"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance." hammerandhope.org/article/colu...

Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️ #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet? orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.

All day, every day.

Looking forward to discussing ‘Rethinking and Reinventing Care’ with Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social on Thursday at the Innsbruck Gender Lecture 💜

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep." shorturl.at/K4RPq

"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/

CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies" ✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025 📆Abstract deadline: April 30 🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer

"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung." Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'. uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...

maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!

Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.

The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.

Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da! Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance! Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website. www.anschlaege.at

The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption." thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7

It's never too late to be yourself. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.pride.com/coming-out/b...

Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –   #books #philsky

One of my favorite new literary magazines is on BlueSky now, y’all! Give ‘em a follow and subscribe. @hammerandhope.bsky.social

In Zeiten wie diesen noch mehr als sonst: Abonniert das Tagebuch!

5.2.2025 Standard

Never let the fuckers win. Ballhausplatz Vienna, now.

"Despair, too, because of how accessible escape is becoming in a world that requires more rigorous close looking, every day." A timely essay on Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler and the burning world, written by Hanif Abdurraqib. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt als das Gesicht der «Cultural Studies». Mit seinen Analysen hat er Spuren in einem breiten Spektrum von Feldern hinterlassen, wie der Medien-, der Rassismus- und der Ideologietheorie. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

On the violences and silences of the archives and the practice of "critical fabulation": Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments and her essay "Venus in Two Acts".

Was ist das für ein Urteil? Wenn man sich politisch äußert, ist das ein Freibrief dafür, dass man von der FPÖ als „pseudowissenschaftlich“ bezeichnet werden darf? Das halte ich für extrem gefährlich.

One example of settler colonial infrastructure: Space X's spaceport in Boca Chica was built on the stolen land of the Carrizo/Comecrudo. The imagined techno-utopian future is merely the continuation of the colonial violence of the past and the dispossession and extractivism of the present.

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

An American Studies that isn't explicitly anti-fascist now is one not worth having.

Trump lifted sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Within hours, Netanyahu launched a new invasion.

"Delany hadn’t abandoned science fiction to wallow in pornography, as some contended; he’d stopped imagining faraway worlds to describe queer lives deemed unreal in this one." Somehow missed this Chip Delany interview from a couple years back. Well worth reading; a singular genius.

"Indeed, if the Nazi dances all night, then our resistance requires something other than logic; something other, too, than cultured tsking or frantic bursts of wheel-spinning panic. We need desire — that messy, sometimes un-gentle, self-shattering descent into the underside of reason."

If anyone asks me again what my dissertation is set against, I am just going to send them these two paragraphs from the inauguration speech.

Wait I thought everyone in German media had a fucking PhD in knowing exactly what a gesture means! Weird that you knew what Greta Thunberg’s stuffy meant but don’t seem to be able to identify identify a Hitler salute

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

This is the world’s richest man who just bought the presidency and seized unprecedented, unaccountable power over government resources.

This is not the return (as its reach and power have never been gone) but the tech-bro era of empire. Trump speaking of desert landscapes and galaxies to be conquered is a testament to the ongoingness of colonial grammars, with the volume turned up and ready to explode new worlds, again.

Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time - The fossil fuel industry donated $75m to Trump’s campaign #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congratulations to all the well-meaning centrists and liberals who played along and amplified this stuff over the years. Look upon your works apnews.com/article/coll...

Without a doubt, one of the most inspiring reads in the last months.