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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3h

« On se fait toujours des idées exagérées de ce que l'on ne connaît pas. » – Albert Camus

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 4h

*youth pastor voice*: You know who else was labeled an insurrectionist even though he was innocent

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4h

“And without walls, we will storm the gates of hell, and not be afraid.”

Without Walls, by Carl-Eric Tangen

from the album Incarnation Hymns

cetangen.bandcamp.com

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 6h

New acquisitions.

Three books on a table in Ann Arbor, outside.

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 7h

I worry about students’ ability to produce and interrogate arguments. I’m finding that many students simply have not learned *any* metaphors to describe their writing processes. It’s not so much about claims, evidence, and reasoning. It’s more about a widespread deficiency in critical thinking.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 7h

Modern people cannot fully suppress the sacred. It returns in distorted or violent forms when denied. Total rationalization or utilitarian order only drives the sacred underground, where it reemerges as fascism.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

it's about to become legal literally everywhere in the United States for a parent to have their child tortured until they describe sexual desires that accord with what that parent wants. it will be illegal for any state to protect children from that

parental feelings are not something I care about

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

J’ai bien rigolé.

“Emmanuel Macron va cacher 5 tickets d'or permettant à un Français de devenir Premier ministre.” – Le Gorafi

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

I was on C. Derick Varn’s podcast to talk about the Iranian diaspora and the left!

Varn Vlog: Keanu Heydari on the Paradoxes of the Left and Iranian Diaspora

YouTube video by C. Derick Varn

youtu.be

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

Come from the four winds, O Spirit, come, breath of God; disperse the shadows over us, renew and strengthen your people. Veni, Sancte Spiritus.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

"Barth’s theology of the “happening” of God, therefore, is neither a denial of reason nor an appeal to mystical immediacy. It is an epistemological revolution grounded in an actualist grammar."

Karl Barth, ‘Happening,’ and an Actualist Ontology of God

“Es ist geschehen — und es geschieht”

keanuheydari.substack.com

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Esssntial post-structuralist viewing.

Right-Wing Wellness Influencers Want You to Die

YouTube video by Alexander Avila

youtu.be

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

This year is not demure, so unmindful.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Read the last post in the thread. That’s what I’m concerned about.

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

When Liu calls data science “a fractal replicant of the liberal arts,” I see the opposite of rupture—it’s the perfection of discipline. The university no longer teaches freedom; it governs through metrics and efficiency, through the algorithmic promise of self-optimization.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

I read Liu’s “post-liberal arts” thesis differently. Data science isn’t a break from the liberal arts but their evolution as a power/knowledge regime. The university still forms subjects, just now through data, optimization, and self-surveillance instead of reason.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Liu argues that as data science spreads through every discipline, it mimics the liberal arts’ ideal of a well-rounded education but empties it of its moral and epistemic core. What emerges, they say, is a “post-liberal arts” grounded in applied, predictive knowledge.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Alan Liu, a digital humanities scholar at UC Santa Barbara, asks in Critical Inquiry whether “data science” has replaced the liberal arts as the model for higher education in the U.S. The essay probes what they call “the post-liberal arts university.”

Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4

Abstract Data science has grown explosively in higher education, offering undergraduate degrees in the US on a “core and domains” curricular model that overlaps with—and in an intriguing way—replicate...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

my politics

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

It’s all well and good to dispense with metaphysics. It’s preferable, in fact, to believe what the scientists say. But ask yourself: do you want to live in a graceless world? Do you want to live in a community defined by hatred, resentment, and a lack of forgiveness?

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

Human opposition arises only because grace has already shone into the world. The “old aeon” persists by pretending that the new one has not dawned. Sin is the lie that the old world still defines reality, the illusion that humanity can live autonomously rather than dependently.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

The human will projects its own autonomy into divinity, fashioning an idol of self-contained sovereignty. Our resistance to grace is the primordial root of all myth, the imagination’s effort to make sense of the world without grace, to speak about God and existence apart from the revelation of love.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

“Belief in God” is not the priority of Christian theology. From the human perspective, the most important task is unmasking our hatred of grace. Many desire a god who is self-sufficient, detached, loveless—an aseitic God who mirrors human pride and self-enclosure.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, according to their website, the orange is the only flavor that comes in zero sugar. I do love grape Fanta though.

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

Much to my dismay, and so much the worse for me, I have learned that Fanta makes a zero sugar version of its famous orange beverage. Tastes basically the same as the full-sugar one. God help me.

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