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How do folks think the differences between psychological subjectivity and the sorts of subjectivities theorized in the humanities? Any...

How do folks think the differences between psychological subjectivity and the sorts of subjectivities theorized in the humanities? Any favourite literature?

(thankfully, I got my work permit, so this time I was granted a few more years of reprieve)

(thankfully, I got my work permit, so this time I was granted a few more years of reprieve)

I was reading Stoner on the bus, drawn to what it says about life in the university, when I got an email saying there was an update on my...

I was reading Stoner on the bus, drawn to what it says about life in the university, when I got an email saying there was an update on my work permit application. Didn't have the immigration portal's login details on me, so I spent the next few hours anxious if I was still going to have the life I had begun to relate to. Every so often, immigration regimes will remind you that almost none of the threads of your life are yours to unspool.

Very excited to be moderating this panel on the cultural stakes of authenticity & mis-/dis-info. Happening Thursday at 12 ET/9 am PST,...

Very excited to be moderating this panel on the cultural stakes of authenticity & mis-/dis-info. Happening Thursday at 12 ET/9 am PST, with Elisha Lim from UPenn, Christina de Castell from
the Vancouver Public Library, Divyani Motla from Jamhoor, and Sarah Nguyễn from UWashington, Would love to see folks there!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/digital-policy-rounds-misdisinformation-and-the-question-of-authenticity-tickets-530757478907

My MA thesis is finally live in its entirety on the SFU library! https://summit.sfu.ca/item/35747 Happy to send a copy if you can't...

My MA thesis is finally live in its entirety on the SFU library! https://summit.sfu.ca/item/35747
Happy to send a copy if you can't access this; always down to talk logistics (ha)

I am very smart

I am very smart

seems to me that a significant problem with political pedagogy is that learning happens best in small, semi-structured spaces for...

seems to me that a significant problem with political pedagogy is that learning happens best in small, semi-structured spaces for interaction and thoughtful discussion, but organizing and mobilization often requires education at scale. How to work through this tension?

Tár is incredible, a complex and complicated masterpiece deserving of its protagonist, but most of all it has given me one of my favourite...

Tár is incredible, a complex and complicated masterpiece deserving of its protagonist, but most of all it has given me one of my favourite subtle insults in "ultrasonic epistemic dissident"

all the time I spend on TikTok has led me to believe that we're seeing the sharpest contradictions of technosocial subjectivity emerge...

all the time I spend on TikTok has led me to believe that we're seeing the sharpest contradictions of technosocial subjectivity emerge with gen z. Just watch the #corecore videos/collages, one of the comments I saw on one such video was "this feels like an essay with no thesis"

been quite sick so I've been working from home all week; the upside to this has been that I've spent hours rediscovering my somewhat...

been quite sick so I've been working from home all week; the upside to this has been that I've spent hours rediscovering my somewhat long-lost love for hip-hop *albums*. Figured I'd share a few from across the years that have been part of this revival (no Eminem):

#1. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream, Open Mike Eagle (https://open.spotify.com/album/1VDnqZVFSg0xVF104kaIix?si=2-X1EGRFRhetZn8oEqO3mA)

the interplay of buildings and bodies here is such a strong, well-done concept + Mike's such an assured lyricist, the mood set here is so immersive

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An under-appreciated element of this Twitter-censoring-BBC fiasco (https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/) is...

An under-appreciated element of this Twitter-censoring-BBC fiasco (https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/) is that it reveals how much of the Indian anti-colonial discourse at large relies on a) liberals maintaining geopolitical realism, that the documentary should be resisted because we don't need 'the British' to still tell us about our problems; that leads to b) pretending we can access some pure pre-colonial 'indigenous' episitemology and national ontology that will stave off The InvadersTM

this has nothing to do w my wonderful co-author btw! these conversations and thinking just get me more tired than I'd expected to be

this has nothing to do w my wonderful co-author btw! these conversations and thinking just get me more tired than I'd expected to be

spent today doing intensive co-authoring and oh god maybe I made a mistake wanting to spend my life doing intellectual work, this...

spent today doing intensive co-authoring and oh god maybe I made a mistake wanting to spend my life doing intellectual work, this stuff's exhausting

Realizing that boosting doesn't do the work of interaction that QTing does, but perhaps this is better. Forces you to persist with your...

Realizing that boosting doesn't do the work of interaction that QTing does, but perhaps this is better. Forces you to persist with your takes rather than piggyback off someone else

I'm glad this exists, it is really good work...

I'm glad this exists, it is really good work
https://globalvoices.org/2023/01/11/undertones-in-india-going-undercover-in-hindu-supremacy-networks/

After traveling a bunch all through late '22, including back to my hometown in India, it's a strange feeling to realize that coming...

After traveling a bunch all through late '22, including back to my hometown in India, it's a strange feeling to realize that coming back to Vancouver feels like coming home. I almost...missed the city

As someone who was once planning to write a thesis on Mastodon v. Twitter I think one if my least favourite things about Mastodon is how...

As someone who was once planning to write a thesis on Mastodon v. Twitter I think one if my least favourite things about Mastodon is how much of the conversation on this platform centers on the mechanics of the platform itself. I don't buy the argument that Mastodon isn't better owing to its technological affordances - imo it is - but for me too much of the conversation on its culture is tied up w its form

which way modern man

which way modern man

I went to grad school so I could win non-academic debates with my esoteric knowledge about the history of science

I went to grad school so I could win non-academic debates with my esoteric knowledge about the history of science