
Gabe Salgado
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Gabe Salgado
@SalgadoGabe
political theory prof @ Trinity College // focused on race, colonialism, and Latin America // he/him // also @ https://t.co/432ypzlsT3


It’s kind of ironic how Bad Bunny was dancing on an electrical post at the Super Bowl halftime show. Puerto Rico isn’t exactly known for having reliable electricity. He could have highlighted the electrical grid crisis in PR and done some good with his platform, but he chose degeneracy!




“Intelligence Is Always Artificial” — my new essay is out now. 🚀 Per Hegel, intelligence necessarily denaturalizes. It is a *stepping outside of the self,* which AI in its immediacy and bounded algorithm can never do. Huge thanks to @apa_blog & @gbglax





In a recent @apsrjournal article, @SalgadoGabe reconsiders the history of the concept of race, challenging us to look beyond 1492 as the moment of race’s emergence. politicalsciencenow.com/rethinking-rac…

I made this graph in 2014, and a decade later I think I understand why open debate in economics declined: the peer review system took over, and the debate moved behind closed doors. This trend was, moreover, not just confined to economics. Peer review killed open debate.

In his new article in EJIR, Jacob Kripp examines how race shaped techno-scientific war in Korea in the years of 1950-1953. You can read it here: t1p.de/mt6os









