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Jordan S. Carroll

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Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right Hugo winner Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB Opinions my own, tomorrow belongs to everyone

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · Apr 27

you can purchase Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right directly from my publisher here

Speculative Whiteness

Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...

www.upress.umn.edu

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 48m

maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't the change be evaluated in advance? we do all kinds of things to prevent ourselves from becoming the kind of person who would want to do things we find unethical. we cultivate virtue, go to therapy, etc. the pill experiment only obscures that fact.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22h

sometimes as soon as you pick out the album on your phone you know you’re setting yourself up to glower through that walk

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 22h

The best thing about taking a walk is engaging in morbid introspection and negative self-talk for an hour and still getting to call it exercise.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 23h

it's surprising how often in the English Civil War they invoked the idea of public safety. any tyrant who threatened the safety of the people could be overthrown. something to think about.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 1d

roleplaying game set in the world of single-panel gag cartoons. character classes: psychiatrist, talking dog, caveman, child (precocious), child (creepy), desert island survivor.

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 1d

“For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he.” Thomas Rainborough

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2d

A really cool thing you can do for your family is have a detailed conversation about your end of life wishes, with a very clear advance directive, long before you think you'll need it. And also to have a hospice consult EARLY, again, before you need it, so it's in place when you do.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Talk about someone who deserves to fail because he spends all his time patting himself on the back, that’s Moldbug telling on himself

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 2d

we’re in the middle of a fascist crackdown on leftist speech, and Curtis Yarvin is moaning, “look at me, I’m so afwaid of what my enemies will do to me if we don’t crush them.“ the only thing Menshies is in danger of is another fawning profile from the capitalist press

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Did anyone else just watch the finale for Love Island Games?

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

your 30s are going to be defined by life events rather than arbitrary numbers on the calendar. don’t get hung up about ages.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

a while back I received racist hate mail from someone calling themself some variation on "Moon Man," so it's extra bizarre to see my taxpayer dollars going to Neo-Nazi "Mac Tonight" propaganda

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 3d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

if I hadn't included in this citation that the publisher was based in New York you'd be so lost right now

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 3d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

ideology is saying that we're living under a fascist regime but then never considering the obvious consequences of that statement

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

I think we are going to see a lot of people radicalized by events in the coming weeks or months and the productive response won't be to sneer at them for not attaining political consciousness sooner

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4d

"Photos of the aftermath show toys and shoes littering the apartment hallways, evidence of those pulled from their beds by the operation that included FBI and Homeland Security agents."

'Military-Style' ICE Raid In Chicago Shows Escalation in Tactics

Witnesses said children were taken from their homes unclothed and separated from their parents during the raid.

time.com

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4d

reading about the run-up to the English Civil War and thinking, "oh, yeah, I kind of know what all this feels like"

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4d

same as it ever was

"Our minds, the old soldier Barnaby Rich declared in 1617, ' are effeminated, our martial exercises and disciplines of war are turned into womanish pleasures and delights ... we are fitter for a coach than a camp.' Ten years later Englishmen were still being urged to share off their 'soft effeminacy and wantonness.'" Underdown, A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4d

I'm looking more for the origins of the split rather than later history.

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 4d

does anyone have good sources from a Marxist / materialist perspective on the history of the left-right split in politics?

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