to see the end of this world and the βconservativeβ fear it will be even worse than this one.
01.03.2025 02:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An unintentional positive outcome of Japanese imperialism ("the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere") is it destroyed the ludicrous ideal of "Asian unity" (which, e.g., Sun Yat-sen also flirted with).
23.02.2025 02:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kaori Muraji - ζζ²»δ½³ηΉ - Merry Christmas,Mr Lawrence
youtu.be/ZA-NjYpRn34?...
Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson, Read by David Sadzin
14.02.2025 04:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That We May Live
Speculative Chinese Fiction
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Really enjoying this #podcast, βThis Is The Way: Chinese
Philosophy Podcastβ by Richard Kim and Justin Tiwald
www.buzzsprout.com/2309367