Erik Baker
@erikmbaker
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I teach history of science & labor at Harvard. Senior editor @thedrift_mag. Buy my book MAKE YOUR OWN JOB: https://t.co/Lva7KFApuE
Joined June 2019
Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of you for your support for my work.
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Does anyone have a good theory for why AI "creative writing" is so terminally Reddit?
I chose the green door ninety-three days ago. At the time, it seemed obviously correct. Not even a close call. The red door offered two billion dollars immediately—a sum so large it would solve every material problem I'd ever face, fund any project I could imagine, and still
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Speaking of unprofessional I think it's a little bush league to tease that you have evidence the president faked his assassination attempt only to drop a post revealing merely that RFK Jr. uses the D.E.N.N.I.S. System
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girls only want one thing
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Agreed. Along with Hegel and Mao, Wittgenstein has got to be one of the most famous American pragmatists
It’s very funny to make the cover image of *Logical Positivism and Existentialism* a photo of Wittgenstein
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The publishing event of the season: @mac_loft's landmark critique of the Christian theological underpinnings of fascism past and present
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The manuscript of this incendiary novel was one of the best new books I read this year. Even more accomplished than Katherine's great debut Still Life - don't miss it!!
ALL US SAINTS has been graced with this gorgeous cover and is available for preorder wherever books are sold!
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What’s happening at the University of Oklahoma is a reminder of why we’re fighting for a contract with strong academic freedom provisions that guarantee that faculty control their own classrooms, assignments, and grading.
Academic governance by right-wing social media mob: coming soon to a non-union campus near you
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New today: a Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of “On the Calculation of Volume” https://t.co/LiSOWGfGcj
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A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
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Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today
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A Q&A with Solvej Balle, author of On the Calculation of Volume
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What has happened to the church. Pre-Vatican II, the pope never talked about AI once.
In his talk with the Orthodox in Turkey, Pope Leo raised three major issues of concern. Abortion, euthanasia, and LGBT ideology? Just kidding. It was peace, ecology, and AI — of course.
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Yes, I checked: entrepreneur in bio
Lmao so the mom of the Turning Points USA kid who wrote the bad essay is crashing out over how all of Twitter is dunking on her daughter, and of course it turns out the mom is a GOP politician (makes you wonder if the whole thing was deliberately staged).
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Confusing typos with grammatical errors is always a dead giveaway that someone is not a serious writer or reader
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This shameful episode is also a great illustration of the way that trans freedom is a labor issue
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Academic governance by right-wing social media mob: coming soon to a non-union campus near you
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If you believe the New Left had no class analysis or class politics, please read Kerry Taylor's dissertation, Turn to the working class: the New Left, black liberation, and the U.S. labor movement (1967-1981) Public. https://t.co/ozH9bEVpfB
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Turn to the working class: the New Left, black liberation, and the U.S. labor movement (1967-1981)
@donaldp1917 For others the problem with the New Left wasn't women's liberation, gay liberation, etc. or the practical anti-war and anti-racist organizing but the theoretical shift away from the working class subject and then the later retreat of left-wing intellectuals into academia. Which
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Baker appropriately ends his fantastic book with a call to action. Should we make our own jobs, based on an entrepreneurial vision of a dystopian future where dogs continue to eat dogs? Or should we organize as workers, based on a collective vision of a hopeful future where
I review @erikmbaker's book at S-USIH: Since the early twentieth century, as Erik Baker shows in his fantastic book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, myriad politicians, economists, psychologists, management experts, and motivational
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This review is every author's dream come true. If you're curious about my book I can think of no better overview of its intellectual and political commitments.
I review @erikmbaker's book at S-USIH: Since the early twentieth century, as Erik Baker shows in his fantastic book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, myriad politicians, economists, psychologists, management experts, and motivational
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Besides Late Clint, his work is one of the few places in the mainstream you can go to see the world of strip malls, big box stores, suburban developments, highways, supply chains etc that we inhabit
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