Jana Bacevic ([email protected])
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Feral theorist. Associate: prof @DurhamSociology , editor @philosopher1923 . @LeverhulmeTrust project: 'Uncategorical imperatives: examining non-reciprocity'.
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My article, "No such thing as free speech? Performativity, free speech, and academic freedom in the UK" is now published online at
@LawAndCritique
. Open Access too! Enjoy 🤗
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I found this comic yesterday and think I want to marry it & have its babies.
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Women: I know I have a PhD but if I change the Twitter handle even for a day what about all those who never got theirs struggled with mental health issues supervisors social background am I showing off am I sad
Men: I don't have a PhD, but let me tell you what to do in this case
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I think we should be perfectly clear that
@Cambridge_uni
colleges *ordering* international students to leave their rooms (which they are legally resident in and pay for) and 'go home' constitutes a grave and direct threat to the health and lives of students and their families.
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My preferred response to bad takes is not to engage with them, but having read the Gov't proposed 'academic freedom/free speech' legislation and the politics of knowledge being, you know, actual field of research, I do feel the need to put a few things in a🧵:
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Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe
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Imagine being a man and feeling so threatened by a woman's intellectual success that you *have* to force her to frame her identity/agency in relation to *you* on the very day she is being celebrated for her intellect
Oh wait, that's, like, 99.9% men
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So, a year ago I got to London early (which was good because train networks collapsed later in the day). The afternoon saw me drinking beer by the Regent's Canal. A year later, this may be a good time to announce I will be joining
@DurhamSociology
as assistant professor in July.
Regent's Canal, 13/05, 5:30pm
Duck count: two
Doctorate count: two
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One of my enduring analytical fascinations is how women's intellectual interventions are framed in emotional terms, even on seemingly well-intended platforms. Note how this title emphasises the 'activist' (journalist)'s 'tears' instead of, say, PM's embarrassment or discomfort
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Seriously, am thinking of doing a podcast entitled 'Lady Theorist' with short conversations with theorists and philosophers...but all of whom are women. Would there be an appetite for such a thing?
#LadyTheorist
#TheoryBitchez
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Your regular reminder that if you "don't see racism" that probably means you benefit from it
(Ditto for class, gender, etc.)
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I know this is all very disappointing, but it is also very calming. At least it should be clear, for those who wondered, that a) UK universities don't care about their employees b) UK Government doesn't care about its citizens. From here, as they say, many things can grow.
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Meanwhile, universities in the UK are trialling a 24-hour workday
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I prophecy universities will be absolutely, massively stunned, shocked, and surprised when this happens in October. Really, no-one can foresee this.
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I promise I won't start jumping out each time you open the fridge door, but here's another thing I wrote recently - on why there isn't such a thing as (just) 'following the science'.
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Sneak preview of my new 3rd-year 10-credit elective module Social Theory and the Politics of Knowledge 🤗
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"Epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice" is finally online, after almost two years (during which it remained mostly unchanged, just like practices of epistemic devaluation). Huge thanks to people in the acknowledgments 🥳
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So here's a wild idea: instead of thinking you can diversify the ruling class by admitting more non-traditional entrants into Oxbridge, how about if the Gov't would value equally, support, and *properly fund* universities that already do? Imagine that! 🤯
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I'm doing revision lectures for my students on Social Theory so have devised this slide as a handy background tool to help structure/guide revisions - thought it could come in handy for other lecturers:
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Pleased to announce that “Challenging epistemic injustice in academia and beyond” got a grant from
@durham_uni
's Research Impact Fund 🥳- a great way to expand my work on epistemic positioning/epistemic injustice! In a flurry of bad news these months (years? decades?) this is 👍
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Friday, 2.10.2020, I lost my mother, Ljiljana Bacevic. She was one of the most amazing people I knew, but also one of the most complex and often contradictory. Her post when Castro died came as a surprise - but this is how I wish to remember her. ¡Hasta la victoria siempre, Mum!
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Just out of curiosity, is anyone actually coping?
