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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm stoked to say that Beneath the Wage was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize--especially honored to be in the company of so many rad scholars, especially @alybatt.bsky.social, whose book Free Gifts is AMAZING!

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This looks like an amazing resource. Digitized versions of 950 of Hall's index cards! And many other treasures.

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Stuart Hall Archiving Project

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brian D. Goldstein discusses how Max Bond initially lobbied for the National Museum of African American History and later co-designed it for @hyperallergic.com. Get @bgoldst.bsky.social’s new biography on Max Bond, out now! buff.ly/tBeJRHx

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The Overlooked Black Architect Who Shaped a Landmark Smithsonian Museum

Max Bond Jr., who lobbied for and co-designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, deserves a larger place in history.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These paragraphs on professional monopolization and the authorization of expertise through connection to ruling class patronage explains more about the transformation of higher education than most writing on the subject does these days. from Ehrenreich and English's Witches, Midwives, and Nurses

The “regulars” were still in no condition to make another bid for medical monopoly. For one thing, they still couldn’t claim to have any uniquely effective methods or special body of knowledge. Besides, an occupational group doesn’t gain a professional monopoly on the basis of technical superiority alone. A recognized profession is not just a group of self-proclaimed experts; it is a group which has authority in the law to select its own members and regulate their practice, i.e., to monopolize a certain field without outside interference. How does a particular group gain full professional status? In the words of sociologist Elliot Freidson:

A profession attains and maintains its position by virtue of the protection and patronage of some elite segment of society which has been persuaded that there is some special value in its work.

In other words, professions are the creation of a ruling class. To become the medical profession, the “regular” doctors needed, above all, ruling class patronage.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what’s the source on construction here? I’ve seen data centers vastly outpacing all other sectors in growth but I have not seen that all other construction is down. I’ve read that healthcare starts for instance are still growing.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Additionally, maybe instead of clout-chasing about some mysterious higher ed future, Cornell could have perhaps directed these resources towards higher ed’s actual present purpose: creating the conditions where people can learn without fear. Maybe that’s the problem? 🤔

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

time for a different group of people to write a report on higher ed

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Andy Hines on "The Communist Community College." Students, teachers, and lecturers included W.E.B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lloyd Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Oliver Cox, and John Killens. aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...

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The Communist Community College - Aydelotte

The New Criticism and the expanding mid-century university system that made it possible shaped the establishment of racial liberalism in the U.S. via an untenable alliance between Southern reactionari...

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Celebrating a donation for an investment in another state lol

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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...

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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big endorsement for @anothereducation.bsky.social! Download now to learn about radical ways of knowing and learning that you probably didn't already know about!

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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New thread on various aspects of university budgets at top 50 research universities. It is all available online via HERD (ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...). There is a time lag to collected data, but such as it is. One budget fact per day until I get bored.

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey 2024 | NCSES | NSF

Higher Education Research and Development Survey

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This piece by Rod Ferguson is the strongest indictment of Vanderbilt and Yale's reports on the state of academia. It's a dense piece, and takes close reading. criticalnoise.org/tragedy-at-v...

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Tragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wait until they discover their politics…

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just presented on this. the chart is from Brown’s budget report. They are $100 million short on research expenditures annually. The second is Chris Newfield reminding us that this has long been part of the budgeting picture at all research universities.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

William Claxton, "Coltrane at the Guggenheim," 1960

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished the website for our fall Public Study class on alternative schools, radical pedagogy, and learning communities! Need to fix one little technical glitch in the chronological session listing and upload my intro lesson with theoretical framing :) crc.metro.org/course/publi...

Screenshot of the class webpage, featuring a header with an illustration of cubist kids painting, followed by a chronological list of our class sessions

A grid of images -- one for each class sessions; each image features a lined-paper background and a public domain image capturing the topic or vibe of the day

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

4 yrs ago I taught a grad studio abt reimagining the academy. This fall I’m tchg a similar class — abt study more generally — for librarians, archivists, ldrs of alt schools, etc. It’s 🤗 to think about these ideas *in practice* redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/ crc.metro.org/apply/

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Redesigning the Academy 2022 – New School Graduate Workshop with Shannon Mattern

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hooray! Can’t wait to read it!

