Marcus • Leis Allion

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« A Critique of Critiques of Blandification » 
by Marcus Leis Allion @_Undt 
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Columbia University, once the academic home of Edward Said, has chosen to become the canary in the mine of neofascist, zionist, Trumpist bullying. In so doing, Columbia has ceased to be a university. Goodnight Columbia. No amount of luck can save you now. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

"There is a decimation of higher education taking place, the government has a role to play in this and MPs need to start asking questions in Parliament. Otherwise, real damage could be done to higher education in this country." @johnmcdonnellMP at our #STOPtheCUTS rally 👇

@BernardHarcourt @HarvardHBS @ColumbiaCCCT @ColumbiaLaw @Columbia_PolSci @global_thoughts @ICLSColumbia @EHESS_fr @laboIRIS @Columbia @ColumbiaFaculty which is the form of a spectacular world, where everything ceases to be or have any sense and value, being and having only the empty form of senseless sense and valueless value. — Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

@BernardHarcourt @HarvardHBS @ColumbiaCCCT @ColumbiaLaw @Columbia_PolSci @global_thoughts @ICLSColumbia @EHESS_fr @laboIRIS @Columbia @ColumbiaFaculty The great confusion is to think that the new fascism that afflicts the world of today wants in fact a return to conservative values and senses, well, these would require a world structure entirely different from that which the new fascism intends to consolidate,

My new article on the Frankfurt School debate over totalitarian state capitalism under the Nazi regime (Neumann, Pollock, Adorno) titled "The Will to Chaos" just published in @HarvardHBS's Business History Review and is available in Open Access online here doi.org/10.1017/S00076…

If it's not valuable, why are you stealing it?

RIP Fredric Jameson (1934-2024)

The Rise of the Corporate University in the UK by Huw Beynon globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/the-r…

@silvio_lorusso We do not lack communication, on the contrary we have too much of it. — Deleuze & Guattari

Actually, don't send emails. Just don't send them at all. Quit communication

@AaronBastani Phillips compactmag.com/article/how-th… Dean versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne… Butler versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

These morons are doing the *opposite* of expressing solidarity with Palestinians, and helping the cause of Palestinian self determination. They are idiots helping to undermine the tens of thousands of others on this demo. Childish indecency isn’t politics.

@silvio_lorusso Podcasts replaced blogs?

@silvio_lorusso Long form texts take time — researching, writing, collegial dialogue and know-how — that is never adequately remunerated making it difficult for many. Universities used to provide those interested in writing/research with a certain stability and/or funding.

Is graphic design criticism dead or simply paywalled?

Frédéric Lordon, End of Innocence newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… via @newleftreview

“There is a pervading, top-down and patronising mythos of the ‘general reader’ – an idea peddled about who can tolerate what under the premise that general audiences aren’t able to manage complicated concepts”: Rachael Allen on class and publishing: tlth.co.uk/difficultandbad

The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price. My column on a modern-day Scrooge theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@silvio_lorusso Haha

They call my design writing depressing, but have you ever been to an average design conference?

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Both Empire and Multitude were significant texts for my creative and critical understanding.

RIP Antonio Negri repubblica.it/politica/2023/…