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erica robles anderson

@ericara.bsky.social
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professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast. (@fstflofscholars over yonder)

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Anna Gát @annagat.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
On Thursday, Interintellect goes ABUNDANCE! A deep dive into how to do the economy better 🍇 Hosted by @ericara.bsky.social | In partnership with Otterpine Books helping indie authors worldwide! interintellect.com/salons/gener...
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Generation Hope: How Inclusive Economics can help us thrive— A conversation with Arunjay Katakam
Climate crisis, economic instability, and vast income inequality across the globe — it is easy to get discouraged by the scale and complexity of the challenges we face. A new book argues there is also...
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We are now accepting submissions for the 5th annual American Religion Dissertation Prize. More details here, and spread the word! www.american-religion.org/announcements
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Announcements — American Religion
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fantastic.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/05/2025
Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I love how the kids say “search it up” — feel right.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
If dictatorship was really based on charisma, these would be the United States of Natasha Lyonne.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
My book has a pub date and website!
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day! (sound on)
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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Come! @reecepeck.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com have written some of the very best stuff for understanding the styles and coalitions that bind and sustain the current right.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
April evening, NYC 2025 It’s good to have the light back.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Come! @reecepeck.bsky.social and @rushkoff.com have written some of the very best stuff for understanding the styles and coalitions they bind and sustain the current right.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Incoherence isn’t so much a sign of hypocrisy as coalitional speech. The voice of the politician speaks many ways at once. It’s all umbrella and dog whistle, or strategic ambiguities — necessarily so.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I love the phrase “keep your powder dry.”
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Waking up to a downstairs piano-violin father-son duet. Perfect Sunday.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Friday DOGE fired almost everyone at NEH. UVA, VaTech, etc should be staffing up with this expertise ASAP. Also NIH, NSF, NEA.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sometimes a writing project takes so long because first you have to build a language world. If you want to eat an apple, solve for Creation etc.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
World circuit breaker.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Working on a piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.
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Sir Kumpference @kumpf.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Reading Thucydides now and man is it hitting a bit too close to home
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Peter Van Dijck @petervandijck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
See also, the opening credits of Star Wars
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The Peloponnesian War starts as Athens is taxing the shit out of allies for access to its markets (ahem, tariffs) to pay for building its walls.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Rallies tracked by Hands Off. Cool interface for collective representations of collective action.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It’s the very little things.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What if we begin with a different model?
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Yes, university STEM research has produced many wonderful innovations and products, but we need to move beyond pure transactional thinking about value. Research in the social sciences and humanities is just as valuable, as is education in writing and thinking. That should be part of the narrative.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Too many people and institutions with ample power and resources to defend themselves nevertheless have refused to stand up to MAGA intimidation. Instead, they have betrayed fundamental values that are the cornerstone of our democracy.” —@jenrubin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Cowardice and Capitulation Stain the Legacy of Once-Esteemed Mega Law Firm
Paul, Weiss joins the list of institutions and individuals with ample resources to defend themselves, who nevertheless have refused to stand up for justice in the face of MAGA intimidation
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
academics of all kinds! our university presidents won't organize and align to vociferously defend the public goods of teaching, research, knowledge, well-being, economic development, and public health, but we can! sign! docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education
Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
sign, share, tell your colleagues and pals, build bridges with your campus and your town
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"What has made our universities the greatest in the world, however, is not just the quality of our undergraduate education, but our ability to fulfill one of the central quests of modern life: the production of new knowledge thru discoveries that change the world." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
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Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It's all well n'good reading what great thinkers understood of the world, but unless you figure out what you understand of the world, you'll be left with a simplified & paraphrased version of someone else's ideas. Dwelling, reconsidering, & reverie is how you think anew.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It is not so much the systems as the conditions of systems.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I wonder if people will develop a tacking back and forth between here and there for vibes. There will become “places I’m ok fighting w/people” and here will be like “liberal night time news” vibe.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The situation w/universities and the government is so frustrating. The lines of attack were years in the making and not hidden at all. To be caught flat footed now, as if nothing can be done save react or comply, is poor planning.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/03/2025
“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/colu...
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Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...
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Joel grayson webbeR @j15r.com · 15/03/2025
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane, [...] If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.” This is beyond the pale. Our universities must resist.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Students were told for years that, actually, hate speech was protected speech and what was needed at universities. They were told that heckling such speech was itself a sign of intolerance.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The incoherence of MAGA really bothers brains. For the disbeliever it seems implausibly absurd. They keep pointing at evidence to the contrary — corruption, hypocrisy, stupidity, cruelty, mendacity —and grow frustrated that it will not move the needle clean. …
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Achilles moping on the beach. This, too, is part of the process
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Late Bloomer Red Amaryllis March 2025
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can read about Rutherford and many more of these "constant gardeners of white supremacy" in this excellent book. "Moms for Segregation" we might call them today. www.google.com/books/editio...
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Mothers of Massive Resistance
Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers o...
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Woke up thinking about civic architecture.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are all angels and djinn these days, circulating where we are not.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“The best hair cuts are where the struggle is,” he explains.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Less Cathedral and bazaar, more planetary carnival.
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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I woke up thinking about the internet. In my lifetime, billions of people began communicating with one another across the planet, daily. It is hard to overstate the significance of this shift for our species.
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