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So, I rarely speak about the place I come from, not because of some special trauma but because I neither live there nor do research on the former Yugoslav region any longer. But I grew up watching the disintegration of a country that led to its immersion in a bloody civil war. 1/
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If you ever wondered what it's like to be a woman in the UK academia, a male collaborator just forwarded me an email from a publisher who asked HIM whether HE would like to develop the podcast which BOTH OF US author, produce, record, and edit, into a book.
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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You: it's not possible to design a theory syllabus that doesn't privilege white men
Me:
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Folks, I wrote a wee thing on the political epistemology of the 'nudge' approach and why it's particularly dangerous in times of crisis. Check it out.
(I look forward to seeing every argument repeated in white boys' writing over the next few months)
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Hi, would you like to hand in a thesis on neoliberalism and critique instead of me?
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I think
@Cambridge_Uni
has a legal responsibility to ensure international students who are unable or unwilling to return 'home' (note many countries are closed to flights from the UK) are *adequately* and *safely* housed for the foreseeable future.
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(Un)kind reminder that criticising the announced increase of fees for EU students while ignoring the fact that fees for non-EU students have consistently been at often 2x Home/EU rate means tacitly reproducing knowledge colonialism ta 👏👏
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❗️This: "this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. To use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace: you are suffering from intentional systemic understaffing."
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Apologies if this is common knowledge to some, but :anthropologist voice: living with a native has left me additionally aware of how woefully under-prepared to survive heat the inhabitants of this small island are, so thought I'd share a few tips:
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Absolutely fascinated by English people's capacity to keep pretending Covid isn't airborne. 3x3m breakfast room, 8 tables, windows on opposing ends and not a single one open, but assiduously sanitizing and serving guests so they do not approach the buffet. Amazing.
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As an expert on academic freedom, I'm curious to know how the letter upholds this principle, defined in ERA 1988 as “the freedom of staff to (...) put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions without...jeopardy of losing their jobs or privileges they may have”🤷♀️
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I've taken the risk of writing an unusually personal reflection on the value of friendship vs. the value of instrumentalism, and what looking for a job from a relatively privileged position taught me about networks of social and cultural capital
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If you think you're "paying £9000/year for Youtube tutorials", I'd strongly suggest not voting for the government who elevated the fees to £9000 🤷♀️
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One of the less frequently commented-on things the energy/cost of living crisis renders visible is the absolute dearth of public/communal spaces in the UK that can be (a) warm (b) safe (c) inclusive (d) accessible without a commercial transaction. 1/
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Happy to say that I've just signed a contract with Sage for this volume that should drop sometime in 2025 🥳
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'Knowing neoliberalism' is out:
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There's much more to add, but I need to go back to my article that describes how some people (hint: particularly women and ethnic minorities) *do* get sidelined at universities. You know, actual research. /end
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They...edited the speech and removed the Foucault reference 😳😳
Which is possibly the single more embarassing thing than including it in the first place 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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This. I always enjoyed telling my students 'Al-Karaouine, Bologna, Oxford, and Cambridge'
You've been told that Oxford is the oldest uni? Think again. A North African woman founded Al-Karaouine in 859
That Adam Smith is the 'father' of economics? Ibn Khaldun developed a labour theory of value, gov stimulus, law of supply/demand 500yrs earlier
#decoloniseeconomics
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Proud to announce that, as every preceding year, I did not win any prizes, awards, or major research grants 🎉🎉
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Honestly the British 'yay pandemic's over because the Gov't tells me I can go to TK Maxx' vibe is even grimmer than the mourning Philip vibe, and that's saying something <logs off for the rest of the month>😳
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My annual leave is coming to an end. Proud to confirm I've managed to write absolutely 0 research proposals, submitted 0 ethics forms, and 0 book chapters, but I've had a random unprovoked insight into the aesthetics of horror in Twin Peaks and thus consider myself accomplished.
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My current monthly income is £1,200.
This is all so I can spend another 12 months doing underpaid teaching to be able to pay rent.
You know what, UK? Good night and good luck. I used to love this place with all its flaws, but, hey, there are universities on the Continent too.
