Elisabeth R. Anker
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Prof, Political Theory & American Studies • BOOK: UGLY FREEDOMS • Co-editor @theory_event • Libby Anker
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My essay in today's New York Times!! The Exploitation of Freedom in America:
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When ur wife does the research but you get to be the author 🧐
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Talk about solidarity! students from ALL UNIVERSITIES IN DC have created a Gaza solidarity encampment TOGETHER at GW! Georgetown, Howard, Gallaudet, UMD, George Mason, American, GW:
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So hear me out: NO MORE RECOMMENDATION LETTERS FOR ANYTHING BUT JOBS.
No letters for: internships, study abroad programs, fellowships, grants, not even graduate school. This is too much already people. STOP THE MADNESS.
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Welcome to spring 2023 where EVERY SINGLE ASSIGNMENT in all classes will be like "analyze this ChatGPT answer" rather than asking students to write anything
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To all the people also suggesting no letters for jobs, I agree. LETS END IT ALL. ABOLISH RECS. ❌📨
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I am devastated by Lauren Berlant’s passing. Their brilliance changed the world. I wrote a review of The Hundreds last year titled Worldmaking In A Shitstorm which is actually what Lauren did for so many of us: creating worlds out of the disasters of the present. 1/2
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Look at what arrived!! My book is now out! I'm kinda dazed in this picture, not sure this is actually real?
Beautiful blurbs by Lisa Duggan
@TheFunFury
and
@bonnie_honig
are just making me 🥰🥰🥰. Thanks
@DukePress
and
@courtney_berger
for everything.
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In case ur wondering, I did my very own research for this baby! Ugly Freedoms out 2022
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We are faculty at GW.
We observed the encampment.
It was peaceful.
No student should be suspended or expelled for participating in it.
🚨Draconian punishment for free expression goes against the entire ethos of a university education.🚨
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I'm SO EXCITED to launch a new podcast with
@4Bassam
, Theory Buzz! Every month we interview some of the most exciting theory scholars on their work and the world. Our first 3 guests will be Wendy Brown, Mahmood Mamdani, and Achille Mbembe. Theory Buzz begins live on Feb 18 2pmET.
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I'm delighted to announce that I'm the new Co-Editor for the journal Theory & Event. I'll be working alongside the fabulous current editor
@CBeltranNYU
! This is the first time that the journal will have two women as co-editors. Can't wait to read your submissions.
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Reason why I have been so productive in publishing while you fools are languishing, my secrets:
1) Push yourself so hard, work so much, do other shit like that
2) Realize that there is another scholar with your exact same name and vaguely similar research... 1/2
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We are faculty at GW.
We observed the encampments.
They were peaceful.
No student should be suspended or expelled for participating in them.
Draconian punishment for free expression goes against the entire ethos of a university education.
WATCH:
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Update: I'm so grateful that
@DukePress
will be publishing Lauren Berlant's last book, On The Inconvenience of Other People, in Fall 2022. It will knock your socks off. It's a gift from her to the world.
I had the incredible pleasure of reviewing the manuscript of Lauren’s next book for Duke U Press, On The Inconvenience Of Other People, and I desperately hope that book will be published. We all need to be inconvenienced by Lauren’s breathtaking brilliance, again and again. RIP.
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“Hamas’s military wing is doing what it’s doing but that doesn’t make all Palestinians targets. It doesn’t justify perpetual unfreedom of Palestinians and their subjugation.”
“Let us fight for peace together.”
@4noura
Human Rights attorney
@4noura
discusses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and what it means for the war in Israel:
“Let us fight for peace together.”
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Academic freedom means protecting scholarly analysis, no matter what. Everyone should support the academic freedom of my colleague and fellow theorist — and previous
@theory_event
editor — Jodi Dean. Jodi’s academic freedom is also yours.
