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For The Dig newsletter I went long on academic labor, the nature of academic unions, and the structure of the university, with Temple University as my main focus example. Essentially my master theory of the political economy of academia
Mathias
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Mathias
@bucephalus424
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. PhD in history from Temple University. Dissertation on economic planning in Czechoslovakia. Interested in many things
- We need a unified aesthetic theory for why mountain/highland peoples around the world are so swagged out
- Aaron Swartz was hounded to his death by a grotesquely punitive justice system and federal prosecutors because he wanted to make articles from JSTOR free to the public and unlock human knowledge from for profit corporations. Rest in power Aaron. And let's nationalize JSTOR!Unbelievable—7 years today. RIP my darling boy.
- Once you learn to recognize "I'm just a smol bean" fascism, you see it everywhere
- A book that actively works to make the reader less intelligent by its endNow reading lol. Decided to be a sineater and check it out, will be posting through it
- Weed dad vs. the Fourth ReichIt's time
- Many of the greatest evils of our time have their origins at Stanford University
- the CIA museum features a painting of the mujahideen in Afghanistan using Stinger missiles
- It's crazy how you can trace the entire history of capitalism via Ursula van der Leyen's family tree. She's like the ultimate incarnation of the bourgeoisie, a capitalist Muad'Dib
- Everyone in Russia protesting the war is a hero
- ABBA is the rare case of a postwar band that could have existed in the exact same form and made the exact same music and would have been just as successful in a world where the Nazis won
- Psychoanalysis is back, phenomenology is back, orthodox Marxism is back, the intellectual milieu of the late Habsburg Empire is back
- Author of a good book on the labor politics of the occupied territories and the labor exploitation of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israel
