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Senior Lecturer @UChicago | Interests in Political Theory, Social Theory, and History | Also at @daraghjgrant .bsky.social.

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6 months

Anxieties about immigration have been a persistent feature of British politics in the context of imperial decline. But these anxieties were also first produced by imperial adventures. Long before Windrush, the West Indies haunted the English imagination.

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Abstract In the middle of his report on the Case of the Post-nati, also known as Calvin’s Case (1608), Sir Edward Coke drew a distinction between the status of laws in conquered Christian and...

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4 months

Some outstanding letters of protest here from NYU ( @nyuniversity ) faculty to the President and Provost, but the below from @ProfStevenHahn is pure 🔥 🔥 🔥 :

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I don’t think tenured faculty should continue to perform the work of teaching for a university that is this hostile to its students.

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Minouche Shafik just announced her decision to request NYPD to clear out the pro-Palestine student encampment

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It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of actually reading the materials that everybody cites. Totally underrated approach.

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These donor encampments are really getting out of hand. How is @UChicago supposed to be able to continue functioning with all these tents around the place. To say nothing of the cost of all the extra security. Almost enough to make me go out and buy a string of pearls to clutch.

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2 years

This class on Stuart Hall ( @StuartHallFdn ) is a new experiment for me. The challenge of capturing the sheer breadth of Hall's intellectual and political output introduces real limitations. On the plus side, it means I'll have to teach multiple iterations in the years to come.

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3 years

The inhumanity of international responses of the pandemic, which are underscored by the failure to respond effectively and humanely to the catastrophe in India, are a grim prelude to the life in a world of climate emergency.

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With a week to go, the syllabus for the Stuart Hall ( @StuartHallFdn ) class is finally locked. I toyed with the idea of moving Hall's writing on race and diaspora earlier, but I think it's easier to use Cultural Studies to lay out his theoretical commitments. Excited for this one!

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This class on Stuart Hall ( @StuartHallFdn ) is a new experiment for me. The challenge of capturing the sheer breadth of Hall's intellectual and political output introduces real limitations. On the plus side, it means I'll have to teach multiple iterations in the years to come.

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What a disgraceful day @Uchicago . To attack your student like a literal thief in the night. So craven, so pathetic, so in-the-pocket of preening donors. So antithetical to principles of free and open discussion, so hostile to pedagogy. Admin should be ashamed of themselves.

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Some of our colleagues might resent the fact that UChicago economists are released from obligations to teach in the Social Sciences Core. But in this case, at least, it serves to protect our students from exposure to this kind of willful stupidity. Try reading a book.

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Indeed. Advocating for equity is advocating for communism. So, either Kamala Harris is a communist or she doesn’t know she is advocating for communism. The latter may be worse.

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Stuart Hall, with characteristic moral clarity, on the disfigured conception of diaspora deployed by Zionists and on the depravity of those Europeans who seek to assuage their national guilt for crimes against the Jewish people at the expense of Palestinians.

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For those of you interested in Marx and Engels's writings in Brussels in 1845-46, Sarah Johnson has a new essay—"Farewell to the German Ideology" ( @JHIdeas )—on the MEGA2 I/5 that may be of interest. You can find it here:

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3 years

J.G.A. Pocock is 97 years old. There’s something quite astonishing about scholars who remain engaged in this way, for whom the work is never complete. It is a relic of a university that has long since been destroyed by the boards of trustees.

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Gibbon & Ethiopia | J.G.A. Pocock

To the Editors: In “The Glories of Aksum” , Peter Brown quotes Edward Gibbon’s dictum, in chapter 47 of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that

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2 years

Stuart Hall’s “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance” is a real tour de force. It’s hard going to be sure, but a strikingly lucid synthesis of different intellectual currents of Marxism.

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ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS: please consider emailing senior administrators @UChicago who have threatened an imminent use of force to clear the encampment. Whether or not you agree with the protesters, we should draw the line at the use of force against peaceful protesters.

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I have just emailed Mr. Afsahi to express my opposition to any use of force against student protesters @UChicago , and would urge my fellow alumni to do likewise. Text of my email below.

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Excellent stuff.

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6 years

“Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.” Excellent new class @HarvardUniv being taught by @jonathanlwalton and @brandonmterry

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a colorblind dreamer - The Boston Globe

Martin Luther King Jr. had more than a dream. And it’s way past time to reclaim him as a political thinker rather than a romanticized reverend.

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2 years

Brilliant stuff from Stuart Hall: “The Communist Manifesto [is] a wonderful book, which is like a work of music before it is a work of historical prophesy. … But as an actual prediction of what happened in Europe in the midpart of the nineteenth century, it was incorrect. …

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Worth noting, for the admin @UChicago , that it isn’t actually neutrality when you are just doing the bidding of wealthy donors. There is nothing neutral in that at all.

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Daragh Grant

3 years

Looking forward to Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitt’s ( @UChicagoSSD , @UChicago ) forthcoming @CambridgeUP blue-book volume on the international thought of W.E.B. DuBois. Available May 2022. #twitterstorians , #politicaltheory

W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought | Texts in political thought

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Stuart Hall's reminder that if there is a vocation of an intellectual life, it inheres in speaking truth to power, and in speaking that truth in all its complexity. From "Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life," in Essential Essays, Vol. 2, ed. David Morley ( @DukePress , 2019).

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I don’t think there is a better rejoinder to invocations of false consciousness than this, from Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History ( @DukePress , 2016).

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Real whiplash today, as U.S. radio & TV channels celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day while inviting Israeli government officials on to casually decry the “savage” and “barbarous” “human animals” that they are keeping in a cage.

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There are plenty of reasonable critiques of Jim Scott’s work. But I am disturbed by the idea that we should condemn him for the errors and—for him, lamentable—things he may have done in his 20s. This is a pretty reactionary, life-without-parole approach to thinking human beings.

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This (79-page) bibliography, prepared by Catherine Hall, Bill Schwarz and Nick Beech for @StuartHallFdn , is an incredible resource, listing all of Stuart Hall’s writing and audio/visual work. This should keep the folks @DukePress busy for a few decades.

Bibliography - Stuart Hall Foundation

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Congratulations @TejasParasher , whose dissertation “Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880-1950” won the @APSAtweets Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in Political Theory!! @UChicagoSSD @UChicago @UChicagoPoliSci

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1 year

Ready for the final pass before proofs. Only took 13 years to get here.

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Asad Haider ( @ininteriority ), “Politics without Guarantees” ( @the_point_mag ): A brilliant essay on Stuart Hall and the importance of @DukePress ’s re-publication of his work. Should be of interest to followers of @StuartHallFdn & everybody else, really.

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Politics Without Guarantees | The Point Magazine

In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by […]

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4 years

Just taught @AdomGetachew ’s “Worldmaking after Empire.” It provoked the most searching reflections from students this quarter. They were fascinated by the brilliant account of the anti-colonial pathways untravelled, but also by the reckoning it forced with the world they inhabit.

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Baffled by people who use “cultural studies” as a generalized slur to describe insubstantial, if trendy, work, as if there isn’t a venerable academic tradition that goes by the same name, and that—like all venerable academic traditions—ought not be judged by its worst adherents.

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How is the world still waiting for a film/limited series about either the life of Toussaint Louverture or the Haitian Revolution? This is a rhetorical question. [the long-standing efforts of Danny Glover to make this happen should not be forgotten].

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3 years

I don’t know of any way to describe this other than that it amounts to an unspeakable crime against humanity.

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3 years

The U.S.🇺🇸has denied India's🇮🇳 urgent request for vaccine raw materials, saying its first obligation is to Americans, by @IBagchiTOI via @timesofindia #COVID19 #vaccination #GlobalHealth

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Even in grim times, I'm delighted to finally see this piece in the world. As the acknowledgements suggest, I have incurred a great many debts along the way (including to the folks at the JMH and @chicagojournals ), but all the infelicities are all my own.

