imagining it with 800 pages is hilarious too
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imagining it with 800 pages is hilarious too
Hellworld cover art has been released
I showed my students the "You wouldn't steal a car" PSA and they said it made file sharing seem extremely cool??!?
it feels like UPE sort of abandoned the concept of 'hinterland' and the kind of (admittedly difficult) scalar work that was so important to e.g. Nature's Metropolis. i know there have been critiques of this "methodological cityism." is my hunch wrong? are there monographs that buck this trend?
doesn't seem to be much media coverage or social awareness of ongoing ICE crackdown in Baltimore?
My latest for @grist.org: Pipeline giant Enbridge will pay for police to respond to potential Indigenous-led protests as it begins construction of the controversial Line 5 reroute around the Bad River reservation
grist.org/indigenous/e...
v similar to the way 'anti-authoritarian' sentiment in punk produces so many right wingers. people rebelling against ~any pushback~ as a confirmation of their individual authority against the herd/hive/conformist mentality that would require basic political positions.
wild how few politicians (globally) will condemn this, even out of self-interest. one would think there's at least some lane of popular support they could garner if out of no reason other than differentiation
thought this said David Harvey
have you read the Passions and the Interests? great history to have in the pocket anytime either "objective class interest" or "affect theory" come up
beginning every AAG speaking endeavor with "i acknowledge that everything i'm about to say is completely insufficient to this moment and the horror i wake up with on a daily basis."
after finally going through his earlier movies, I've concluded Radu Jude might be one of the most consistently great filmmakers we've got right now. and seemingly has decent politics to boot.
for some reason, I expected Stoner was gonna be a "life of the mind" book, not a 1930s combo of hating your wife, grade grubbing drama, and academic sex scandal
"The rational is thus naturalized, while nature cloaks itself in nostalgias which supplant rationality" -- lefebvre banger
Lesson number 5 from 'Melt the ICE' organizers:
Intervention Points and Secondary Targets
"...any street corner can become a site of struggle between state forces and the people. Renée Good’s memorial site, Alex Pretti’s memorial site, and the Whipple Federal Building..."
this year I made a pamphlet with "career paths" basically just so we don't have to spend the entire time talking about jobs
(there are def other possible answers like "cops," but we've had two students killed by cars in recent years...)
a parent asked me if the city is safe for students and I was able to quite honestly answer that the thing that makes me most afraid on campus is being hit by a car
Paywalled but the headline gets to the heart of it. They have no where to put the toxic water after blasting it into the ground to try to hide it. Now it's coming back.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
even the most erudite critics can't resist making a disparaging comment about Pynchon character names
the era when this was the minneapolis anthem was insane. punks would pour out of the walls when they played it. had to post and found that apparently I was the one to upload it to youtube lol.
youtu.be/LETZ7IVTwKA?...
why does dentist office combine calming fish tank with enraging morning talk show cranked to 11
I believe a similar idea was floated by the climate committee a few years back, but I don't remember if the regionals were a part of it. could also revive DOPE, crit mini, etc too
AAG reform idea I had last night - change annual meeting to every other year, while pushing the regional meetings. reinvigorates regionals, cheaper, less carbon, easier to build relationships, esp w grad students.
every single search engine is convinced I'm interested in "knight and day" (2010) rather than "night and day" (2008). odd bad pun exceeding a rather basic phrase.
we are aware of the release of "AAG’s Response to the Member Petition on Israel–Palestine" -- be sure to sign up for our newsletter for our response
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it's completely obvious that we count on the "international community" for anything. but the lack of action (and even just silence) on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Cuba is outrageous. Europe as feckless as they've always been.
do you have any insight into why the newer books in the series are all so expensive? is it just that paperback comes later on now, or did they lose some kind of subsidy?
New book review -- Rama Ali Kased and Tony Marks-Block read Wasim Said's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza" antipodeonline.org/category/boo...
temperature map of the US for january 2026 showing the west way above average temps
nothing to see just 100 degrees in difference in temperature (because it's way, way too warm here)