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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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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."

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.

fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The student learns to do more and more; the expert knows how to do less and less.

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.

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.

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

fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A life without regret is a life without decisions. Regret is the retrospective on decision.

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.

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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Wait... so concept is a concept. Is metaphor a metaphor?

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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.

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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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.

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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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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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.

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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Clip 2-Sarah Silverman's Jury Duty (Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 2001)

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.)