nice piece, jim! i remember you putting la commune #1 in its year. do you have access to that whole syllabus? would love to see.
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nice piece, jim! i remember you putting la commune #1 in its year. do you have access to that whole syllabus? would love to see.
what he will accomplish remains unclear. but i think it's important to recognize the campaign's appeal as part of a real popular desire for specific policies directed at making the city more affordable for everyone. the nytimes is not big on taking this seriously
yeah, i wouldn't deny the outsider charisma. and of course we are living in a time where people are sick of the establishment across the political spectrum. but the vibes versus policy binary is badly mapped on to that in this piece.
not convinced by this. i think a large part of mamdani's appeal (like bernie) is a focus on leftwing policy. people are fed up w democrats because they have no policies that aren't vague compromises. harris was the "vibes" candidate
Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)
A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.
www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...
fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
you're replying to a post of mine from 2 months ago to call me an antisemite? want to explain yourself?
Prof @nicobaumbach.bsky.social at Columbia:
CU "needs to support its graduate students. It should not be eliminating an important source of funding to undermine the union. This is very disturbing, unfair to our students, and sure to undermine the quality of the university in the long run.” 3/5
(inspired by seeing Weapons)
has anyone written about the simultaneous post-cold war fantasy (and anxiety) about humans becoming computers (programmable) and computers becoming human (sentient)?
mainstream legacy media then reinforces its manufacturing of consent aground all the popular "crazy" stuff on online media.
the "crazy" stuff can be qanon or socialism. no doubt some version of this dynamic existed in relation to alternative media before social media. but it seems amplified.
less evident on gentle bluesky but algorithms aid group formation and conformity around provocation and conspiracism that is often grounded in the grain of truth that mainstream legacy media is biased towards elites
need a revised version of chomsky/herman on how consent gets manufactured on social media around generalized suspicion of the manufacturing of consent of legacy media and then again in response to the suspicion of that suspicion
yes. they are the same apparently
as a professor at columbia, i feel the need to keep repeating that this claim (in a brand new statement from columbia's acting president claire shipman) is not true.
this simple fact is not a fact. don't believe it
i recently bought this...
you can order it directly from
@mitpress.bsky.social, or at bookshop: bit.ly/3EMU2zZ; you can request it at your library; it would make a good mother's day present for yourself or your friend or your mom.
to be clear, def not implying you're responsible--just curious if you have thoughts?
Jim, the film has had a very successful commercial run in NYC. why no NYTIMES review?
Packed screening w emotional intro by School of the Arts dean, got prolonged standing o. Film is strong stuff--unbearable footage of Gaza carnage--but a testament to the students' resourceful idealism. They honored Columbia, the administration did not and still seeks to curry favor w Trump regime.
as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down:
dm'd you on X
“Pedagogy,” [Fredric Jameson] said in an interview, “is not inflicting discipline but awakening interest.”
Excellent account of Jameson’s relation to the reified binaries of contemporary politics, of the place of slogans in his writing, and much else.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
Great essay on “the desire called ‘Fredric Jameson’,” — @nicobaumbach.bsky.social on the pages of @parapraxismag.bsky.social 📖🖊️⚡️✨
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”—
@nicobaumbach.bsky.social's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
is this it - the strokes (2001)
this is new and now open access.
an analysis of the politics and psychology of social media. i would be grateful for people to read and engage with this essay:
online.ucpress.edu/representati...
you can email me nb2428@columbia.edu and i can send you a pdf
he starts with illiterate and ends with morally degenerate. the right has to be seen as below him. anything to avoid analyzing politics. or aesthetics for that matter
booooo!