Sam Menefee-Libey
@sml47.bsky.social
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Antifascist. Abolitionist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. boxd.it/6oFrP
![It is more fruitful to interpret the easy refusal of cosmopolitan and humanistic desires as a failure of political imagination[…]In order for those movements to move, they had to break down the obviousness of the national state as a principle of political culture. In the process, they fostered a degree of disaffection from those who were close by but whose economic and political interests were at odds with their own. This estrangement was boldly articulated in both outlooks. […] Their task was to fashion new networks of interconnectedness and solidarity that could resonate across boundaries, reach across distances, and evade other cultural and economic obstacles. That hope has faded away in the era of actually existing internationalism which has perversely created a political environment where cosmopolitan and translocal affiliations became suspect and are now virtually unthinkable outside of the limited codes of human-rights talk, medical emergency, and environmental catastrophe.
These restrictions on solidarity can be connected to a sense that the human sciences have become complacent, if they have not been actually undone by their reluctance to be made over as critical sciences of inhumanity. It is also linked to the limitations of philosophical anthropology as a vehicle for ethical and political reflection and to the wider constraints of a difficult moment in which, as I have said, the desire to dwell convivially with difference can appear naive, trifling, or misplaced in the face of deepening global inequalities and conflicts over resources, on one side, and a routine, almost banal multiculture on the other.
All of these difficulties can be examined through the refusal to consider the politics of race that colors all of them. Neither humanism nor antihumanism have been comfortable or enthusiastic when asked to address the destructive impact of race thinking and racial hierarchy…
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![Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 3h 1/2 Some tips.
Hi. Well, I might have thought you were an imposter. (We get some.) You might want to get verified. (Official blue check.) It's free. Then people will be more confident they're addressing the real JCO.
Also, there is no algorithm. Posts are presented chronologically. I'll explain.
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Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 2h 2/2 Your 6:08 pm post (ET-my time) went once to your followers. Even if 1,000 "like" it, it won't move further. If reposted, that person's followers see it.
On X, posts are invisibly weighted. JCO? Great!
Go to all users! *
On Bsky, you need reposts to circulate. I recommend following more people.
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Eileen Clancy • @clancyny.bsky.social • 2h
Ms. JCO, I'm sorry I only have dull things to say about algorithms and so on. If you like, I can tell you how to get a lot more followers very quickly. Everything will change!
Yes, I may seem like a bore. But, I promise you
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