Yup. Cultural conflicts eat up the categories of "old" politics and spit them out as something completely different. @fraraffaelli.bsky.social and I have a paper about this 👇
Leonardo Carella
The term “working class” in common usage today isn’t about income or type of work. It’s been superseded by a postmodern definition focused on aesthetics and culture war stances.
A barista who puts pronouns on a nametag is an elite. So is every adjunct lecturer.
I don’t think this is a good change.
Nicholas Grossman
Like. Come on. You guys. People are getting paid $3000 a course. THEY ARE THE WORKING CLASS TOO! bsky.app/profile/chan...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
75% of faculty are contingent employees making poverty wages so excuse me while I eye roll at the outdated framing of them as elites, though
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
I don't think this is wrong, necessarily, but us elite professors code switch all goddamn day. That's part of the job. Look, Obama is a generational talent in retail politics, so this is kind of like taking batting advice from Chipper Jones. But still....
wes(is no longer)injapan
I really don't hear this as anti-intellectualism so much as stressing the need for authenticity in code-switching. Both he and Mamdani have more than their fair share of academic vernacular, but they're also exceptional at reading the room and meeting it where it is.
