William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸
@marxinhell.bsky.social
Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
Op-eds for those who cannot expect to get published in the NYT or the Post.
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Op-eds for those who cannot expect to get published in the NYT or the Post.
It is! Especially the closing bit.
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 AM
It is! Especially the closing bit.
When I first saw this going around I was worried that people were taking an obvious but of satire for a sincere news report. Ah, well...
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
When I first saw this going around I was worried that people were taking an obvious but of satire for a sincere news report. Ah, well...
Completely unhinged country
January 7, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Completely unhinged country
And, if you can forgive self self-promotion, I wrote a long essay that tries to explain Althusser's conception and where it comes from in the history of Ideology theory: www.boundary2.org/2024/05/will...
William Clare Roberts–Ideology and Self-Emancipation: Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness, and the Career of Critical Social Theory
This article has been peer-reviewed for boundary 2 online. A response to this article can be viewed here. William Clare Roberts--Ideology and self-emancipation: Voluntary servitude, false consciousne...
www.boundary2.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
And, if you can forgive self self-promotion, I wrote a long essay that tries to explain Althusser's conception and where it comes from in the history of Ideology theory: www.boundary2.org/2024/05/will...
Do you know Goran Therborn's The Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power? Not Althusser exegesis, but definitely the best development of his basic ideas on interpellation.
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Do you know Goran Therborn's The Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power? Not Althusser exegesis, but definitely the best development of his basic ideas on interpellation.
Watched half of season one with my mom, who was an ER nurse for a few years. She was very impressed with its realism.
January 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Watched half of season one with my mom, who was an ER nurse for a few years. She was very impressed with its realism.
Can't tell if you're being sincere or sarcastic. In case it is the latter: a ceasefire doesn't change the nature of Israel's relation to the Palestinian people, or the fact that Israeli universities cooperate fully with the apartheid regime and the ethnic cleansing.
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Can't tell if you're being sincere or sarcastic. In case it is the latter: a ceasefire doesn't change the nature of Israel's relation to the Palestinian people, or the fact that Israeli universities cooperate fully with the apartheid regime and the ethnic cleansing.
Genuinely curious whether there have been any boycott votes so lopsided among faculty?
Literally: some opponents (4 or 5) walked out, trying to break the quorum, but we had the quorum all by ourselves, so...
Literally: some opponents (4 or 5) walked out, trying to break the quorum, but we had the quorum all by ourselves, so...
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Genuinely curious whether there have been any boycott votes so lopsided among faculty?
Literally: some opponents (4 or 5) walked out, trying to break the quorum, but we had the quorum all by ourselves, so...
Literally: some opponents (4 or 5) walked out, trying to break the quorum, but we had the quorum all by ourselves, so...