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Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social |
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Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse (2025) • Fresno, Silver Spring • www.nathankhensley.net/
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Nathan K. Hensley
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drought conditions + heat —> reduced reservoirs —> water in nation’s capital unfit for human consumption (climate collapse as everyday life)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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yes: i do not use the term internment anymore unless i am citing a usage by the detaining powers. it is a sanitizing euphemism deployed by the US state and its allied interests
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Nathan K. Hensley
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It is true that some of the material in the camp newspapers, like this patriotic update on "democracy today" abutting an announcement of the first baby born in the camp, is confusing to assimilate w/o historical context & theoretical coordinates
downloads.densho.org/ddr-densho-1...
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Nathan K. Hensley
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Pinedale Logger July 3, 1942 issue available here: downloads.densho.org/ddr-densho-1...
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Nathan K. Hensley
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She told me: "Our Japanese community [in Tacoma] was greatly impacted by the incarceration. Prior to imprisonment we had 800 residents, 90 businesses, a Japanese Language School, and 3 places of worship. It is all gone now except our temple." / end
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Nathan K. Hensley
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i learned in interviews that around the fenced perimeter, kids from Fresno would gather and throw rocks at the people inside. I spoke with a woman from Tacoma, WA, whose mother & mother's family were taken from Tacoma to the Pinedale camp by rail; an unimaginable journey.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the Pinedale location was selected because it was a lumberyard, w/ preexisting access to rail lines & extant water lines, if not sewer. inmates slept in shacks made of unfinished lumber. the camp newspaper, "the Logger," references this prior usage. after May, 1942, it was a concentration camp.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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The Pinedale camp was an "assembly center," where Japanese Americans from up and down the west coast were temporarily housed before being shipped to larger & more permanent camps for potentially infinite detention. The other Fresno camp was at the fairgrounds: inmates slept in the horse stalls.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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The July 4, 1942 edition of the "Pinedale Logger," the newspaper written by inmates of the concentration camp in my hometown of Fresno, CA, describes a "Gala Fourth Festival" & features a masthead motto from Thomas Paine: "Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conquered."
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Nathan K. Hensley
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textualism and originalism!!!! but only SOME texts, and origins invented to serve immediate political needs -- now THAT's a philosophy
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Adam Rothman
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"The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law." - Hamilton
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Nathan K. Hensley
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I’ll be up at the big eastern Washington dams later this summer — beautiful, hard article on what they’ve done to indigenous life and how their damage can be repaired
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Nikki Hessell
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I keep wondering why universities are getting it so wrong in their public actions around democracy, free speech, minority rights etc, & Nathan's helped me see something: Universities are used to being on the side of the "winners" & haven't realised that they are now in solidarity with the "losers"
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (8, 9, 10)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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aw thanks for sharing, TC -- would love to know what you'd add to the list. I feel like all the brilliant people on here could produce a pretty killer syllabus about political creativity in periods of defeat
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (7)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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wd love to know what others would add -- it is a long list !!
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Nathan K. Hensley
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i'd probably call it political creativity vs resilience but yes for sure!
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Nathan K. Hensley
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just dm'd you, happy to send!
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (5, 6)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (4)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (3)
www-jstor-org.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/stable/190792
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance (2)
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Nathan K. Hensley
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for instance
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the fact that he wasn’t fired first thing this morning is already a brutal indictment of the leadership of us soccer — bush league organization and (in current form anyway) hopeless
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the list goes way, way on — the point is that the tradition of action that informs nearly all the anxious ruminations on 'what we can do now' comes entirely from bourgeois philosophy, i.e. the winners, and can therefore be of little use in periods of social defeat like this one
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Nathan K. Hensley
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i saw that and need to read it asap! ty for the rec.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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antonio gramsci's entire project can be understood this way. james c. scott's *domination & the arts of resistance*; saidiya hartman's gorgeous work (which cites scott prominently); spivak re: speech; guha on domination; almost all non-bourgeois feminist thought; hobsbawm on peasant insurgency, etc
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Nathan K. Hensley
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an observation: there are entire traditions of political thought, and theories of action to accompany them, that developed in periods of defeat and under conditions of sometimes total domination. these will be useful guides now.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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straight uncut originalism = divine right of kings
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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Shatz in the LRB from 10 days ago, clear-eyed & sharp: “What we are witnessing in Gaza is … the culmination of the 1948 Nakba and the transformation of Israel, a state that once provided a sanctuary for survivors of the death camps, into a nation guilty of genocide.”
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Nathan K. Hensley
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good god
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
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When the empty ugliness at the centers of power becomes clear to you, if that is a sharp, new, devastating feeling, a good thing to do is to follow the instructions of those far from centers of power who have been seeing, surviving, strategizing & surviving for a long, long time.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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microchip in the ball to detect contact w hand on var review — the beautiful game! 😭
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Nathan K. Hensley
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it said @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social was from Aurora Illinois or Buffalo NY, where she has never been!!! (she’s from walla walla Washington). thinking the algorithm might not be ready for military grade deployment yet
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Nathan K. Hensley
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I think “tennis shoes” must have helped them find me
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Nathan K. Hensley
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damn they got me
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gamera obscura
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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
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Boston Review
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In reply, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social sees the central fault line in this debate as a matter of the right “scale” for social and political transformation, emphasizing that the strategy we take must be “atmospherically relevant”:
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
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Finally, @triofrancos.bsky.social explains why organizing must take place in and outside the state, concluding that “if one foot takes a step into state power, the other must deal a blow to its current forms”:
www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
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Our latest forum, led by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is now live. Drawing on world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein’s analysis of a “two-step” strategy to state politics, Táíwò argues that the defeat of fossil fuel is the first step to social justice:
www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...
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Nathan K. Hensley
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This 1978 corporate self help book offers advice about how “heavily regulated industries” can game the system of administrative oversight by paying off experts, co-opting academics, scamming review processes, creating “doubt” abt data, etc — it’s cute bc now nobody even needs to bother w all that 🎉😭
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Hannah Walser
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Love 2 be ruled by these philosopher-kings
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Nathan K. Hensley
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psyched to finally be able to enjoy my bread the way it was meant to be: adulterated with alum, plaster, & sawdust
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Nathan K. Hensley
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next step of the plan is "why even have an EPA at all?" and believe me that's coming
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Nathan K. Hensley
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terminal phase of liberal democracy in allegorical form — can’t watch it myself but reading everybody’s posts, it really does sound awful
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Nathan K. Hensley
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that’s fair!!! They do still find a way to lose though, and often. Mostly I am just mad & wish Pepi had done more w that WM cross; I still think of him as a Dallas guy 😂
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Nathan K. Hensley
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Puli and Robinson looked good too imho, huge difference between the elite players and the mls-type bros we still can’t seem to shake off
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