imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int...
I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.
If—unlike Tommy "6 months" Friedman—you are actually interested in listening to "the campus left," you might try devoting a couple days to @thedigradio.bsky.social's 5–part series on Iran (thedigradio.com/category/iran) with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour from 2022
I'm so glad I made room for a Bachelard week. 😍
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
For sure, I'll send it now.
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
I just read this article, "Misperceptions of the Border" by Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah. I think it's fantastic and everyone should read it.
brill.com/view/journal...
Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.
I helped organize this memorial zine to my beloved doctoral advisor @jonathansterne.bsky.social. Thanks to all the contributors for their beautiful offerings. Sound ON for silly, apropos page turning sound effects.
intercomzine.com
Applications are now open for the Keyman MTS Postdoctoral Fellowship! For more information, please visit: keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/our-scholars...
For all of us worried about gAI in higher ed, there is an entire journal issue dedicated to critical perspectives on this topic, which Im sure has been shared before but I missed it, so for others like me, here is @criticalai-journal.bsky.social's special Issue:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
large group of people at twilight, outdoors on portland ave.
Our reporters are on site at the vigil - network congestion preventing uploads currently. We would estimate up to 10,000 people are attending the vigil near 34th and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis at this time.
The upshot of all of this is that perhaps theories of environmental mediation are too quick to dismiss the role of ideology, that sometimes focusing on environmental mediation obscures other sites of political struggle.
What's interesting about the Spheres then is how they serve as almost perfect ideological inversions of fulfillment centers, where the sensors and atmospheric mediation that is supposed to tend to plants are instead being used to discipline the movements of workers.
In the fulfillment centers productivity is associated less with vague notions such as creativity and more shaped by increasing threats of unemployment and immiseration.
Of course this premise is questionable, the Spheres as we understand them are less about "improving productivity" and instead function as ideological inversions of the actual sites of accumulation for Amazon low paid, manual work in fulfillment centers.
We write about Amazon's Spheres - two giant domes constructed in downtown Seattle to house 40,000 plants and built according to principles of biophilic design (inspired by EO Wilson!) and branded as attempts to improve worker productivity, well-being, creativity etc. etc.
I have a new piece out with the Journal of Environmental Media with my collaborator Robin Lynch. It's about environmental mediation, ideology and...
"Jeff's Balls" :-) - intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Some good qs here about communes based off of studying the Kurdish movement - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
best recent works in feminist STS?
"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
giving the econ non Nobel to a (former) IMF shock therapist would crown this year's 'it's a conservative world' Nobel vibe
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
public research universities, holding on:
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
AAUP's statement on the universities and their anticipatory obedience issue re: Charlie Kirk comments
www.aaup.org/news/academi...
