Coleman Allums
@colemanallums.net
Geographer at Allegheny College | Neo-Classical Luddite
For the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
The South got something to say.
colemanallums.net
For the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
The South got something to say.
colemanallums.net
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite books:
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite books:
August 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reading Brecht again
August 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Reading Brecht again
Assigning bits of this @ajdouglas.bsky.social book in every class I’m teaching this coming term, these kids are gonna be so du Bois pilled.
July 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Assigning bits of this @ajdouglas.bsky.social book in every class I’m teaching this coming term, these kids are gonna be so du Bois pilled.
Nothing hits like a short book of theory. I get to exercise my silly little brain and it only takes me like an hour to get the thing done. Writing over 100 pages should be illegal, tiny books only.
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nothing hits like a short book of theory. I get to exercise my silly little brain and it only takes me like an hour to get the thing done. Writing over 100 pages should be illegal, tiny books only.
Tyler played this live for the first time ever in LA yesterday. When it was originally released, I saw it as a genuine act of anti-racist class solidarity and I find it difficult not to feel the same once again.
Contrast message with that of most D politicos…
Contrast message with that of most D politicos…
June 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Tyler played this live for the first time ever in LA yesterday. When it was originally released, I saw it as a genuine act of anti-racist class solidarity and I find it difficult not to feel the same once again.
Contrast message with that of most D politicos…
Contrast message with that of most D politicos…
Byung-Chul Han reconsiders power in the present age of media, tech, and Big Data, paying particular attention to how the human psyche is implicated in the struggle for freedom.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Byung-Chul Han reconsiders power in the present age of media, tech, and Big Data, paying particular attention to how the human psyche is implicated in the struggle for freedom.
What would cooperation look like across politics, economics, and broader society? And how would this differ from the status quo of liberal democracy? These are the questions at play in Bernard Harcourt’s _Cooperation_
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What would cooperation look like across politics, economics, and broader society? And how would this differ from the status quo of liberal democracy? These are the questions at play in Bernard Harcourt’s _Cooperation_
More Frankfurt and Frankfurt-adjacent stuff: Bertolt Brecht’s collected poems and Löwy’s helpful gloss on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Both incredibly evocative reckonings with history, politics, mourning, and redemption.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
More Frankfurt and Frankfurt-adjacent stuff: Bertolt Brecht’s collected poems and Löwy’s helpful gloss on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Both incredibly evocative reckonings with history, politics, mourning, and redemption.
While much of the Frankfurt School canon is, once again, distressingly relevant, I particularly like this collection of Herbert Marcuse’s essays for their concision and polemical perspectives on culture, democracy, and capitalism.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
While much of the Frankfurt School canon is, once again, distressingly relevant, I particularly like this collection of Herbert Marcuse’s essays for their concision and polemical perspectives on culture, democracy, and capitalism.
While we generally consider forgetting to be an individual annoyance (currently missing my car keys), Henry Giroux’s _The Violence of Organized Forgetting_ reminds us that remembering and forgetting are social acts that can’t be separated from the exercise and reproduction of power.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
While we generally consider forgetting to be an individual annoyance (currently missing my car keys), Henry Giroux’s _The Violence of Organized Forgetting_ reminds us that remembering and forgetting are social acts that can’t be separated from the exercise and reproduction of power.
In _The Abuse of Property_ @danielloick.bsky.social asks how we might interact with things and other people outside of the alienating logics of property that so commonly structure our connections.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In _The Abuse of Property_ @danielloick.bsky.social asks how we might interact with things and other people outside of the alienating logics of property that so commonly structure our connections.
_Mistaken Identity_ is Asad Haider’s pithy reflection on the various ways that race and class can be leveraged in service of both authoritarian and emancipatory political projects.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
_Mistaken Identity_ is Asad Haider’s pithy reflection on the various ways that race and class can be leveraged in service of both authoritarian and emancipatory political projects.