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Sir Edward Coke’s Infidel: Imperial Anxiety and the Colonial Origins of a “Strange Extrajudicial...

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4 years

Congratulations @AdomGetachew on being awarded the African Studies Association's ( @ASANewsOnline ) Best Book prize for "Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. ( @PrincetonUPress ). Looking forward to teaching it to @UChicagoCollege students next quarter.

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Loving the new look edition of The Black Jacobins ( @VintageAnchor ).

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7 months

The world lost an intellectual giant with the death of Stuart Hall, a decade ago today. His work, and the life that shaped it, continue to be a rich resource for thinking through the current conjuncture. @UChicagoCollege , come explore Hall’s intellectual life this spring.

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4 months

A characteristically powerful piece from @gabrielwinant in @ChicagoMaroon posing the question of whether @UChicago will have the courage of its convictions in this moment to live up to its much-lauded principles.

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On Expression and Disruption

The Palestine solidarity encampment on the quad represents a significant trial for the University of Chicago’s frequently emphasized commitments to academic freedom and free expression. This challe...

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2 years

SH: “culture … is one of those concepts which … tends to wither away and disappear the more you work on it.” The “culture” of Cultural Studies has often been contrasted with the anthropological culture concept, but Hall’s quip has (since the 1980s) increasingly applied to both.

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8 months

Quad looking good today!

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3 months

Switching up my teaching for 2024-25. It will be apt to be teaching about hope, betrayal, disappointment, and (nonetheless) possibility against the backdrop of the election. I have high hopes for this conversation among C.L.R. James, David Scott, Adom Getachew, & Gary Wilder.

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4 years

It is a genuine testament to his character that Barnaby Raine chose to use his (latest) invitation to prime time TV to ensure that he will not be invited back to @BBCNewsnight . Proud of you @BarnabyRaine !

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I had a brief moment on TV to challenge the miserable horror of turning antisemitism into a factional battering ram against the left - I hope people find this valuable

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Syllabus locked for the autumn quarter @UChicagoCollege . With thanks to Ryan Eykholt ( @uchicago3ct ) for their help designing the flier. Excited to return to this material after a couple of years plumbing the (related) depths of Stuart Hall's work.

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With a late adjustment, planning to push the 9-week quarter to the limit in Autumn 2024 @UChicagoCollege .

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Looking forward to taking another journey through the intellectual life of Stuart Hall ( @StuartHallFdn ) this Spring @UChicagoCollege . Reading list is 👇, in what promises to be another bumper year for our friends @DukePress .

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2 years

All intellectuals should ponder the question David Scott poses, posthumously, to Stuart Hall: “What do we owe intellectually to those we call our friends, to those whose work we know and value, not only in itself, as work, but as the work of our friends whom we know and value?”

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Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them” ( @UChicagoPress , 2024) cannot come soon enough!

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3 years

Some happy news in an unhappy world. Coming to a library near you in ~2024.

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3 years

One of my favorite things about this job is that every year I get to spend some time trying to search for a way forward by trying to think through where we are and how we got here. Not the easiest of roads, but never a hopeless one.

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5 years

Now not only a real, but a tangible thing in the world. You can find it open-access here: @RSAorg

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@OlufemiOTaiwo Previous generations have prepared fertile ground for those willing to do the reading. It is a debt we owe to the boomers.

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5 months

These are strong proposals from the Columbia faculty. Let it be the first move in a nationwide reassertion of faculty governance.

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5 months

I’ve heard: “The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students. They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president." Good.

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3 years

Excited for @cambridgeUP 's forthcoming "History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International" ed. Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson & Martti Koskenniemi. Along with @orford_anne 's latest & Koskenniemi's forthcoming monster it will be a busy summer/fall.

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History, Politics, Law

Cambridge Core - Public International Law - History, Politics, Law

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4 months

I have just emailed Mr. Afsahi to express my opposition to any use of force against student protesters @UChicago , and would urge my fellow alumni to do likewise. Text of my email below.

