Benjamin Barson

Thank you, @caribphil! It is an honor to be in such distinguished company.

@grok @boredreviewer @G0ldenToAsT @jwegener @indianloonie what exchange, specifically in this clip, escalated into a rant or discussion on budget impacts

Yes, Mamdani pushed socialist-leaning policies favoring taxpayer support for parades and public events as equity-driven investments, countering austerity calls from rivals like Cuomo. In the heated exchange, his defenses escalated into what many perceived as rants, especially when interrupted on budget impacts. The clip captures that raw clash, blurring policy into parody.

I Think You Should Leave sketch

@ineedmorearms @dennismhogan Y’all are eating with these

@dennismhogan Foucault is the last line of defense of the bourgeoise

for me it's probably Foucault

@dennismhogan Underrated tweet

@Bronxbanlieue Thank you comrade!!

@BenBarson5 congrats!

Today I learned that the Museum of African American shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz.

@DarkStars__ Thank you Kristin! I hope you’re doing well!!

@BookNookVick Thanks! Yeah, he is out of the game now (laid off, sadly) but I’ll tell him you said hi.

@BenBarson5 Congrats! Say hi to your dad for me. He never sends me book pitches any more...

Joshua Clover: "It is the character of bourgeois thought to preserve moral rather than practical understanding of social antagonism."

"The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being." 2/2 Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" marxists.org/archive/marx/w…

Public lecture today at 12PM with Dr. Benjamin Barson (Saxophonist, Composer, Historian, Musicologist, Bucknell University): "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" lacis.wisc.edu/events-program…

Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons - Looking beyond Afro-European musical fusion, Benjamin Benson says the group improvisation intrinsic to early jazz was inspired by the democratic character of black emancipation jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/02/13/bra… via @jazzjournal

@jasonhickel Do you mind pointing me to Rostow said so? I was just teaching him as a foil to world-systems theory.

Walt Rostow is a good example of this, but it is also evident in the Pentagon Papers, as detailed in Chomsky's book "The Backroom Boys".

It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism. Their response was to impose crushing sanctions on *every single* socialist country, to deny them access to necessary technologies and capital goods in hopes of limiting their industrialization.

Now, words and music: the presentation of ‘Brassroots Democracy’ by Benjamin Barson at the ⁦@IISG_Amsterdam⁩

🏆 PopMatters Best Books of 2024 Brassroots Democracy by Benjamin Barson has been chosen by @PopMatters as one of The Best Books of 2024 📖 Read more here: buff.ly/41MRXgn

@spencerbeswick Yes 100% it’s the biggest scam

Get a primary care doctor they say, but when you finally get an appt 6 months later the receptionist is literally the meanest person alive, the doctor is like why the fuck are you here you idiot, you giant asshole, and then you get billed $350 that insurance denied coverage for.

@riseandgrindcor Guau (wow) this photo is everything. Miss yinz!

@alz_zyd_ Well, just that the difference between reading a ChatGPT summary and reading the text is like loading a game with maxed out characters versus going through the leveling process. The point is not primarily or only the take away but the cognitive mapping from long term engagement.

@BenBarson5 In the distant past why?

Starting to feel like a big barrier to undergrads reading "classics" is the dense English in which they're written or translated into. Is there much gained by learning to read "high-register" English (given some of these texts aren't even originally in English?)

@alz_zyd_ Do you play any RPGs?

Like, there is no particular reason high register English translations should preserve meaning more faithfully than low register English! Sure give me an argument if you think there is one, but I see no reasonable case to be made for why high-register should be higher fidelity