danielle @_danielle_carr Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

danielle

6 months

I went on one of my favorite podcasts, odd lots, to talk about the recent rise of adderall and what this means for emerging forms of labor

Joe Weisenthal

@TheStalwart

6 months

NEW ODD LOTS: How American Workers Got Hooked on Adderall @tracyalloway and I had a blast getting to talk to @_danielle_carr about what this popular drug actually does. And the historical and market forces that turned it into a workforce staple.

57

78

554

14

24

262

Last Seen Profiles

@kpopperpv

@bxbmfss

@MCxBIBIE

@DisandChels

@jayle_b

@WMRine

@ValeMeadows

@djdsjjd2828

@ocaignorante

@sshowcnu

@yorkshirecurl

@Tranby_school

@JoBrady24

@WirtjRosa

@Caio_Storskyns

@shri2706

@bokeplokalmalam

@LeZukunft

@HotMom777

@yapxiang

@psaepop

@RogerDiaz28

@veeperror

@Mirai_Kamisaki

@miickxxi

@sunflouwrgirl

@HerbertSovula

@HONMONO_REY

@bpdstucky

@boomerloo

@bw_namfon

@official_cheone

@olibeyo_sb15

@PlymouthEDTV

@PHLYGarganoShow

@MailiHolt

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

I asked the guy at bibis bakery if I should get the tuna melt or the hummus plate and he goes “well, they’re very different meals. If you’re that confused, I don’t know how to advise you.”

108

2K

57K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

10 months

My 23 year old sister keeps saying that all of my crushes are “OK GO coded.” Which, as you can imagine, is hurtful.

43

342

12K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

wanna see something nuts

118

796

6K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

6 months

Until further notice I will be boycotting @usc and @columbia . No talks, no invitations, no coauthorships or grants with anyone tenure track or tenured, etc. Shafik must resign. USC must reinstate the valedictorian speech. Shame on these administrations!

86

916

6K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

8 months

Back cover image of the dec 1975 issue of “issues in radical therapy”

6

1K

6K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

when we say cops off campus, one of the reasons is that cops are *quite literally* turning campus into a jail

People's City Council - Los Angeles

@PplsCityCouncil

4 months

Police are currently holding arrested UCLA students in Dodd Hall

29

370

711

195

2K

5K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

I have never had more excruciating fomo in my life

🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻

@thrasherxy

6 months

Most of all, I saw students experiment w making a society: they are experimenting w self governance, and with educating, entertaining, praying with, feeding, defending, organizing and caring for one another. How beautiful is that?!

38

960

7K

17

519

5K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

merciful mother of god

110

140

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

it's so freaky when white people change the emoji skin color to white

126

160

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

Of course the first faculty to do a work stoppage in protest comes from a state school 🫶

A

@AMReese07

5 months

STATEMENT FROM CONCERNED UT AUSTIN FACULTY. #NotOurTexas

150

4K

12K

4

521

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

Gen z has had the vision and courage to ask “what if we did occupy but not annoying and it worked”

31

220

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

6 months

After 7 years as a grad worker at columbia, I am not often shocked by the administration’s signature blend of hypocrisy, evil, & incompetence. Still, even for them, suspending Ilhan Omar’s daughter the day after Omar intervened in their congressional clown show is amazing work.

isra hirsi

@israhirsi

6 months

i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP , in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings i just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.

5K

7K

25K

14

616

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

Went on a date yesterday and left 100% believing in UFOs

50

67

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

With less than one month’s notice, Columbia has announced that it will not pay people who are TAing and can’t make it back to the United States. Not because it can’t— peer institutions are able to— but because... they won’t. I’m too mad to make this tweet funny

33

848

4K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

I’ve needed to say this for a long time. If you are going to post a hot pic (as is natural & your god given right), do not try to make it about anything else, least of all politics or something intellectual or (heaven forbid) anything about struggling w body image. Have dignity.

17

128

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

9 months

Yesterday I was trying to explain the dialectic to my undergrads & I think the example that actually worked was that breaking up w your boyfriend and getting back together (negation of negation) is not the same as having never broken up (the identity of identity and nonidentity)

23

199

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

one of the things they teach u in anthropology grad school is that it is ppl who are the most precariously included in a social hierarchy who must incessantly perform their inclusion to outsiders. make of that what u will!

25

182

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

For New York Magazine, I profiled Bessel van der Kolk, explained the popularization of trauma science, and ruined my life.

New York Magazine Communications

@nymagPR

1 year

This week’s @NYMag cover story by @_danielle_carr examines the career of psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, the author of the bestselling book “The Body Keeps the Score,” and how he popularized the once controversial trauma diagnosis.

