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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!
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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
Berkeley, CA Beigetreten Ekim 2016
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Set aide the accuracy of this. I think a lot of elite Dems have a hard time imagining that electoral politics could be about things other than having an impressive resume.
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If there hadn't been this shift from sincerity and authenticity to what D'Ambrosio & Moeller call profilicity--2nd-order observation of the self (think of viewing oneself in terms of maximizing engagement)-- people may not have been so willing to let LLMs write for them.
Duke University Press@DukePress
The latest New German Critique issue opens with a fascinating debate about self-representation on social media, freely available through November. Read Paul J. D'Ambrosio & Hans-Georg Moeller's "From Authenticity to Profilicity": ow.ly/QX5V50voao2
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Trump doesn't understand that he won simply to contain inflation, not to control the border or to unleash the fossil fuel economy or to bring regime change to Venezuela and Iran or to abandon Ukraine or to push through regressive tax cuts. Buttigieg exposes his failures best.
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JD Vance has met the highest responsibility of his position: assassination insurance. Trump's voice has become intolerable (the lowest popularity of any President since WW 2? yup, 2024 was just a global referendum against COVID inflation), yet Vance => mass self-defenestrating
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
The D.C. insider says Vance has lost his standing as a frontrunner to the MAGA throne after a series of high-stakes flubs. thedailybeast.com/dc-insider-rev…
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@HarmlessRadio @CHSommers You are not a worthy critic. Blocked.
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The radicalization of college faculty in the US is a threat to national security.
Ian Miller@ianmSC
What’s impressive about this is that the education system didn’t just eliminate virtually all conservative thought as it moved toward left wing extremism, they got rid of almost anyone who was in the middle too. Anyone who doesn’t fully comply with the groupthink isn’t welcome.
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Hopkins seems to accept much more on unweighted GPA than test scores or weighted GPA, much less extracurriculars. It seems so obsessed with unweighted GPA that I’d guess it’s going to be missing a kind of spark in its classes. Must have figured unweighted GPA is the best way to climb rankings and appease Trump auditors.
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Not long ago, Johns Hopkins boasted high Black and Hispanic numbers. Then came SCOTUS ruling and a huge reversal:
Today, 45% of freshmen are Asian-American, up from 26% just 2 yrs ago. And that doesn't include int'l students, mostly from Asia. @elliew0lfe:
thebanner.com/education/high…
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@fredleept So no philosophy, theory or science of thinking, then? 🙃
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Terms I have little investment in, especially when they're basically used in a snobby, exclusionary, or prestige whoring way:
philosophy
theory
science
Thinking is a good enough word for a good enough activity
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@fredleept I have just had great conversations with Wendy, never took a course with her. Too close in age.
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For instance, I heard some of the greatest lectures of my life at large state schools. People like Paul Thomas and Wendy Brown could lecture. Not everything has to be done via small discussion sessions.
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I've taught in both environments (Pitzer, Pomona, Denison, UConn) and studied at big state schools (UC Berkeley, UCLA). Strong disagree.
Zena Hitz@zenahitz
Small liberal arts colleges are where real education happens. That idea that the big state school is just as good? It's a myth.
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When I took one of the late Paul Thomas’s classes there were so few people in it, it felt like a seminar. I read Schorske’s book on the SPD and much of Kolakowski’s 3 volumes of Marx critique. He didn’t assign it, but I read his book on KM and the Anararchists. There are opportunities for seminar like discussions at big state schools. Sometimes you take the seminar class even if you are not particularly interested in the material. You will end up interested.
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@fredleept I took some great lecture coursee when I was at Oberlin. Both are possible. I think one thing missing at large state schools is small undergrad seminars though
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@policytensor And Israel is placated with free rein in Lebanon?
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Read: we’ve offered full sanctions relief in exchange for Iranian concessions on the nuclear file.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
US Vice President JD Vance says if Iran commits to not have a nuclear weapon, 'we are going to make Iran economically thrive'.
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I think of how people want AI to write. People don’t use AI to express their thoughts or feelings. They use it to meet their readers’ conception of an intelligent writer or of a writer who’s effortless with the norms & style for the assignment. Everydayness will creep in.
Andro@AndroOxinu
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Ada Palmer and Bruce Schneier | The Guardian share.google/8gvxXjFBB7MkhR…
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@PhilipProudfoot Orban loses, and we drop Putin and his allies from the axis?
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Global politics is now a Catholic, Shia, Leftist coalition for humanity vs a US-Israeli axis of paedophile, tech corporations, and war criminals.
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@Tyler_A_Harper @BlackSophist_ Ok, we are not going get anywhere in discussion, the two of us; so I shall just delete my previous reply.
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The question I'd still love to see Mellon defenders grapple with: does it not give you pause that the "radical" ideas many academic humanists champion are so compatible with a billion-dollar philanthropy managed by hedge funders? Does that not say something about the ideas...?
Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost@ghostofchristo1
Working on a new essay wrestling with the implications of @Tyler_A_Harper's Mellon expose in the Atlantic and talking about just how bad the "culture war" framing is for discussing the (very real) problems facing the contemporary humanities.
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I suspect this is only the beginning of the renewal of suspensions of sanctions on Russian oil and gas sales. The suspensions, I suspect, will be longer than a month this time. globalbankingandfinance.com/us-extends-wai…
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Rakesh Bhandari retweetet
"The oil math is skewed against the White House. The blockade has a slim chance of working. Iran can remain defiant — and China unconcerned — longer than Trump can remain solvent." 🎁🔗 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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@MCoeckelbergh @mitpress Congrats. Look forward to reading. Could your book be compared to penguinrandomhouse.com/books/331339/t…?
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My new book "Artificial Religion" is published today by @mitpress !!!
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052214/…
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@kearney_melissa So they'd have to have 588,000 kids instead of just 42,000 or so? How responsive would having children over 40 be to the increasing safety and precipitously declining costs of egg freezing and IVF?
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The degree to which many commentators are wed to the “people are just delaying fertility” narrative is bizarre…
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
If you want births after 40 to make up for falling birth rates in the 20s, you will need a 2000% increase in births after 40, not a 50% increase.
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@crampell And Trump’s response to MBS’s warning was to tell him again to kiss his ass? I think this was his exact phrasing a few weeks ago. Is the US trying to create shortages in the global oil and gas market this year? Cui bono?
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Saudi Arabia has warned Iran might retaliate against Trump's "blockade" of Hormuz by closing the Bab al-Mandeb—a Red Sea chokepoint crucial for Saudi's remaining oil exports. wsj.com/world/middle-e…
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One of the more bizarre things is that those who seem most deeply troubled by the fertility collapse often seem attracted, like Musk, to Putin’s cultural politics which has substituted attempted imperial annexation of a foreign population for its failed white Christian natalism.
Rakesh Bhandari@postdiscipline
While @JesusFerna7026 and @dandolfa share with @elonmusk the view that fertility decline may be the major challenge facing humanity, none of them seems to have linked Russia's war to annex Ukraine to Russian anxiety about its population collapse. See foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/06/rus…
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