Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Sep 24

It's here! It's here! It's here! THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC is now out with Stanford University Press! You can buy it wherever you buy books. Or I guess you can talk about it in front of Alexa and she'll order it alongside a bunch of Pamplemousse LaCroix. www.amazon.com/Cancel-Cultu...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16h

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.

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Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21h

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

Maduro is such an idiot. Why engage in actionable conduct like corruption, boating and suppressing the opposition, when he could have simply used starvation as a method of war and could have waltzed right out?

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

"we had to bomb Venezuela bc it resisted arrest" is a pretty good one, though. keep innovating, psychotic war state!

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Marinus Reuter @marinusreuter.de · 1d

During Musk’s Doge intermezzo, @adriandaub.bsky.social observed Musk lives on the meme imaginary of average internet users, only he is rich. Now we know the military policy of the U.S. administration was conceived watching an old movie almost everyone has seen: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

Anatomy Of A Scene: Apocalypse Now

Like all great masterpieces, the years haven't diminished Apocalypse Now -...

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 2d

Project 1933, a deep month by month dive into 1933 Nazi Germany and what we can learn from it in our current political nightmare, was among my favourite podcasts last year. Hats off @moiradonegan.bsky.social @adriandaub.bsky.social
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Episode 114 -- Project 1933, Part X: December 1 - December 31 | In Bed With the Right

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

And the year 2025 was a good reminder of why it is not just a little cultural quirk to designate people as obviously "real" or "authentic" Americans or not. This is the logic of ICE sweeps, and places that don't see themselves as in league with a fascist project should stop replicating it. (6/6)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

Again, it sucks to not feel represented by your government (ask me how I know!). But it's clear that political alienation, political frustration, political disenfranchisement receive differential attention depending on who experiences them. And those differences are about who counts as "real". (5/6)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

I would struggle to imagine an NYTimes article exploring how San Franciscans feel alienated from the state around them, or Stockton and suburbs (about 800k pop). It's hard not to wonder whether that's partly because Stockton is 50% white and Richvale is 85% white. (4/6)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

That region has, by my count, about 700,000 residents today. That's less than the population of San Francisco. The article is about the fact that the priorities and ideas of 700,000 Californians are somehow not reflected in the priorities and ideas of 38.8 million *other* Californians. (3/6)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

The piece focuses on Richvale (population 234), and it explicitly invokes the (white supremacist) vision of a new State of Jefferson. Afaik that state was supposed to include Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Del Norte, Lassen, Trinity, Glenn, Tehama, Plumas, Humboldt, Mendocino, Butte, and Colusa. (2/6)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 2d

This seems exactly right. I had to think of this recent NYTimes piece. I think it's great that the Times pays attention to California sometimes, and I love NorCal, so happy to see coverage. Still, this is an article all about people feeling politically disenfranchised. (1/6)

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3d

And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.

Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

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Juliane Borchert @pv-physicist.bsky.social · 3d

Welcome in 2026!
I hope you are having a pleasant start to the new year.
I started by making breakfast and listening to the final episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Project 1933 series. A striking series going through 1933 month by month and tracing how the Nazis established their power.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 3d

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.