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UChicago Jews for a Free Palestine

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If there are any alums of UChicago who want to support our encampment, we know admin is currently trying to gauge alumni support, so it would be great to write to them! The president of Alumni Relations and Development is Armin Afsahi. His email is aafsahi @uchicago .edu

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1 year

Devastated to hear about the death of Sinéad O’Connor. In 1990s Ireland, she was a relatively lonely voice crying out against the dominance and violence of the Catholic Church. A fierce talent who wore her demons on her sleeve, for better or worse. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

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2 years

Checks out that Marx would be refused entry to the opera given his low citation count pre-1917.

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This book opens with that anecdote about Marx getting refused entry to a Wagner performance in Bayreuth in 1876 so you know it’ll be good

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I would urge @UChicago alumni, students, faculty and staff to consider signing this petition. Withholding degrees from peaceful protestors is outrageous.

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uchicago is not letting four seniors graduate 🚨CALL TO ACTION 🚨SIGN THE PETITION TO TELL UCHICAGO: NO WITHHOLDING DEGREES FOR SUPPORTING PALESTINE!

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Delighted by the latest installment of the excellent “Stuart Hall: Selected Writings” series from @DukePress , this one edited by Gilane Tawadros, and including—among many other things—the superb essays from 1987/88, “Minimal Selves” and “New Ethnicities.” @StuartHallFdn

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An open letter to @UChicago President Paul Alivisatos in @ChicagoMaroon from over 275 faculty objecting to the police raid on the peaceful student encampment last week and the use of the Kalven Report and Chicago Principles to justify this use of force:

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An Open Letter to President Alivisatos Concerning the Encampment and the Kalven Report

Dear President Alivisatos, As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students...

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@PriyamvadaGopal @vijayiyer @nyuniversity @ProfStevenHahn I expect the reference is to the House committee that has been leading the charge here. I don’t see any dishonesty in that

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Also, don't think I have ever read a better ending to an academic essay:

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Excellent stuff.

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“People smoke today because they are nervous, and they smoke to lend sense to the day. But they also smoke because they are hastening an end.” 🚬 🚬🚬 Come hear Ben Fong discuss his new book with Cedric Johnson @SeminaryCoop , Oct 13 at 6pm.(Link below) @UChicagoSoF @uchicago3ct

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And let’s not forget, the administration could have avoided this action by coming to a negotiated settlement with the encampment, one that was willing to acknowledge the horrors unfolding in Gaza and—not least—the scholasticide that directly threatens the university’s mission.

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The irony of this action and many others this weekend by alumni after Uchicago raided and destroyed the encampment…for alumni weekend…

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As a general rule, I think academics who enjoy the (increasingly rare) and (often accidental) privilege of tenure ought to think twice before dragging contingent faculty for inartfully or insensitively expressing their indignation with the perversities of the academic job market.

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Very excited about this; @uchicago3ct has been a kind of intellectual home to me for a long time. Delighted to be able to do some of the work of contributing to its programming.

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We’re thrilled to announce the addition of three new fellows to our collective: Allyson Nadia Field, Julian Go, and Daragh Grant. Learn more about the new 3CT fellows: @allyson_nadia @jgo34 @daraghjgrant

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Bourdieu v. Sartre: “One surely has to have the freedom to stay in bed without being fired in order to find that someone who gets up at five to sweep the café and start the percolator … is (freely?) freeing himself from the freedom to stay in bed even if it means being fired.”

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Really sweet to see all these political scientists wandering around this place, dazed and baffled, after their first encounter with politics. Learning is a wonderful thing to watch.

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If you just discovered the horror of Mexican food in the UK via #GBBO , wait till you hear about the London taco spot owned by a Mexican chef that is being sued by @TaqueriaUK for trademark infringement because of its use of the word “taqueria” in its name.

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London Restaurant Threatens Outstanding Taqueria Sonora With Legal Action Over Use of the Word...

"If you can’t even call your taco place a taqueria, where do you even start?"

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This, from Arendt, is surely the only healthy way to relate to one’s own writing. “Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand—in the same sense that I have understood—that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.”

