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@fredleept.bsky.social
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Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. linktr.ee/fredleept

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Charles T. Lee @charlestlee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excited about the Author Meets Critics panel on The Art of Elastic Politics at APSA! Sept. 5, 2-3:30pm | Hynes, 304 Looking forward to being in conversation with Jinee Lokaneeta (chair), @kennan.bsky.social, Davide Panagia, @fredleept.bsky.social, @alysoncole18.bsky.social, and Karen Zivi.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Check out my former Ph.D. student Lily Luo's Substack lilywluophd.substack.com. Dr. Luo is the leading scholar of Grace Lee Boggs political thought and writing the first monograph on the topic: Learning to Transform: The Revolutionary Legacy and Lineages of Grace Lee Boggs.
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Learning to Transform | Lily W Luo, PhD | Substack
All my stray thoughts about Grace Lee Boggs, learning how to be a good relation, and visionary organizing. Click to read Learning to Transform, by Lily W Luo, PhD, a Substack publication. Launched a m...
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New Article! Check out San Lee’s most recent publication, “What affects the variation in recognizing LGBTQIA+ rights? A comparative study of Taiwan and South Korea” in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. buff.ly/ZjRzh4H
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I doubt that "internal monologues" are thing. If there is such a thing, it's more like a "dialogue" and it's not all that "internal."
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our symposium on the life and work of Kirstie McClure is now open access at _Philosophy and Global Affairs_. Thanks to Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon, Kye Barker, Arash Davari, and Megan Gallagher for bringing this writing into print (link in first comment).
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The social scientist played little or no role in disclosing truth. The Negro action movement with raw courage did it virtually alone. —Martin Luther King Jr.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Demand the impossible" is a demand. Stated as if it were possible to demand anything else.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Most people never meet a fork in the road. Most of us walk the only path we can find. Ours paths are still full of "decisions."
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The problem with disidentification is it "presupposes" identification. As cultural politics, it may even generate an identification that never existed.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Even the rules for the application of rules eventually run out. Even less are there rules for the discovery/creation of rules.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The student learns to do more and more; the expert knows how to do less and less.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What has been “internalized” cannot be “externalized.” It must be spiritually transformed.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The death of Habermas has been very revealing of how we judge the politics of political theorists.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Didn't care when they were mocking Asian shit. Don't care now that they're awarding it.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What the United States is undergoing, paradoxically, is a counter-revolution without ever having undergone a revolution.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
There's more than one way to outsource thinking to an entity that cannot think. We could do this long before AI. AI just made it easier.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Money can’t buy a lot of things. Leave it to the monied to try.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
So "immanent critique" is good, but what's better is finding (or even generating) another frame of reference. On frame work.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Student was roasting my jacket today as looking like a grandmother's table cloth. Extra credit granted lol
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A life without regret is a life without decisions. Regret is the retrospective on decision.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's particularly easy to "not judge" when you don't plan on doing anything (differently).
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/03/2026
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Julia Chu (Chinese-US, b. 1941). Yosemite Fall (2006, watercolor on rice paper).
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
When all we have are guns, all we see are targets. Shoot.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I remember a fellow grad student once said: I read Kant to learn how to think. But reading Kant is only training in thinking like a German idealist. It is no special training for thinking as such because there is no such training.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The great advantage of "desire" as an explanation is that desires seem _determinate_: we can't help what we desire; what we desire identifies us. The great disadvantage, though, is that desires seem _opaque_: we don't know what we desire; we might not even want to know.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Wait... so concept is a concept. Is metaphor a metaphor?
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Every attempt to use brutal violence to enforce USD hegemony over actual defectors increases the incentive of potential defectors to reduce their dependence on the USD.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We're talking Democrat vs Republican ("polarization") the same way one might ask which faction of eunichs is going to save the empire. What we actually need to confront and deal with is -system collapse- ("institutional decay").
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Asian Americans don't want "representation." We want to build a culture, perspective, and "identity" of our own and some of us haven't figured out a better way to say it yet.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
youtu.be/EPSH4fNYCeQ?...
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Khalil Fong (方大同) Twenty Three (才二十三) Official Music Video
YouTube video by Khalil Fong 方大同
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The "academics are radical" myth is a right wing strategy for labeling progressive neoliberalism, the dominant academic ideology, as "radicalism." It's an excuse for destroying whatever "academic freedom" is left with the destruction of academic tenure.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Being heard of..." is the basic constituent of reputation. A good anonymized and widespread reputation is fame. A good personalized and localized reputation is trustworthiness. Better famous when it comes to "influencing." Better trustworthy when it comes to action.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The resurgence of 100% Americanism, applied with special vigor against Chinese and Arab peoples, is a sign of anxiety and insecurity. A strong and confident culture is capable of learning from others; it is not afraid of interacting with anyone.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Lately, especially US liberalism (philosophy/ideology of negative liberty) is so unsure of itself that it cannot tolerate any criticism of imperialism. "What is this, the 1960s?" Precisely
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
1990s comedians were the original nihilist edge lords. They were specialists in "ironic racism," which morphed into the alibi for "ironic fascism" (alt-right, groypers, and the like). Do you remember when these fools were pretending they had anything to say about anything?
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Clip 2-Sarah Silverman's Jury Duty (Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 2001)
Sarah Silverman tries to get out of jury duty
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Even globalized and transnationalized culture is grounded in nationalized and localized activity.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Editing out "Free Palestine," but not the anti-Black slur. Right on brand, Britain. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Baftas 2026: BBC apologises for not editing out racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's
Actors Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage at the time during the award ceremony in London.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
One cannot "reason" with someone who holds unilateral power over you and hence has no "reason" to listen. They only "understand" coercion because coercion is the basis of their power over you.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Asian Americans, through no fault or credit of our own, are quickly becoming one of the most interesting things happening in this country (see 2026 Olympics). But our "institutionalized leadership," like that of the country as a whole, is not prepared to meet this moment.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The threat of "cuts" pushes precarious academic programs into playing "circle-the-wagons." I'm sorry, but I don't want to play Oregon Trail.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Why settle? Rootless cosmopolitanism is the default cultural setting for people who confuse themselves for "human capital" and receive great returns on it.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The way to get me to like the new not-Star-Trek Star Trek was to make it a teen drama. Who knew #StarfleetAcademy
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The powerful having to pretend is "hypocritical," but it also offers different and sometimes better possibilities than "masks off."
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Alysa Liu is an East Bay woman, representing Richmond/Oakland, who happens to be a world class skater. The rest is just "identity politics."
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The transparent aim of flooding the mass media with dystopian fiction is two fold: (1) things will inevitably get worse, don't bother fighting this change, just fight to "survive" (2) hey, at least you're not living in FallOut, The Last of Us, etc.; it could still be worse!
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am (we are) currently working from a simple premise: the reform potential of the academic institution is exhausted.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This AI written paper could be published in all the top political theory journals. What does this mean? It means conventions of academic writing, standards of evaluation are, even experiences of academic reading are ALREADY automated. bit.ly/4akPH45
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The Humanities Are About to Be Automated
AI can now write convincing academic papers. There’s no more room for denial.
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Not to be judgy, but no one really respects a scholar who hasn't learned anything since grad school. (I mean, publishing the same damn paper over and over is at least... instrumentally rational.)
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