I spoke of the exodus and of the repatrination. I quoted Prince Far-I: ‘We’re moving out of Babylon/ One destination, ina Ithiopia …’, I quoted. ‘Ithiopia, the tyrants are falling/ Ithiopia, Britain the great is falling…'
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Žiga Virc
Paradoxically one way to cover a conspiracy is to present it as a conspiracy theory and count on the fact that it will not be taken seriously.
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Rosalie Knecht
The default world of literary fiction is a very professional class, with occasional sprinkles of They Closed the Mill and Now We're All on OxyContin. I wanted to be more matter of fact about post-industrial small town life.
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Cia Rinne
I often have to think about Brecht: “Ah, what an age it is / When to speak of trees is almost a crime / For it is a kind of silence about injustice!”
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John Kaag
I think that understanding a particular philosophical position means that you try your best to understand the particular geographical and cultural space it emerges from.
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I think it's safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever.
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Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity – David Scott
For several generations to come Stuart Hall’s voice will remain a key part of conversations on the left.
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Christopher Newfield
We talk a lot about the limits of critique. I’m more worried about the absence of critique. I mean institutional critique, including self-critique. That’s how professions get out of blind alleys and advance.
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Christopher Newfield (part 2)
University decline is like climate change. It has multiple causes... [and] each cause works slowly enough to allow most people to stay in denial about their effects.
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Last year on this date I claimed, "I think it’s safe to say that, at this moment, where we find ourselves now, we need good reggae more than ever." Plus ça change....
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Dana Villa
Like Max Weber, I think it’s dishonest and somewhat cheesy to use the lecture platform to voice one’s own political leanings. Students deserve better than to be harangued or have their liberal or conservative prejudices confirmed.
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Imani Perry
By virtue of being the child of a migrant, Lorraine Hansberry understood something deep about all these spaces that were supposed to be hopeful.
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Malcolm Harris
It’s fun to see people talk about revolution seriously, because they can’t imagine anything else anymore and it’s starting to enter the consciousness.
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A Marxist Education – Wayne Au
The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.
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Stanley Corngold
Did Congress know that as a result of Sputnik we were going to have a deconstruction-mad America?
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Tim Ingold
For me the great thing about anthropology – and the reason I remain an anthropologist – lies in this freedom that it grants its practitioners to roam intellectually.
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In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, "Enjoy Yourself, it's later than you think."
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Mark Doten
I wanted to create a situation that Trump would not be able to actually catch up to in reality.
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Kim Tolley
I think graduate students deserve the right to organize. So if I can help people understand that it’s not hard to start, I’ll feel very happy with this interview.
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Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
You really need to think strategically about how universities work, how they are trying to invest their capital, and then go after them on those grounds, and use our positionality as contingent academics to our advantage.
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