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Association for Political Theory @associationpt.bsky.social · 23d

This year's conference is fast approaching! Today, we want to highlight APT's Standing Committee on Mentorship and Professional Development's new workshop at this year’s conference in Chicago. On Saturday, November 8th at 11am, come join us at “How to Get Into Public-Facing Writing."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 22

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson @verena-erlenbusch.bsky.social · Aug 14

Political Theory has a new format, the state of the field essay, and Kevin Duong is kicking things off with a terrific essay on Decolonization and World Order. Check it out!

Decolonization and World Order - Kevin Duong, 2025

Where does new work on decolonization stand in relation to preceding work on empire and postcolonial theory? In what circumstances should we situate decolonizat...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 28

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Jul 27

In May 2024, "Clinton said students who oppose Israel's policies in Gaza and the West Bank 'don't know very much.'"

"Clinton and a number of European leaders are speaking out now because Israel has already 'carried out their final solution.'"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

At Eleventh Hour, Enablers of Israel's Mass Starvation of Gaza Do 'Reputational Damage Control' | Common Dreams

U.S. and European leaders shift rhetoric, call for humanitarian aid. Gaza in famine, children at risk. Will the U.S. continue to support Israel's actions? #EndTheBlockade #FreePalestine

www.commondreams.org

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jul 25

thank you!

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jul 14

There was so much I wanted to discuss in more detail, but it's already at 36 pages. In the end, the essay reflects my own narrow intellectual formation. I hope it's helpful to others interested in what political theorists are droning on about.

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jul 14

I wrote an idiosyncratic snapshot of the state of political theory. Basically, I don't think the study of decolonization grows out of postcolonial theory. It's the intellectual afterlife of the global financial crisis and the protest decade that followed.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Jul 10

i thought the vibe felt particularly evil in the neighborhood today

Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · Jul 10

this motherfucker

Netanyahu to visit Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic home, in ‘special gesture’ from Trump

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Association for Political Theory @associationpt.bsky.social · Jul 8

On July 23, join APT from 12-2pm EDT for a virtual summer panel on navigating the political theory job market w/ @kdpham.bsky.social, Pinar Kemerli, and @kyebarker.bsky.social.

All are welcome - membership encouraged but not required. Register here for the zoom link: albany.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: APT Summer Panel: Navigating the Political Theory Job Market. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The Association for Political Theory is hosting its annual summer workshop on Navigating the Political Theory Job Market! The aim of the workshop will be to provide guidance, advice, and tips that...

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · May 18

The sixth issue of Parapraxis, on "Resistance," is going to become available for tomorrow for pre-order. Support our work by subscribing.

Parapraxis Issue 06: Resistance — Parapraxis

Now available for pre-order. Copies will ship in July. In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysi...

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 18

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jan 19

Friends of community psychoanalysis, please consider signing the following petition. Santé Quebec is unilaterally closing the "388" in Quebec City, one of the few institutions designed for psychoanalytic treatment of psychotics. It's been around 1982 and is a monumental institution.
t.co/gDdTY419wC

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-the-388-and-preserve-treatment-options-for-mental-health?source=direct_link&

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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · Jan 17

The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...

Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA

Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · Dec 30

Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

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Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social · Nov 25

Announcing:

A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, a three-day symposium at UC Berkeley, co-organizeed with Ramsey McGlazer.

March 20-22. In-person.

More info & registration here:
thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events/

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Nov 18

Parapraxis and the Psychosocial Foundation are growing. New clinical work (!!), refreshed website, the usual extra-academic seminars, etc. Hannah Z, Alex C, etc. are working their butts off. It's changed my life to have them around. If you feel the same, please subscribe.

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Nov 15

there's no link but if you send me a DM I can email you my pdf scan

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Nov 14

Oldie but a goodie, students still love hating it in class: "the original and paradoxical contradiction of capitalism—a form that, on the one hand, develops sublime sentiments and on the other, represses and irritates them, thus preparing a psychological misery as intense as the misery of desire."

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Ben Platt @bravohotelpapa.bsky.social · Oct 29

“We make our community,” Kristin Ross insists, “by defending it.”

Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Oct 29

For Public Books, I wrote on life in the Hudson Valley, the ZAD in France, the agrarian Left, and Freud. It's a review of Kristin Ross's latest book, THE COMMUNE FORM, published recently by Verso. If you’re looking for a long read for distraction, check it out. www.publicbooks.org/how-to-build...

How to Build a Wonder of the World

We notice the commune form whenever and wherever people grasp, against all odds, that what matters is life.

www.publicbooks.org

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Nov 11

Yeah, at the gym in Charlottesville. I just assumed I was misreading it, it was so bewildering. But it's crystal clear.

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Nov 11

Today, first time seeing guys wearing Southern Rhodesia shirts around in public. I knew this was a thing but hadn't actually seen it yet.

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Oct 29

For Public Books, I wrote on life in the Hudson Valley, the ZAD in France, the agrarian Left, and Freud. It's a review of Kristin Ross's latest book, THE COMMUNE FORM, published recently by Verso. If you’re looking for a long read for distraction, check it out. www.publicbooks.org/how-to-build...

How to Build a Wonder of the World

We notice the commune form whenever and wherever people grasp, against all odds, that what matters is life.

www.publicbooks.org

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis is organizing an event on "Psychoanalysis as Social Criticism" on Aug 25. Ft. two great analysts, Betty Teng and Jyoti Rao, + me. 100% proceeds go to Palestine Legal, Asian Health Services, and Asian Women Giving Circle
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TAACP

The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · Jan 9

"psychoanalysis deserves to be communal luxury" -- in Parapraxis, @ktduong.bsky.social on the Lafargue Clinic in Harlem. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bro...

Broke Psychoanalysis — Parapraxis

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Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social · Jan 10

!! Longer treatment of the comics stuff in the book chapter version. Kind of incredible, wrong, fascinating, brilliant stuff in turn...

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