fredleept
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Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
I'm far closer to a Gramscian than an Afropessimist, but Frank Wilderson's "Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?" is one of the most original polemics I've read.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm far closer to a Gramscian than an Afropessimist, but Frank Wilderson's "Gramsci’s Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?" is one of the most original polemics I've read.
UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried. www.courant.com/2025/10/23/u...
UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried.
Union officials say they are looking for stronger protections for professors to be able to “teach, research, and express ideas freely.”
www.courant.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried. www.courant.com/2025/10/23/u...
Union organizer job in Las Vegas NV
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Feel free to contact Siyu HUANG [email protected] for more information
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
Feel free to contact Siyu HUANG [email protected] for more information
Organizer - CCEA : Nevada — Union Jobs Clearinghouse
Organizer - CCEA : Nevada — Union Jobs Clearinghouse
www.unionjobs.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Union organizer job in Las Vegas NV
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
Feel free to contact Siyu HUANG [email protected] for more information
www.unionjobs.com/listing.php?...
Feel free to contact Siyu HUANG [email protected] for more information
Fear of non-recognition for those without recognition; status anxiety for those with status. Fear and anxiety as "world making."
September 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Fear of non-recognition for those without recognition; status anxiety for those with status. Fear and anxiety as "world making."
There's no significant difference between doing tourist activities 50 vs 5000 miles away. Just passing through.
August 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
There's no significant difference between doing tourist activities 50 vs 5000 miles away. Just passing through.
In _The Dispossessed_, Shevek says that Urras is hell compared to Anarres and Keng replies that it is heaven compared to Earth. It's a great follow up on the perspectivism theme, as posed by the earlier question of "which is planet and which is satellite"?
August 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In _The Dispossessed_, Shevek says that Urras is hell compared to Anarres and Keng replies that it is heaven compared to Earth. It's a great follow up on the perspectivism theme, as posed by the earlier question of "which is planet and which is satellite"?
My superpower is reading books that academics only pretend to read
June 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My superpower is reading books that academics only pretend to read
All actions have consequences; some actions are meaningful; none of them occur as intended. All, some, none.
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
All actions have consequences; some actions are meaningful; none of them occur as intended. All, some, none.
Atro was the foremost living physicist on Urras. There was about him not only the dignity of age but also the blunt self-assurance of one accustomed to respect. This was nothing new to Shevek. Atro had precisely the one kind of authority that Shevek recognized. —Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
May 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Atro was the foremost living physicist on Urras. There was about him not only the dignity of age but also the blunt self-assurance of one accustomed to respect. This was nothing new to Shevek. Atro had precisely the one kind of authority that Shevek recognized. —Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
“It’s just a phase” isn’t an insult. It’s all just a phase. Some phases are just a lot longer than others.
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
“It’s just a phase” isn’t an insult. It’s all just a phase. Some phases are just a lot longer than others.
Not that it is the worst. Still, the feeling that this society is the best we can do is some mixture of arrogance and misanthropy.
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Not that it is the worst. Still, the feeling that this society is the best we can do is some mixture of arrogance and misanthropy.
Teaching that _confidence_ is more important than _competence_ (or more complexly that the only real competence is in the art/craft of confidence) is the premise of all con-games, public relations, and corporate marketing.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Teaching that _confidence_ is more important than _competence_ (or more complexly that the only real competence is in the art/craft of confidence) is the premise of all con-games, public relations, and corporate marketing.
There is not too much art being made. There is too little time to appreciate it.
April 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There is not too much art being made. There is too little time to appreciate it.
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In January's #ClassicsRevisited, we asked seven authors to reflect on the enduring significance of Iris Marion Young’s “Justice and the Politics of Difference”, first published in 1990. You can read all seven reflections & an introduction by Alyson Cole here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
Polity | Vol 57, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In January's #ClassicsRevisited, we asked seven authors to reflect on the enduring significance of Iris Marion Young’s “Justice and the Politics of Difference”, first published in 1990. You can read all seven reflections & an introduction by Alyson Cole here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
I was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It has not recently come to my attention that I have been living in a foreign country my entire life.
March 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. It has not recently come to my attention that I have been living in a foreign country my entire life.
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
-Bob Dylan
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
-Bob Dylan
March 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
-Bob Dylan
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
-Bob Dylan
Reposted by fredleept
This is a remarkable change: since Covid, an additional 5 million Americans report having a disability. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is a remarkable change: since Covid, an additional 5 million Americans report having a disability. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Everything is connected to everything. But it is not as if there were one string running through them all. The threads are invisible and infinite.
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Everything is connected to everything. But it is not as if there were one string running through them all. The threads are invisible and infinite.
The proliferation of post-apocalyptic fiction expresses both the “progressive” desire to see the end of this world and the “conservative” fear it will be even worse than this one.
March 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The proliferation of post-apocalyptic fiction expresses both the “progressive” desire to see the end of this world and the “conservative” fear it will be even worse than this one.
An unintentional positive outcome of Japanese imperialism ("the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere") is it destroyed the ludicrous ideal of "Asian unity" (which, e.g., Sun Yat-sen also flirted with).
February 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An unintentional positive outcome of Japanese imperialism ("the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere") is it destroyed the ludicrous ideal of "Asian unity" (which, e.g., Sun Yat-sen also flirted with).