Philip Barnard
@philipb1793.bsky.social
Plus on est debout, plus on rit
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It is a shame that Brazil’s judges are so activist that none of them stepped in to change the laws for Jair Bolsonaro.
by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)
by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It is a shame that Brazil’s judges are so activist that none of them stepped in to change the laws for Jair Bolsonaro.
by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)
by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)
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American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
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We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Podcast sur le dernier livre de mon frère Timothy. Dans le podcast de Julie Moulin à propos de Singapour, "Marcher entre les lignes":
shows.acast.com/6646d2528bf9...
shows.acast.com/6646d2528bf9...
Singaporean Creatures sous la direction de Timothy Barnard - Histoire des humains et autres animaux dans la ville-jardin. | Marcher entre les lignes (à Singapour)
Singapour, une ville dans la nature
shows.acast.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Podcast sur le dernier livre de mon frère Timothy. Dans le podcast de Julie Moulin à propos de Singapour, "Marcher entre les lignes":
shows.acast.com/6646d2528bf9...
shows.acast.com/6646d2528bf9...
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Ma vulgarisation de Jameson sous forme de one-woman show est désormais en ligne sur le site des Armes de la critique :
- sous forme de notes, si vous êtes du genre "visuel";
- sous forme de podcast, pour les "auditifs". Inclus : de véritables rires enregistrés.🥁🎤
adlc.hypotheses.org/17667
- sous forme de notes, si vous êtes du genre "visuel";
- sous forme de podcast, pour les "auditifs". Inclus : de véritables rires enregistrés.🥁🎤
adlc.hypotheses.org/17667
Fredric Jameson, penseur marxiste de la fiction
Alice de CharentenayLundi 20 octobre 2025 à 18h30 Salle des résistants, 45 rue d’Ulm, 1er étage, couloir AB. Mort en septembre 2024, Fredric Jameson était le plus grand penseur marxiste américain de l...
adlc.hypotheses.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ma vulgarisation de Jameson sous forme de one-woman show est désormais en ligne sur le site des Armes de la critique :
- sous forme de notes, si vous êtes du genre "visuel";
- sous forme de podcast, pour les "auditifs". Inclus : de véritables rires enregistrés.🥁🎤
adlc.hypotheses.org/17667
- sous forme de notes, si vous êtes du genre "visuel";
- sous forme de podcast, pour les "auditifs". Inclus : de véritables rires enregistrés.🥁🎤
adlc.hypotheses.org/17667
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Si vous voulez avoir une présentation résumée très honnête des "Structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines" (Editions La Découverte), écoutez ceci sur ArteRadio. Merci à eux !
audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/258309/...
audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/258309/...
Audioblog | Bernard Lahire : Les structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines
Les sciences sociales sont-elles condamnées à accumuler les enquêtes sans jamais dégager de lois générales ? Bernard Lahire refuse cette impasse. Avec son projet monumental, il cherche à unifier nos s...
audioblog.arteradio.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Si vous voulez avoir une présentation résumée très honnête des "Structures fondamentales des sociétés humaines" (Editions La Découverte), écoutez ceci sur ArteRadio. Merci à eux !
audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/258309/...
audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/258309/...
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Nouvelle édition de la traduction française de Richard Hoggart - 33 Newport Street
Autobiographie d’un intellectuel issu des classes populaires anglaises
Vient de paraître chez Hors d'atteinte
Autobiographie d’un intellectuel issu des classes populaires anglaises
Vient de paraître chez Hors d'atteinte
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nouvelle édition de la traduction française de Richard Hoggart - 33 Newport Street
Autobiographie d’un intellectuel issu des classes populaires anglaises
Vient de paraître chez Hors d'atteinte
Autobiographie d’un intellectuel issu des classes populaires anglaises
Vient de paraître chez Hors d'atteinte
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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The Humboldtian research university ideal, as a child of centrist liberals redrafting of the early modern four faculties towards disciplinary specialization, is over.
A product of liberalism as dominant it could not survive liberalism's collapse, even as a revenant.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
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A product of liberalism as dominant it could not survive liberalism's collapse, even as a revenant.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
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"Wealthy people are shaping higher education…to tilt campuses rightward. The president and his allies have pursued an aggressive campaign to realize their vision. The campaign is accelerating”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Humboldtian research university ideal, as a child of centrist liberals redrafting of the early modern four faculties towards disciplinary specialization, is over.
A product of liberalism as dominant it could not survive liberalism's collapse, even as a revenant.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
1/
A product of liberalism as dominant it could not survive liberalism's collapse, even as a revenant.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
1/
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“If there is any story at all to the whole nihilistic affair, it’s the atrophy of American art over the past half-century…It’s not art — just a more eccentric version of stock trading.”
Does “America” merely symptomatize, or does it render this thinkable?
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
Does “America” merely symptomatize, or does it render this thinkable?
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
hyperallergic.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“If there is any story at all to the whole nihilistic affair, it’s the atrophy of American art over the past half-century…It’s not art — just a more eccentric version of stock trading.”
Does “America” merely symptomatize, or does it render this thinkable?
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
Does “America” merely symptomatize, or does it render this thinkable?
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
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Today is Primidi the 1st of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate rampion.#JacobinDay
More information on rampion
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate rampion.#JacobinDay
More information on rampion
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Primidi the 1st of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate rampion.#JacobinDay
More information on rampion
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate rampion.#JacobinDay
More information on rampion
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
All scholars should sign this petition; a very small gesture to say no to neoliberal vandalism in higher education
c.org/PF466Sz9vv
c.org/PF466Sz9vv
We Can Make an Impact.
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
c.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
All scholars should sign this petition; a very small gesture to say no to neoliberal vandalism in higher education
c.org/PF466Sz9vv
c.org/PF466Sz9vv
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www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
For those outside the UK, the Nottingham program was widely considered to be the pre-eminent one to train Americanists.
Ending this program would sound a death-knell for an entire field's history in the UK.
For those outside the UK, the Nottingham program was widely considered to be the pre-eminent one to train Americanists.
Ending this program would sound a death-knell for an entire field's history in the UK.
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
For those outside the UK, the Nottingham program was widely considered to be the pre-eminent one to train Americanists.
Ending this program would sound a death-knell for an entire field's history in the UK.
For those outside the UK, the Nottingham program was widely considered to be the pre-eminent one to train Americanists.
Ending this program would sound a death-knell for an entire field's history in the UK.
Lahire, à propos de la manie évaluatrice dans les systèmes d’éducation:
www.page-educ.fr/article/eval...
www.page-educ.fr/article/eval...
Page ÉDUC’
Laissez-vous guider par les libraires. Les coups de foudre des libraires indépendants sur l’actualité littéraire dans une revue de 176 pages, six fois par an.
www.page-educ.fr
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Lahire, à propos de la manie évaluatrice dans les systèmes d’éducation:
www.page-educ.fr/article/eval...
www.page-educ.fr/article/eval...
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.
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Mamdani is going to impose Sha Na Na law. Everyone will be forced to wear gold lamé, have pompadour haircuts, and go to the hop
Mamdani is going to impose shangri-la law. Everyone will be blindfolded and forced to play Marco Polo
Mamdani gonna implement Shaaloani law. All disputes settled via shootout duels using non-lethal rounds with all the authenticity of a spaghetti western directed by Japanese anime enthusiasts.
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Mamdani is going to impose Sha Na Na law. Everyone will be forced to wear gold lamé, have pompadour haircuts, and go to the hop
