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"That’s why America’s vast therapeutic brain trust has steadily eradicated the language of solidarity and class consciousness, honed through collective struggle, and replaced it with exhortations to “do what you love” and “live your best life.”" thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me…
Der Rant ist großartig!
"Neoliberalism has not only given us crippling anxiety, but also its apparent remedy. It is no coincidence that as we become more nervous, “wellness” and “self-care” have become mainstream industries."
"We are terrified to make even one tiny mistake, yet at the same time we are faced with a ruling class that makes little effort to hide its flagrant misdeeds: graft, corruption, and perhaps most appalling in our age of so-called meritocracy, sheer incompetence." #Maaßen #Seehofer
Lest das, es ist wirklich gut! thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me…
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Der Begriff "Narrativ" ist zwar in aller Munde ist, aber es gelingt den Kultur-/Literaturwissenschaften nur bedingt die zentralen Inhalte des "Narrative Turn" zu kommunizieren. Gerade bei Anlässen wie der Causa Rotelius wäre das jedoch hilfreich. #RelevanteLiteraturwissenschaft
Spätestens seit dem Narrative Turn ist es ein Allgemeinplatz, dass das Erzählen nicht nur etwas ist, was in ästhetischen Texten stattfindet, sondern ein grundlegender Modus menschlichen Weltzugangs.
Ob wir es Homo Narrans (Walter Fisher) oder storytelling-animal (Alasdair Macintyre) nennen; Hayden White oder Albrecht Koschorke heranziehen, die Wichtigkeit des Erzählens ist mannigfaltig kulturtheoretisch bearbeitet worden.
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Ich habe heute mit Studierenden einen recht anspruchsvollen Text mit hohem Abstraktionsniveau besprochen, d. h. viel Terminologie, viel Voraussetzung bekannter Konzepte der Ideengeschichte usw.. Wir sprachen dann darüber, wie man mit solchen Texten als Anfänger*in umgehen kann.
In einer idealen Situation würde man natürlich alles nachschlagen. Was passiert jedoch, wenn man beim nachschlagen auf eine terminologische Irrfahrt gerät und am Ende das Gefühl hat überhaupt nichts mehr zu verstehen?
Gerade bei Begriffen, die komplexe Themenfelder anschneiden (in unserem Textbeispiel beispielsweise Metaphysik, Ontologie und Idealismus) kann man sich natürlich beim Nachschlagen unglaublich verzetteln.
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Ich möchte kurz einige lose Überlegungen formulieren, zur Verwendung rassistischer, sexistischer und anderweitig diskriminierender Begriffe in literarischen Texten, die bei großen Wettbewerben gelesen werden:
Immer wieder wird das Rollenprosa-Argument herbeigeführt, das ungefähr so funktioniert: Um bestimmte Figuren vernünftig zu charakterisieren, benötige ich bestimmte Worte, da ansonsten die Figur falsch gezeichnet wird.
Das bedeutet, wenn ich einen sexistischen und rassistischen alten Grantler beschreibe, dann muss ich eben diese Wörter verwenden um Plausibilität zu erzeugen oder die Figur stimmig zu zeichnen
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This was one of the best & most nuanced conversations I've ever had about #class & #poverty in America (& that intro!😭 Wow, thank you, @thebradking).

1 of the only podcasts I coulda talked abt the significance of po' white #RuthLangmore from @ozark wearing a #Tupac shirt.🔥🔥🔥
Wow - I forgot about all the cool stuff we discussed: state-level poverty programs, switching to a service-based economy in rural areas, the Case-Deaton white death paper, the liberal elite write-off of working class whites, white economic privilege, & class anger/resentment.
...specific ways for historians to get *real* history to average Americans, how to combat racism through class & labor issues, the pain & anguish of the "psychic death" of rural whites, & adapting a federal jobs program to the state level...
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America Will Win the Global Race to 5G

@drawandstrike @HNIJohnMiller @catesduane @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @GodlessNZ @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum

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In the information age, the nation that leads the world in wireless technology wins. To keep America’s edge, we must accelerate our development and deployment of 5G—
the next-generation wireless network that can move massive amounts of data at exponentially faster speeds than existing 4G LTE networks.
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Class day! For my Twitter auditors, today we'll be discussing Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Vol II, Part II, Ch. 1-8) and Robert Putnam's book, Bowling Alone. Specifically, we're going to discuss the formation of "social capital" in our current climate 1/
I highly recommend Putnam's book in its entirety, but this page has a useful summary of the concepts of "bonding" and "bridging" and why they are important for the health of American society 2/ beyondintractability.org/bksum/putnam-b…
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Maybe we should listen to the wisdom of those who have had their country torn apart by sectarianism. Here’s what @crookedshore says are the steps to demonizing the other:
1. Assumption of Malign Intent:
“they intended to cause the harm that we experienced”

2. Distrust:
“every idea or statement by them is wrong, or proposed for dishonest reasons”

3. Externalisation of Guilt:
“everything bad or wrong that has happened to us is their fault”
4. Attribution of Evil:
“They want to destroy us and what we value most and must therefore be destroyed themselves”

5. Zero-Sum Interests:
“everything that benefits them, harms us and vice versa”
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I saw George Takei speak last night about his life and career.
A life that has seen Japanese internment camps, the violence that accompanied the civil rights era, the struggle for LGBT recognition and basic dignities.
And a career that saw him offered roles as humiliating stereotypes and having to keep his most important relationships a secret to protect it.
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White women are saying "Becky is a slur." Y'all wrong. it's not a slur, but trust- I'm in your corner on this one, white women.
I hope and pray Becky does become a slur. I hope It becomes so offensive that we have to write it like b*cky.
And We can't say it on tv or in public but we still whisper it when you walk past, hoping you hear it.
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