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"We can not write these phrases ... that they are supporting us on our walls because they are destroyed walls, walls that have been shot down on our heads. So we wrote these phrases on our refugee camps."
'Thank you American students'
From the displaced people in Rafah
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Good morning everyone, the Pope cited Donna Haraway
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Did you know that if you are at a public college or university you can sue members of the administration as individuals for violating your constitutional rights, and recent first amendment cases such as some @ Collin College in TX have NOT given administrators qualified immunity.
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I don’t know what you’re supposed to do when your tweet about a scam assassin goes viral, but if you enjoyed this tweet pls think about sending a few $$$ to
@LaFronteraFund
an abortion fund in the Rio Grande Valley of TX
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Difficult to wrap my mind around a government openly assassinating a poetry professor with strong ties to highly respected international peace and human rights orgs other than as an act of total desperation
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I wrote Miss. Khalifa Shamoon to let her know that her work has gone viral. No response yet.
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My new band is called Nirvanas.
My new book, Age of Revolutions, navigates the eras and movements across technology, economics and politics that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world.
Pre-order now.
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Individual in-home washing machines is a socio-technical pattern that “tends to perpetuate a questionable institutional set-up—whereby many individual homes repeat common tasks day after day in isolated units—by forcing work back into the individual home, a process that was 1/3
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We regret to announce that this event is canceled. We will not speak at the New School while student protesters are being arrested.
We will announce an alternative date and location in due course.
THIS FRIDAY!!! Featuring me,
@alybatt
@selfactingmule
@rafkhach
@chrisokane_nyc
& Jasmine Chorley-Schulz, & moderated by
@NSSRNews
econ PhD student Michael Tedesco.
IMPORTANT: non-New School attendees MUST register before Friday to enter the building:
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why are people in total denial about s*lvia f*derici being a T*RF, pls explain
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Does not feel great to have my first thought this morning be “did they kill any students last night”
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Attn
@PrincetonEcon
stand up for your student Hassan Sayed, this is the kind of scholar and human being that we need in the profession.
@Princeton
Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the
@Princeton
campus, thereby preventing them from finishing their degrees.
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So desperate to avoid divesting from death because it might slightly compromise returns on endowments, college administrators are racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in legal settlement payouts for doing crimes against students
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Why did
@nyulangone
initiate termination proceedings after award-winning resident Dr. Zaki Masoud made an ig post supporting Palestinians when the director of their cancer center Benjamin G. Neel shared racist & Islamophobic cartoons with no consequences?
Reinstate Dr. Masoud.
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Having interviewed working class eco-conscious families with young children in the US and UK, I can confirm that this is not correct.
Don't agree with everything here, but the main point is spot on: degrowth ideology only appeals to the relatively affluent professional class in rich countries. Rooting this appeal in societal atomization/anomie is a brilliant argument.
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This is such a fun time to be an actual academic expert on clothes washing machines and household production. But for some reason it is always dudes who are not experts in clothes washing machines who are super insistent that washing machines are labor-saving devices. Weird…
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We said goodbye to a very special being yesterday. This photo is how I want to remember Wilson, absolutely glowing after the very first time he got to herd sheep with me. I am going to miss him so much. He took good care of me.
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Open letter to Donna Shalala, Interim President of The New School
@TheNewSchool
, regarding the use of police on non-violent student protesters.
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Attn zoomers: note from the future that the “I’m a grown up person” dog you bring into your life in your late 20s and who gets you through your 30s is going to break your heart into a million pieces in your early 40s
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Occupation of MTA tracks in 2023 in outrage over the murder of Jordan Neely, occupation of MTA tracks in 1987 in outrage over the murder of Michael Griffith (h/t
@Bronxbanlieue
&
@brookedarrah
, images from their tweets)
#HappeningNow
Protesters are blocking incoming trains by OCCUPYING SUBWAY TRACKS in Manhattan, demanding justice for Jordan Neely.
Video by
@yyeeaahhhboiii2
Desk
@freedomnews
.tv to license
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Employees of this hospice (started in 1989 to care for people with AIDS) are being harassed and threatened over a drag brunch fundraiser to help them recover from a fire that forced their closure earlier this year. The same organizers raised $10k for the hospice during COVID.
