Janet McIntosh

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Review: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Janet McIntosh (2025): SUMMARY Janet McIntosh’s Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics explores how language sustains the moral, psychological, and political structures of modern warfare.… dlvr.it/TNmPPv

“The patches reduce the Houthis to the status of a not-quite-human, semi-alien Other. So the enemy is given quasi-racialized and subhuman status, which makes it easier to kill them,” @janetmc6 told @theintercept.

America's Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag interc.pt/3UMkzSR by @nickturse interc.pt/3UMkzSR

Veterans invited: a conversation with James Yee, the Guantanamo Bay chaplain who reported prisoner abuse and was accused of spying for Al Qaeda. Also poetry and performance by the inimitable Jan Barry and Jenny Pacanowski.

We condemn this latest episode of senseless violence and reiterate our call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths across the Strip. Enough is enough!

📢 We call for the unequivocal protection of all medical facilities, staff and civilians across the Gaza Strip.

@kiramungai @nyeusi_waasi Thank you! And I really appreciate Carolyn Martin Shaw's book, too...📚

@nyeusi_waasi I just finished this Unsettled by Janet McIntosh is such a great follow up @janetmc6

The PDF link of : "Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya" by Carolyn Martin Shaw pdfdrive.com/download.pdf?i…

With great pleasure, we present the opening publication of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies, our "Issue Zero." With this issue, the journal is born. Many thanks! jrws.berkeley.edu/issues @UCBerkeley @CasMudde @TerriGivens @Ahmed1Hilal ....and more. Please share far and wide!

*Thank you*, Kennedy. That is an honor.

‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics bit.ly/3IuJODK

In today's episode, @plotznik & @efanthro spoke with linguistic anthropologist @janetmc6 about the language of alt-right movements & the implausible deniability of "Let's go Brandon," unpacking the power of semiotic callousing. Listen Here: megaphone.link/NBN6612319971

@profsamperry You can DM or email me for a copy of the Book of Q that I allude to here: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

“Through such repeated associations, the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” becomes saturated with the notion that the right wing is—or will be—in combat with an existential enemy.” Janet McIntosh (@janetmc6) on the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo. ow.ly/Naxh50KOwu2

@andreabeltrama @josephwilsonca @news4anthros @AmericanAnthro @RivistaStudio That is very cool, Andrea. I just ran the first few paragraphs through my translator and I see we both seized on the way the phrase implicitly critiques the censors! Thank you for sharing this... I will keep reading. :)

@janetmc6 @josephwilsonca @news4anthros @AmericanAnthro Great article! And textbook example of so many meaning making mechanisms at once. (btw: I wrote something similar for Italian magazine @RivistaStudio only available in Italian.) rivistastudio.com/lets-go-brando…

Incisive comments on the 'Let's Go Brandon' slogan currently circulating amongst the right in the US: "the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo" by @JanetMc6 in @news4anthros by @AmericanAnthro anthropology-news.org/articles/lets-… #AnthroTwitter #LingTwitter

Trump is now overtly aligning himself with QAnon. Here are some reasons why that group makes some folks feel powerful: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

And OF COURSE, @H_Oliaei86 the man himself!!!

@efanthro @BrandeisGSAS @brandeisanthro1 @AmyHanes7 @manigarm our PhDs are 🏋️.

Another fantastic dissertation: Houman Oliaei, on the politics of recognition among displaced Yezidis of Iraqi Kurdistan. Incredible, improbable fieldwork, great writing. (@ElizabethCDunn says best diss she's seen in 10 years.) Book contract! 🥇