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Armond Towns
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Williams College
When all the smoke is cleared and they’re writing the history of US neofascism looking back at this moment, historians will be incapable of telling this story without acknowledging the complicity of the New York Times.
October 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:
When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
www.bostonreview.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Enrique Dussel for the win…
June 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
All eyes on Burkina Faso…
June 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
David Scott on Stuart Hall is the epitome of generative.
February 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Such good podcast guests this week
February 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "No God but Man" by Atiya Husain, which analyzes the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list to reveal the ways that race—as a social construction—is both galvanizing and confounding. #Sociology
https://buff.ly/4ayEnQl
January 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In this edition of Ideas, Bruno Leipold explains the democratic political structures #KarlMarx thought were required for socialism. #history #politics #economics

press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...
Marx and socialist anti-politics
Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about w...
press.princeton.edu
January 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The December History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
History of Media Studies Newsletter December 2024
History of Media Studies Newsletter December 2024 Welcome to the 45th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by...
buttondown.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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🎙️Truly cannot wait for this episode to be released next Monday -- my conversation with @hypervisible.bsky.social about the consequences of AI on learning and writing and being. And much more.

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December 11, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Guess I can announce that my book, The Fourth Room: A Black Studies Approach to AI, is now under contract with the University of California Press…
December 11, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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BREAKING: NYPD has located the tunnel the assassin used to escape the city but found it to be merely a painting on a brick wall and smashed up several squad cars upon trying to enter it
December 9, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Coming soon…
December 4, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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An outlier in our program of in-person talks, our series of spring 2022 was held remotely in a series of webinars. Videos still linked from our site, under "recent posts," include such friends and luminaries as Yuri Furuhata, Armond Towns, Marc Steinberg, Jim Hodge, Alenda Chang, and Michael Sawyer.
Digital Culture + Media Initiative | of the Department of English
dcmi.la.psu.edu
December 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Interview w/ @brunoleipold.com

'Three traditions have usually been considered to influence Karl Marx’s work: German philosophy, British political economy, and French socialism. Perhaps surprisingly, much less attention has been paid to the influence of republicanism.'

jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...
How Karl Marx Became a Communist
In his new biography of Karl Marx, Bruno Leipold puts his subject in historical context. Marx, he tells Jacobin, was engaged in a political struggle against utopian communists and republicans unable t...
jacobin.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Haymarket Books is having a 40% off sale until the end of the year on everything including The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2061-t...
The Production of Subjectivity
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November 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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In "No God but Man," @atiyahusain.bsky.social reconceptualizes the relationship with Islam in the US by theorizing race as an epistemology using the FBI’s post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point. Read the intro for free now!
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November 26, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Good morning scholars / #AcademicSky! My phenomenal colleague Atiya Husain's (@atiyahusain.bsky.social's) book is coming out and is available for pre-order. "No God But Man" uses FBI most wanted posters to think about race, religion, and terrorism. Spread the word! www.dukeupress.edu/no-god-but-man
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM