Quinn Lester @QuinnLester
Writing Program Postdoc at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Joined June 2012-
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The mirror stage is vindicated yet again
An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
Anyone in the last 10-ish years aimed to make a major methodological intervention about political theory methods and its study? Leigh Jenco’s work in CPT was the last time I was more consciously looking at this stuff
Can I get a sound off of who will be in person at APSA this week? I’m there Wednesday morning through Sunday night
“Donald Winnicott was in analysis with James Strachey. He went five times a week and for the first six months, Strachey didn’t say anything. After six months Winnicott got off the couch and said to him, ‘I’ve been coming for six months and you haven’t said anything’. ...
“From Chiraq to Chipocalypse Now” is going to be someone’s killer dissertation title
We are excited to announce our Fall 2025 lineup for the Political Theory Workshop at The Graduate Center, CUNY! To join our mailing list and receive updates about the Workshop: bit.ly/4p5k9EG
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
This is my current obsession but Her got AI wrong! We don’t talk to it through voice but write to it; it has neither embodiment or presence but is purely absent yet still signifies the presence of desire for so many. We live in the future of Derrida and Lacan, not Bladerunner
This is my current obsession but Her got AI wrong! We don’t talk to it through voice but write to it; it has neither embodiment or presence but is purely absent yet still signifies the presence of desire for so many. We live in the future of Derrida and Lacan, not Bladerunner
Is there any Black intellectual work making similar claims for like SoundCloud rappers as older intellectuals made for hip hop and the blues/jazz? Or does postmodernism mean hip hop is just the end of Black music/political development (as Sinners seems to suggest in its montage)?
Is there good critical history of the national guard, and particularly the ambiguity between the “national” and their roots in state-level governance? Even in the 50’s/60’s whether the state or federal government had control in any particular situation was crucial for the CRM
Always amazed at how most scholarship on the police power—even very good scholarship!—wants to excise the actual police as in any way relevant to the topic (obviously @MelaynaKay’s stand out book an exception)
Stray thought while re-reading Marisol LeBrón's Policing Life & Death: Puerto Rico was the 1st US territory to use the Nat'l Guard for regular police operations in the '90s. Leaders wanted to do so in DC but got squeamish. For Trump to do it now is just one more '90s throwback!
Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, @CraigOGilmore @lydiajean8 & @judahschept inquest.org/abolitionist-l…

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