Julian Go

11/11 If the paper even insinuates that their study says anything about indoctrination, it betrays the authors’ own biases, & unveils the paper’s lack of objectivity. To get back to my point 2: I might assign this paper but not to praise it, rather as an example of poor science.

10/11 I agree that controversy in scholarship should be taught. But this paper says nothing about whether it is or is not being taught.

9/11 The paper can be commended for trying, but the only thing we can learn from the paper’s data is that certain texts tend to be assigned. Absolutely nothing can be concluded about what viewpoints are taught, much less anything about indoctrination. Nothing.

8/11 The authors dismiss the idea that certain texts might be assigned to offer a counterpoint to dominant narratives in the world. They treat the classroom as hermetically-sealed, & as the only class students will ever get on the topic. Who thinks this?

7/11 The “two sides” of criminology is Sharkey vs. “radical” Stuart? I love Stuart’s work but it’s hardly “radical.” It’s rooted in deep scientific & ethnographic study, unlike this paper; there are definitely properly “radical” alternatives to Sharkey. Again: the paper is biased

6/11 Same with Said’s book. The only counterpoint to Said, according to the paper, is Huntington? There are countless critiques of Said, from both the right & the left (abdel-malek!) but they only bemoan the right (and the most discredited book among them, i.e. Huntington)

5/11 The paper assumes what the ‘both sides’ are & what a ‘scholarly controversy’ is. Of all the critiques of Alexander’s book they only bemoan the fact that conservative critiques are not assigned, not the critiques from the left. Scientific study is not Fox News.

4/11 The paper does its own ideological readings of texts & then assumes that that reading is being taught. Re Said, e.g. they read Said as if he fails to recognize reverse orientalism. What? READ THE TEXT AGAIN.

3/11 The paper has no do no data on what ideas from the book are discussed in class or why that book is assigned. Said’s Orientalism is important not because it is pro-Palestine but because it showed how ideology and imperialism are linked.

2/11 It looks at what’s assigned not how it is taught. But we assign texts to critique not just praise them. That’s the whole point when you assign a text. But the paper assumes that just because it’s assigned it's uncritically praised. Is that bc that's how the authors teach?

These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated. So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That? A new working paper suggests that many students are given only one viewpoint to consider.

Just read this paper discussed in @chronicle.com reported by
@EmmaJanePettit. It purports to show ideology in the classroom but is itself ideology masquerading as objective 1/11

www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

Of course Kirk doesn’t want sociology majors. He just wants laborers who he can hire to do labor for him and his rich friends and boss them around, not people trained to understand and call out wealth inequality or systems of control.

6/6 and they despite young adults who have learned to question power structures, i.e. THEM. Smell the fascism; i.e. the authoritarianism of capital.

5/6 They present themselves as seeking "ideological diversity" in universities but what they really want are robotic workers who don’t question the social inequalities from which finance-tech capital benefits and upon which it depends.

4/6 This is just another example of the fascist tendencies of certain finance-tech bros. They aren’t interested in an enlightened citizenry & democracy.

3/6 Notice they don’t complain about lower tier schools that lean conservative? They only whine about elite schools? That’s because they don’t plan on hiring from lower tier schools they want grads of elite schools. And what they want are uncritical elite grads.

2/6 What they are really complaining about is the fact that college graduates enter the workforce equipped to think critically about power structures in the world. And as bosses, the finance-tech oligarchs don’t like that. They want compliant docile workers.

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

1/6 When these finance-tech oligarchs whine about universities’ ‘leftist’ indoctrination, they are not really whining about lack of political diversity in universities. They are simply speaking from their own narrow provincial self-interest.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Far from ending US imperialism, Trump reenacts it, using US financial power to bully democratic regimes & install right wing dictators. Typical us imperialism

We have also been talking about empire and colonialism...decades before Loic even thought of those things.

Excited to read this brand new book on colonial surveillance in France by the impressive Vincent Bollenot! @vincentbollenot.bsky.social

Short article in the French newspaper, Le Monde, about the special issue on racial capitalism in Marronages (founded by @silyanelarcher.bsky.social and others) featuring my article and other wonderful contributions.

I'll be presenting some of my latest thinking on racial capitalism Monday.

Theory Now: Practices, Predicaments, and Possibilities The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) is an interdisciplinary space for sustained, comparative discussion of social and political processes in the contemporary world. 3CT is a part of Divis...

we organized this conference to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of 3CT, keynote by Judith Butler. Also includes my colleagues and friends at 3CT & UC like Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gabe Winant, Adom Getachew and Jodi Byrd. If you’re in Chicago do come over.

ccct.uchicago.edu/events/theor...

Immanuel Wallerstein 3rd Open Lecture Third session Race, Capital, Critique: For a Theory of Racial Capitalism Julian Go (University of Chicago) Discussants: Esteban Torres (UNC-CONICET) & Verónica Giordano (IEALC/UBA-CONICET) April 28 8:30am CHI, 4.30pm DEU - 10.30am ARG Livestream YouTube @FCSUNC

Immanuel Wallerstein 3rd Open Lecture

Race, Capital, Critique: For a Theory of Racial Capitalism
Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social (University of Chicago)
28th April, 3:30pm BST

The event will be streamed on the following YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/facultadde...
#SocialTheory #Sociology

This is what happens when empires are in decline: they get desperate and rely on the only thing they have - the means of violence - to land grab and expropriate to try to reassert their dominance. It is what happened in the late 19th century, and it prefaced the World Wars. Beware.

Lecture: Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

Great to see that @juliango.bsky.social will be speaking at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on April 14th on 'Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US', based on his 2023 book.

I hope to make it. Check it out below 👇

www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

The Imperial Boomerang with Julian Go Return to Bandung · Episode

Loads of fun discussing the imperial boomerang in these troubled times with Pranay on the "Return To Bandung"
podcast.

open.spotify.com/episode/1Elk...