Comfort House, the hospice facility in McAllen, faces harassment over drag show fundraiser |
#RGV
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It is my official book pub date!
@BrisUniPress
has graciously made the first chapter available to read online for free at the link below. If you enjoy it, please ask your library to order a copy so we can get this bad boy out in paperback sooner. 1/
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I am sick of hearing other pacifists/ppl committed to non-violence insisting that non-violence is “more effective” for resisting state violence. False. The state will kill or imprison you regardless of your tactics, & they will be sure to criminalize non-violent resistance, too.
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…People living in their own house is just absurd. The consumer culture, driven by the need to sell stuff for ever higher profits, creates these absurdities. And you need to be intentional if you want to do something different.” (informant Kyle in Munro 2023, 180). 3/3
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Made possible by the petrostate 🥰
Something I love about Oslo: This city is incredibly quiet.
Lots of people are walking/biking/scooting. And most vehicles are electric, while speed limits are typically 30 km/hr (19 mph), so engine/tire noise is negligible.
A reminder that cities aren't loud; *cars* are loud.
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Longer clip from CNN that includes the period just before
@EmoryEconomics
professor Caroline Fohlin was pinned down and arrested by two cops twice her size—for trying to get them to stop brutalizing a student
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Ladies if he tells you “I have a favorite mass extinction event 😌” this is a VERY BIG RED FLAG
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Shocking arrest of
@EmoryEconomics
professor, the economic historian Caroline Fohlin
@MiddleEastEye
Here’s
@EmoryUniversity
economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza
#Protesters
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“There is no … such … thing … as … society.” Karl Marx Capital vol. 1 Chapter 1 ☺️
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I think you dropped this 👑
The Deutscher Prize was established in 1969, and during this period of more than five decades, it has, to my knowledge, been awarded to non-male scholars on only three occasions. The last time the prize was awarded to a woman was in 1986, three years before I was born. 3/8
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Einstein on the importance for scientists of studying the philosophy of science, which is "the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth."
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A major tell in campus novels that the author is not actually an academic herself is treating the position of department chair like an accomplishment & prize that faculty are fighting over instead of an unpleasant chore faculty are fighting to avoid
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What if having countries was a bad idea, just throwing it out there.
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Yesterday I saw this, and today I won free Chipotle for a year. Not a coincidence. 🙏🐛 I hope you will be blessed by this worm, too.
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The reason I have “complicity” in the title of my book is bc I don’t understand that capitalism is only capitalists, & as a result I want to roll back 100 years of hard-won working class gains & force everyone to live like the Unabomber in unheated huts
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I received a reply from President Shalala that contained numerous gross misrepresentations of facts, according to accounts from student and faculty witnesses. The official campaign to spread these administrator lies needs to be stopped.
Open letter to Donna Shalala, Interim President of The New School
@TheNewSchool
, regarding the use of police on non-violent student protesters.
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I was going to tweet that I don't think I know what political economy is anymore, but then I realized like 10,000 men would reply to tell me the answer and I don't want that.
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Knowing that your job is about to become illegal is not a fun feeling, let me tell you.
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I am dead now
My argument is the climate crisis is primarily caused by capital (the minority of society who makes money/profit in the M-C-M' circuit) and not household consumption (basically everyone fulfilling human needs, the majority of which in the C-M-C circuit). Hope this helps!
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How do you maintain a teaching philosophy based on insights from queer pedagogy (that learning is about emotional & intellectual discomfort, uncertainty, & incomplete knowledges) w a culture where the discomfort of learning is reframed colloquially as trauma? Asking for a friend.
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Not trying to put myself out of a job here, but I think some of the best Marx-related economic thinking happening right now at least in English is at MLG, and it is putting trained economists to shame.
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I have tried to cultivate compassion & fulfill my duty of care to all students, but don't want to hear anything more about "safety" when counter-protesters are launching actual fireworks into anti-genocide encampments that are exploding onto the places our students are sleeping.
