Today's event is in full swing as panelist members, including @paulnadal.bsky.social, Marlene Kim, and David Shuang Song, are discussing the relationship between Asian American studies and Marxism. #ucberkeleyissi
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Iconic pic—captures America in 2025 perfectly
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student working conditions are student learning conditions
"To give away yourself keeps yourself still" Shakespeare, Sonnet 16
Interpretation does not seize upon what it finds valid as truth. Yet it knows that w/out the light it tracks in the texts there would be no truth. This tinges interpretation with a sorrow wholly unsuspected by the assertion of meaning & frantically denied by an insistence on what is the case -Adorno
Be on the cutting edge of scholarship (in academic time) by acquiring my five-year-old monograph that one reviewer criticized for having too many footnotes. Currently 40% off @hopkinspress.bsky.social with code HHOL24. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.... "At its [1968] inception, Asian American was an idea of political affinity routed through a marriage of national liberation and communist politics, most directly through Maoism." Cynthia Gao in latest issue of Theory & Event
The advance reading copies of TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY: WRITING AS AN OTHER have arrived. Forthcoming in April 2025 from @harvardpress. I’m sure if you really want to review this, Harvard University Press will send one.