Paul Christensen
Cultural anthropologists, mostly Japan, think Takadanobaba is pretty neat.
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- My wife @oceanana.bsky.social is one of the illegally fired federal workers profiled here.
- At the end of Donald Trump’s first year back in office, roughly 300,000 fewer Americans worked for the government. Franklin Foer spoke with 50 federal employees who were either fired or forced out: theatln.tc/XfKtWRqe
- My declaration for (particularly) Japan studies as the world burns.
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenWe don't need a more polite hyper-capitalist genocidal emperor #Socialistsunday
- "Education is an investment, not a cost."
- Antifascist helmet.
- ¡Allende Presidente!
- The Andes!!!
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenThe US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
- @nytimes.com reporting on how my wife @oceanana.bsky.social was illegally fired from her position at NOAA.
- アルミ。
- The absurdity of the motorcycle radio is matched only by its vulgarity.
- The Japan=prestige (and thus expensive) in Brazil is wild. R$100 for sunscreen that's usually less than ¥1,000.
- Putting aside for a moment how vulgar and stupid the name change was, how many thousands of hours continue to be needlessly wasted making people change this shit everywhere?!?
- "Capital abhors a limits, not matter how festively imposed" -Marx, probably. #brazil
- Bom dia
- New book! Fraught Futures: Hope, Connection, and the Unhoused across Tokyo, under contract with @cornellupress.bsky.social
- The US obsession with personalized license plates is weird - where desperate demands for individualizing attention meet bureaucratic surveillance through status quo affirming propaganda.
- Time to watch season 2 again (cause it's unquestionably the best season)...
- Entry number infinity on the "not for beginners" list.
- Terre Haute's realest real one.
- WTF Brazil?! The sushirrito was begging for a cartoon depiction and instead you went full on racist caricature...
- JFC this is particularly disturbing in an already disturbed world!
- "What is of value in any society, whatever the mode of production, will be judged according to the imaginative and ethical principles guiding communal life" is a great distillation of Graeber by @leninology.bsky.social.
- This whole thing is some full on 1984, there is no true, terrifying bullshit.
- A king I could recognize.
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenNewly published, this paper by Paul Christensen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Charles Crabtree and Charles McClean looks at the implementation of the SDGs in Japan: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenJapan elected a record 42 women to the Upper House—a step forward for gender representation. But our article shows how visible progress in some areas can coexist with deeper patterns of inequality. @takadanobaba.bsky.social, @clsturtz.bsky.social, Charles Crabtree academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
- #linguisticlandscape is Brazilian coffee chain borrowing Japanese aesthetics and Euro-American gentrification in Rio
- It's almost as if the administrative class wants to cultivate a world where we are indebted and obedient...
- I wrote an article on the absurdity of Japan's use of the SDGs with @clsturtz.bsky.social, @cmcclean.bsky.social, and Charles Crabtree. We think it's pretty good... Selective development goals: examining Japan’s SDG implementation gaps url: academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...
- No end the depths of hostility
- Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, nothing but righteous bangers.
- Unless the '26 World Cup does it first...
- My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
- Nature's rebellion.
- Ratio of Harley riders flipping the bird and screaming obscenities to #nokingsprotest, no matter how many kids are around, is a perfect 1:1
- Tokyo's governor loves to talk about a future where everyone can "shine." I wrote about why I think that's politically motivated nonsense...
- IU used to be the thing marooned Hoosiers could point to when asked "Why the fuck did you move to Indiana?!?" Not anymore...
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenBeneath all the propaganda, all the nice words about human rights and equality and international law, this is it. This is the material manifestation of Western values.
- Had to go to the ER last night (I'm fine). General vibe is cops, guns, and yelling at people without insurance, especially if they're on drugs. All before police brought a DUI who was cuffed and told to puke into a plastic bag without help, and then three gunshot victims followed.
- Reposted by Paul ChristensenA beautiful story and amazing science from @oceanana.bsky.social, former fish biologist with @noaa.gov, with a stunning visual by science artist Kayla Y Lim! Read the full story on our website! @silencedscience.bsky.social silencedsciencestories.com/f/ana-vaz-fi... #sciencematters #scicomm
- Found the most radical local building.
- If the county fairground's Herb Faire is any indication, plants are where the far right and hippie left meet.
- My congressional rep has been a ghost since inauguration, stopped sending out staff liaisons, and is now doing A TELE-Townhall?!? Seems like a level of cowardice and avoidance worth confronting him on @indianacapitalchronicle.com
- ナイス。
- Always worth remembering the extent of historical erasure of socialist labor movements in the US. The legacy of Debs and all the other organizers are kept alive in Terre Haute (his hometown!) through ceaseless volunteer labor, they should be taught in every school.
- And he had a kick ass library
- In addition to all the heinous nazi shit in this, it's weaponizing debt burdens or student interest in things other than STEM or business to attack and try to end disciplines now deemed subversive.
- They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- @quinnslobodian.com at some point when writing you must have to stop for sanity and reckon with how fucking weird they all are?
- 俺は...
- @vincentbevins.bsky.social hell yeah, reclaim the red hat.
- I've had the NEH Japan social science fellowship tab open for a month, guess I can close it now, fuck this all so much.