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My son just picked up one of my books and asked who F-Anon is. THANKS 2021
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We DO support our students. They are brave and courageous, fighting against genocide while others denounce them or look away
“We support our students practicing civil disobedience. When ppl did this in the 60s [vs] segregation, the political institutions refused to end it & the sit-ins forced the issue. The students are crying out to end these injustices & their institutions’ complicity in them” —GWU
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I AM FLOORED!! Ugly Freedoms won Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize, awarded for the best book in American Studies. Thank you
@theasa
🙏🙏🙏
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So delighted to see my essay "The Exploitation of Freedom" in today's NYT Sunday Review. Something about holding a real paper makes all the difference for this Old Skool kid!
Open Access link here:
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@nhannahjones
Grassley’s tweet is exactly what I call Ugly Freedoms — using “freedom” to justify violence and discrimination:
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What's your LEAST FAVORITE twitter phrase?
Mine: "Buckle up". Condescending and no your tweet is not that wild
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Faculty came to support students, but instead students supported faculty, offering a bounty of water, food, snacks, kindness 😭💕😭💕. Students are creating the world they want to live in as they protest the destruction of Gaza.
Talk about solidarity! students from ALL UNIVERSITIES IN DC have created a Gaza solidarity encampment TOGETHER at GW! Georgetown, Howard, Gallaudet, UMD, George Mason, American, GW:
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Book release didn’t seem real until it was conference official. Thanks so much
@DukePress
!
#APSA2022
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... then pretend all her books and articles are yours and hope no one notices your name is different by one letter. Now look: you’ve doubled your research output. Ur the BEST Elizabeth Anker
3) Lord your productivity over everyone on this godforsaken platform
4) Luv urself
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Critics say the GW encampment is “scary” but it is so peaceful that the police refuse to intervene. STOP MAKING UP FAKE STORIES THAT IT’S DANGEROUS!! Students are building the world they want to live in as they protest genocide:
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My politics and film class won “Best Fun Class at GW” - and yes I ABSOLUTELY posed with the Dune Popcorn Bucket 🍿
Thanks to the students who nominated the class and to
@zachblackburn23
and
@gwhatchet
for the lovely write up.
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I had the incredible pleasure of reviewing the manuscript of Lauren’s next book for Duke U Press, On The Inconvenience Of Other People, and I desperately hope that book will be published. We all need to be inconvenienced by Lauren’s breathtaking brilliance, again and again. RIP.
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One way to appreciate how supremely fucked up the Texas anti-abortion law is: lawyers say the only precedent for it is the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
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honestly pisses me off that every smug response to AI is like "just modify all your pedagogy and assignments, it will be so good for students"
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I’m so proud of my colleagues and students at GW who fought relentlessly (and some with great risk) for this to happen:
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What about the MANY JEWISH STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN AND ORGANIZING THE PROTESTS?? Stop erasing them to support this fake, slanderous narrative.
Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our
@InsidePolitics
show open, here.
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Which schools are treating their protesting students peacefully? I’d love to have a list. UCLA, Rochester, where else?
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Why would you EVER shop for books on Amazon when your local bookstore organizes books for you like this?!
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LA Review of Books interview on my forthcoming book Ugly Freedoms! (Thanks
@LAReviewofBooks
and esp Brad Evans!) Histories of Violence: When Freedom Turns Ugly
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We at Theory & Event are thrilled to announce 3 fantastic new members of our editorial board:
Lisa Lowe
Audra Simpson
Hagar Kotef
Welcome to them all!
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The introduction of my book Ugly Freedoms is available to read!! Thanks for opening it up
@DukePress
!
Read the introduction to UGLY FREEDOMS by Elisabeth R. Anker (
@libankerDC
)! It's available here on our website:
#mediastudies
#politicaltheory
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Thought I couldn’t be prouder of my GW students until
I’m sorry GW students I was unfamiliar with your game
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DMV=DC,Maryland, Virginia, not your drivers license place, for those uninitiated in the local
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No joke spending the whole day binge watching
#ShinyHappyPeople
the Duggar expose. It indicts every aspect of US culture: misogyny, patriarchy, politics, fundamentalism, abuse, education, corporate media, US empire…it’s a must watch.