So, I've just paid:
£500 to apply to extend my Tier4 visa for 12 months, which allows me to continue working while looking for a permanent job
£475 to have passport returned to me in 5 days instead of *8 weeks*
£300 NHS surcharge
£235 visa centre appointment to submit documents
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Just casually wondering what's the overlap between 'masks are really annoying' and 'condoms are really annoying' crowd
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For the first time in two months, managed to go for a morning walk and now sat with a coffee and a paper (to write, not to read) and seriously FUCK THESE WORKLOADS RESEARCH ISN'T A HOBBY
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Btw, if you are wondering how it is possible that some people around you remain mildly unconcerned about racist violence in the streets, a reminder that for the past 10 months they have been watching livestreamed racist violence in Gaza and remaining mildly unconcerned.
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There you go - I wrote up the proposal for an Online University of the Left
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I have a new article written during lockdown - it's a rapid-response, very angry essay produced while watching the discussions about knowledge production in late June, but do check it out:
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Pleased that my favourite library silence sign is still up 😊
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My mum died a year ago. I don't normally share stuff about my family, but I just learned one of the people she brought in as junior research associates had written a lovely obituary which I think captures so much of who she was. I still miss her 💔
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I am an anthropologist and a sociologist; I have spent more than 5 years studying the UK in both capacities. There is one thing I can't understand, though (besides drinking 'squash', but leaving that for another time): how have you people *still* not overthrown this Government?
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I've decided time has come to use my proper academic title.
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If you have no expertise on Ukraine/CEE or previous knowledge of the history of the region, I strongly recommend resisting the urge to defer to Anglo White men who pretend they do. Try instead 👇
Ukrainian voices and agency are missing from debates on Ukraine. This thread offers a rich list of Ukrainian experts. Their amplification will also help to diversify often male dominated debates, increase the variety of perspectives and foster gender reflexivity in discussions
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...and, before a mansplainer jumps in, I am *very* aware of the fact that students' residency contracts contain a clause indicating they may be asked to vacate the rooms outside term. but these are not regular circumstances, and *ordering* them to do so violates other duties.
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As I see it, the function of the PM now is to repeat what everyone on the Twitter has been saying but 5 days later on average
BREAKING: Boris Johnson says the NHS will be "overwhelmed" and Britain will become like Italy unless people immediately follow social distancing orders
His starkest warning to the nation yet about what is coming
PM says people must not visit their mothers on mother's day
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on a Berlinian framing, academic freedom is a negative freedom; that is, the freedom to learn and to teach free of fear of persecution. it is *not* a positive freedom, that is, freedom to use an academic platform to profess whatever the f*** the speaker wants. 3/
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So, I've just paid:
£500 to apply to extend my Tier4 visa for 12 months, which allows me to continue working while looking for a permanent job
£475 to have passport returned to me in 5 days instead of *8 weeks*
£300 NHS surcharge
£235 visa centre appointment to submit documents
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OMG proofs 🥲
(sorry, just have had about three articles stuck in the pipeline for a year -- and some --, this is the first to emerge 🥲)
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Anybody else realizing they've made absolutely no plans for after Thursday as they're not sure there is a future?
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I think as members of
@ucu
we should brace for the absolute worst in union-busting, fear-mongering and divisive tactics as reaction to the ballot results: 100% pay docking, intimidation, and almost certainly local 'sweet deals'. We need to think serious long-term strategy, now
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Shock: men don't cite women (yes, if you're wondering, actual data for political and social sciences, sorry)
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So when the government intervenes in the latter, it is not protecting freedom of speech; it is redefining the boundaries of the relevant political community. Rather than oriented towards 'liberties', this is a strategy that's interventionist AF. 8/
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On the plus side, having been born in former Yugoslavia, am uniquely qualified to deal with fuel, food, and energy shortages
On the minus side, never having to deal with these again was one of the chief reasons why I emigrated
⚖️🤔
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Knowing how difficult it's for women - especially with 'foreign-sounding' names - to be given a platform for commenting on UK politics, very happy that my piece on the UK Government's botched approach to 'following the science' is up here:
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I know I said I'd be off Twitter but it's Friday night, I'm off on holiday tomorrow, and I've got nothing better to do, so a little thread on what the Sewell report is doing - it's called 'statslighting': 1/
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increasingly confounded by the number of papers/research presentations where the claim "Has never been studied before" is usefully countenanced by a brief Google search 🤦
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Soon to part forever so have taken my thesis out to a pub 🤗
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FWIW, as a person with two PhDs, one Marie Curie postdoc and one postdoc at Cambridge, a published book with a university press and a host of articles, I was hired on less than this in 2020.
