5LL #346: Education, Madness, Pickets, Blockades, Conquest
Learning to Be Free
Joel Suarez, n+1
Education has long had a fraught relationship to both elitism and democracy.
Madness and Capitalist Civilization
The Editors, Heatwave
Even before "Liberation Day," our social media feeds were awash with the speculation and drama of the second Trump administration. The exigencies of daily life make it difficult if not impossible to stay up-to-date on all the horrors and indignities.
From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC Strike for Palestine
Current and Former Grad Workers at UC Santa Cruz, Long-Haul
Much has been written about the encampment movement and the campus struggle for divestment from weapons manufacturing and Israeli apartheid. Comparatively little writing has appeared on the only university workers who, in the electrified context of the student movement, were able to initiate a strike with nearly identical demands.
The Blockage and the Blockade
The Editors, Parapraxis
So the accusation of non-psychoanalysis comes, from the analyst, at the moment the clinic dares to be of the world. So the accusation of madness comes the minute the militant acts.
The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years
Greg Grandin, TomDispatch
In 2025, the “horrors inflicted” are everywhere and it’s no longer possible to silo one’s sympathies.