The problem with disidentification is it "presupposes" identification. As cultural politics, it may even generate an identification that never existed.

Even the rules for the application of rules eventually run out. Even less are there rules for the discovery/creation of rules.

The student learns to do more and more; the expert knows how to do less and less.

What has been “internalized” cannot be “externalized.” It must be spiritually transformed.

The death of Habermas has been very revealing of how we judge the politics of political theorists.

Didn't care when they were mocking Asian shit. Don't care now that they're awarding it.

What the United States is undergoing, paradoxically, is a counter-revolution without ever having undergone a revolution.

There's more than one way to outsource thinking to an entity that cannot think. We could do this long before AI. AI just made it easier.

Money can’t buy a lot of things. Leave it to the monied to try.

So "immanent critique" is good, but what's better is finding (or even generating) another frame of reference. On frame work.

Student was roasting my jacket today as looking like a grandmother's table cloth. Extra credit granted lol

A life without regret is a life without decisions. Regret is the retrospective on decision.

It's particularly easy to "not judge" when you don't plan on doing anything (differently).

BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

Julia Chu (Chinese-US, b. 1941). Yosemite Fall (2006, watercolor on rice paper).

When all we have are guns, all we see are targets. Shoot.

I remember a fellow grad student once said: I read Kant to learn how to think. But reading Kant is only training in thinking like a German idealist. It is no special training for thinking as such because there is no such training.

The great advantage of "desire" as an explanation is that desires seem _determinate_: we can't help what we desire; what we desire identifies us. The great disadvantage, though, is that desires seem _opaque_: we don't know what we desire; we might not even want to know.

Wait... so concept is a concept. Is metaphor a metaphor?

Every attempt to use brutal violence to enforce USD hegemony over actual defectors increases the incentive of potential defectors to reduce their dependence on the USD.

We're talking Democrat vs Republican ("polarization") the same way one might ask which faction of eunichs is going to save the empire. What we actually need to confront and deal with is -system collapse- ("institutional decay").

Asian Americans don't want "representation." We want to build a culture, perspective, and "identity" of our own and some of us haven't figured out a better way to say it yet.

The "academics are radical" myth is a right wing strategy for labeling progressive neoliberalism, the dominant academic ideology, as "radicalism." It's an excuse for destroying whatever "academic freedom" is left with the destruction of academic tenure.

Being heard of..." is the basic constituent of reputation. A good anonymized and widespread reputation is fame. A good personalized and localized reputation is trustworthiness. Better famous when it comes to "influencing." Better trustworthy when it comes to action.

The resurgence of 100% Americanism, applied with special vigor against Chinese and Arab peoples, is a sign of anxiety and insecurity. A strong and confident culture is capable of learning from others; it is not afraid of interacting with anyone.

Lately, especially US liberalism (philosophy/ideology of negative liberty) is so unsure of itself that it cannot tolerate any criticism of imperialism. "What is this, the 1960s?" Precisely

1990s comedians were the original nihilist edge lords. They were specialists in "ironic racism," which morphed into the alibi for "ironic fascism" (alt-right, groypers, and the like). Do you remember when these fools were pretending they had anything to say about anything?

Even globalized and transnationalized culture is grounded in nationalized and localized activity.

Editing out "Free Palestine," but not the anti-Black slur. Right on brand, Britain. www.bbc.com/news/article...

One cannot "reason" with someone who holds unilateral power over you and hence has no "reason" to listen. They only "understand" coercion because coercion is the basis of their power over you.

Asian Americans, through no fault or credit of our own, are quickly becoming one of the most interesting things happening in this country (see 2026 Olympics). But our "institutionalized leadership," like that of the country as a whole, is not prepared to meet this moment.

The threat of "cuts" pushes precarious academic programs into playing "circle-the-wagons." I'm sorry, but I don't want to play Oregon Trail.

Why settle? Rootless cosmopolitanism is the default cultural setting for people who confuse themselves for "human capital" and receive great returns on it.

The way to get me to like the new not-Star-Trek Star Trek was to make it a teen drama. Who knew #StarfleetAcademy

The powerful having to pretend is "hypocritical," but it also offers different and sometimes better possibilities than "masks off."

Alysa Liu is an East Bay woman, representing Richmond/Oakland, who happens to be a world class skater. The rest is just "identity politics."

The transparent aim of flooding the mass media with dystopian fiction is two fold: (1) things will inevitably get worse, don't bother fighting this change, just fight to "survive" (2) hey, at least you're not living in FallOut, The Last of Us, etc.; it could still be worse!

I am (we are) currently working from a simple premise: the reform potential of the academic institution is exhausted.

This AI written paper could be published in all the top political theory journals. What does this mean? It means conventions of academic writing, standards of evaluation are, even experiences of academic reading are ALREADY automated. bit.ly/4akPH45

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Not to be judgy, but no one really respects a scholar who hasn't learned anything since grad school. (I mean, publishing the same damn paper over and over is at least... instrumentally rational.)

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The world is not divided into disciplines and departments; only the university is.

"If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha" (good advice for all NAME-ists)

Past thinkers discussed how to establish good institutions out of bad people. Our task here and how is to see how to disestablish bad institutions made of good people.

Notice that the type to say that college/university is not a place to explore interests, passions, and ethics never explain where the place to pursue such things is.

The dominance of quantitative methods is clearly a claim of epistemology. But it is more deeply a claim of ontology (reality is structured like "data"... the stand in for capital). It is, at a yet deeper level, a claim of -axiology- (it is good for this analysis of data to control/create "reality").

The ethics of self-assertation, unsurprisingly, suspects that all modesty is false.

From UConn IIREP MA student Adam Vine caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/philoso...