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Eli Zaretsky on the attention economy:
'It allows us to distance ourselves from the relentless onward march of artificial intelligence without nostalgia or Luddite prejudice.'
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🇧🇴 Forrest Hylton, profesor de Historia en la escuela de posgrado de la Universidade Federal da Bahía, presenta en este texto la crónica minuciosa de los levantamientos en curso en Bolivia 👇
✍️ Publicado originalmente en inglés en Sidecar de la @NewLeftReview, puedes leerlo en castellano en @RevistaAntagon la revista de crítica y coyuntura de @CanalRed_TVantagon.red/articulo/america…
Eli Zaretsky on the attention economy:
'It allows us to distance ourselves from the relentless onward march of artificial intelligence without nostalgia or Luddite prejudice.'
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Forrest Hylton on the Bolivian uprising:
'In power for just six months, the government of Bolivia’s centre-right president Rodrigo Paz Pereira hangs in the balance.'
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Interesante análisis de Nancy Fraser sobre el significado de 'Gaza' como crisis del orden moral occidental que "compite con 'Auschwitz' como símbolo reinante de la atrocidad humana" pero también contiene "un principio de esperanza".
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Photos app, evidenced below, reminds me that it's 5 years to the day since I wrote this extremely knackering @NewLeftReview piece on the Yale critic J Hillis Miller w/ thoughts on his confrères, the letters B,H,S D, and discipleship to Poulet and Derrida
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Huda Awan on the work of Christine Kozlov:
'If one impetus of Kozlov’s art was to document, another was to undermine or efface the results of that process.'
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Pranab Bardhan on corruption in India and the US:
'Adani has shrewdly discerned the transactional attitude of the Trump administration. Meanwhile at home in India, he can be sure that there will be no official investigation.'
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Ho-fung Hung on the persistence of dollar hegemony (@hofunghung):
'Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces...'
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Such a good read from @LJFinlayson on universities, if depressing. I’ve long thought they were one of the last spaces of potential dissent - at least at the level of ideas - and hated by the neoliberals for it. Btw I defo think it’s a sign of weakness!
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Lorna Finlayson (@LJFinlayson) on academics and the plight of higher education:
'The uncomfortable truth is that academics have been complicit, and often instrumental, in bringing about the present predicament.'
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In NLR 158: Western Promises.
Thomas Meaney reviews Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises: the end of the Cold War as a contest to impose capital’s discipline, East and West.
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Dylan Riley (@DylanRiley6216) on comparing Marx and Weber:
‘A general lesson is contained here: standpoints are politico-epistemological achievements, not unmediated expressions of social being.’
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Dylan Riley (@DylanRiley6216) on comparing Marx and Weber:
‘A general lesson is contained here: standpoints are politico-epistemological achievements, not unmediated expressions of social being.’
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Lorna Finlayson for Sidecar (@LJFinlayson):
‘That the government doesn’t care if the university dies – and is in fact working actively to hasten its demise – is clear.’
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Grey Anderson on Massie's loss in Kentucky:
'Today the Israel lobby operates in comparatively embattled circumstances, obliged on occasion to substitute financial firepower for consent it can no longer reliably command'.
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