Inventing the Renaissance isn’t *about* LGBTQIA+ history, but it’s still a queer history because *any* history of *any topic* can help battle erasure, so long as we take the simple step of pausing to mention the diversity already present in all our histories. https://www.adapalmer.com/publication/inventing-the-renaissance/ 24/24

Michael Burawoy was killed. One of the greats. https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/oakland-resident-dead-in-hit-and-run-crash-at-intersection/ #sociology

Michael Burawoy died yesterday while crossing the street in a hit and run accident in Oakland.
#sociology #UCBerkeley

Salvage Brutalism: Class, Culture and Dispossession in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Fragment of Robin Hood Gardens
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/salvage-brutalism-class-culture-and-dispossession-in-the-victoria

African countries need more PhD graduates but students are held back by a lack of money and support
https://theconversation.com/african-countries-need-more-phd-graduates-but-students-are-held-back-by-a-lack-of-money-and-support-243946

American studies degrees are declining in popularity – but the subject has never been more important

https://theconversation.com/american-studies-degrees-are-declining-in-popularity-but-the-subject-has-never-been-more-important-246830

[one factor in me not continuing was lack of support. and with the academic job market what it is - uber but for undereducated high school students who want to get business degrees - there's no way i would consider going back]

I am going to be adding a variation on a "warrant canary" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary) to the syllabus for any classes that I teach. For example:

"I have _not_ been directed by the university, government, or any other organization to add, alter, or remove any portion of this course. Watch closely for if this notice is ever removed."

If/when institutions try to control what we teach, they may try to prevent sharing details of the ratfuckery that's happening

#academia #higherEducation #phdChat

Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – Basic Books, October 2024 https://progressivegeographies.com/2024/10/05/emily-herring-herald-of-a-restless-world-how-henri-bergson-brought-philosophy-to-the-people-basic-books-october-2024/

Jean-Paul Sartre's Concept of the Self: Freedom, Responsibility, and the Burden of Choice https://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com/2024/09/jean-paul-sartres-concept-of-self.html

Vale Fredric Jameson

“The great philosopher and critic Fredric Jameson died today, at the age of ninety. His writings, almost impossibly voluminous and still growing year by year, accomplish a magnificent balancing act between intellectual rigor on the one hand and aesthetic perception on the other; a strong political commitment undergirds the whole…” https://www.therestisnoise.com/2024/09/for-fredric-jameson.html

T.J. Clark: Knife at the Throat https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/t.j.-clark/knife-at-the-throat

The Problem with American College Campuses Is That I Desperately Miss Being Young https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-problem-with-american-college-campuses-is-that-i-desperately-miss-being-young

The Bawdy House Riots of 1668 https://daily.jstor.org/the-bawdy-house-riots-of-1668/

Ebner has written two books on online extremism and radicalisation (based on first hand experience engaging online) that I found well worth a read:

https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/going-dark-the-secret-social-lives-of-extremists

and the 2023 book “Going mainstream: how extremists are taking over”

https://www.icct.nl/publication/margins-mainstream-how-extremism-has-conquered-political-middle

@juliaebner (account here looks sadly inactive)

Kinda sucks that I just learned of James C. Scott's passing today, but I'm passing on an interview link shared on twt.
The link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3e05xm1jb7cd79kge7vio/Scott_Peasants-Power-and-the-Art-of-Resistance_2007.pdf?rlkey=hht91f34qpb84txt6agoy6yax&e=1&dl=0

The twt: https://x.com/GerardoMunck/status/1815123726834504039?s=19 - '𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁

@rowensnyder conducted an extensive interview with James C. Scott in 2001. It helps us understand Scott as a person and a scholar.👇'

#TootSEA #Malaysia #SoutheastAsia

The fine folks at #Wikimedia are running a survey on the use of #generativeAI in #GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) and #education sectors and it would be great to get more input! Boosts appreciated 💖
https://forms.office.com/e/MjvHAUBTAG

In recent weeks, we’ve seen multiple examples of women on the political right straddling two kinds of womanhood: the girlboss and the tradwife. The visibility of these women exposes a hidden link between conservative womanhood and girlboss feminism that deserves our attention.
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2024/06/14/the-surprising-convergence-of-girlbosses-and-tradwives/

part of a recent series of articles debating the scale, scope, sources, and impact of misinformation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07417-w

The German National Library @DNB_Aktuelles is offering 3-month research fellowships using their data bases, including a huge longitudinal Twitter archive. Apply by June 19, 11am! 👩‍💻 https://www.dnb.de/hermes-fsp #research #socialMedia #linguistics #fellowship

The spectacle is not a collection of sausages, but running, mediated by arf, arf