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This is still a line worth holding, imho: "The common assumption that it was attitudes of racial superiority which precipitated the introduction of plantation slavery needs to be challenged."

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Stuart Hall’s “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance” is a real tour de force. It’s hard going to be sure, but a strikingly lucid synthesis of different intellectual currents of Marxism.

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With a late adjustment, planning to push the 9-week quarter to the limit in Autumn 2024 @UChicagoCollege .

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It's worth remembering that indigenous dispossession & the colonization of America proceeded by way of what European settlers often called individual property disputes. What's the point of acknowledging historical wrongs, if we turn a blind eye to their analogues in the present?

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This essay @VersoBooks by the brilliant Hugo Raine is a welcome—and theoretically-careful—intervention into debates over Marxist historiography. It is well worth your time. #Marx #Marxism

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The study of feudal society has been central to Marxist historiography. But what if a foundational mistake has governed these inquiries for decades? Hugo Raine on the work of Jairus Banaji and Perry Anderson and the transition from feudalism to capitalism

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Looking like that total weirdo who brings Leviathan on a transatlantic flight. Then again it’s apt enough; this voyage is almost certain to be solitary, poor, nasty and brutish, if, alas, not short.

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The case for fact-checking: has @prospect_uk really just run together @OlufemiOTaiwo ( @Georgetown ) with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò ( @Cornell ) in their top thinkers list?

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1 year

Funny that some empirical political scientists can't grasp why political theorists have mostly taken up the cause of solidarity with precarious labor. My brothers in Christ, you purport to study the empirical world. Look around you!

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Daragh Grant

2 years

Never tire of teaching this guy.

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Daragh Grant

1 year

It is a rare, and lovely thing, when a scholar whom you do not know takes the time, in passing, to say something kind about your work (including an extremely generous—if probably undeserved—comparison to the excellent work of others).

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Daragh Grant

7 months

@emanabdelhadi For all the handwringing about who, under the terms of the Kalven Report, represents the university, there doesn’t seem to be any doubt about the fact that the President does. This is quite the choice for him to make this week… just so galling.

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Daragh Grant

11 months

The grotesque implication here seems to be that left-wingers should be ok with the ethnic cleansing and genocide of conservatives, but heaven forbid that one tries to protest a conservative speaker ok campus…

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Matthew Yglesias

11 months

The Palestinian cause is a left-wing issue in the West but Palestinians are very conservative.

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Daragh Grant

1 year

All the handwringing over APSA is incomprehensible to me. How can anyone who has ever been to APSA not relish the opportunity (and excuse) to avoid it?

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Daragh Grant

3 months

Imagine this being the message at a #UChicago2024 convocation where at least four students had their diplomas withheld because they had the temerity to protest a plausible case of genocide and their university’s complicity in it. What kind of changemaker is imagined here?

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The University of Chicago

3 months

“Changemakers are people whose inner scientist is never satiated…take that inner scientist to the world, not only in your job but in life.” – Prof. John List @Econ_4_Everyone

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Daragh Grant

7 months

@caoilfhionnanna So sorry to hear that you have to deal with this outrageous harassment Caoilfhionn, but also so grateful to have someone of your integrity, forcefulness, and courage fighting the good fight. We are all in your debt.

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Daragh Grant

3 years

@Jeff__Ostler I can’t wait to hear how Math teachers get around the ban on the word “intersection.”

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Daragh Grant

11 months

Were I not teaching on Thursday, I would definitely be listening to the brilliant Nadia Abu El-Haj speak on “Settler Colonialism and the Question of Palestine” @uchicago3ct . Sign up here:

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Daragh Grant

2 years

If people want to debate “authenticity” in Irish cinema, I will defend to the last the fact that the upstairs carpet in @ColmBairead ’s An Cailín Ciúin ( @quietgirlfilm ) is the most accurate cinematic representation of 1980s rural Ireland, followed (closely) by the milking parlour.

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Daragh Grant

2 months

Watching all these assholes who are shocked—*shocked* I say—that violence has touched politics, who daily defend a genocide against Palestinian men, women, and children, is so fucking grotesque.

