A long time ago, I wrote of my admiration for TNC’s remarkable willingness to learn and change even as I was critical of his USian habits of thought. Deeply glad to see his capacious imagination enlarged by Palestine:
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This is my town, Asheville, NC, supposedly a climate change refuge. The former gas station is half a mile from my house. We have no running water, likely weeks before it's restored. Most are without power. This is the climate apocalypse in real time. It's coming for all of us.
Is there any use to self-describing one’s self as a “heterodox Marxist”? I’ve never met a living orthodox Marxist.
TSA agent (Denver airport): LAPTOPS OUT OF THE BAG, STUPID ALIEN! TSA agent (Austin airport): YOUR STUPID LAPTOP STAYS IN YOUR BAG!
The Russian pronunciation of Vladimir Lenin is far trickier than I expected.
I haven’t read Crooked Timber in years so took a peek today. Now, my expectations were low, but it’s still shocking how appalling it’s been on Palestine.
“I feel like you have two books in this essay” is pretty much the one irrefutable response that any peer reviewer can tell an academic no matter the field.
A zoomer couldn’t possibly give more of a “smh” energy than Jean-Luc Nancy’s devastating response to Agamben’s COVID denialism.
