I haven't had grader's block but I think it's important to remember that grading can quickly cause decision fatigue as you need to make lots of small decisions. Break down the marking into small chunks and do 2-3 papers at a time. If you can't do that you might have a workload issue so join a union

Reading this, written by a comrade, and it's ace books.google.com.au/books/about/...

Ben Rampton's 'Language in Late Modernity' can help here

Hey I'm actually reading in my discipline again

ignoring the fact that race, class, and language all overdetermine each other within the capitalist totality. The real solution to 'linguistic racism' is ending colonial capitalism, but that solution isn't apparent when thought is mediated through reified disciplines

Take, for example in my discipline, 'linguistic racism'. The solution to this issue is so often 'don't be racist to speakers of different language',

Even those in the non-electoral left should mobilise because otherwise Mamdani will just get coopted - it's already started happening. They need a force in the streets to pull things to the left

I'm currently dipping into this, and it seems very good

This had such a good explanation and application of Marxist thinking. Winant's work is so good

Apart from reading on subsumption for something I've been working on, I've been reading these recently: