KG Hutchins

Man what I wouldn't give to see what Neil Whitehead would have written about this AI warfare

Tragic Spirits The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned a...

And press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

White Ignorance AbstractThe development of social epistemology in recent decades is a welcome turn away from Cartesian individualism. But the centrality of oppression to s

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Charles Mills' assertion that white supremacy is built on 'white ignorance' - specific, political acts of forgetting - meets Manduhai Buyandelger's theory that repressive regimes deploy 'technologies of forgetting' at scale to set up the pretense for atrocities

Not me though, I'm built different (worse)

Every half baked criticism of David Graeber I've seen on here has actually been true of Deleuze and Guattari. Armchair ethnographers who spread ideas about nomads that were lunatic levels of racist

Doing a translation of a novel and one the presses I sent it to suggested sending it to University presses, is that a thing? It's not like, an academicy novel, it's magical realism

I think they should have the equivalent of one of those "Kanji Study" apps but for Classical Mongolian. I imagine there aren't more of these because I'm the only person who would be using them. And that a vertical, connected script is rough on Unicode

Exhibition: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities – Framer Framed From 13 February to 17 May 2026, Framer Framed presents the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities, curated by writer and researcher Fabienne Rachmadiev and pr...

if you're in Amsterdam, my friends organised and participated in this superb exhibition! Congrats to Fabienne Rachmadiev who curated it!

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I can hear it coming on bit by bit; extra r's popping up in the middle of words, extra t's at the ends

3 class day is always interesting because I run out of code-switching energy around 3 hours in and just teach my last class in sleepy hillbilly dialect

Wish I was riding a yak to a snowboarding spot right now

Author with horsehead fiddle and book on a stage

Q&A

New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast with Buryat architect, activist and artist Seseg Jigjitova. We’ve been conversing for a while, from Berlin to Mediterranean. Then we sat down in a small bedroom and poured our hearts out. This is a special episode. Take a listen.

I'm considering getting a "dumb phone" to deal with ai-ification less amount other reasons, are there any good ones these days?

Author with horsehead fiddle and book on a stage

Q&A

Yeah that would be tight

As for grandmas one was a rural doctor and the other worked in the tobacco factory

Preacher, Farmer

Let Coogler do Invisible Cities

Caught between the two worlds of Daycare Illness and College Campus Illness

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

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Unrelated to everything, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social and I are thinking of starting a blog (tikytok?) in which the goal is to read and review 100 ethnographies from the 21st Century, got any favorites we should check out?

This is the kind of homey post-Soviet environment you can only really find at hospitals in the Rust Belt. A gentle Uzbek transport names you "Horse," this must have been Cleveland or Pittsburgh.

Unrelated to everything, @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social and I are thinking of starting a blog (tikytok?) in which the goal is to read and review 100 ethnographies from the 21st Century, got any favorites we should check out?

If I'm partway through a peer review and I come to realize that I've been wasting my time on an article that is using AI fabricated data not only am I responding "Reject with No Possibility of Resubmission" I'm recommending "Feed to Ghouls." Imma be seeking the ghoul penalty

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

"media literacy" joins "emotional labor" and "self care" in the canon of phrases whose meanings were destroyed by people who were more attached to the way they sounded than what they actually meant

Mm I don't think "media literacy" means "uncritically assuming a piece of media is apolitical, objective, and without motivation or bias" but then again I'm just a simple country media studies professor

Devil Put the Coal in the Ground rattles around in my head constantly