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Moira Weigel

@moiraweigel.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外

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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this morning the 3 y/o woke up at 5 am & when I went to get her she looked me in the eyes and said flatly: “giddyup”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I’ve been reading Muskism. I know I’m annoying with this BUT every evil person isn’t dumb. and every evil person being dumb on X isn’t merely dumb. It’s very much worth your time to parse why Musk uses this rhetoric the way that he does.
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
trying to hide out and write on campus I keep getting compliments on my @suhrkamp.de hat
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
6/30/71: Mike Nichols' brilliant Carnal Knowledge (W Jules Feiffer) w/Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret More: Us: midcenturycinema.org/2016/11/06/n... @moiraweigel.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/carnal-knowl...
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
just sent to me by @quinnslobodian.com from ChatGPT when it’s right it’s
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 02/06/2026
Upcoming LaborTech Speaker Series @ June 4, 10am ET (US) Lindsey Cameron and Moira Weigel, “Nothing New Under the Sun: The Journey of Sponsored Entrepreneurship From Amway to Uber” Please RSVP to Angelica angelica.martinez.ochoa@gmail.com
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 28/05/2026
Ambitious tech founders, VCs, and investors are bypassing Silicon Valley to pay up to $9,000 for firsthand access to China’s hyper-efficient manufacturing and AI ecosystems restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-touri…
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China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/05/2026
Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In der @woz.ch bespricht heute auch @raulzelik.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2620/sachbuc...
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Sachbuch: Polarisierung nach Gutsherrenart
Ein neues Buch nimmt das rechtspopulistische Unternehmertum ins Visier – und hinterfragt gängige Deutungen der autoritären Wende.
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Louis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Ein wichtiges Buch…Francis Dupuis-Déri gibt nicht nur Hélène Rytmann (Legotien) ihre Geschichte zurück, sondern legt auch offen, wie Louis Althusser, Weggefährten und sogar Teile der feministischen Theorie den Mord an einer Frau umdeuteten.
Cover von Francis Dupuis-Déris Buch „Althussers Femizid“.
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#Philosophy #NationalDefence #AI #Technology #Fascism #PoliticalPhilosophy @moiraweigel.bsky.social @anthbrtn.com @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social Check out Moira Weigel's essay here boundary2.org/2020/07/moir... and Anthony Burton's book meson.press/books/algori... and hope to see you on Tuesday!
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Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/05/2026
I had such a great time digging into “Muskism” with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com. It really gives us a lot to ponder about the system we’re living in and how central Elon Musk has been to helping define it for his own benefit. Highly recommend grabbing a copy of the book!
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 08/05/2026
Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
this bill authorizes the NSF to provide grants for incorporating "AI literacy" into K-12 education. So infuriating to allocate federal grants to create a system for which profits funnel directly back to Big Tech. Further infuriating that this is proposed while the NSF is under-funded & under attack
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Amadeus Ulrich @amadeusulrich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Please share this widely: there are various postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in political theory, philosophy, and the social sciences at Normative Orders in Frankfurt!
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
excellent piece
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Christian Bettges @chbettges.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"Staat und Techunternehmen sollen über kurz oder lang zu einer Einheit verschmelzen.Als »Muskismus« haben der Historiker Quinn Slobodian und der Tech-Autor Ben Tarnoff diese Konstellation in ihrem vor Kurzem erschienenen gleichnamigen Buch bezeichnet." www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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(S+) Meinung: Die Techmogule setzen auf Regime-Change – Meinung
US-Techkonzerne folgen nicht einfach Donald Trump: Sie wollen selbst Staaten umbauen. Palantir-Chef Alex Karp hat nun seine autoritäre Vision skizziert. Das kann für Deutschland nur eine Konsequenz ha...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
Auditing AI by the Marquand House Collective
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
conforming to the genre is *more central* to the performance than *answering the specific question,* which may diverge from the expected genre. the genre of "radiologist analyzing an x-ray" does not usually contain "there is no available file to analyze" thus that answer is not typically available.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Today, @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com consider whether "Muskism" could serve as a possible successor to post-Fordism. How should we understand Muskism's distinctive regime of accumulation, and what kind of social contract does it propose to stabilize its disruptive effects?
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Muskism as Fordism
Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 21/04/2026
On the occasion of Muskism's pub day, @quinnslobodian.com and I look at the upcoming SpaceX IPO and discuss possible ways it might advance Musk's ideological project www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk Is Taking the X Playbook to Starlink
The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, it has taken on a new importance..." @moiraweigel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...
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Hating Theory Today
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/04/2026
An excerpt from the part of our book where we mustered all of our self-control and … took the category of “woke mind virus“ seriously. Turns out it’s kind of revealing about how Musk and his brethren in the Silicon Valley leadership class see politics.
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This book is going to be so important!
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@moiraweigel.bsky.social wrote one of the most enlightening (and earliest) pieces on Alex Karp's fashy PhD. She now has written this luminous piece that gives a persuasive materialist account of the right wing assault on theory. Truly brilliant stuff. direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
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Hating Theory Today
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How did Elon Musk go from Silicon Valley nerd worried about climate change to chainsaw-wielding billionaire eviscerating government agencies? On Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's incisive new book, "Muskism: A Guide For the Perplexed."
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How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 13/04/2026
New Englanders! @quinnslobodian.com and I have a couple of events coming up next week for our new book Muskism. Wed, April 22, 7pm, at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, with @jasonbjackson.bsky.social Thurs, April 23, 7pm, at Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, with @madisoncondon.bsky.social
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 15/04/2026
Grateful for Jennifer Szalai's thoughtful read of Muskism in today's NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...
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Laura Haßler @laurahaszler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ein neuer Sammelband erkundet die historischen Lebenswelten der radikalen Rechten in der Bundesrepublik. Ab jetzt im Open Access als kostenloser Download verfügbar: www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536043...
Buchcover: Lebenswelten der radikalen Rechten in der Bonner Republik.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“Labor Tech Research Network invites submissions for our fifth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. The deadline is June 1.” Via @labortechresearchnetwork.org labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
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Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 27/03/2026
new publication alert: a little commentary I wrote about 🔎 clues 🔎 and the detection of AI-generated material is out in American Ethnologist (paywalled at the moment, but hit me up if you can't access it): doi.org/10.1111/amet...
Abstract

