Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil after suffering a massive stroke a year ago.
95! Fuck time flies. Sadly he'll exit the world with it in a far worse state than when he was most active. I'm quite confident that the same will be true for all who read this, whenever that might be.
95 is a hell of a run. Lived just enough to see Kissinger die.
Hmm does he have an alibi for the night in question? I am just asking questions. People are saying that the two men didn't like each other, lots of people. It's out there you know? I am definitely not saying that he did kill Kissinger I am saying people are questioning their relationship.
I know his name from my computer science uni days. We did a lot of language theory.
Sad to hear, I wish him and his family the best.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Linguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday.
Valeria Chomsky said via email that her 95-year-old husband is in a Sao Paulo hospital, where she took him on an ambulance jet with two nurses once he could more easily travel from the United States following the June 2023 stroke.
Valeria Chomsky told the newspaper that her husband follows the news and when he sees images of the war in Gaza, he raises his left arm in a gesture of lament and anger.
Noam Chomsky, seen by many around the world as a symbol of protest and independence, is an influential activist and critic who has frequently challenged U.S. policy on everything from the Middle East to Central America, as well as what he considers a compliant media.
In 2017 he joined the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he is currently listed as Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Helms Haury Chair.
He transformed the study of linguistics with his landmark 1957 book, “Syntactic Structures,” in which he wrote that humans do not simply learn language but are born with an innate ability that explains how they can formulate and understand sentences never seen or heard before.
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I was hoping it was the stroke causing his deranged comments on Russia/Ukraine but alas the stroke was months later.
Just a few weeks ago this guys name was flying around in my head, and I didn’t know who he was. Weird.
It's unfortunate that he's lived to be 95 and still hasn't managed to swallow his ego and admit the Bosnian or Cambodian genocides happened. I guess the ideological blindness is just too strong.
He’s also been a bafflingly strong proponent of Ukraine “just letting it happen” vis a vis the Russians invading. His geopolitical worldview is disappointingly Kissinger-esque.
His geopolitical worldview is disappointingly Kissinger-esque.
That’s a surprising take for some one on Nixon’s list of political opponents
The last time someone brought this up, it seemed to be disinfo:
The top comment on this thread contains a conversation (argument) about Chomsky's view on the term "genocide," as well as his verbiage discussing Serbian-run concentration camps.
I listened to Understanding Power fairly recently and it definitely changed my outlook and broke me out of the lull of neoliberal self-satisfaction, and helped introduce me to other leftist writers. So I'm a fan of Chomsky's, but it doesn't sound like he had that good of a take on the Bosnian genocide. He seems to only reserve the word genocide for the Holocaust so as to keep its significance, and despite supporting a UN fact-finding commission that did find Serbia was running concentration camps, he refers to said camps as "refugee camps," instead, and seems to infer people had the freedom to stay or leave as they please (even if this was technically true, I doubt it was practically true).
So, not a good look for him, even though he had other viewpoints that I've been strongly influenced by.
I’ve had several “strokes” in Brazil, but I’ve never had to go to the hospital.