Naveed

Imagine if Kissinger accidentally leaked plans to drop napalm over Vietnam to the New York Times and the public outcry was over the breach of confidentiality.

The last ep. of Severance frames the procedure—the regulation of alienation under capitalism—as the rationalization of religious alienation. Abstract labor, the projection of human qualities on an external being and the second term of the outtie’s unhappy consciousness, is returning to itself.

I've enjoyed teaching at the University of Arkansas, but my contract sadly terminates at the end of the semester. If anybody knows of any teaching opportunities for next year, please keep me in mind. I can teach Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Black PT, & Middle East Studies.

The consent to oligarchical/monarchical rule isn't mutually exclusive from libertarianism. Libertarians confuse freedom with abandonment: to be free is to be free to secure a livelihood; any social arrangement that maintains freedom is domination; the state's role is to enforce non-domination.

The past is present: during the Gilded Age, the GOP imposed high tariffs to protect capital while advocating for Social Darwinism to give ideological justification to the oligarchy's right to exist.

lenin failed to consider a decade where a decade happens

The police/military was "necessary" to neutralize insurrections & to maintain the US' geo-political supremacy, both under the guise of "containment." Trump & Musk aren't "hypocritical" when they advocate for a "small [welfare] state" and police state. They're drawing from a playbook from the '70s.

From the Chicago Boys' 'structural adjustment programs' in Chile, neoliberal restructuring has been complemented by programs that bolster the repressive state apparatus. In the Global South, the US spearheaded a two-pronged project: knee-capping the welfare state & bolstering the military/police.

Chronic understaffing amongst air traffic controllers started after Reagan cracked down on the PATCO strikers: jacobin.com/2023/09/reag...

in 2016, the flurry of executive orders was so rapid & scattered our collective attention was scattered too. part of what this does, intentional or not, is it overwhelms & exhausts us. working out this 'collective action problem' of sorts of how to focus & direct attention, & energies, is crucial

'sorry for that spouting off eugenicist talking points is a tic'

the politically neutered celebration of diversity has finally brought us to its last stage: fascists are neurodivergent

we can debate whether he's a fascist based on whether it was really a Nazi salute or just, you know, listen to the words that come out of his mouth

MLK, “The Other America” (1967)

who wore it better?

watching a two hour TSA recruitment ad (Carry On)

Millennial time is Macaulay and Mario in the 1990s, Kieran and Luigi in the 2020s

sometimes people say “disavowal” and they really just mean “nuh-uh”

universal healthcare would be the most rational “deterrent”

a big go fuck yourself to the ends of the earth to matt gaetz

Often when theorists ask, “What does X mean?” they’re actually asking, “How does X mean?”

We’ve already had a reality TV show called Big Brother

looking forward to debating whether this is technically fascism or not with you in the re-education camp mess hall

Every headline is like: President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Vlad the Impaler to head the Department of Impalement Prevention

Oh good, just like with Twitter you have to live with your typos forever

I’m feel like I’m in the WPSA hotel lobby here

I’m pleased to announce I have nothing to announce

i'm old enough to remember finger wagging and warnings about inflammatory overreach by scholars describing Israel with the term "settler colonialism"