#Postcolonial

Tochi Onyebuchi tweeting frm inside thicc ms potts

TochiTrueStory

"Literary" vs SFF beef is fugazi and intentional market segregation that readers/writers got tricked into taking personally. If more SFF presses subbed books for the Booker and more "realist" imprints

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/The Wokeness and postmodernism have come for ChristianityThe conservative Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology. So how

Aliette de Bodard

aliettedb

One of those days I really should do a thread of "writing advice I disagree with" It would start with "1. Conflict isn't the core of storytelling."(I know everyone's mileage

sukjong hong

hongriver

Another tragic anniversary almost passed and gone; 70 years of the Korean War. A war stemming from the U.S. division of a postcolonial Korea because it thought the country couldn't

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

this is actually less bad than 90% of the National Service takes (not a high bar) because it merely proposes a massive expansion in AmeriCorps rather than some semi-coercive mechanism.

Arsalan Khan

akkhan81

IK's entire worldview is captured in the Iranian intellectual Jalal Ale Ahmad's concept of "gharbzadegi" or Occidentosis (Westruckness).https://twitter.com/zburki/status/1335232396011171841 Here's the text. It's re

Don Robotham

dondee_don

This point the Chinese keep making that it's wrong to conflate advanced high tech manufacturing with digitalization--is an interesting one for developing countries too. Digitalization is an important part but

Pratinav Anil

pratinavanil

Thread on separate electorates and identity politics (in response to @Aakar__Patel)https://twitter.com/Aakar__Patel/status/1292488417851277313 Identity politics always leads to the reification of identity. We've seen it with caste which

Nathaniel Powell

natkpowell

This is a must-read article from @MichaelShurkin for anyone interested in the evolution of French thinking regarding counterinsurgency and military interventions.https://tnsr.org/2020/11/frances-war-in-the-sahel-and-the-evolution-of-counter

Samuel Amaha

SamuelTsegai1

@Abbaacabsa Is not the Oromo cause premised on the historical understanding that the #Ethiopia/n empire-state was "invented" through a violent subjection of previously independent communities (like the Oromos, the Wolaytas,

Rukhsana Sukhan

RukhsanaSukhan

Le Sigh. Just ... Le Sigh. Can someone please save HP from herself. OMG this is a terrible terrible terrible piece. And also hilarious.a thread ...https://thecritic.co.uk/the-enduring-legacy-of-michel-foucault/ "Postcolonial theory, q

Ruchir Sharma

ruchirsharma_1

The vast majority of our Anglophone elite is so deracinated and disconnected from Indians outside their South Delhi, South Bombay, and Civil Lines gated communities, that they Orientalise and Other

Kristen 📖

kristenwerefox

Kristen’s book concierge/year in reading. A non-exhaustive list of books I read, loved this year. But also, not necessarily published in 2020. THE FREEZER DOOR by @mbsycamore. @SemiotextePress. SEA-WITCH by

wilfred chan

wilfredchan

There are not neat analogies to Western politics for Hong Kong's movement. So many tropes & binaries Westerners take for granted — East vs. West, left vs. right, capitalism vs.

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

I don't think they do. I have always believed this was obvious intellectually but have also personally experienced the 'seeing through the lens' and it was deeply alarming. I shall

Will Beaman

agoingaccount

Those reading the "Marxism vs. MMT" state theory threads should study the Uni proposal to really understand the MMT intervention here. 1/https://twitter.com/GISP_Tweets/status/1291066227444584454 Briefly, the Uni is a proposal for

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