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Carrie Jenkins

@carriejenkins.net

Philosophy prof. Author of What Love Is and What It Could Be, Sad Love, Victoria Sees It, and some other things. Sphynx cat staff. On unceded land. she/they www.carriejenkins.net

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 3w ago

A difficult thing about professional orgs meeting any moment is that we choose their leadership primarily to offer intellectual direction to an annual conference. Then some leaders have good luck w an easy year & others inherit a pandemic or Trump I have no solution—ASA shows staff model no better

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3w ago

In some ways not the most important thing right now but scientific societies had almost a decade to prepare for this moment, and they didn’t And at some point, that will need to be confronted Lessons need to be learned

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

"'There's your own life,' said Hélène. 'Don't you think that's enough?' 'But my life is made up of my relations with the remainder of mankind; Austria is part of my life, the whole world is part of my life.'" -- Beauvoir, The Blood of Others, 1945

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

"'I am a pacifist.' He had given a definition of himself once and for all, he had only to act in accordance with his own idea of himself, ... as if the road had already been marked out, as if the future had not, at every instance, been that gaping void." -- Beauvoir, The Blood of Others, 1945

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

"Blumenfield had spoken for a long time, he had described to us the arrogant parades of the white-stockinged militia, the banquets where amnestied Nazis toasted their future victories, the provocations, the outrages which took place under the unmoved gaze of the police. ...

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump announces "maybe I'll seize the capital of the US if voters displease me" and it'll be nothing more than a blip on the news at best

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Q: Here in Washington DC, there's a Democratic primary for mayor. One of the two leading candidates is running a Zohran Mamdani campaign focusing on socialist policies. How would you feel if she wins? TRUMP: Maybe we take back Washington and run it on a federal basis. We won't put up with it.

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

The novels of Simone de Beauvoir are written against fascism; they are for our time. Especially The Blood of Others. But they’re not nearly accessible enough. Due to geographic restrictions I’m not allowed to buy an e-book of this one. My VPN-wielding “I am from Glaaaasgoww” routine …

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

So .. I get an invitation to do another podcast that I’ve never heard of, I sigh and reply sure, if we can find a time, because public scholar, etc. In the follow-up email it turns out I have the *opportunity* to be on this podcast if I pay the low fee of $100! LOL go home capitalism you’re drunk.

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

Drafting AI policy language for next term's course on Philosophy and Literature (a deep dive on She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir). My current plan is to go AI-zero as the policy, but with absolutely no policing ... what are the flaws in this approach?

Carrie Jenkins@carriejenkins.net · 2mo ago

“It is always possible to turn squarely toward the harm, to confront it head-on, to argue point by point. But not every frame is worthy of that energy … I describe another orientation—turning sideways … It is a choice about where we place our attention.” —Johnny Mack irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/12/03/t...

Turning Sideways Toward Truth: A Statement from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre - Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

Events unfolding at another B.C. campus over the past week have brought renewed attention to a familiar tactic: attempts to provoke controversy around the history of residential schools in order to dr...

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Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The areas that I taught: political philosophy, Marxism, ethics and public policy, would be right in the firing line of the ideological police. Not once in 40 years did anyone attempt to influence my topics or readings. I don’t know what I would do if under the pressure some US colleagues face.

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?

But with occasional exceptions, our conclusions about the overall state of humanistic scholarship, and in particular about the extent of the problems we have identified, are not yet supported by the kind of quantitative evidence that would be expected in a peer-reviewed study of these matters. In this connection we must stress that the examples cited below are meant to illustrate the phenomena we have identified, not to establish their prevalence. In part for this reason we must urge caution on the part of administrators who might wish to act on the basis of our report.
Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2mo ago

Two divisive campus leaders commissioned a report that asks an equally divisive question: Have the humanities and social sciences been corrupted by politics? https://chroni.cl/4eafiNL