12

49

332

50

264

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Everything is very simple right now, actually. In moments like this, everything becomes extremely clear, and you know who stands for what.

6

358

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

Let the bodies keep the score Let the bodies keep the score Let the bodies keep the score Let the bodies keep the score

15

282

3K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

A friend says about her boyfriend “he really does just sit down and read Hegel in German for three hours at night.” That’s not real, I say. That’s something guys pretend to do, I say. “That’s what I thought too, before,” she says.

15

73

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

It really is so amazing that it’s impossible to predict whats going to set you freaks &perverts off

3

21

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

The most fuckboy type of instagram behavior is the guy whose last tagged photo is from 2018 and who posts nothing except for like every 53 days will posts a photo like this— zero socially relevant information. Who are you hanging out with, sir? No sense of duty to the audience.

23

42

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

At a brunch at an undisclosed LES restaurant, a woman says to her gay friend “have I told you about my solitaire addiction?” and he goes “you’re not addicted to solitaire babe. You’re addicted to cocaine.”

5

32

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

10 months

Some of the most insipid writing you’ll ever read is the result of someone expecting you to be as moved by the spectacle of their self pity as they are

9

170

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

every explainer i hear on inflation is like "greedflation is a bit of a misnomer for the phenomenon, because it implies bad actors. Actually, companies are just raising prices under the cover provided by COVID and the Ukraine War as much as they can, bc it's rational to do so."

17

208

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

i'm sorry for relentlessly making fun of columbia faculty for the past two weeks. this is amazing

katie smith

@probablyreadit

5 months

NOW: Columbia University faculty link arms and form a wall in front of the entrance to the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ as hundreds of students encircle the both lawns Students remaining in the encampment were told they could face disciplinary action after 2PM

2K

9K

33K

3

65

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

UC San Diego parking garage

20

100

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Just another day doing the lords work

32

50

2K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

I have to post about this once a year for health reasons

9

99

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

2 years

There should be a way of telling Spotify that repeatedly listening to a song is epiphenomenal to a bout of transient mental illness and should not be factored into your algorithm

10

98

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

We have to not stop talking about the fact that Israel kidnaps civilian aid workers and rapes them to death in secret prisons with electrified rods

16

453

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

feeling insane on the eve of the genocidal destruction of gaza and watching liberals, whose line has been "you have to break a few eggs" about ukraine, sincerely claim that there's nothing to be done about imminent slaughter except to denounce "violence"

8

82

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

We require a kinship term for “your ex’s ex”... once again anthropologists asleep at the wheel of the zeitgeist’s most pressing needs

13

59

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

10 months

The thing that Malcolm gladwell brain (or this American life brain, or nyt brain) gets wrong is that the truth about reality is not so much counterintuitive as it is obscene

4

134

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

i love meeting people who are in the beginning phases of something they are convinced is going to solve all the problems in their life

9

35

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 month

Eliza Orlins

@elizaorlins

1 month

Wow. Amanda Gorman “tomorrow is not written by our odds but by the audacity of our hope.” “The American dream is no dream at all but a dare to dream together.” God, she’s magnificent. #DNC2024

240

217

1K

2

42

1K

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

My Estonian roommate says the fact I have strep throat means either that I spoke badly of someone or peed in a well

4

7

919

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

2850 academics, writers, and intellectuals have committed to boycotting Columbia and Barnard. This group includes over 1,389 tenured/ tenure track professors. Their demands are below. You can read the letter and see the full list of signatories here.

2

290

941

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

Bruno latour is Malcolm gladwell for academics

21

59

917

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

(claude shannon invented information theory, warren mcculloch was one of the major impresarios of cybernetics, and i'm assuming you all know who L ron hubbard was)

13

30

880

danielle

@_danielle_carr

11 months

2

85

849

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

Do you ever write an email so good that it should be more widely read

6

68

861

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

Men solve a late 30s crisis of personal fashion two ways as far as I can tell. 1- start wearing a blazer for some reason 2- begin dressing in Gear (camping, surfing, etc)

33

12

850

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

For Gawker, I wrote about why I am an attachment theory truther.

26

73

828

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

People are not appreciating this at all on instagram stories and I’m like… this is gold?

11

18

814

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

We are trapped in a system of perverse incentives that rewards parroting anachronistic tropes, such that talking about actually-occurring reality becomes increasingly rare. I wd rather hear someone honestly describe eating a sandwich than stitch together these recycled bits

12

37

792

danielle

@_danielle_carr

2 years

10

45

776

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

Really upset the academy has imploded because I was looking forward to talking people in their early twenties into devoting a decade of their life to looking into some random bullshit that occurred to me in spin class an hour before our advising meeting

2

25

775

danielle

@_danielle_carr

6 months

Today I bring you a little amuse-bouche, a short essay about adderall in which I hypothesize that not only is the drug not fixing the “attention crisis“— it is actively making it worse. Bonus features include my theory of millenial literature. Enjoy!