As Al-generated images and texts proliferate, people have developed techniques for
identifying them using clues like misshapen hands in images or distinctive words in text.
This commentary situates these emerging practices within what Carlo Ginzburg called the
“conjectural paradigm”: a mode of knowing that links contemporary Al detection to older
traditions of medical symptomatology, art historical connoisseurship, and detective work.
Yet unlike the stable or slowly evolving clues of earlier conjectural practices, the signifiers of
Al involvement are rapidly shifting. This instability has consequences not only for how texts
are read but also for how they are written. Authors now navigate a landscape of suspicion
where their words may be misrecognized as machine generated. Rather than resolving into
stable literacies, our efforts to recognize Al’s handiwork reveal the deeper uncertainties of
authorship and interpretation.
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 23/03/2026
If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/03/2026
Introduction:
Traversing the Circuits of Global Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Systems at War in a Hostile Universe:
The Informatic Roots of Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2. Exploding the BOM:
Digitizing Production in the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3. 4. 5. 6. Phantoms, Backflushes, and the Trumpet of Doom:
The Dilemmas of Just-in-Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Inventing SCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The Sensate Company in the Animate Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Transferring Risk in a Calamitous World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .000
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Listen to this smartie @bentarnoff.com youtu.be/03DlZ9zLaT8
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How Elon Musk Infiltrated The Public Sector
YouTube video by Times News
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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 16/03/2026
Rechtspopulismus als Revolte der »Abgehängten«? »Oben rechts« (Hg. Heinrich Geiselberger) versammelt Analysen, die eine andere Perspektive eröffnen: Rechte Politik erscheint hier als Projekt politischer Unternehmer – von Berlusconi bis Musk: shrk.vg/ObenRechts-B
Der edition suhrkamp-Band "Oben rechts" auf hellgrünem Hintergrund.
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Mehr dazu auch im Beitrag von @moiraweigel.bsky.social in OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/oben-re...
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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 09/03/2026
Unsere neuen Bücher im März sind da! Einen Überblick über alle Neuerscheinungen findet Ihr wie immer hier: shrk.vg/Neuerscheinu... @tbiebricher.bsky.social @tgrdebate.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social
Ein Stapel neuer Bücher aus dem Suhrkamp-Verlag vor weißem Hintergrund.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
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AIMODELS @erc-aimodels.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our symposyum 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 will take place on 2-3 February 2026. The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 is now online: www.unive.it/worldalgorithm 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: Grégoire Chamayou, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap.
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The World Algorithm: Home
The World Algorithm - Home
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI
Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.
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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My “Literature and/as AI” students have finished their first assignment, which was to extract and generate an “Encyclopedia of Ancient Robots” from thousands of pages of Homer, Hero of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Liezi, Al Jazari, etc., and I must say they’re cool! code.chuanqisun.com/ancient-robo...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 12/02/2026
“Every situation…contains a certain openness; people can and do act in ways that reject the necessity of what exists. Asad Haider’s word for this undertaking was politics.” —Ben Tarnoff
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People Think | Ben Tarnoff
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
There's something very important in this from @alondra.bsky.social about how a government of bosses understands its relationship to AI: as a means to avoid preexisting, even nominal, deference to popular deliberation or expert consultation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Trump administration is engaged in norm destruction -breaking expectations about transparent governance and public oversight while installing new assumptions about how technological development should be directed. What it has advanced is not the absence of Al regulation but its rearrangement, often by caprice: intensive state intervention operating through industrial policy, trade restric-tions, immigration controls, equity stakes in private firms (selected by the state), the redirection of research funding, and the strategic preemption of state authority.
Many of these actions face legal challenge, and some may not survive judicial review.
But the pattern itself-the systematic preference for executive discretion over deliberative process-reveals an approach to governance that will shape Al policy regardless of how individual cases are de-cided. This is not deregulation. Not in the least. It is hyper-regulation by other means.
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Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 05/02/2026
I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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People Think | Ben Tarnoff
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
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Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Happy birthday or happy Stuart Hall day. You were somply the best www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies
Thirty years ago, many academics considered the study of popular culture beneath them. Stuart Hall helped change that.
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Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Today’s news is reminds me of the time I went to buy a cell phone at an electronics mall in Shanghai in 2011 and presented my Yale ID to get a student discount. “Wow, the second best university! 你很厉害!” The salesperson exclaimed. I wonder how she’s doing www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@moiraweigel.bsky.social is great on this: www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moir...
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Moira Weigel — Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Since the election ...
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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If you're in the Boston area, come along to the first Capitalism and its Critics workshop today! @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I are hosting the legendary Leopoldina Fortunati to discuss the new translation of The Arcana of Reproduction. At Harvard, Sever Hall 113, at 4pm
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