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Excited to share good news in dark times: My book, Ugly Freedoms, is under contract with
@DukePress
!!
Armed Lockdown Protesters,
#GeorgeFloydMurder
, and
#AmyCooper
are all examples of Ugly Freedom: when people use "freedom" to justify violence, oppression, racism, and murder.
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Just found my grandfather’s college diploma from CCNY in 1932. The first member of my family to go to college, back when you could be poor, an immigrant kid, and first gen, and go to school for free. Isn’t this why we had public education in the first place?
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Jewish activists blocking access to the White House while singing mourner’s Kaddish for all those who have died, Israeli and Palestinian alike.
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If the 21st-century is defined by anything, it must includes the west’s blithe destruction of thousands of years of Middle Eastern history and culture:
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It's the DukePress book sale!! 50% off Ugly Freedoms, with code SPRING23
(And a flashback to the morning I first saw Ugly Freedoms in the papery flesh...)
@DukePress
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Buckle up, because this is essential reading. ⬇️ I don’t know who needs to hear this but we’re so fucked. Friendly reminder that this is not normal. 🚨🚨Let that sink in. That’s it, that’s the tweet. Betcha didn’t have that on your bingo card.
#Sorrynotsorry
. A thread:
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What's your LEAST FAVORITE twitter phrase?
Mine: "Buckle up". Condescending and no your tweet is not that wild
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Officially BESOTTED! Meet sweet Percy. This little 11lb pup was abandoned by a mall and living in the grass of the parking lot 😢. But thanks to an incredible network of volunteers, he’s now a member of our family 🥰🐶🥰.
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In Ugly Freedoms I called for a robust leftist freedom that finally severs freedom from free market brutality, white supremacy, and imperialism. Let’s hope the shift is beginning…?!
NEW: We just launched the first video of our campaign.
“We choose freedom.”
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Been off twitter most of summer since it sucks my soul, but I'm back on because
#ChatGPT
sucks my soul even worse and I need advice before school starts. My whole pedagogy and syllabi have to shift to avoid its damage. Am I stuck with in-class essays? What else r profs doing?
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Zoe and Percy are grateful that so many political theorists are supporting LA’s striking hotel workers
#DogsForLabor
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“Stop Idealizing Freedom”: my essay on Ron DeSantis, social media, and “going low” to fight for freedom is part of this sharp forum in
@BostonReview
on Reclaiming Freedom!
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I got so excited when I found out that I started running and fell on my face and cracked my phone and split my hand open and blood everywhere AND I DONT EVEN CARE
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I am ecstatic that our third episode of TheoryBuzz Podcast airs tomorrow!! We interview the brilliant Achille Mbembe. With
@AchilleMbembe1
, we will discuss Necropolitics, racism, decolonization, Fanon, war, and more...Join us live at 2pEST/8pmSAST at .
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Thanks to so many people who listened to our inaugural Theory Buzz podcast with Wendy Brown yesterday! We have just posted it on YouTube if you want to watch/listen on your own time.
@Bassam
and I thank you again for your support! We're so grateful. Link below.
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The art on the book is made entirely of dust. Dust is comprised of skin, bomb fallout, animal poop, colonial detritus, infrastructure shedding, and more. Dust contains worlds! Thanks to the brilliant Lebanese artist Dalia Baassiri for allowing me to use her work.
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I'm presenting at my very first MLA conference tomorrow. I'll be talking about my new book Ugly Freedom at 3:30pm Eastern, on a panel titled "Left Theory and Alt-Right". Hope to see some of you there!!
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And link:
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Ugly Freedoms is now an audiobook!! You know you want to listen in. I kind of love the graphic.
