Luke Alexander

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I research workplace discourse analysis, with a particular interest in questions of power, discourse, and class struggle. This also informs my work as an EAP teacher and my activism as an NTEU union delegate and socialist.

I live on the lands of the Wangal people in so-called Sydney, and recognise the sovereignty was never ceded to the Australian colonial state. Therefore I will always support Indigneous struggles for justice and self-determination

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Luke AlexanderJan 19, 2023
hazchem 🏳️‍🌈 💛🤍💜🖤Jan 19, 2023
Do you organise warehouse parties? Share your thoughts on alcohol policies and help a PhD candidate with their research.
Luke AlexanderDec 31, 2022
Happy new year! I'm getting in early here in Sydney in case I go to bed early
Luke AlexanderDec 27, 2022
Wonder of ScienceDec 21, 2022

Beautiful timelapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. ©JAXA/NHK

#moon #earth #japan #timelapse

Show threadLuke AlexanderDec 25, 2022
@sbb @nino but a Western style Buddhism has adapted- see the work of Charlotte Joko Beck and the Ordinary Mind school
Luke AlexanderDec 25, 2022
@HaneMaung @nino @ChrisJKelly This is probably how I understand Buddhism too - a practice and ethic of being in the world that emerges from that practice
Show threadLuke AlexanderDec 25, 2022
@nino I'm a Western Buddhist and I'm way more into it than my Korean partner's nominally Buddhist family. They would never actually meditate, go on retreats, etc. tbh though Korean Christians seem way more into it than manywestern Christians though
Luke AlexanderDec 25, 2022
@punklawyer @nino @HaneMaung @ChrisJKelly You can be a Buddhist and still believe in evolution. In the Kalama Sutra Buddha addressed some skeptics in ancient India and said that it didn't matter whether one believed in a god or after life to practice Buddhism. It's independent of such beliefs
Show threadLuke AlexanderDec 21, 2022

@annaleen I would still teach English, but to people who just wandered in and wanted to learn. I would work directly with their needs as learners rather than some shitty curriculum or assessment structure. And it would all take place outside any kind of border control regime obliging me to document foreign citizens.

Or I might decide, if no students turned up, to go and help on a farm, or a communal kitchen, or somewhere else if they needed me. Or I might stay at home and read and cook.

Luke AlexanderDec 20, 2022
"... rather than viewing unwaged "non-labor time" automatically as free time or as time completely antithetical to capital, we are forced to recognize that capital has tried to integrate this time, too ... Put another way, capital has tried to convert "individual consumption" into "productive consumption" by creating the social factory" - Harry Cleaver. Reading Capital Politically
Luke AlexanderDec 20, 2022
Michael SlezakDec 9, 2022
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