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The reason is that fascism and western esotericism/mysticism/ agrarian romanticism &c all hinge on the same beliefs, there is a reason Nazis loved health food and organic farming. Happy new year.
if Elon Musk is Hitler then Grimes is the part of Hitler that was really into occult shit for some reason
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Happy 13th birthday to Wilson, the best dog in the world. Everyone who meets him says he isn’t a dog but is something more like a Being or a bodhisattva. I know he won’t be with us forever, but he makes every day special & it is an honor to help him enjoy his remaining time.
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If you like this thread, maybe you would like to ask your library to preorder my book (currently on sale for %50 off, with an ebook for $25):
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Thank you everyone for your kind words and for being fans of Wilson. My heart is broken but this funny little guy brought joy, healing, and delight everywhere he went. I am glad I could share his magical presence with you on the hellsite, too.
We said goodbye to a very special being yesterday. This photo is how I want to remember Wilson, absolutely glowing after the very first time he got to herd sheep with me. I am going to miss him so much. He took good care of me.
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sorry to be all Green Austerity but maybe there are just things we dont need any more
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How much economic history, history of economic thought, and reflections on the meaning of capitalism can be smooshed into the second segment of a one-hour live NPR show? Learn at 6pm eastern tonight.
our comrade & summer seminar faculty 2023
@kmunro_econ
will be discussing *checks notes* capitalism on NPR streaming tomorrow!
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Every time someone says to me “but I’m not an economist”, I cringe. You probably understand how the economy works much better if you are NOT an economist.
I hope NPR stops holding up economists as geniuses who know the secrets of everything. On
@noteswithkai
,
@NoelKing
&
@vcunningham
downplayed their own knowledge of the economy… real proof that economists have gaslit everyone into thinking only economists understand the world.
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This Associated Press photo of Anabaptist Art Gish preventing IDF tanks and bulldozers from destroying food & demolishing a food market in Hebron in 2003 went pre-social media viral. A little over a month later, Rachel Corrie was murdered in Gaza doing effectively the same thing.
I am sick of hearing other pacifists/ppl committed to non-violence insisting that non-violence is “more effective” for resisting state violence. False. The state will kill or imprison you regardless of your tactics, & they will be sure to criminalize non-violent resistance, too.
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This event is coming up soon and is going to be so fun... featuring Cinzia Arruzza, Sue Ferguson, me, Paula Varela, and Melda Yaman for a celebration of Lise Vogel's book "Marxism and the Oppression of Women".
Sunday, May 21, at 2pm U.S. eastern time.
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Faculty Senate at The New School demanding divestment from the ENTIRE war machine, on top of already existing institutional commitments to divest from the prison industrial complex & fossil fuels. Is this what “soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible” means? 🤔🦋
The Faculty Senate @ The New School passed a motion on divestment.
It calls on the BoT to “divest from… industries implicated in military and police violence in Gaza and the West Bank,” for work to divest from all military corps., and opposes the militarization of our campus
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If seeing literal teenagers getting released from jail with tears streaming down their faces still in their pajamas doesn’t make you want to fight like hell alongside them, then you are dead inside
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The full line up is me, Cinzia Arruzza, Sue Ferguson, Paula Varela, and Melda Yaman!
Join us online Sunday May 21st 11am pt to celebrate
Lise Vogel’s Marxism and the Oppression of Women at 40
@kmunro_rgv
, Melda Yaman, & Sue Ferguson w/ Lise Vogel
Sun 5/21 11am pt
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My book has been out for a year & a half, and I would love for it to one day come out as a more affordable paperback. Would you ask your library to purchase a copy, if you haven’t already? Would you consider reading it and writing a review? AFAIK it has zero “official” reviews 👇
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“Need is a social category” (Adorno 1942, 1).“If production were instantly & w/out restriction converted into the satisfaction of needs-the satisfaction even, & precisely, of those needs produced by capitalism itself-the needs themselves would therewith be crucially changed.” (4)
this passage from Marx about the palace vs the hut is a great illustration of the fact that all needs & desires spring from society, and all immiseration is relative. human satisfaction can’t be measured by any absolute standard; progress can’t be measured quantitatively
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I feel like the
@sorenmau
photo didn't get all of the attention it deserves because of banana discourse
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UC graduate students can apply for the Marxist Institute for Research 2023 Summer Seminar (it is fully funded!) at the link below. Immensely grateful for the invitation to participate in this as guest faculty with so many brilliant and accomplished scholars.
our Summer Seminar: the inaugural run in 2023 will feature seminars from Geoff Mann & Kirstin Munro, and the first annual Mike Davis Lecture will be given by Glen Sean Coulthard. Please feel welcome to direct any UC grad students to the application page:
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I’ve been trying to hype the sociologist Nona Glazer. Everyone with an interest in Marxist Feminism needs to read her article in
@SignsJournal
on housework and her article in
@RRPENEWS
that introduces the concept of unwaged “work transfer”.
