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I work in an interdisciplinary studies program, and last night was trying to explain how I understand interdisciplinarity. Here are a few quick thoughts for those who may be interested. I would love to hear more ideas!
Rakesh Bhandari
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Rakesh Bhandari
@postdiscipline
Associate Dir. Interdisciplinary Studies @Cal. Don't ask me what my field is, I'm not a donkey. Twisting Marx to make capitalism stronger since I got a mortgage
- Why Nations Fail is a bit longer than The Communist Manifesto, but it is essentially The Bourgeois Manifesto. Merchants having become wealthy from the Atlantic trade win property rights in England, already primed for this breakthrough. Resultant regime called inclusive, though
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” - Replying to @JenniferVEvansAny prof consistently getting 10 likes for a tweet is playing to the crowd and failing their professorial duties for obscurantism and tedium.
- Replying to @BigMeanInternetMarx was very fearful that these resentful and untalented déclassé persons would dominate the workers’ movement. Later the fear was that they’d turn the socialist movement into a statist one, hoping to recover their class position in an administrative state.
- The CA governor Newsom referred to his state as a nation-state; the MA governor Baker is carrying out foreign policy as if his state were a nation-state, using a football team as the navy. Trump is breaking up the United States.
- Replying to @BecFalconer @AshleyJudd and 2 othersNo coincidence that the two women exuded the highest and sharpest intelligence on the screen--Sorvino and Judd. I understand the latter is now doing a masters in public policy here at Cal. I always wondered what happened to Sorvino. She was so good in The Replacement Killers.
- ‘There’s an element of the left whose top priority is not human rights, but rather being anti-imperialist: just opposing the U.S. government or any close U.S. allies such as Israel. Prioritizing that over the defense of human rights and basic life is wrong.’ Profound point 1/2“The left discredits itself if it becomes an apologist for Hamas slaughtering civilians.” I interviewed Kenneth Roth, who ran the Human Rights Watch for 29 years. He’s called Israel an “apartheid” state—but he thinks the left has let Hamas off the hook. forward.com/opinion/566525…
- Replying to @KevinMKruse and @mikepompeoPompeo cracks me up. He's done everything right: graduated top at West Point, tied himself to the Koch's, led the Benghazi hearings, sucked up to Trump, bashed the #1619Project and still can't break 2% among Republicans as their '24 nominee.
- Also a very good example that the masculine appeal of Trump is due to his coarse and unsubtle use of language. His vocabulary is limited; words have a single meaning. Sentences are short; they are hardly ever qualified in any way, and claims aren’t made with reasons and evidence.
- Ackman is going to get Oxman's Ph.D. withdrawn by admitting that her impressive scientific knowledge in her dissertation was just "uncited" Wiki text. She should demand that he stop talking about her work. This is from the MIT Handbook integrity.mit.edu/handbook/citin….
No need to subject yourself to Ackman's 5,000-word manifesto. Here's the money quote: "I am sure that when [my wife] wrote her dissertation she thought that there was nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a dictionary." - Replying to @lastpositivistI think this guy Wassily Leontief won a Nobel Prize. Here's what he had to say about Marxism as a predictive science.
- Replying to @KevinMKruse and @lionel_trollingThe "saving the West" part is as interesting as the "men of action" part. Saving the West from what? Multicultural democracy? Social democracy?
- Replying to @JohnHMcWhorterNice try. You wrote: "I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon because the surrounding noise would have been not birds or people walking by in the hall" as if those are things that Cage wanted people to pay attention to. Nope.
