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...Jamie K. McCallum Abstract This memorial essay is a personal and sociological reflection on what it was like to learn from Stanley Aronowitz, both as his student and as his friend. Close attention is paid to what many consider his best book, False Promises , and its major insight: that class...

... sitting down to write this short reflection that it's time to start offering a version of the Marx seminar again. It will be interesting to see what False Promises we seminards find ourselves focusing on today. 1. Aronowitz, False Promises , 275 . 2. Aronowitz, False Promises , 276...

... around campus with Stanley's book False Promises under their arms, eager to hear Stanley speak at an on-campus event. The picture in my mind is of a young Stanley: charismatic and full of enthusiasm about the book's argument and message, namely, that mass education was creating expectations about...

... which time he earned a doctorate in sociology from the Union Graduate School. He later taught at the University of California, Irvine, before being appointed distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His 1973 book False Promises: The Shaping of American...

..., eschewing the easy path, seeking to rebuild the radical imagination and, most of all, to reinvent a living collective liberation. First period: The labor intellectual. This would include the 1973 paradigm-breaking False Promises through The Jobless Future (1995) and the full circle return...

... of total exploitation. These migrant workers have unequal access to communication networks and therefore to information that would contradict the false promises of the recruiting agency (typically, false wage estimates are offered to encourage loan taking) or connect them to legal representation (when...

..., 1918–1925 .” Europe-Asia Studies 6 , no. 2 ( 2012 ): 281 – 323 . TallBear Kim . Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . 23andMe . “ About .” https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy...

... become an assistant professor of community studies at the College of Staten Island.5 In the first years of the decade, each published studies that were highly influential: JamesonMarxism and Form (1972) and Aronowitz False Promises: The Shaping...

... and the drop in crime. See most notably the work of Bernard Harcourt, Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001). 12. Randy Martin, On Your Marx: Relinking...

... a concession under the Natural Gas Act for the entirety of the project. In a fiery speech, activists, besides denouncing the false promises of gas, set the terms of the issue within the broader geographies and consequences of extraction: Fossil gas has major negative impacts where the gas is extracted...

... dubious premise or false promise, the associated professional also offers a voice of opportunity to address the gap between the lost mythos of free pursuit of self-development and the capacity to evaluate what fruits still need to be borne...

....” Life in chains rejects ideals of an outside, of utopia to be rescued from the machines of capitalist alienation. Chained up is more than complicity; it means noticing the wounds inflicted by false promises of idealized counterculture, technological progress, and digital intervention. We also insist...

..., magnifying xenophobia and buttressing white supremacy on the one hand, while on the other hand condemning minorities to the regime of specimen-being through the false promise of assimilation. Hence the affective divisions in contemporary life: for one population, the substitutive satisfactions of openly...

.... With the advice came hundreds more hoaxes and hundreds more false alarms. People began demanding and stockpiling Cipro, the antibiotic of choice. Some, Social Text 73, Vol. 20, No. 4, Winter 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. who were never exposed, began dosing...

..., and the disintegration of anything like a shared ethical world — including ethical forms of caring for ourselves and for others. Inheritance and the Promise of the Future Before we turn to Foucault’s work, we feel that in order to suggest a return of queer theory to revolutionary possibility, we must first...

... replaces the old one; the retelling of the past becomes another form of burial. Mambéty offers more than a wariness concerning (or critique of) the false promise of such master narratives. His telling of this story emphasizes 68 Barr...

... visible. That’s because I don’t want to trick you, or lead you into an unwholesome complicity. There’s nothing up my sleeve! Everything’s open and above-­board! I lay all my cards on the table! — ­Jimmie Durham, 1998 I promise to make no more self...

... university family is to be comfortable, bearing nothing of the scars of past oppression, it echoes today’s university marketing in which a safe, secure, and only incidentally diverse community is promised to aspiring applicants.1 The current moment is one that finds universities busily...

... a crutch to help people bear uncertainty. The necessary discussion of the aspects, beyond the economic, that are rapidly reconfi guring societies in a globalized and fragmented world demands an analysis that does not rely on apocalyptic images or succumb to domesticating promises of development...

... H. McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (New York: Free Press, 2000). 16. Stanley Aronowitz, False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness, 2d ed. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992); Henry A. Giroux, The Abandoned Generation: Democracy...