Steven Attewell

racefortheironthrone thealphapenguin said: OK, I'll bite - what's the deal with the United Farm Workers? What were their strengths and weaknesses compared to other labor unions? Answer: It is not an easy thing to talk...

Finally finished my big round-up post on the history of the United Farm Workers (UFW)!

To be fair, at least our clash ended in a mutually respectful conversation that laid the groundwork for fruitful collaboration in future projects. So a rare example of the internet actually working.

X-Men ’97 Premiere! Getting Animated with Steven Attewell Phd. - Graphic Policy “Do not make me let you down” - Magneto

On Graphic Policy Radio @stevenattewell.bsky.social & nerd out about #Xmen97. From Henry Gyrich and the Great Replacement Theory to anti-mutant medical discrimination here’s our conversation about the debut of the new X-Men ’97 animated TV series. bit.ly/X97

Animated X-Men return! On this @graphicpolicy.bsky.social, @stevenattewell.bsky.social joins @levin.bsky.social to discuss the animated sequel series #XMen97, as well as the collision of its nostalgia-oriented storytelling with its firmly anti-fascist politics!
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First step to getting there, tho.

We answered all the #Xmen97 listener questions. Special shout out to @edidin.bsky.social for many reasons

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Non-ASOIAF Content: Getting Animated About X-Men ’97 For fans of a certain age, the revamped X-Men cartoon X-Men '97 brings with it a flood of nostalgia. But does the politics of a Saturday morning show for kids hold up in this new incarnation? Settle i...

Podcast with @levin.bsky.social is up! We're talking X-Men '97:

Someone really should get Elana to write about this stuff. They know music, they know queer culture, they know how to write. If I was doing something more collaborative, I'd definitely get them on board.

I have too many comics t-shirts, but what's one more?

Well, yes that was what I was getting at in terms of the different power relations between Japan and Europe circa 1550 or so.

Absolutely agree on this point, and I think you can really see Clavell's experiences from the 40s in those sections.

Not what I was arguing at all. Rather, I'd say Japanese colonial administration of Korea in the 19th century was heavily influenced by Western models of colonialism in a way that wasn't true in the 16th century. But that's not about capitalism.

Leaving aside the complicated issue of indigeneity as a concept, I would agree that it wasn't a new phenomenon, but Japanese colonialism of the 19th century was markedly different in character than earlier efforts in the 16th century, etc.

Sure, but those wars generally leave evidence in archaeological records - bodies that are marked by violence. That doesn't seem to have been the case in this instance, and that's not uncommon in prehistory. People move to/away from regions for different reasons, pops rise and fall for diff reasons.

And by the time Shogun is set in, more than two thousand years have passed since the supposed founding of the Imperial dynasty. At that point, splitting hairs in an academic sense really doesn't do a good job at accurately portraying lived experience on the ground.

Well, this gets into the complicated question of what indigeneity means. Yes, there was a migration of the Yayoi people who supplanted the Jomon people, but from the archaeological evidence, this seems to have been more the result of environmental and food supply issues, not warfare.

But it's a different scenario than the one the author envisions, because Japan is ultimately not colonized - it enters into a 200 year period of successful isolation, and then in the 19th century becomes the colonizer.

And certainly there are aspects of colonialism going on - the Portugese and Spanish are actively trying to colonize various areas of Southeast Asia, meanwhile the Japanese are wrestling with a failed attempt to conquer Korea (and China).

This is a case where I think the author is over-extending their argument, but isn't entirely wrong. There's certainly a theme in Shogun of characters (both Portugese, English, and Japanese) seeing the Other as less than human in moments of culture shock.

Sam Bankman-Fried in a blue and white suit. A headline reads: Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison. Photo by Amir Hamja for The New York Times

Breaking News: Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. nyti.ms/3xmvcTj

Even if this wasn't abundantly stupid, and it is, there's already a cottage industry that already does this for corporate executives with low attention spans. So not only is Musk intellectually vacant, but he also can't be bothered to do a basic search.

So... FUN FACT... Nelson Peltz caused "Racebending" to enter the cultural lexicon because he strong-armed Paramount into casting his daughter as Katara in M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbennder...

‘No more freebies!’ Another 800 NYPD cops going into subways to stop fare evaders | amNewYork Chell made the statement during a press conference at the 125th Street-Lenox Avenue subway station on March 25 as police brass announced a new, week-long

if we stopped paying cops unlimited overtime for this shit we could make the subways free www.amny.com/news/nypd-co...

Toshiro Mifune being a badass.

Actually that gives me an idea...

Covering X-Men 97 on the podcast with @stevenattewell.bsky.social. Got questions for our resident historian/x-pert?

Agreed. I've often heard it flatly asserted that the relationship couldn't work, but prior to the throuple, the only example I could think of that tried to depict them as a sustained couple was Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows.

Anyway, those early Hickman issues did wonders exhibiting why these three work well together and balance each other out, a shame all this narrative potential was left to die on the vine by people less imaginative.

What's funny about the whole "stop criticizing me for being openly racist" crowd posturing as insurgent truth-tellers is how OLD their shtick is. This was played out in the 90s when it was all the rage in the Peretz/Sullivan New Republic who Bari Weiss and her crew are cosplaying as.

Separated at birth???