Christopher Newfield
@cnewf
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Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
London, England
Joined October 2009
The Biden admin knew all along that Israel was committing war crimes. Biden and Blinken especially are unrepentant war criminals. Their legacy is genocide.
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What a legacy. Let them NOT even eat cake. This is political suicide it seems to me. Has he lost his mind?
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If you are wondering what Labour is going to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! This is Newham College Cambridge on August 5, 2024, projecting the air of eternal stability that Labour will actively undermine. /1
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(1/5) Happy to share our new article with Ha-Joon Chang, where we argue for the urgent need to reform the international economic order. https://t.co/N9hQ2LEZOe
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There is *Republican Blood In the Water* over healthcare. That's a story. Not "Republican Racist AntiSemite Has PRINCIPLES." No, never that. "Republican Blood in the Water." Be a shark!
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In a lecture at UCLA on Wednesday, I discussed Michael Meranze's theory of communities of scholars. It starts with the scholar's charged bond to their subject, radically unlike market rationality, and ends with seizing control of working conditions. It's now posted at Remaking
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🚨 JD Vance just claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.” Archaeologists, including those specializing in North American history, are calling this a flat-out lie. There
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Trump Admin: We can murder people at will with no accountability.
Dem Rep. Sara Jacobs after today's briefing from Pentagon officials on boat strikes, via @AnnieGrayerCNN: “They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes,” Jacobs said, adding that was in part why admin "could not actually
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It's neoliberalism — not socialism — that restricts economic freedom. Most countries that score well on economic freedom do so *precisely* because they have socialist policies in place that increase social mobility and decrease economic precariousness. Norway has one of the
Economic freedom versus GDP per capita. You shouldn't be a socialist. Too bad there aren't countries even freer than Singapore, etc so we can see what would happen We should keep being more pro-market until we hit diminishing returns. We're not there yet.
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New paper alert! Decline by design: Assessing decline policies as a decarbonisation strategy under the Paris Agreement | PLOS One. @gregtrencher @sus_pol @SussexGlobal @SPRU @IISD_Energy @SEIclimate
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Limiting climate change to targets set under the Paris Agreement requires urgent action to reduce the production and use of carbon-intensive technologies, fuels, materials and industrial processes....
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@GrmelaJulian Progressive policies poll well on both sides. 87 percent of all polled Americans voted for what would be considered Progressive policies when they were asked how they felt about the policies with no mention of r or left.
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Utah just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless people — seven miles from town, no transportation, locked units, and even forced labor. They call it “work-conditioned housing.” We call it what it is: modern-day internment. In this clip, Eric Tars from the National
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Jesus.
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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