Adam Goldfarb
@adamgoldfarb.bsky.social
he/him
Apprentice economic sociologist @ NC State
charisma, crime, culture, networks, masculinity, organizations, theory
comparative historical and computational methods
adamjgoldfarb.github.io
Apprentice economic sociologist @ NC State
charisma, crime, culture, networks, masculinity, organizations, theory
comparative historical and computational methods
adamjgoldfarb.github.io
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Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
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they’re going to make everything gay (optimistic)
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
they’re going to make everything gay (optimistic)
Everything is contingent and dynamic. No substances here.
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Everything is contingent and dynamic. No substances here.
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Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense.
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
If/when Democrats regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
Again, because the 9 Wizards In Robes, of both parties, believe they & SCOTUS are entitled by God to be an all-powerful Super-legislature, adding seats (& slashing the clerks/building budget, & making them ride the circuit, etc.) has now become the only serious “moderate” & “pro-democracy” position.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense.
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:
Vulgar Marxists eat your heart out.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Vulgar Marxists eat your heart out.
defined by such symbolic properties as those that make up the lifestyle, constitutes yet another form, just as fictitious, of this alternative between objectivism and subjectivism." - Bourdieu, Symbolic capital and social classes, 294
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
defined by such symbolic properties as those that make up the lifestyle, constitutes yet another form, just as fictitious, of this alternative between objectivism and subjectivism." - Bourdieu, Symbolic capital and social classes, 294
What happened to noblesse oblige?
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What happened to noblesse oblige?
The latter is stingy, while the former is noble because he spends all that he has, joyfully, and because he is drowning in debt." Georges Duby, Hommes et structures du Moyen Âge, 1973
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The latter is stingy, while the former is noble because he spends all that he has, joyfully, and because he is drowning in debt." Georges Duby, Hommes et structures du Moyen Âge, 1973
"To distinguish yourself from villeins, you must outclass them by showing that you are more generous than they are. The testimony of literature is conclusive on this point: what opposes the knight to the upstart?
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"To distinguish yourself from villeins, you must outclass them by showing that you are more generous than they are. The testimony of literature is conclusive on this point: what opposes the knight to the upstart?
A truly posh cinephile...
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A truly posh cinephile...