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45 minutes ago: ok this chapter is ready to go
1 minute ago: yikes this (same) chapter is literally the biggest piece of shit I’ve ever written. I’m going to need to work on it for two years to even get it up to acceptability
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The entire internet in one tweet:
A woman streams her exercise for her fans, without realizing there’s a coup happening in the background
Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento.
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This is the level of bitchiness that I come to Twitter for
The makeup work at this RNC... is there another strike I'm not aware of?
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Loved the🎙conversation about my book Ugly Freedoms (
@DukePress
) with
@gorenlj
for
@NewBooksPoliSci
! The ugliness of American freedom gets worse by the minute (freedom for AR-15s, freedom to force childbirth, freedom to burn up the planet..)
Listen:
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only time I feel productive these days is when I click "unsubscribe" from spam email
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GW student photojournalist on the front cover of TIME magazine😍💪
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Done with all the dude bros and their thin hot takes on Gaza? Here scholars and activists worth listening to:
@4noura
@4Bassam
@nevegordon
@YousefMunayyer
@LalehKhalili
@wyoumans
@AishaAriella
@ArielleLAngel
@nour_odeh
@BenEhrenreich
@AliAbunimah
+ all the orgs doing the work
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What a treat to see Ugly Freedoms featured at
@lostcitybooks
! One of my fave bookstores on the planet 💕📚
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Great fun to my publisher Duke and all the academic presses that are respecting the
@unitehere
strike and doing virtual exhibits for
#APSA2023
!
This includes:
@CornellPress
@PrincetonUPress
@ColumbiaUP
Please support the books they are putting out this year!!!
We're celebrating new titles in
#PoliticalScience
virtually this year! If you're attending
#APSA2023
, check out our blog today for info on how to browse and save!
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My GW colleagues in history have been through the wringer the past 24 hours. They call on
#JessicaKrug
to RESIGN IMMEDIATELY
GW History Department faculty statement on Jessica Krug
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I am just laughcrying my eyes out, has anyone in the history of social media been trolled as much as this hater
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Glad you stayed home from
#APSA2023
to support hotel workers, but missing intellectual engagement? Get fab new books from the academic presses that also supported the strike!! 🤓👊
@DukePress
@ColumbiaUP
@SUNYPress
@PrincetonUPress
@Kansas_Press
@CornellPress
@mitpress
We're celebrating new titles in
#PoliticalScience
virtually this year! If you're attending
#APSA2023
, check out our blog today for info on how to browse and save!
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Michigan friends! Come on by, i’ll be talking about my new project at UM tomorrow 1:45pm:
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"How the F am I supposed to get work done today?" is something I say every damn day these days
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Confused about
#APSA2023
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Pacific Northwest friends, I'll be up and down the coast talking about my book Ugly Freedoms this week. I'll be in Portland at Reed tonight at 6, at UW tomorrow, and at Whitman on Thursday. Come on over if you're able!
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I also want to give a huge shout out to the GW faculty Association for standing up for shared governance, integrity, and the intellectual and social missions of our university
I’m so proud of my colleagues and students at GW who fought relentlessly (and some with great risk) for this to happen:
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Join me and my
@GWtweets
colleagues tomorrow discussing the insurrection at the Capitol. With Amber Musser, Dan Schwartz, Elaine Pena, and
@jcohencole
.
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Two things that most upset me about
#JessicaKrug
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1) Many Black and Latinx students on our predominantly white campus trusted her as a mentor, and now feel betrayed and gutted 2) The proliferating stories from so many WOC scholars who were attacked by Krug. What cruelty.
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How did we get to a moment where antisemitism is resurging on the right, but political discourse primarily blames the left?
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One metric on the sea changes in discussions about gender and sexuality: Judith is the guest for NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
P.s. They kill it!
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The gleeful and pugnacious tone of Alito's opinion shows that this has always been about taking pleasure in controlling women's bodies
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So I'm scheduled to teach about gun culture and the NRA in my democracy class today. I hope the classroom will be a place where we process our despair and think collaboratively about where we go from here, cause the status quo is a dystopian murderous hellscape
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