(leaving aside whether it would have been preferable if I hadn't been, of course)
Salary threshold for skilled worker visas to rise to £38,700 under government plans to cut legal migration levels
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My employer has just sent an email to all staff setting out an extremely punitive policy extending to ASOS requiring us to upload learning materials for sessions that have been missed due to strike action. This is despite the fact that we regularly exempt such qs from assessment.
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Am I the only person struggling to re-plug herself into term working rhythm after taking time off? This year has been so flooringly exhausting I feel like I need a decade off, not two weeks 🤔
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'Academic freedom' is a compound of what Von Humboldt designated as 'Lehrfreiheit' and 'Lernfreiheit', that is, the freedom to learn and to teach. It does not, in any way, mean 'freedom to occupy a[ny given] platform'. 1/
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As a non-subject of the Empire this seems like a good day to remind people 1) I do not have the right to vote in the UK, despite living here & paying taxes since 2015 2) I am not eligible for 'public funds', which includes the £400 energy rebate 3) my taxes fund today's event 🤷♀️
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It pains me to think how much of the 'cultural turn' is basically White men discovering anthropological writing they should've read 20 years earlier and marvelling in the fact that Not Everyone In the World Thinks the Same, Actually
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Historically, 'academic freedom' (and the corresponding principle of university autonomy were designed to prevent the government (or other kinds of political power) interfering with teaching and learning, not to enable them to intervene in what should be taught. 2/
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folks, did you ever look at your research and wonder "Is my object/field of research obsolete?"
This isn't ironic, a subtweet, or a botched confession; I'm genuinely interested.
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Again we encounter the mixing up of paradigms. White working class communities do not suffer *because* of the use of terms like 'white privilege'. They suffer because of those who disproportionately benefit *from* white privilege. Never confuse the two.
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Totally not trying to trick students into doing philosophy of science via next term's Qualitative Research Methods 😇📚
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How do identity-based judgments shape how we interpret others' academic contributions? In this paper, I theorize the relationship between reproduction of social inequalities and ways in which knowledge claims are valued and 'read' 1/
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For last year's
#InternationalWomensDay
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Are Butler's politics perfect? No
But do we love it when she owns the TERFs: YES 🤗
Seriously everyone's shared this interview already but it does really represent a good resource for shutting up the ideologues
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Back on Zoom so time to reintroduce my favourite Zoom background:
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Can you cancel yourself? Asking as a social theorist.
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One important reason why I don't have a problem with the article listing my income: the 'money is taboo' assumption not only allows the cost of being a foreigner in the UK to remain invisible, but seriously hurts equality and compounds class privilege.
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Wahey! Today I am taking the ferry to Amsterdam to present at the 3rd annual Political Epistemology Conference. Super-excited to be on a boat again and avoid air travel. Will report en route as long as the signal holds! 🌊🛳️🧳👋
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Today's Social Theory and Politics of Knowledge lecture was on ignorance, so I got to talk about some of my favourite theorists -
@LinseyMcgoey
's work on strategic ignorance, Hannah Jones' violent ignorance, Susie Scott's 'sociology of nothing' and, of course, Hannah Arendt 🥰
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I mean, imagine the role reversal where, during the wedding, the bride stands up and says "Now, let me just tell you a bit about my upcoming book..."
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How 👏 about 👏 you 👏 don't 👏 normalize 👏 the culture of overwork 👏 by sending work-related emails 👏 on Saturday 👏 night 😖
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One piece of advice you won't regret: make sure you go out and spend a bit of quiet time somewhere green today (even if justa line of trees). There are things older than the Conservative Party. There are things older and more resilient than fascism. Carry that with you. ✊
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For a little break from Corona-related discussions, this is by far the best essay I've read in months - essential for anyone interested in philosophy/social theory, intellectual history, feminist thought, or anything else, for that matter.
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