The Fantasy Economy. The post-liberal university does more than redefine education as a private, rather than a public good (Newfield). It is a partisan good, beneficial only to some people.
On the Reproduction of Capitalism. This is the Althusser book containing the famous essay about ISAs. One could read the whole thing.
New Yorker article on Vought and the dismantling of the federal government. Too depressing for me to read right now, but key.
Gospodinov on his father. I read the review but would like to read the book.
Still more from the New Yorker, at which I look, but that I don’t have time to read all of: Menand on an important book about free speech. I have always found the free speech quasi-cult of the U.S. problematic because it actually squelches thought. You are free to have your feelings and your speech and therefore, people seem to believe, we cannot criticize ideas, because speech being “free,” it cannot be evaluated in any way. Disagreeing with someone is like shaming them for being the height they are, or something like that. It is as though they had been “born that way” and can do nothing about it.
It remains important to listen to Alexia Evellyn, especially on Oyá, and I’ve read Vanessa Angélica Villareal’s Magic/Realism now. It is an epoch-making book in its way, and there is a lot in it on trauma and recovery, which I should and will reread.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 