i mean they have basically cancelled *econ*, the state's favorite decoder ring. in what world should we assume sociology or anthro is going to fair any better???

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Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

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Such terrible terrible news that Perry Mehrling has passed. Hard to describe how much he taught us all. And such a wonderfully curious interlocutor. I recently returned to his brilliant & mischievous "Financialization and its discontents". Great primer. sites.bu.edu/perry/files/...

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Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

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My students are simultaneously worried about the impact AI might be having on them, what their classmates might think of them if they discuss it, and whether their life and career will be destroyed by being honest and vulnerable with an instructor if questions are raised about how they are using it.

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