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lets put our lives in common// face challenges together// steadily accumulate small realities// reassemble livable worlds from the ruins of this one š“š±
Austin, Tejas
Joined April 2009
We'll see if i ever use it, but I've just created an account on the fediverse (what a horrendous name): @counterapparatus@autonomous.zone
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There were no jobs left at the anthropology factory
To highlight the various careers & fields anthropologists work in, share a photo of yourself on the job! #AnthroDay
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For this week's podcast we look at Bernie Sanders' recently published book Fight Oligarchy, discussed alongside the mayoral victory of Zohran Mamdani. https://t.co/RDEDWJG1R7 We reflect on Bernie's legacy as a politician, communicator, educator, tactician, and socialist. @walmas
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I'm about to pull the opposite maneuver
"I was late learning about science ā¦ For much of my scientific training I feared I was behind my peers. But I have been able to close the gapāand that is something to be proud of." #CelebrateFirstGen
https://t.co/9AvSv7ggOo
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These absolute sickos should give me a fucking job and Iāll assign the shit out of Aristotle. Theyāll hate it. I donāt think they know what their tradition even says
Analysis of US college syllabi by the Open Syllabus project shows that bell hooks is assigned more than Aristotle, Judith Butler more than Plato, Edward Said more than than Kant, and Foucault more than everybody. (Thanks to Jon Shields for these comparisons.)
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The paragraph long description in the āreaders guideā that describes the length of the book as a brick could have been cut, especially since we are all to broke to buy the physical book and are just reading a pdf
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Canāt tell whether the katabasis is a genius narrative plot that does justice to the gothic theme in Capital or an overly indulgent writing style that is in dire need of an editor that Brill/HistMat doesnāt seem to offer
final page of the Intro to Hellworld is a description of a "you" drowning in pigshit, "the fluid pour[ing] into your skull." "Like everything I tell you here, this is not fiction. It really happened. It is happening now."
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Really whole new levels of schlocky fascist mythopoetic pastiche, would be comical if not so absolutely terrifying
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"Perhaps, then, exilic politics is a wager to affirm that the negative capacity of the ruins is worth more than taking on debt in order to rebuild."
dabartis.com
Circulator of Autonomous Forms
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If youāre a fan of Costas-Gavrasā brilliant āState of Siegeā check out this fun conversation
Provocative discussion of Costa-Gavrasā 1972 State of Siege w/ the great @Alexander_Avina and @stschrader1 @rubin_lyle
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An intimate slice of Chicago revolutionary history, laying bare the intricacies of gender politics in the 1970s/80s. Recommended. https://t.co/VGH8X1nh51
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Elizabeth Henson on sexual politics in the Sojourner Truth Organization.
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The CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp, has a PhD in philosophy that he got under the supervision of Jurgen Habermas
Donāt get why anyone would think taking a humanities class would make you not a sociopath, Thiel and Vance were both Philosophy majors lmao
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Entomologist here šāāļøš¤š Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when itās THIS big. The answer might surprise you more š Letās dive in šš§µ (1/?)
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people dont wanna admit that frozen food is actually really good now
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reading about an Irish guy who went to 17th c. New Spain (Mexico), styled himself Don GuillƩn, sparked a revolt to abolish slavery & institute radical equality for indigenous & Africans, got caught by Inquisition, escaped, wrote messianic heretical poetry, caught again & burned
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Ursula Le Guin: āA child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2
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Shooter walks into building so comically evil itās hard to figure out what nefarious arm of capital he attacked. Blackstone? Wrong floor, maybe itās the massive real estate dynasty? maybe, but also same floor as the sovereign wealth fund that bankrolls AI development
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A different cultural anthropologist (me): The entire infrastructure of AI, including the humans who have uncritically made themselves its appendages, should be launched into the sun. No leveling spirit can thrive in its malevolent glare.
Cultural anthropologist: AI-generated writing should be celebrated because it brings leveling equality to a world where previously "only those with privileged access to quality education can produce what institutions consider legitimate writing."
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