📢 “I hope Goldsmiths management reconsiders the proposed staff reductions.”
Thank you to director and Goldsmiths alum Steve McQueen for showing solidarity on the threatened job cuts which could lead to the sacking of 35% of academic staff across 11 of 18 departments.
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Several hundred students set up a non-violent anti-war protest camp at Freie Universität today. The police cleared the camp within hours — like this. The FU administration at the scene did not negotiate with the protesters. They refused to comment.

This looks totally amazing ......

A wonderful essay by Samuel McIlhagga on the Raphael Samuel essay collection, Workshop of the World, for Jacobin
Verso Books
jacobin.com/2024/05/raphae…

On Beauty never received the kind of cultural critique it needed, it was exemplary black post-feminist, and a riposte through a kind of E M Forster narrative gaze at the older generation of black London based academics in family situations..

I always read On Beauty as pro the canon and anti cultural studies !

But also the particular feel good cultural euphoria of the Blair period and at Oxford then if not now disciplinary conservatism, anti cultural studies for example Stuart Hall? Never.

Exactly

It wasn't until I watched #Defiance that I knew about the murder of Altab Ali & how it led to the resistance of the British Asian community against the British Far Right. Amongst the myriad of emotions, I felt shame that I did not know of him or this vital part of British history…

“I do keep going back to gender, even though I feel so exhausted by it and wanting very much to be liberated from it,” Judith Butler recently told Parul Sehgal. nyer.cm/rFZjh3t

Then her constant use of the phrase neoliberal immigration policies of open borders?? As well as playing into the hands of the 'our women ' in the BSW have overcome patriarchy so dont lets go back in time etc ...

Unbelievable within the first question a) De re Russia invasion? poor political choice b) shift to 'US' energy 'pure political choice' as if De ought to have stuck with cheaper Russian gas c) blame the defence of Ukraine on US too ..

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Dont agree she is part of a larger position on 'immigrants' in DE Im shocked NLR ran this but then felt the same about giving cover to ....

Is not putting the words together 'immigration' with DE birth rates in itself problematic ?

I agree and it is not a case of calling for a cancel more like editorial consistency and deeper knowledge of DE SW politics at the moment. What is needed is a full analysis and critique of these positions ..and the landscape of DE'leftism' right now

I totally agree this shocks me to the point of abandoning NLR but they also published a well known sociologist recently whose views are equally problematic .....

Important that DE audiences and readers know about this ..when I try to describe there is disbelief ...

Tomorrow! CPCP Conference 2024: Abolition and/as Activism. Friday May 3, 5PM-8:30 PM & Saturday May 4 10AM-8:30PM at The People's Forum. Honoring Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s contribution--in activism, politics, pedagogy, and theory—to an abolitionist agenda.

pcp.gc.cuny.edu/2024/04/the-ce…