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Classic NYT covering anti-war anti-genocide protests under the banner “antisemitism on campus”
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Conferences are the worst, imagine being such a sad dork that you’d debase yourself crossing a picket line to attend one.
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If you live in fear with the carrot of your next promotion dangling over your fuzzy bunny head, I guarantee you will be debasing yourself for your entire career because there is no “after tenure”
1) On TT - Be the fuzzy bunny nobody wants to kick - advice my academic big sister gave me when I started on TT. These people will be voting on your future. You can be the game changer after you get tenure.
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In my book (out in March!) I show how my informants are rethinking “needs” altogether—from what it means to be comfortable indoors during hot/cold weather, to how many clothes a person should have, to what cleanliness looks or feels like. Pls ask your library to preorder! Link 👇
“Need is a social category” (Adorno 1942, 1).“If production were instantly & w/out restriction converted into the satisfaction of needs-the satisfaction even, & precisely, of those needs produced by capitalism itself-the needs themselves would therewith be crucially changed.” (4)
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Research what you hate, and if you are a hateful little person you will never be at a loss for stuff to work on 😎💅
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oh wait what’s this on my desk here hmm hmm hmmm
I’m 100% serious when I say we could really use a revival of analytical Marxism right now. The online left is struggling with unclear theory, trying to understand how wages and prices work through hegelian methods
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Only saying "amigo Engels" from now on. Too bad Engels was last week in Political Economy of Gender class :(
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I hope NPR stops holding up economists as geniuses who know the secrets of everything. On
@noteswithkai
,
@NoelKing
&
@vcunningham
downplayed their own knowledge of the economy… real proof that economists have gaslit everyone into thinking only economists understand the world.
Half of NPR’s podcasts from 2006-18 will have to be retracted in the wake of the Ariely/Gino revelations. Lewis-Krauss investigates
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Girl you can do better, don’t settle.
She was a degrowth communist, he was a Promethean industrial producerist, they both considered themselves Marxists. But could love bring them together?
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Highly disturbing to see my university campus used as the backdrop for this sick fascist publicity stunt.
The new Texas Tactical Border Force deployed to Brownsville to help shut down a hotspot for illegal crossings.
With Title 42 ending tomorrow, Texas will not hesitate to respond to the crisis President Biden has created on the border.
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I am required to say “courtesy of Prada” any time I use this photo. Thank you Mrs. Prada.
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it isn’t easy to do full communism on NPR, but someone’s got to do it.
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I was just interviewed in a professional/scholarly capacity by Japan's largest business publication about "girl dinner", so I can retire now.
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I am [finally] having an NYC book event for "The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households"
@BrisUniPress
: Tuesday, January 30 4pm-6pm
@NSSRNews
. Hope to see you there!
It is free and open to the public, but requires registration:
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Thinking about all of Wilson’s antics over the years on the 12th anniversary of the day he came to live with me as a retired conformation dog. Miss you guy.
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You want me to be a perfect neoliberal subject? FINE! Then I will monitor and minimize my time spent on your low-reward, low-satisfaction tasks. You’ve just been optimized by a management consultant (me).
I’ve been timing all of my work (w/
@harvest
) broken down into task categories w/ two larger headings (1) Research, (2) Teaching & Service. I’ve posted this before, but faculty really should be treating their time as a precious asset.
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I have unlocked the key to psychoanalysis, it is just that inside you there are these three monkeys
Mama to the rescue! Baby monkey gets shoved by an adult monkey.
