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Julian Go
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Julian Go
@jgo34
Prof U-Chicago. Postcolonial-Anticolonial theory; US & British Empire; Colonialism & other previously arcane topics. find me at juliango.bsky.social
- Ironically, my talk at @UCIrvine on militarized policing and empire is cancelled because of the police actions on campus there. socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/eve…
- What non-academics have to understand about the Claudine Gay situation at @Harvard: it is NOT routine to read the dissertation of an administrator looking for error. There are reasons why her work was investigated & they have everything to do with Israel & right wing politics.
- This sort of anti-intellectualism and ignorant name calling is among the first steps towards book burning and fascism.Books that were in the UC Irvine encampment “library.” I took this photo while undercover. At least 3 books written by Karl Marx, the father of communism, just in this photo alone. Another is called “The End Of Policing” They’re literally revolutionary communists.
- Columbia when it gave tenure to Edward Said embraced his postcolonial critique of texts. Columbia today, when students are applying the postcolonial critique to real world live events? Not so much.UPDATE: The NYPD have now arrested the legal observers at the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment
00:00 - I don’t know what’s worse: that he was fired or that he’s the only full history professor of African descent in ALL OF THE UK! Pathetic. The field is history in the UK needs to take a long hard look at themselves and ask how this can be
- If you want to criticize the encampments then fine. But do so by criticizing not dismissing. You must explain (1) why universities should NOT divest from the Israeli state and the US defense industries supporting it and (2) why Israel should NOT stop killing innocent people. 1/2
- To be clear "Postcolonial" theory does NOT refer to a historical moment after colonialism nor say that colonialism is over. It rather refers to ideas and frameworks that critique and aim to transcend the pernicious structures & epistemic constraints of colonialism. Just sayin'
- Dropping soon from Oxford University Press. (Well, soonish: fall of 2023)
- As Director of Graduate Studies in my department & a faculty member, I am happy to be able to say that the University of Chicago graduate students are now officially unionized.
- To paraphrase Fanon, colonialism corrupts the colonizer just as it degrades the colonized
- The curious rise of the trend of discrediting concepts as meaningless jargon because one doesn’t like that they unmask systems of power from which one benefits. Next up: the ‘trendy’ terms of “exploitation”, “patriarchy”, “authoritarianism” & “racism.”The Curious Rise of 'Settler Colonialism' and 'Turtle Island' My essay for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- These nazi salutes are spreading like wildfire among some of the richest most powerful white males in the world & all I hear about is the ‘antisemitism’ of some college students protesting war in Gaza.When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare. x.com/julianfeeld/st…
- Happening right now at UChicago: Kohei Saito on “Degrowth communism.”
