Mathieu Hikaru Desan

Hendrik de Man channeling @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Favorite pope, Leo
Favorite drink, O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls

The vibes are in fucking shambles, fam. I'm freaking out WALTER BENJAMIN SOCIAL THEORIST AND CRITIC

He was so real for this

One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.

Guess the author

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

Just a wild mischaracterizarion of the argument too. Our basic point is that class formation is not a y/n question, which is what the book presupposes even if it argues that class consciousness isn’t “automatic.”

If I didn’t know better, I’d be shocked by the unchecked meanness and pettiness Mike highlights here. How embarrassing for everyone.

The Sociologist and the Critic: Remembering Michael Burawoy It is often said that no one loved sociology as much as Michael Burawoy. In the wake of his tragic killing on Monday, at least, we’ve seen a comparable claim in many of the tributes from those who kne...

Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us.

It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to @versobooks.bsky.social for running it.

Thanks Barry!

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

The Master's Tools Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with...

I just learned that you can pre-order books as part of @versobooks.bsky.social's end of year sale. The Master's Tools will be out Jan 7. Throw it in your cart before Jan 1 for some chunky discounts.

www.versobooks.com/products/755...

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

Would love to be added thanks!

Forget therapy…this is what I need

Call me crazy but I don't think the Harris campaign modeled itself on the Popular Front

‘This is absolutely heartbreaking’: Miami considers eliminating majors in the humanities Along with Latin American Studies, 16 other majors were identified as low-enrolled. These majors were given four options and a December deadline to stay at Miami.

This is currently the plan at my campus & is a nat’t blueprint for mid sized state colleges across the country. We need a federal funding/tenure plan for public higher ed such as Jayapal/Sanders advocated: it should be the critical focus of all organizing www.miamistudent.net/article/2023...

Books About Elites That Elites Will Probably Enjoy The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.

absolutely devastating review of deboer and mounk. honestly, just the fact that tanenhaus is reviewing them together is indictment enough.

Teaching Engels this week and was reminded of this banger of a line: “Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization.”