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This is still a month away, but Friday May 3 at 4:30pm there will be an author’s roundtable for the book “Marxism and the Capitalist State”
@NSSRNews
with
@alybatt
@selfactingmule
@rafkhach
@chrisokane_nyc
& Jasmine Chorley-Schulz. Requires registration:
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The field I was specifically hired to teach and do research in (feminist political economy) is about to become illegal in my state, so yes my week is going great.
So glad our college students are standing up protesting anti-DEI bills in the
#txlege
today. The AM started with SB 16, dubbed the “anti-CRT bill,” but for higher education. The passage of this and other anti-DEI bills will have dire implications for
#tenure
&
#AcademicFreedom
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dang girl
@Leigh_Phillips
More relevant: like Yglesias, you are a Panglossian troll who represents the interests of those making a killing off the present state of things while attacking any effort to change that state.
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This
@LPE_Project
@lpe_nyc
workshop at
@NSSRNews
is coming up on October 21.
General registration is open through Oct. 12
Students/ECRs who want to present a paper, submit by Oct. 2
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I still have 43 free entrees from Ch*potle that expire in two days because I was blessed by this worm one year ago. DM me your order, time, and location & I will send you a burrito for lunch today. This violates the terms of my prize, but I do not care.
Yesterday I saw this, and today I won free Chipotle for a year. Not a coincidence. 🙏🐛 I hope you will be blessed by this worm, too.
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THIS FRIDAY!!! Featuring me,
@alybatt
@selfactingmule
@rafkhach
@chrisokane_nyc
& Jasmine Chorley-Schulz, & moderated by
@NSSRNews
econ PhD student Michael Tedesco.
IMPORTANT: non-New School attendees MUST register before Friday to enter the building:
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Proud of our students. Statement endorsed by the Economics Student Union at The New School for Social Research
@NSSRNews
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In grad school as a
@uicgeo
member, a faculty member derided my union badge, mockingly sang “gotta go down and join the union” & told me “No REAL economist would be in a union” in front of a huge class. Guess I had to grow up to be a FAKE economist, then!
@SENSUAW
get the goods.
"Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master." -Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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She has other targets
Good morning folks. How’s your day been?
Me? I got this email today so just another regular Thursday.
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Touches on a forgotten insight of the anglophone Domestic Labor Debates (that is reflected in Die Wissenschaft vom Wert)… feminist scholars (including Lise Vogel) arguing that domestic labor may be an *impediment* to accumulation rather than a subsidy to capitalists.
The most intriguing encounter
#MichaelHeinrich
during his
#ItalianischeReise
was a collective interview in Bergamo in Italian with English translation on many theoretical and political issues: e.g.,
#socialism
,
#nature
,
#socialreproduction
,
#labour
,
#Marx
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Wilson’s been feeling unusually lethargic today. If my Internet friends can send him good vibes that would be much appreciated because I just want him to be able to go back to enjoying himself.
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I don't understand why duolingo thinks having a passive-aggressive cartoon owl threaten me is an effective tactic to get me to practice German.
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I am citing this tweet in a scholarly publication.
Karl Marx failed to consider that White Claws just Zima for zoomers.
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Backlash for refusing the The Deutscher Prize just proves even more it was king move, which I can say because my sad little book wasn't even nominated
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This is how I conclude my book, pls ask your library to acquire it. Thank you.
anyway the single family dwelling is the bigger problem
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Central argument of my Political Economy of Gender graduate course next semester: "[B]uilding a theory of women's liberation around the category of 'women' (as when Mitchell calls repeatedly for a 'specific theory of women's oppression') is a mistake." -- Lise Vogel (1973)
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My chapter in this book “Marxian Economics and the Critique of Political Economy” is co-authored with
@chrisokane_nyc
… Now you can get it on paperback for yourself or ask your library to acquire a copy
Excited to announce that Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy can now be preordered in paperback for the more reasonable price of $35.95
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I am in complete awe of the time, organization, effort, dedication to graduate students, and commitment to Marxist study that is going into pulling this thing off, and so so so grateful that I get to be a small part of it 😍😍😍
Our 1st annual summer seminar a week away, an appreciation thread for those who've made it possible. 1st & foremost the students: not just the 20 we could fund but all 160 applicants: incredible in seriousness, scope, & insight. We hope to be able to fund many more in the future.
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