Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing employer.
Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical […]
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Alexander Karn
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others […]
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes—you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others […]
10 Downing is more or less an Air BnB now. Short term stays only. #uk #ukpol
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cbarbermd/116785195548477411
Free people read and teach freely.
The MAGA assault on history and memory is an attack on hope and on the politics of progress and transformation. “[The] grounds for hope lie in the records and recollections of the past” (Rebecca Solnit). That’s why MAGA wants us mindfucked and disoriented. MAGA psyops and propaganda aim to […]
RFK Jr. is doing to public health what Trump has done to the reflecting pool.
“Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting.”
—Rebecca Solnit (2015)
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“Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting.”
—Rebecca Solnit (2015)
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The AI nightmare begins when thinking and creativity are reduced to fungible products and commodities. So the tech was always going to be part of the disaster of capitalism.
Alexander Karn
Alexander Karn
IRONIC NEWS: Wear the "freedom" pin - or else....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-freedom-250-pins-national-park-service/