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Daragh Grant

8 months

Remember, when billionaire donors say they want to support universities, what they really mean is that they want to control them. This is @Harvard as Herbalife, and it is the job of the Harvard Corporation to see this challenge off if it is to maintain its academic independence.

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Nikhil Pal Singh

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8 months

Next steps: going after tenure.

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Daragh Grant

4 months

New flag!

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Daragh Grant

9 months

Although one of the first texts in the Cambridge School of intellectual history ( @cambridge_cpt ) dealt with the political thought of common lawyers—Pocock’s “Ancient Constitution”—this tradition has largely stood apart from the work of English legal historians at Cambridge. 1/n

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Daragh Grant

3 years

Stuart Hall would have been 90 today. Seems like a fitting occasion to put the finishing touches on the syllabus for next year’s new class.

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Daragh Grant

11 months

This is odd. Israel does seem to have a plan for postwar Gaza—namely: no Gaza, or Gaza-as-parking-lot. This is what the U.S. government endorsed when it gave Netanyahu carte blanche. How did they not realize this, these best and brightest few?

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11 months

‘The Americans went crazy when they realised there was no plan.’ Fears are growing that a looming Israeli land invasion of Gaza lacks a plan for its aftermath

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Daragh Grant

8 months

For all the holier than thou Harvard alums celebrating today, I hope an enterprising @thecrimson reporter is hunting after your undergrad thesis in the Library to run it through the latest plagiarism software. How confident are you in your note-taking thirty years ago?

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Daragh Grant

2 years

The ever-impressive Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC ( @caoilfhionnanna ) offers a characteristically succinct account the treatment of Jimmy Lai, the global threat to press freedom, and the acute risks posed by the National Security Law for Hong Kong.

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Christiane Amanpour

2 years

"One of the most concerning aspects of the national security law is the fact that it's breathtakingly broad, and it applies to anyone." Jimmy Lai's lawyer @caoilfhionnanna on the ways Beijing is using the National Security Law to target journalists.

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Daragh Grant

4 years

It is only fitting that in these times, the home office should take the form of organized chaos.

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Daragh Grant

3 years

Stephen Greenblatt on his first encounter with Michel Foucault.

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Daragh Grant

5 years

The cruelty of these @UKLabour folks who have spent 4 years undermining Corbyn is staggering. Sure, you don’t like him & are excited to see him go. Fine. But think about the people who just went door-to-door for a better future. They are your future. They will remember your glee!

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Daragh Grant

7 months

Yet more evidence of the anti-semitism of Germany’s philosemitism.

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Crowsa Luxemburg

7 months

germany's jews represent 1% of its population, but 37% of those arrested for antisemitic offences since Oct 7th

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Daragh Grant

1 month

Almost exactly 19 years ago, I had my first ever meal in Chicago at Salonica in Hyde Park, where I picked up this trusty keychain. It would be a shame were the keychain to outlast this neighborhood staple. So, get your breakfast orders in, and get this place back on its feet!

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Antinomic Zach-Zack Loeffler

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1 month

@daraghjgrant I’ve noticed the maitre d has been serving and handling everything else he usually does as well. Regular waitresses and bus boy all gone. And now they’re closing at 3. I asked the MD about it, and he said things are not good. Seems like they’re trying to stay afloat.

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Daragh Grant

9 months

Ridiculous and unnecessary escalation on the part of UChicago, and an undue burden to place on students and faculty. I disagree with the use of disciplinary procedures in this (or any similar) instance, but to add criminal charges to internal disciplinary processes is outrageous.

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Eman Abdelhadi

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Our students & faculty should be resting. Instead we’re in court today, because UChicago—the supposed champion of free speech—decided to criminally charge 26 students and 2 faculty for attending a peaceful sit in.

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Daragh Grant

9 months

I’m excessive in the degree to which I cite and footnote—a point of some amusement among my friends. Whatever, these are foibles born of an academy with little to say. It was surely better when people like CLR James could write this way without worrying about giving Marx his due.

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