Ajay Singh Chaudhary
@materialistjew.bsky.social
Executive Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Tweets are my own and do not represent positions of BISR.
my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
my big climate book: https://t.ly/5_b_B
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Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times.
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thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Race, Caste, and Capitalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
What explains the persistence of racial inequality, throughout time and across the most diverse societies? For much of the 20th century, the predominant assumption in the United States was that race f...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
There is no defense of Syracuse's actions and no excuse to not support Sultana's full exoneration and reinstatement. Proud to have signed this early and easily.
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
There is no defense of Syracuse's actions and no excuse to not support Sultana's full exoneration and reinstatement. Proud to have signed this early and easily.
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
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(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | buff.ly/LBvGC7P
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A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions
The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions
A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions
The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions
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@materialistjew.bsky.social latest song I wrote inspired in part by your work www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/s...
From the FolkPunk community on Reddit: The 11th Hour
Explore this post and more from the FolkPunk community
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August 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
@materialistjew.bsky.social latest song I wrote inspired in part by your work www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/s...
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Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.
Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition
thebaffler.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.
In great company among the initial 300+ signatures to this effort to pressure the NYTimes to live up to the barest standards of journalistic integrity in their coverage of Palestine. You can be too by signing here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In great company among the initial 300+ signatures to this effort to pressure the NYTimes to live up to the barest standards of journalistic integrity in their coverage of Palestine. You can be too by signing here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
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What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?
What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?
rare masahiro sakurai fail...
October 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
rare masahiro sakurai fail...
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The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)
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I watched Southland Tales per @williammparis.bsky.social's recommendation last night and, as promised, it was completely unhinged and I loved everything about its radical commitment to being totally incomprehensible and baffling. art is so cool I love human beings
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I watched Southland Tales per @williammparis.bsky.social's recommendation last night and, as promised, it was completely unhinged and I loved everything about its radical commitment to being totally incomprehensible and baffling. art is so cool I love human beings
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I revisit this piece -- on Doom 2016, by @materialistjew.bsky.social -- at least once a year. it has become bedrock, and only more relevant
lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...
October 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I revisit this piece -- on Doom 2016, by @materialistjew.bsky.social -- at least once a year. it has become bedrock, and only more relevant
lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...
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And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...
Grief: a catalyst for social change? – DW – 06/27/2025
On this special edition of DW's Inside Europe, we take a break from the news to explore grief as a lens for understanding global events. Author Sarah Jaffe joins host Kate Laycock to unpack how loss—f...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...
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Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Imperial Entanglements: an Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (In-Person) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Having several origins—from literary studies to Marxist historiography to anti-colonial thought itself—postcolonial theory examines marginality, difference, migration, slavery, servitude, identity, ra...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Teaching this course again after 3 years - still a few spots left! Scholarships available. Come learn about the political and social dimensions of cancer research, and why after more than fifty years of the War on Cancer, victory is still elusive. Sign up at the link below.
The Cancer-Industrial Complex: Biology, Medicine, and Business | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/x4B7Xsx
October 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Teaching this course again after 3 years - still a few spots left! Scholarships available. Come learn about the political and social dimensions of cancer research, and why after more than fifty years of the War on Cancer, victory is still elusive. Sign up at the link below.
This was a super fun and fascinating interview with Thea on her new book and the many thorny but vital issues it raises...
In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.
Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition
thebaffler.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This was a super fun and fascinating interview with Thea on her new book and the many thorny but vital issues it raises...
"we have been zealous for bad causes"
Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters."
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"we have been zealous for bad causes"
Zionists prepare for Yom Kippur by doubling down on as many crimes against humanity as possible. Then repent their inability to fit in just a few more.
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Zionists prepare for Yom Kippur by doubling down on as many crimes against humanity as possible. Then repent their inability to fit in just a few more.
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Shanah tovah! You can still repent and forswear Zionism, atone for a sin against both god and man, begin remediation for the unfathomable crimes against the Palestinian people, and turn away from this chilul hashem, possibly the darkest in the history of the Jewish people.
September 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Shanah tovah! You can still repent and forswear Zionism, atone for a sin against both god and man, begin remediation for the unfathomable crimes against the Palestinian people, and turn away from this chilul hashem, possibly the darkest in the history of the Jewish people.