Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Vulnerable to implosion

It is a good summary. “ With the husk of revolutionary language retained, capitalism has encircled the very idea of leftist transformation. Pepsi may have  figured out how to create a resurrectionist Pepsi Generation in the 1960s , but now brands conjure group identities from inchoate public feelings by tailoring messages towards those who want to feel radical; Buzzfeed structured its entire business model around this approach for more than a decade. Change without change.” You may only to create an account to read the article.

“ All dissent has been criminalized in India. Until recently, dissenters were called anti-national. Now we are openly labelled intellectual terrorists. We are currently in that dangerous place where there is no set of facts or histories that we can agree upon, or even argue wi th.  The narratives do not overlap or even intersect with each other. It’s myth versus history. We’re on our own. No help will come. It didn’t come to Yemen, to Sri Lanka, to Rwanda. Why should we hope otherwise in India? In international politics, only profit, power, race, class, and geopolitics determine morality. Everything else is merely a posture, a shadow dance.” Arundhati Roy on religious nationalism and dissent 

Although the articles requires a subscription, what is accessible is already most of it. The Need to Mount Long-Term Resistance to Totalitarianism and Ethnonationalist Chauvinism

"Calls to ban Muslim Brotherhood aim to criminalise US Muslim dissent"

American University of Beirut " Unlike old-fashioned missionaries toting textual material and a tradition of hermeneutics, AUB envisions a technocratic redemption.     It doesn’t value a life of ideas, but the drudgery of boldness, innovation, modernity, and other neoliberal buzzwords.     AUB is an offshore exemplar of U.S. capitalism." AUB Limited