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Mary Craig
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Baseball and political theory, often simultaneously. See: Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America. (they/them)
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October 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The best thing about my book is that it's only 133 pages long!
Photo of a book with the title, "Touching Home: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America." The cover is a painting of an old timey baseball game.
September 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Hey, Google, I hate this!
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August 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Excited about this independent study I'm doing in the fall on why queer liberation is an essential part of the anti-colonial struggle.
The Capitalist Origins of the Nuclear Family August 26th: Introduction August 28th: Engels (Chs. I, II) September 2nd: Engels (III-VII) September 4th: Engels (VIII, IX, appendix) September 9th: M.E. O’Brien, Family Abolition, chs. 4, 6, & 7 (50 pgs) September 11th: Foucault, History of Sexuality, chs. 1 & 4 September 16th: Chitty, Sexual Hegemony, Introduction and Chapter 1 September 18th: Chitty, Chapter 4 September 23rd: Chitty, Chapter 5 September 25th: Chitty, Chapter 6 September 30th: PAPER PLANNING The Nuclear Family as a Colonial Tool October 2nd: M.E. O’Brien, chs. 5, 8&9 October 7th: Peter Drucker, “Fordism and Gay Identity” in Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism October 9th: Richard Phillips, “Settler Colonialism and the Nuclear Family” October 14th: No class October 16th: No class October 21st: Haley McEwen, “Inventing Family: Colonial Knowledge Politics of ‘Family’ and the Coloniality of ‘Pro-family’ Activism in Africa” AND “Nuclear Power: The Family in Decolonial Perspective and ‘Pro-Family’ Politics in Africa” October 23rd: Julia Huysamer and Louise du Toit, “Non-Binary Gender and African Personhood?” October 28th: Maria Lugones, “Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System” October 30th: Rahul Rao, Out of Time, “Queer in the Time of Homocapitalism” November 4th: Jules Gill-Peterson, “The Global Trans Panic” in A Short History of Trans Misogyny November 6th: PAPER PLANNING Queer Alternatives to the Nuclear Family November 11th: Sophie Lewis, “A Potted History of Family Abolitionism” in Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation November 13th: M.E. O’Brien, chs. 10&11 November 18th: M.E. O’Brien, chs. 12, 13, conclusion November 20th: No class November 25th: Walaa Alqaisiya, “Towards Radical Self-Determination” November 27th: Thanksgiving December 2nd: Cuban Family Code December 4th: REVIEW December 9th: REVIEW
August 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Just got the final page proofs for this baby. We're almost at the finish line.
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August 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I do love a little bit of Marcuse from time to time.
Excerpt from Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man: Late industrial society has increased rather than decreased the need for parasitical and alienated functions (for the society as a whole, if not for the individual). Advertising, public relations, indoctrination, planned obsolescence are no longer unproductive overhead costs but rather elements of basic production costs. In order to be effective, such production of socially necessary waste requires continuous rationalization - the relentless utilization of advanced techniques and science. Consequently, a rising standard of living is the almost unavoidable by-product of the politically manipulated industrial society, once a certain level of backwardness has been overcome. The growing productivity of labour creates an increasing surplus-product which, whether privately or centrally appropriated and dis-tributed, allows an increased consumption - notwithstanding the increased diversion of productivity. As long as this constellation prevails, it reduces the use-value of freedom; there is no reason to insist on self-determination if the administered life is the comfortable and even the "good" life. This is the rational and material ground for the unification of opposites, for one-dimensional political behaviour. On this ground, the transcending political forces within society are arrested, and qualitative change appears possible only as a change from without.
July 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM