Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”
My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social
Just out: Massimiliano Tomba on "outdated" concepts that resurface in politically radical ways. My daughter recently asked me why I'm interested in things from the past if they can't change. My answer was that they do, they resurface and change the present. This book suggests how that might happen.
looks entirely fascinating
Just out: John Drabinski reads Black and deconstructive thought together to grapple with the kinds of life that are possible in the face of social death. Don't miss it!
Just out: Michael Allan's wonderful book on a set of short films of the Middle East made for the Lumiere Company in 1896. Through these, Allan gives a fresh reading of what "world cinema" can mean, not just as a matter of presenting the world but as the way film articulates the very idea of worlds.
An intriguing book sponsered by a colleague, which may be of interest to some here. Spiro Jabbour was a Syrian Christian deacon writing in the 70s and 80s who sought an encounter between theology and psychoanalysis. Aaron Eldridge translated and edited this book, and Omnia El Shakry blurbed it.
"Israeli strikes have hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, state-run media say, while 10 people are reported killed across the country as Israel’s deadline for Iranian officials to leave Lebanon expires amid a wider regional war." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
“I have never written any piece of fiction with the simple purpose of understanding what I might call the real world. I have always written fiction in order to suggest to myself that another world exists.”
— Gerald Murnane, “The Interior of Gaaldine”
or just abolish them, to echo simone weil:
cooperism.law.columbia.edu/files/2023/0...
Don't miss "The Contrapuntal Body"
The young poet and translator meditates on her surreal transition from Gaza to Dublin:
www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-contra...
DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.
The elusive self, the ellipsis of the world
Inversely, as the square of their distances apart
Kenneth Rexroth
It is impossible to see anything
In this dark; but I know this is me, Rexroth
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the Scotia Mine Disaster, one of the deadliest mining disasters in US history. The tragedy occurred in Letcher Co, KY and has left a lasting impact on our region.
Now find all of our content about Scotia in one playlist on YouTube: https://loom.ly/xw5FxW0
haunting
“It’s an early death sentence for coal miners,” said Vonda Robinson, vice president of the National Black Lung Association.
Scotia 50 years on
Blasts that killed 26 men in a Kentucky coal mine still echo 50 years later.
By Bill Bishop and Earl Dotter
kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/05/a...
good piece. the dry and the wet burn together
“With each passing year… death will creep into every single hour…”
Elias Canetti; tr. Peter Filkins
"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination."
- Saidiya Hartman
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More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 129 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them by Israel.
Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
This is why I’m so scared to look away. I’m terrified I will come back - as I just did after teaching - to this
Qui Parle is inviting submissions for a special issue on renovations of humanism and new directions in the thematic of the subject. Please consider submitting, and share widely! I am coediting the issue, and would be happy to answer any questions.
Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory www.fredricjamesonandthefutureofcriticaltheory.org
Book cover: Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut.
🎉Just published, and launching the Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography series edited by Jo Van Steenbergen and Mustafa Banister: Antoine Borrut's book on astrology and the construction of historical knowledge in early Islam🎉
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-astrolo...
“This holy month does not restore what is gone. It does something quieter: It turns us toward the sea, which unlike us, remains ever faithful to its rhythm. It turns us toward the mosque, which still calls.”
“Now, in Gaza, we no longer live with the pretense of linear time. Plans collapse quickly, the illusion of a certain future has dissolved. When every hour folds in on itself, Ramadan no longer offers the clarity of simple repetition; it arrives fraught with absence.”
Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the enduring meaning of observing Ramadan in Gaza.
jewishcurrents.org/ramadans-rhy...
An evening devoted to the work & life of Clarice Lispector! In person & livestreamed. March 11th. centerforfiction.org/event/the-in...
My book, PRESENCE: A Hidden History of the Female Body is out in June with Cape in the UK and with Astra House in the US. If you're an editor / reviewer / etc, let me know if you'd like to be on the list for an advance copy.
In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism
www.patreon.com/posts/150947...