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:

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Desiring Freedom

A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

so says Stuart Hall et al in Policing the Crisis

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Agencies of public control “do not simply respond to ‘moral panics’ They form part of the circle out of which ‘moral panics’ develop. It is part of the paradox that they also, advertently and inadvertently, amplify the deviancy they seem so absolutely committed to controlling.”

Opinion
A report exposed a crisis in academia. The response was telling.
Universities risk losing public trust when political dogma outweighs truth.
Today at 6:00 a.m. ET
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(Illustration by Michelle Kondrich/The Washington Post; iStock)
Opinion by Daniel Diermeier
Daniel Diermeier is the chancellor of Vanderbilt University.

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In @dissentmag.bsky.social, I look at years of patient organizing around labor and housing that reshaped politics in Providence, feeding into the campaigns that lifted @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social and council allies like Miguel Youngs to victory last week. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent Magazine

The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The need to outsource services following redundancy programmes may be increasing universities’ costs rather than lowering them, as well as impacting staff productivity, a report warns.'

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

high Stuart Hall quotient among these

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Last four characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

making some slides for my conversation about Policing the Crisis with the Political Economy and Algorithms group later this week

a bearded Stuart Hall grins at the reconfiguration of the argument that mugging leads to policing and instead that one must start from the 'historical and structural forces that condition a vigorous reaction to 'mugging'

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this being women forced out of the workforce and also the intensification of a contest and the further degradation and racialization of those who must work and those who implicitly buy in to the “traditional family” ideology

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just finished my edits on an essay for Protean that makes the case that MAGA’s higher ed policy is built around this.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨New article 🚨 Jesse Goldstein, Ben Haskett, Caroline May, and I mobilize "critical university studies" to investigate how "sustainability" is used as a pseudo-activity. we argue higher ed depoliticizes and partitions environmental and climate action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Critical University Sustainability Studies: Evaluating <fc>STARS</fc> Reporting as Depoliticized Environmental Pseudo‐Activity

This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radic...

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 31/08/2026

Across the country, students are preparing to return to school. But no new class will be welcomed at Hampshire College. @hannahgais.bsky.social reports on the fall of that grand pedagogical experiment—and the wider crisis facing higher education.

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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

muse.jhu.edu/book/688/ Oh and also this would probably go well with the chapter on Josephine Miles at Berkeley in the Teaching Archive

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Project MUSE - The Rhetoric of Remediation

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

folks have already hit the big highlights (would 2nd Brim, Ohmann, Savonick). I’m a big fan of Jane Stanley’s Rhetoric of Remediation which is (and isn’t) about this, don’t have a strong recall vis a vis labor.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NYC: this winter we're reimagining the Jefferson School--a radical labor school--alongside an exhibit about McCarthyism at NYU. We are looking for one-off study groups on study (including what we need to do it), academic unionism, & speculative futures for learning. Short application due 9/1!

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Call for Study Groups

This fall and winter (November-March), we are excited to host a reimagining of the Jefferson School of Social Science—a radical labor school—at the Espacio de Culturas gallery at NYU in New York City,...

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lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

yale american studies is searching for a colleague (open rank) in 19th or 20th c. u.s. cultural history & cultural studies #job #americanstudies #culturalstudies apply.interfolio.com/188467

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

can’t wait to talk to you about this

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

wow, literally from central casting and suddenly Vanderbilt’s imperial brand makeover has a deeper aesthetic resonance.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Niche tweeting but can’t get this out of my mind

Isb dude Pendergast wearing imperial garb with a Diermeier cut

Daniel Diermeier in a suit looking a lot like the evil Star Wars guy in the other photo

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