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🔵🔴Access 'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' by Stephen Tumino—an exploration of contemporary #culture through the lens of #Marxism.

'Thinking Blue/Writing Red' interrogates contemporary culture across a range of texts, from the #pandemic (‘#Covid’ and ‘#TrumpSpeak’) to high theory (#Melville's narratives) and popular culture (#Beyoncé's ‘#Formation’ and #SuperBowl performance, #TwinPeaks, metamodern ‘cli-fi’ films). Inspired by #Derrida’s idea of the secret, Tumino examines the significance of social movements (#BLM, #Occupy, alter-globalization) and naïve art (#Darger, #Ryden) to argue that these texts speak of the secrets that capitalism cannot.

This book will be of interest to students in several disciplines, including #philosophy, #literary and #culturalstudies, #filmstudies, #womensstudies, #criticalrace studies, history, #LGBTQ+ studies and #environmentalstudies.

🔗https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0324

“Harley-Davidson seems to have forgotten who their core customers are,” (Robby) Starbuck said in a post on Monday (22 July). “I don’t think the values at corporate reflect the values of nearly any Harley-Davidson bikers.”

Robby Starbucks is most likely referring to (unknowing) white racist riders.

You can be racist and not realize it.All it takes is believing and adhering to racial narratives without using critical thinking.

Woah!!!That sounds to close to #criticalrace and #woke theories lol

I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

Hi again all! I'm Matt, a researcher and lecturer, fighting #facialrecognition and other #carceral #tech by day at Amnesty Tech, teaching #sociology at #Cambridge and writing on digital urban infrastructures as new frontiers for #racial #capitalism and #migration #control by night. Bouldering and hiking to escape the demands of capital. Drink coffee to survive them.

Any other #CriticalRace and #STS folks out there?

#Acawrimo accountability post 1. On Nov. 1, I finished reading Helen Young and Kavita Mudan Finn's *Global #Medievalism: An Introduction* from the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages series.

At its core, this is a combination of the ideas of the #GlobalMedieval as theorized by folks like Geradine Heng with Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's *Theory of the #DarkFantastic,* Margo Hendrick's frameworks, and other #CriticalRace approaches to popular #literature and #film. #Counterstorytelling and #restorying are used throughout the analysis.

Young and Finn take a case studies approach to first showcase problems (#GoT and *Song of Ice and Fire*) and then to highlight texts that are doing good things: Shannen's *Priory of the Orange Tree,* Chakraborty's *Daevabad Trilogy,* Deonn's *Legendborn* & *Bloodmarked* duology, etc.

As a reader, I waffled between hope for a future of more #diverse #storyworlds and disillusionment at the ways the authors who are doing some things well are also falling short. The problems of the present will always chase us into our discursive spaces, unfortunately.

Coming back to hope, though, one throughline among the positive examples in this analysis is the decentering of the singular hero (a la Campbell) in favor of collaborative mutuality to solve problems, especially #WorldRisk level problems (cf. Ulrich Beck. Our) lived reality needs more of those models.

This decentering connects to the #DisneyPixar trend I highlighted in my monograph of friends/romantic partners in recent films have separate but mutually interdependent quests, i.e. neither can be successful without also working for the other's success also, and nobody is the princess in the tower or merely the object of someone else's quest.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/global-medievalism/E555F6DCC12217351536A00E22E862E5