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insult, injury, & imagination
after reading an article about DeVos’ Dept. of Educ hinting at rolling back the gainful-employment rule & how it would be more costly to tax payers i thought about something. its interesting how few folks have noticed that the de-regulation of things lend themselves to privatization which ultimately funds itself by siphoning public money (tax…
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Decolonization: What Ought To Be
“The modern collapse of “Reason” & “History” into all things European represented a failure of reason & history that required self-deception regarding Europe’s scope. Put differently: Europe sought to become ontological; it sought to become what dialecticians call “Absolute Being”. Such Being stood in the way of the human being, of a human way of…
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Critical Thinking Series: Reading As The Arena Of Critical Thinking
INTRODUCTION This article covers the crucial role of reading to critical thinking. If you don’t understand the benefits of reading or why it is useful to you and crucial for your own self development then you aren’t likely to take advantage of reading lists which are crucial to sustaining an anti-colonial political awareness to then apply…
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Ain’t It Funny: A Note on Social Reproduction & Self-Reflection
somewhere along the way i’ve begun to laugh when i see people have the “men are trash” arguments on social media every like 2-3 months. everybody blows it up, screenshots tweets, do threads, & write think pieces. & when i think about it, we do that with pretty much everything. which makes me consider: HOW are…
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Structure & Agency In Contemporary Social Theory
One of the main concerns of theorists of society in the 20th century has been the question of the relation between structure and agency. Describe three different schools of thought in social theory (make sure that you identify the main figures in relation to that question and compare each school’s views on the possibilities of…
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Labour and The Self
QUESTION(S): What is Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self? How is it shaped by labor processes? According to Karl Marx, an individual’s self-identity influences their local context or is it always the converse? INTRODUCTION Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self can be best understood through his reflections on the impact of the labor process…
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Summary of Classical Sociological Theory
QUESTION(S): The basic premise of all classical sociological theory is that the contemporary world is the outcome of a transition from “traditional” to “modern” societies. Explain how Karl Marx, Max Weber, & Emile Durkheim describe this transition. How do they define the consequences of such a transition on western societies? What do they think about…
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We Need Decolonial Scientists
I write this essay with the poignant words of writer and Sociology Phd student Zoe Samudzi in mind: “Donald Trump is as quintessentially American as they come. In so many ways, Trump is the president that contemporary white America deserves: he is an amalgamation of some of the worst racism, ableism, misogyny, and anti-poor attitudes and…
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Critical Thinking Series: Education & Colonial Assimilation
Introduction Critical inquiry is understood as a means through which you built and articulate an argument. Morrow & Weston actually do a great job of taking on some of the stigma of ‘arguing’. In their workbook for arguments, Morrow & Weston discuss the ways in which we tend to see arguments as frames of confrontation…
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D.A.T.T. Critical Thinking Series
Last summer was the first time that I decided to run the freedom school. I designed a syllabus, held the twitter chats, & I and my comrade Arash worked hard to get the reading summaries out to people. They have operated as great tools that allow people to grasp not just the general argument in…