James McCorkle
@jamesmccorkle.bsky.social
2024-25 Kinghorn Global Fellow at HWS. . . teaching/working/writing in Africana Studies on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee. My books include Evidences, The Subtle Bodies, and In Time. Poet/writer/bird watcher/still a teacher
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Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
Close reading is fundamental to the humanities (at the very least)--aside from noticing and attentiveness, and providing the space for agency, for love, it is also a place or process of care. Lovely essay.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
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There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There is a reason why Witkoff did not want any officials with the State Dept or anyone else present during his many meetings w/Putin - he didn’t want witnesses to his treasonous behavior. Highly unusual, but makes perfect sense when you consider that he only cared about Russia.
Not unlike the burning of the Bronx by white slumlords.
Malicious failure to provide livable conditions is often an attempt to get rid of tenants so the building/land can be sold to developers. This makes me think even more that the owner called ICE on the tenants.
NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there.
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
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“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”
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November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Not unlike the burning of the Bronx by white slumlords.
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Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
That should be a major story and talking point.
They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.
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"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza
Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire'. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"The 'ceasefire' is a diplomatic sham – a cover for the continuing extermination, displacement and erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and a distraction for the international public and the media."
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
— #AJOpinion by @yarahawari.bsky.social ⤵️ aje.io/p14911
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RFKjr is the Josef Mengele of our times.
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
RFKjr is the Josef Mengele of our times.
The cruelty of this regime...just it's utter disregard to any form of care astounds: the shrug and the "what's it to me?" "Do you care, really?" and on and on.
Reuters: 200,000 Ukrainian citizens who entered US on U4U TPS program since 2022 are now at risk of losing their legal status. Reason is massive delays in processing extensions due to Trump admin pause — people could find themselves undocumented literally overnight.
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The cruelty of this regime...just it's utter disregard to any form of care astounds: the shrug and the "what's it to me?" "Do you care, really?" and on and on.
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Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN
Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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November 21, 2025
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
November 21, 2025
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The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.
Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More
Sudanese climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin is supporting the Least Developed Countries Group at the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is composed of 44 countries, including Sudan,...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.
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A million times spot on.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A million times spot on.
Well worth the read on elite capture as coup.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Well worth the read on elite capture as coup.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.
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I should add: and Africana graduates. LOL. They are a stealth political weapon post graduation. Send your kids to Africana programs. Remake the society.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I should add: and Africana graduates. LOL. They are a stealth political weapon post graduation. Send your kids to Africana programs. Remake the society.
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From a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin:
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
From a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin:
The intent to devalue certain professions such as nursing underscores this regime's penchant for cruelty and malice.
Trump is reclassifying a ton of degrees to no longer be professional degrees.
This will create changes to student loan eligibility, hurt educational institutions & devastate middle-class & economically challenged students & their families.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
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This will create changes to student loan eligibility, hurt educational institutions & devastate middle-class & economically challenged students & their families.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
share.google/IdOhzeYwLhHT...
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The intent to devalue certain professions such as nursing underscores this regime's penchant for cruelty and malice.
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We’re on track to make the Taliban look more scientifically advanced. They banned vaccines for years, killing the very children they claimed to protect.
And it’s that serious. The government can absolutely believe it is saving children and fighting evil, while sentencing you to illness and death.
And it’s that serious. The government can absolutely believe it is saving children and fighting evil, while sentencing you to illness and death.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We’re on track to make the Taliban look more scientifically advanced. They banned vaccines for years, killing the very children they claimed to protect.
And it’s that serious. The government can absolutely believe it is saving children and fighting evil, while sentencing you to illness and death.
And it’s that serious. The government can absolutely believe it is saving children and fighting evil, while sentencing you to illness and death.
More cruelty from the corrupt regime. Miller must delight in disappointment and molestation: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
More cruelty from the corrupt regime. Miller must delight in disappointment and molestation: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
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November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Sounds a lot like some where else.
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Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Sounds a lot like some where else.
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This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...
This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius
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November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...