The Weekly Read is “Infrastructures of Inattention and Necropolitical Kinship: Ritual, Capital, and the Time of the Law in India” by @kritikapila.bsky.social. The article appears in issue 109 of Public Culture. Read if for free: buff.ly/vLohwrT

Dowry murders in India no longer spark public anger or debate, study finds

An article and research by @kritikapila.bsky.social, published in the newest issue of Public Culture, was featured in an article in @theguardian.com this week: buff.ly/SK43mjL The Public Culture article has been made freely available through 10/7. Read it here: buff.ly/vLohwrT

**Free to download for 30 days•• My paper on the cultivation of inattention towards killing at scale, or why we stopped protesting against dowry deaths and why female foeticide never became a political concern. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...

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The word "Sabzi" (lit. vegetables) is trademarked by a deli on the #DuchyofCornwall estate and defended by the Duchy. How about South Asia trademark "Roast" as fair play? www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

This person took this when they called the race

In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college

The secret life of university data? In this article, I argue that universities must work together to demand transparency and openness in how their data are transformed and used, and ensure university data serve the public mission, not private interests. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

This is a very excellent read - how the accelerated adoption by universities is once again a case of public funds subsidising private industry and assisting the further vocationalising of higher ed.

Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here: thewire.in/politics/twi...

There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into @sturdyalex.bsky.social's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable @alexpodyssey.bsky.social #Podyssey. And that's just the music! Pure gold. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

Sobering.

You could not make this up... neither the use of the tech, nor the use of the law..

A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.

Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Join us on March 5 for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group. Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please share.

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Always worth listening to Professor Wendy Brown. This, especially today, is salutary.

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

Caltech UC Riverside study finds that tech companies report ai carbon consumption but diesel and other particulates data centers generate go unreported. Public health costs from cancers, asthma, other diseases, and missed work and school days approach ~$20 bil a year. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

An incredibly literal exchange of food for thought.. How American university libraries came to have rich South Asia collections..

Ok, now that I'm rested it's time to talk about AI, writing & the Black Radical tradition! I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.

Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.