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Your basic Bay Area boy: flâneur, film buff, hiker, foodie, culture vulture, PhD drop out—an underemployed and over-caffeinated “cultural Marxist”

Frisco-Australian

Liberté, Egalité, Flâneurité!

FieldsCultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Social History, Art History, Film
InspirationsStuart Hall, Roland Barthes, Robert Hass, TJ Clark, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(gobsmacked)Feb 6, 2025
Show threadAda PalmerFeb 6, 2025
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
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer

In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

Ada Palmer
(gobsmacked)Feb 5, 2025
Mark IgraFeb 4, 2025
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
Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection

The collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland.

The Mercury News
(gobsmacked)Feb 5, 2025
Michael Burawoy died yesterday while crossing the street in a hit and run accident in Oakland.
#sociology #UCBerkeley
(gobsmacked)Jan 18, 2025
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
Salvage Brutalism: Class, Culture and Dispossession in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Fragment of Robin Hood Gardens

Research Explorer The University of Manchester
(gobsmacked)Jan 18, 2025
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
African countries need more PhD graduates but students are held back by a lack of money and support

PhD programmes play a role in advancing research, innovation, and economic and scientific progress.

The Conversation
(gobsmacked)Jan 18, 2025

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]

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

The UK will need people with a strong knowledge of the US in politics, business and in the media.

The Conversation
(gobsmacked)Jan 9, 2025
Ben PettisNov 8, 2024

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

Warrant canary - Wikipedia

(gobsmacked)Oct 5, 2024
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/
Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – Basic Books, October 2024

Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – Hachette, October 2024 Two short excerpts are on Herring’s Substack – first excerpt…

Progressive Geographies
(gobsmacked)Sep 30, 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
Jean-Paul Sartre's Concept of the Self: Freedom, Responsibility, and the Burden of Choice

(gobsmacked)Sep 24, 2024

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