academia, utopia and the police state

[heyiya]

If my last post sounded very dispassionate and unemotional, know that I feel neither of those things. I'm deeply upset and I'm livid with fury that people's lives can be so completely disregarded, that to make the most basic public demand for the right of everyone to live and work can be something that apparently merits what I have just described

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[sybness]

Thanks for your earlier post, appalling as it was to read. I went on protest marches with my parents as a kid but I am sure seeing so much gratuitous police violence would still freak me out.

However--it doesn't surprise me. But then I'm from the US so events like these don't, they just continue to make me angry. In an immensely compressed nutshell, yes, the work you're doing is political. It's critique at the level of the academy. The academy and its methods remain problematic but that doesn't mean the critique can't be useful/effective.

The end of your post was very Marge Piercy, btw.

[chreebomb]

did you see the protest against the police brutality that happened yesterday? it's happening today at 5PM.