29

91

766

danielle

@_danielle_carr

2 years

For the Times, I wrote about the politics of mental health, and what reification means when it comes to disease categories.

Opinion | Mental Health Is Political (Published 2022)

Many in power would prefer to kick questions like “What caused the mental health crisis?” and “Who benefits?” out of sight. Don’t let them.

www.nytimes.com

38

163

728

danielle

@_danielle_carr

6 months

I failed to find a way to fit this into the piece but #neverforget

4

17

736

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Ok so to be clear everyone harping on the necessity of “peaceful protest” is totally cool with BDS now right

4

98

712

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

The role of the critic is to be a gentle erudite and cool older cousin, not the jealous of the new baby toddler — just my opinion

7

38

700

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity!

Columbia/Barnard Boycott

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write to...

docs.google.com

9

397

678

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

if you wanna read more about the connection between scientology and cybernetics i have a little bit on it in this piece

Scientology's Lonely Turf War | Broadcast

How the Left learned to love psychiatry.

pioneerworks.org

14

52

644

danielle

@_danielle_carr

6 months

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone who needs this again today 💐

cancela lansbury

@gossipbabies

2 years

Hillary Clinton interviewing a 100 year old French clown

178

3K

27K

10

37

664

danielle

@_danielle_carr

8 months

wish I knew who made this

5

49

653

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

Ok gentle reminder: please only respond to my posts if you are a genius or extremely good looking 🙏♥️

12

46

627

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

exhausted so will write more later but initial report from ucla encampment: camp is running disciplined operation to prevent escalations which the counterprotesters are constantly trying to ignite. Yesterday they tried to surge into the camp and were so clearly the aggressors 1/

1

61

618

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

The people who came up with capital one cafe were so clearly like “genius… they will associate us w community… the ‘third place’ if you will” etc. but in reality it’s like what the fuck is this

16

20

624

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

I am a little banged up but ok. The camp needs protective eye wear and bodies if you can make it. There was no “clash” it was a very serious and violent attack by a group of guys in their 30s-50s. So many students injured. In awe of the bravery I saw last night.

9

0

613

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

anyone you’ve had a serious unrequited crush on counts as “an ex”

2

19

580

danielle

@_danielle_carr

2 years

At a cafe in berlin, the woman at the register tells me “our system is that you must go find a table. And when your food is ready, we scream.”

5

12

584

danielle

@_danielle_carr

2 years

The best advice I ever got in grad school was from a member of my committee, horrified: “danielle you really cannot say ‘blah blah you get the picture’ as a transition between slides”

11

21

577

danielle

@_danielle_carr

8 months

anatomy of a fall is one of the few films i've seen recently intended for grownups

5

11

576

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

I asked the producers “helmet on or off” and they saw the state of my hair underneath and were like “on :)”

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

5 months

"As we're seeing, increasingly professors subject to violence that differs very little from what the state is meting out on students, I think faculty need to realise that our lot lies with solidarity with the students" UCLA professor Danielle Carr

14

632

2K

14

1

570

danielle

@_danielle_carr

9 months

taking note of a new genre of essay that always starts like “I am a theorist of parties, of which I am invited to many.”

7

33

560

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

just got my student evals lmao💕

7

2

554

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

There are seven great pleasures in life. Six are dissociative (in order: good sex, abstract thought, running, literature, drugs, bad sex.) The nondissociative pleasure is color

0

24

545

danielle

@_danielle_carr

8 months

In her 1976 address to the national conference on socialist women, Barbara ehrenreich jokes that a “socialist feminist” might be described as “someone who goes to twice as many meetings” lolol

1

45

546

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

haunting selection of bedside books at this airbnb

4

14

510

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

We simply do not have the time to entertain bad faith accusations of antisemitism. They are unserious and designed to break US protest at the time it is most exigently needed. Los Angeles, there is a protest Saturday (oct 14) at the Israeli consulate (11766 Wilshire) at 12:30 pm.

1

49

533

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

It is so easy now to condemn the war on terror. But we remember who did not. We will remember those who called for “nuance” and whatabouted in this moment of *actual* US backed ethnic cleansing. God have mercy on Gaza. The horror. No words. God have mercy.

2

46

533

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

looking at the spreadsheet of academics who have signed on to boycott Columbia and feeling truly moved to see this kind solidarity from PhD students to tenured professors, across so many disciplines. yes!!!! yes!!!!!!!!

