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And now a review of it: ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktim...

Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US." www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...

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Excited to dig into this one! Congrats to FB

this is particularly interesting essay for me, as I found in my fieldwork in Myanmar that people tend to talk about "rights", if they do at all, in fundamentally different ways than ppl do in Anglo-American contexts, and that this difference pivots on alienability [1/3]

today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains: * Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j... * Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...

The many authors of this forum have worked very hard to generate important insights into the very hot topic of haunting (and, tbc, they developed it well before AAA announced haunting would be this year’s meeting theme)

I comment here on the USA's ambiguous relationship with Myanmar (and the so-called developing world) more generally, including: "As the US continues to fund and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza today, it seems nothing less than absurd to recommend more US engagement in places around the world."

‼️❗️ Deadline is approaching❗️ If your group or organization is working for earthquake affected areas of Myanmar , please try to apply these small grant proposal. Deadline -30 May 2025 Submit to [email protected] Please read eligibilities &priorities➡️ seajunction.org/small-grant-...

AI here thinking that I run an inter generational hardware store in Duluth with my non existent male progeny

watch Dunn's genius here. He digs to help so must recover - which means Murray's about to dust him. But watch what he does next: He’s about to do a spin move to recover as JM drives, but then JM anticipates and steps back + so Dunn never flips his hips! He's playing d with his back to the player!

Easter season.

Dallas crowd during Luka's return: managed to pull off a celebration of their guy AND a biting condemnation of their betrayer (the regime who traded him). The love displayed in the former helped leaven the anger, producing something kinda lovely (or at least it seemed so on TV)

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Depending on how this was edited, at the end you can hear the interview get interrupted by a student occupation of the university building I was in there in Paris. Apropos, given the book’s topic.

For helping Mandalay earthquake, check this vetted and pretty comprehensive list: karenvinalay.notion.site/Myanmar-dona...

I’ve taught college for 30 years so I am confident saying that the students being abducted by ICE from our campuses are our best. They are the ones we stay up late for, writing elaborate comments on their brilliant work, hoping they will feel our respect and gratitude

Cannot emphasize this enuf

academics right now?

re-upping this, for your reconsideration.

i really like how Mattingly stresses the dialectical negotiation between abstraction and ethnography as imperative for making anthropological theory.

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Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal: chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

some titles to consider: Future of Revolution: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646905... Cybernetic Capitalism: www.fordhampress.com/978153150893... Massumi's new one: buff.ly/42wmnUx Ranciere: www.wiley.com/en-sg/Uncert... on Extinction: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

every time

“When you get interviewed about the massacres, make sure you look trustworthy.” “No problem, I’ll just wear these not at all sketchy or warlordy looking sunglasses and everything will be a ok👌”

banger at @lpeblog.bsky.social: "universities like Yale don’t really have a good means to ensure that they’re really speaking for the collective, or in response to our values. Instead, our leaders more and more seem to speak in the interests of the trustees" lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

"Thais — ... as marginalized migrant laborers — are a *constitutive* exception, one that has enabled, both ideologically and materially, Israel’s project of settler colonialism." Pleased to be the first (of many, i'm sure!) to review Matan Kaminer's essential new book: rdcu.be/d5ZPI

for a very certain kind of nerd, this is a very big deal. Thanks @nrg8000.bsky.social

given today's terrible news about Katherine Franke's shameful treatment by Columbia (academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...), it seems like a good time to re-encourage academics to stop engaging with that university.

welcoming 2025 like Papa Karl

Good interview with @epf.bsky.social by @mauracunningham.bsky.social of AAS on his first engagements with Myanmar & excellent new book on the country contentsharing.net/actions/emai...

Company that benefits from system ($32b annual profit) wants to fix system? g all the way tfoh

Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine. Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

Recently Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage.bsky.social encouraged us to retain our ability to be shocked at the obscenity of the world (rather than to retreat to the relative safety of cynicism). I feel that kind of shock regarding this essay's publication (1/)

This was a really fun interview to do (and includes a cartoon from the book!). Thanks to @mauracunningham.bsky.social for the deep engagement. It’s really gratifying.

Opportunity: Burma Studies Group travel award for 2025 AAS conference with preference given to junior Myanmar scholars burmastudiesgroup.com/2024/11/28/o...

you (looks at my CV with disgust, points) me: "please don't touch those. They are my emotional support edited volume chapters."

New book: sunypress.edu/Books/U/Unsc...

we are also the only anthro space (that we know of?) that does reviews of books of theory, in part for how they apply to anthropology.

8-yr-old daughter walks in, puts hand in armpit, makes farting noise me: "Excellent. Where did you learn that?" she, pauses, looks thoughtful: "Boys."

“U not a colleague you a colonizer” Name something that could be heard in a diss track or at a faculty meeting.

sometimes it's hard to teach ACAB to my kids - to explain that police exist to protect capital rather than people. One trip thru the timeline changed that tho 7 year-old: "The kids are getting arrested? But they don't look mean, Dada. Why? Just b/c the ppl with the $ said so?"

many ppl currently observing that unis are endowments with vestigial teaching operations. Francois Furstenberg had this banger back in 2020 where he called the uni "a tax shelter for the endowment" (when JHU cut retirement rather than dip into endowment) www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I did an interview with Anthropological Theory Commons about my recent article. Thanks to @epf.bsky.social for organizing!

Two TAs removed from their positions and barred from hiring next semester because after being approached by students + receiving confirmation from their supervising professor - they shared mental health resources with students in their class, in case they were impacted by the ongoing conflict

I will be talking about my recently published book on Burmese activism www.sup.org/books/title/..., with reflections on current global resistance/refusal, in: Amsterdam, London, Oxford, New Haven, Ithaca, New York, Toronto, Madison, Seattle, and Vancouver www.academia.edu/108653838/Pr...

People in Gaza are beginning to dehydrate to death