Noëlle McAfee
@noellemcafee.net
Philosopher trying to make sense of the dark side of humanity in the midst of so much beauty. noellemcafee.net
This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory.
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Is Emory Joining the Club of Capitulators?
Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...
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September 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory.
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What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.
What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.
The Sound of Capitulation
What is the sound of capitulation?
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July 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.
What a university sounds like when it complies — and what truth sounds like.
How authoritarianism is a containment vessel for the precarity anxiety generated by unfettered capitalism. My upcoming talk for the ISPP open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
Containing Precarity
the new authoritarian playbook
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July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How authoritarianism is a containment vessel for the precarity anxiety generated by unfettered capitalism. My upcoming talk for the ISPP open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
Thoughts upon waking up in Crete to the news from California open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
Protecting the Wetlands of Democracy
notes from crete
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June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Thoughts upon waking up in Crete to the news from California open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
On What Comes to Mind --see my piece on the unconscious origins of our political perceptions: open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
On What Comes to Mind
notes toward my book on authoritarian psyches
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May 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
On What Comes to Mind --see my piece on the unconscious origins of our political perceptions: open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
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Here's a piece of mine published in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the 1-year anniversary of the police riot on my campus. www.ajc.com/education/ge...
Emory University students and faculty mark one year since police moved in on protesters.
Emory University professor Noëlle McAfee writes of what happened on the Emory campus a year ago.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Here's a piece of mine published in today's Atlanta Journal Constitution on the 1-year anniversary of the police riot on my campus. www.ajc.com/education/ge...
Here at Emory we are wondering why on earth is our university president not signing on to the AAC&U letter. Local newspaper story on this here:
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Universities unite against government 'interference' but few from South join in
Hundreds of universities across the United States are speaking out for academic freedom, but few schools in the South have joined the opposition to the Trump adminsitration.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Here at Emory we are wondering why on earth is our university president not signing on to the AAC&U letter. Local newspaper story on this here:
www.ajc.com/politics/uni...
www.ajc.com/politics/uni...
A little psychoanalytic theorizing for our times. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/americas-q...
America's Quilting Points Under Fire
At about age three, I sat at a kitchen table drawing pictures of sailboats on the sea, wondering if it was possible to think about an object like this if I didn’t have a word for it.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A little psychoanalytic theorizing for our times. noellemcafee.substack.com/p/americas-q...
The difference between university presidents who are courageous, complicit, and cowardly. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
How Universities Become Tools for Tyranny
and how to prevent that from happening
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April 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The difference between university presidents who are courageous, complicit, and cowardly. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
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Interview with Joan Wallach Scott.
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La résistance universitaire au trumpisme
L’historienne Joan W. Scott est professeure émérite à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, New Jersey. Mondialement célèbre pour avoir [...]
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February 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Interview with Joan Wallach Scott.
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Next week I'll be giving a talk here: societyforcriticalexchange.org/winter-theor...
Insurrection
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March 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Next week I'll be giving a talk here: societyforcriticalexchange.org/winter-theor...
This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump
February 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump
Professor Michael Eng on Digital Wynter.
February 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Professor Michael Eng on Digital Wynter.
#resistance is a force that gives us meaning. The trumpians are trying to flood us and overwhelm us. Don’t get distracted. Focus on the 1 or 2 things you deeply care about and dive in deep there.
February 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#resistance is a force that gives us meaning. The trumpians are trying to flood us and overwhelm us. Don’t get distracted. Focus on the 1 or 2 things you deeply care about and dive in deep there.