Barthe’s _Mythologies_ is a primer on how to read through and against the myths that structure our and others’ experiences of the world. For French theory, it’s quite lucid.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Barthe’s _Mythologies_ is a primer on how to read through and against the myths that structure our and others’ experiences of the world. For French theory, it’s quite lucid.
@jedpurdy.bsky.social’s _For Common Things_ is simple and sincere in its pursuit of its titular commitment.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
@jedpurdy.bsky.social’s _For Common Things_ is simple and sincere in its pursuit of its titular commitment.
Taking up the thread of abolition from du Bois and others, the late Joel Olson’s _Abolition of White Democracy_ theorizes race as a form of citizenship that mediates access to democratic self-determination
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Taking up the thread of abolition from du Bois and others, the late Joel Olson’s _Abolition of White Democracy_ theorizes race as a form of citizenship that mediates access to democratic self-determination
WEB du Bois’s magisterial work of historical sociology, _Black Reconstruction_ offers an account of the betrayal of reconstruction and the lingering project of abolition.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WEB du Bois’s magisterial work of historical sociology, _Black Reconstruction_ offers an account of the betrayal of reconstruction and the lingering project of abolition.
_Being Numerous_ is a short but punchy collection of essays by @natashalennard.bsky.social that has really helped me understand what it means to struggle—it also introduced me to the fabulous work of Paul Virilio. And it’s got some beautiful prose.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
_Being Numerous_ is a short but punchy collection of essays by @natashalennard.bsky.social that has really helped me understand what it means to struggle—it also introduced me to the fabulous work of Paul Virilio. And it’s got some beautiful prose.
Geoff Mann’s _Disassembly Required_ tackles capitalism as it exists in everyday society. I’ve taught out of this book many times and find it really accessible.
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Geoff Mann’s _Disassembly Required_ tackles capitalism as it exists in everyday society. I’ve taught out of this book many times and find it really accessible.
Another by Brown, _Undoing the Demos_
Both this book and Ruins explore how recent configurations of capitalist society have made the task of real democracy quite difficult (read: impossible)
Both this book and Ruins explore how recent configurations of capitalist society have made the task of real democracy quite difficult (read: impossible)
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Another by Brown, _Undoing the Demos_
Both this book and Ruins explore how recent configurations of capitalist society have made the task of real democracy quite difficult (read: impossible)
Both this book and Ruins explore how recent configurations of capitalist society have made the task of real democracy quite difficult (read: impossible)
Alright, I’ve got the flu and I’m tired of doomscrolling.
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alright, I’ve got the flu and I’m tired of doomscrolling.
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
Here’s some books for the present moment, pulled from my shelves. Should largely be accessible for lay readers. I’ll probably add more to this thread later!
Starting us off is Wendy Brown’s _In the Ruins of Neoliberalism_
More Frankfurt and Frankfurt-adjacent stuff: Bertolt Brecht’s collected poems and Löwy’s helpful gloss on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Both incredibly evocative reckonings with history, politics, mourning, and redemption.
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
More Frankfurt and Frankfurt-adjacent stuff: Bertolt Brecht’s collected poems and Löwy’s helpful gloss on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Both incredibly evocative reckonings with history, politics, mourning, and redemption.
While much of the Frankfurt School canon is, once again, distressingly relevant, I particularly like this collection of Herbert Marcuse’s essays for their concision and polemical perspectives on culture, democracy, and capitalism.
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
While much of the Frankfurt School canon is, once again, distressingly relevant, I particularly like this collection of Herbert Marcuse’s essays for their concision and polemical perspectives on culture, democracy, and capitalism.
While we generally consider forgetting to be an individual annoyance (currently missing my car keys), Henry Giroux’s _The Violence of Organized Forgetting_ reminds us that remembering and forgetting are social acts that can’t be separated from the exercise and reproduction of power.
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
While we generally consider forgetting to be an individual annoyance (currently missing my car keys), Henry Giroux’s _The Violence of Organized Forgetting_ reminds us that remembering and forgetting are social acts that can’t be separated from the exercise and reproduction of power.