It's a generous and at times catalogic presentation of resources –– journals, people, key interventions –– for those who want to pursue this topic further. Thanks to Ying Qian and Nicholas Bartlett for the opportunity!
It's classic Li Tuo –– full of provocations about how to think China's history after the Cultural Revolution, particularly the return (and rehabilitation) of the intellectual or specialist in economics and culture.
It has been a minute since I translated this Li Tuo interview ––glad that it made it to print!
read.dukeupress.edu/positions/ar...
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
he's right and he's right to say it
why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
🎙️ Join us on June 3 for Dr. Harlan Chambers’ talk: Guerrilla Practice and the Cultural Conjury of Cooperation in Wartime China (1937–1945). @harlanc.bsky.social
📍 Göttingen | Info: www.cemeas.de/event/lectur...
#CeMEAS #ChinaStudies #EastAsianStudies #GuerrillaHistory #PublicLecture
let’s go
today we all find out
one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier
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A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate
A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now
Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
Forget universities telling professors to keep quiet when their students are disappeared. Apparently, now universities will help disappear their own faculty…
Essays on Japanism*
Parts of Maggie Clinton’s book Revolutionary Nativism (fascism and modernist aesthetics in China) and essays and Japanism and aesthetics by Tosaka Jun
archive.org/details/Tosa...
Tressie McMillan Cottom in '21: "We make a case for tenure that sounds like 'I need tenure to do my research.' I don’t think that’s a resounding case. All workers shd have those protections & if we’re not making that an explicit claim we’re pt of the problem." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/acad...
Sorry I missed seeing you!
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.
There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.
It cannot be business as usual.
It’s time to strike.
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.
Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
read Columbia university's response in this piece. unforgivable. faculty there better be organizing a mass work stoppage. that's the least they can do at this point against a leadership that is willing to sell out their Palestinian students like this.
One month later this thread hits even harder
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
My article on amateur culture and socialism now out in Modern China (open access). It's a study of amateur cultural practices and their importance for efforts to reform rural Hunan in the 1950s, as well as bigger implications for China's socialist project.
doi.org/10.1177/0097...
#Sinology #lit
We all – workers, students, communities – must come together to defend our institutions and protect our local economies. Join us on Feb 13 for a National Strategy Call and Feb 19 for in-person actions across the country! More info: www.labor4highered.org
Solidarity. Have been floundering for 4 years now. It’s hell.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
