Why few conservative profs? Well per this: for some issues conservative politics corresponds with anti-intellectual positions, and also there's a general tendency for educated conservative people to pick better remunerated careers and academia ain't that crookedtimber.org/2024/08/08/the…

When someone tells me the bar has been raised and they believe in me

🚨 New paper ✍️ In their new paper, Jonathan Jackson, Krisztián Pósch, Thiago R. Oliveira and others talk about how the police killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests seemed to have damaged attitudes towards police and the law. Read more here 👉 buff.ly/4cjjDeE

'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.

Disgusting. 28% under 15 (an increase over past years), still 4x more likely for Black kids, 88% on suspicion of drugs rather than even the pretense of 'threat'

Wrote about this here. Formerly incarcerated activists have urged the campaign to avoid the “prosecutor v felon” narrative. But speaker after speaker did the opposite last night. theintercept.com/2024/08/16/kam…

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The laborer is now more accurately described as the wannabe "sigma" and his labor power is "rizz." This is vital because it denaturalizes the surplus value extraction under capitalism. The rizz is there to be deployed ("rizzing up") and not merely ontological ("having rizz").

Wow it's crazy that academic Marxists became liberals for purely abstract, philosophical reasons at exactly the same time that the organized left in this country collapsed and the US cemented its global geopolitical hegemony. Quite a coincidence

Great thread. In a similar vein, I'm gonna take this opportunity to take this hot, controversial & incredibly politicised topic to make a couple of points about measurement theory (which usually makes people go to sleep). 1/

Stuart Hall on why 'inequality' cannot be the starting point or core concern for left analysis or politics

Living in the UK is so cool because we're obsessed with social class but our society hasn't made any effort at all to consider what class is since, generously, the 1970s so every time we discuss it we choose some more or less unhinged proxy. This week it's Oasis.

I'll watch it only if I can skip to the scenes with Scott Stapp playing Sinatra

Interviewer: WERE YOU A POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHER AT THE AGE OF 20? Jean-Francois Lyotard (laughing): I am not postmodern. That word is idiot bait, you know (“C’est un mot attrape couillon ça”)!

Excited to be speaking about my book LSE next month - if you’re in London come say hi 🤝

Angela Davis on her teachers, Marcuse and Adorno. Hard for me to imagine anything like this happening today.

This guy would have 3 million followers today