#Emancipatory

The telos of art has been lost, and for this reason--the loss of purpose--we also find it impossible to define art. On reflection, does "art for the sake of art"
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Doing science, and especially social science, is a political act. Researchers are in unique positions of power. We make choices about what sorts of science to do, what aspects of
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Here's a thread, written while ago, hadn't published. Relevant now bc overemphasis of *liberal* identity politics on representation rather than material change, was *factor* in another temaNote that this's as
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"Inclusive research practice is both a moral obligation and a practical imperative"So delighted to share this new paper, written with @Kabieuk @scrappapertiger @MxOolong and @cjcrompton Watch out: gif-heavy thread coming
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When I was 14, I had to take a class at Hebrew School about Hasbara, it went through various arguments about Israel & how to rebut them. 1 topic I
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Austere ThoughtSome personal notes on the decline of the university and my decision to leave it. 1/ I've been employed as a tenure-track assistant professor of art for the last
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should i even do it...all right let's do it. https://twitter.com/ProleLumpen/status/1250256775741239296 A thread of @lausanhk articles that have called out anti-Mainland xenophobia among Hongkongers and Hong Kong protesters, from August 2019
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The historical record is clear when it comes to PAP electioneering. In particular, the party has reliably resorted to character assassinations, logical & rhetorical fallacies, & McCarthyite accusations. Shanmugam's double-down
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One dynamic i really love on Twitter Person: The Holocaust happened & is badLeft Twitter: wow i guess you don’t care about other genocides? It’s not even the worst one.
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As Indigenous, Black, people of color in education, we have powerful stories to tell. In community, we gather this month to tell those stories—our stories—and invite you to listen, reflect,
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Something new on #Kant and his #racism getting play on twitter. I couldn't abide another without comment. I have a few things to say about Kant's racism and racial theory
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0/After two decades from birth of the #openmovement, #Open is still a paradox: it represents a challenge to and a concentration of power. @creativecommons @Wikimedia @OKFN @mozilla @edri @internetarchive @communia_eu
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"Milestones" by Sayyid Qutb - A thread.This, if you'll excuse the metaphor, is the Bible of political Islam. Originally published in 1964 as Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, it is the enduring
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There is an irresolvable contradiction between the well being of workers in the imperial core in the Global North & the Global South, and between any kind of productivism &
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Between the absolutely diabolic things screeched at Grace Lavery for being excited about womb transplants and the pushback to Detransition, Baby being nominated for the Women's Prize For Fiction...... trans
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My friends, these are perilous times; we find certain styles of thinking, certain ideas, certain opinions which were commonplace and accepted in our living memory have now been so stigmatized
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