5

28

528

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Our job now — other than raising hell— is to show that this moment has only one interpretation possible. The liberal positon on palestine is and always has been genocidal. Nothing happening now— despite its unimaginable horror— is surprising

6

82

505

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

i genuinely feel like i am tripping watching people straightfacedly talk about "terrorists." we learned nothing from the war on terror, we just got bored of it after two decades but the entire script is embedded latent in the US psyche ready to be activated. so unspeakably grim.

5

47

509

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

Btw to all my sisters out there— whenever someone is being weird to you, my advice is just default to “they’re in love w me.” This has saved me a lot of time, feels great, works, helps you be kind, & is basically true at least half the time

1

29

518

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

Last night I went on a date during which we sat on a hill overlooking the city and quietly agreed it is impossible to fall in love after 26

19

16

480

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

Monk on a lime scooter in marseille. I repeat: monk on a lime scooter in marseille

4

6

501

danielle

@_danielle_carr

11 months

not the most important thing going on rn but uhh what's up here

Shakeer Rahman

@sh4keer

11 months

Four current or former L.A. sheriff's deputies killed themselves yesterday:

351

506

2K

8

45

500

danielle

@_danielle_carr

11 months

Watching the rationalizations ppl contort themselves into re: why they don’t need to say anything about Gaza (“it’s virtue signaling” “It’s not my mode” etc) is really something. sorry, now is really the time you do have to say something or idgaf what you have to say ever again

4

86

473

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

pretty cool...... have you signed on? have you texted your colleagues to sign? do it!

danielle

@_danielle_carr

5 months

We are LIVE and public with the Columbia/Barnard academic and cultural boycott. As of this moment, we have 521 signatories. Please sign on and share widely. Solidarity!

9

397

678

3

48

485

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

For the entire summer we were told by our departmental administrations, repeating word from the top brass, that we would be able to TA remotely. People got leases overseas. Now they have less than a month to get visas and in MANY cases this won’t be possible.

5

49

475

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Mass incarceration is the result of a political arrangement that violently disenfranchises massive portions of a racialized underclass. It is not “caused” by crime much less poor early childhood attachment. Hope this helps.

8

37

470

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

It is august in Paris. On thé bridge by saint Michel American couples kissing everywhere. One young duo, blonde and lanky, strides balefully ahead of me. She says “you can make me watch anime or you can sleep with me. It’s your choice”

4

42

458

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

I genuinely believe that this should trigger a renewed conversation among the left about voting strategy. I do not know the answer but the idea that we assemble again behind biden— the entire body revolts

8

36

461

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 months

Buying postcards in an antique store in marseille; I ask about some showing gorgeous photos of naked young girls. The owner says “ c'était un photographe très célèbre. très talentueux. malheureusement, il était pédophile. mais les photographies sont certainement inoubliables.”

4

6

456

danielle

@_danielle_carr

7 months

Last night a gay guy told me I reminded him a lot of Susan Sontag in this one interview in which she was really pretentious and annoying

7

14

445

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 years

Most grad workers suspect that the logic behind this unbelievably cruel and asinine policy is to force international students to come back in an attempt to fast track reopening campus in the spring. Anything to keep the foreign tuition money flowing 🤑

2

27

447

danielle

@_danielle_carr

3 years

I am on a kick reading ethnographies unrelated to my project— what are your absolute tops for ethnography as good writing?

78

50

452

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

Sometimes in Los Angeles, you get the feeling that passing interactions are so friendly because people are testing the thesis of their own charisma on you

4

10

439

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

Just learned that Philip roth was suffering terrible writers block w Portnoy’s complaint— bc he knew half the money would go to his ex wife— which suddenly lifted when she died in a car crash

10

13

437

danielle

@_danielle_carr

4 months

My chat gpt policy is i tell them the first class that if they use it I will harm them

olivia stowell

@oliviastowell

4 months

my class is starting in a few weeks, spent the morning writing out my AI policy

107

2K

13K

2

7

440

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

I’m going to say one last thing before logging off and actually going on vacation: pointing out the sociological fact of the expansion of a concept (here, trauma) is not to invalidate that concept, or say it is misguided, etc. I’m interested in why people use one concept rather…

8

10

431

danielle

@_danielle_carr

1 year

what we need is to bring back a way of writing something longer than 8k words but shorter than a book. i'm calling for the return of the pamphlet.

20

36

424

danielle

@_danielle_carr

8 months

experiencing physically painful fomo about the LA socialist scene in the late 70s…. We have GOT to make socialist organizing great again around here my lord, this is the programming for just four months of the socialist media group

10

32

421