Adrian Daub

@adriandaub.bsky.social

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"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com .. more

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Adrian Daub is a German literary scholar and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who has served as the Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and serves as the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute at Stanford. .. more

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Sep 24

It's here! It's here! It's here! THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC is now out with Stanford University Press! You can buy it wherever you buy books. Or I guess you can talk about it in front of Alexa and she'll order it alongside a bunch of Pamplemousse LaCroix. www.amazon.com/Cancel-Cultu...

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 6h

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter.
First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day her letter was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments.
Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated.
The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester.
OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs.
The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

This plug-and-play discourse seems not just intended to keep a certain emotional response (or perhaps better moral panic) going well past its sell-by date. It also seems intended to reactivate its basic underlying world view without having to go through the trouble of actually articulating it. (4/4)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

Anyone reading this essay in Germany in November 2025 will likely flash back to November 2023 when the idea that "the left's" reaction to another crime showed that they had lost all legitimacy. Those articles too were based on flimsy anecdotes and fixation on specific platforms (Instagram). (3/4)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

In the article, the idea is that "the left's" reaction to a crime (the murder of Charlie Kirk) shows that the left has lost all moral legitimacy. It's based on flimsy anecdotes and weird fixations on specific platforms (Bluesky) and never explains why those anecdotes prove the broader point. (2/4)

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 8h

It's fascinating to me: media discourses in Germany (elsewhere too, but I see it most clearly in Germany) have a tendency to retain a structure, but to slowly substitute the specific elements connected by that structure. It's like a discursive Ship of Theseus... (1/4)

Coronel Cocos @cocoscorpse.bsky.social · 12h

lol
(Spoiler: es geht übrigens um die bösen Palästinasolidarischen)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11h

Was ist eigentlich bei der Süddeutschen los?

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 11h

Ja, klar Cem Özdemir, die Zukunft der Grünen liegt ganz sicher darin, zur zweiten CDU zu werden.

Bundesparteitag - "Wähler gewinnt man nicht mit Parolen aus dem Wolkenkuckucksheim": Özdemir rät Grünen zu mehr Bodenständigkeit

Am letzten Tag des Bundesdelegiertentreffens der Grünen hat sich Cem Özdemir zu Wort gemeldet, der Spitzenkandidat für die Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Er fordert, dass sich die Grünen als techn...

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Coronel Cocos @cocoscorpse.bsky.social · 12h

lol
(Spoiler: es geht übrigens um die bösen Palästinasolidarischen)