Leonhard RiepHello, I am a PhD candidate in social philosophy at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, working on the notion of experience in the works of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault.
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Control System Engineer. Now PhD student in anthropology at UNIBO . Interested in....
Dan HirschmanI’m super excited about the upcoming 10 year anniversary review symposium of Fields’ and Fields’ “Racecraft” that’s forthcoming in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. For a teaser, check out this fantastic piece by Mo Torres that covers the (non)reception of Fields’ work in the 1990s-2000s in sociology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/23326492221136168
Jens van 't KloosterIn fact Voltaire was so taken by Chinese philosophy that he kept a painting of Confucius facing him while he worked.
He believed China had reached the apex of human civilisation and wrote that since Confucius no “finer rule of conduct has ever been given throughout the earth.”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1588889581705121797
Hadas Weisswait mastodon’s supposed to be a safer, gentler space AFTER the academics decamp here??
Megan FoxI'm seeing anxiety around how to find people without algorithms and,
so Twitter didn't have an algorithm until kinda late in the 2010's. Virality before that was just based on RTs between friends (ie. curation) and hash-tags.
That was fine. Arguably it worked better than algos.
Daniel Griffin@alesss a couple on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatsaragoodman/status/1588574281663131649
Sara Wallace Goodman on Twitter
“The thing I really like(d) about Twitter is how it "democratized" academia, amplifying experts outside of top-10 networks. If it all dissolves into a thousand newsletters & we retrench into elite silos, both advances in inclusion and cumulative knowledge will suffer greatly.”
Iqra S. Cheema 🪶 [email protected] on Twitter
“Academics' twitter exodus, along with z lib today, would limit the availability of current scholarship for so many for whom these are the only places to access new knowledge and engage with western scholars. I understand their reasons but it's sad that 1/n”
@alesss Oh. Like—the Twitter algorithms playing a gatekeeping role or otherwise intermediating relations? (I suppose there is an application of our argument re Google Scholar’s opaque intermediating algorithms to the Twitter case. https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/google-scholar-platforming-scholarly-economy )
Philip N CohenWow! @SocArXivBot is now tooting new SocArXiv papers. Much gratitude to @lakens for launching it.
David HarveyHello Mastodon! You can listen to or watch the latest episode of my Anti-Capitalist Chronicles podcast, "Metabolic Relations Between Markets and Politics" here:
https://www.democracyatwork.info/acc_metabolic_relations_between_markets_and_politics
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Metabolic Relations Between Markets and Politics
In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey explores the relationship between markets and the state. Drawing on examples such as Britain in the 1970s, France in 1981 under Mitterrand, and Bill Clinton in the 1990s, Harvey argues that, under capitalism, the state is not sovereign and democracy cannot be fully realized, and what you instead have is the eroding of each. As many countries, including the US, move closer to authoritarian democracies, we must first confront this fusion of capital and state and then explore what the socialist response can be.