Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

interesting history of practical attempts at "geo-psychiatry," as promoted by Agnès Masson briefly during a stint at Saint-Alban. here geo-psychiatry is described as "integration with human geography," though practically seems to just mean going outside. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...

ok krasznahorkai finally got me with the beekeeping eco marxist forest ranger lolol

I find this simultaneously cringe and delightful www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

been thinking about this all day -- just a perfect example of the impossibility of liberal institutional neutrality! they called it antisemitism that so many companies operating in Israel kept popping up on the human rights filter - wonder why! and now Morningstar will no longer consult UN HRC 🤔

important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...

can't tell whether twitter or bluesky is more of a "dead internet" at this point. both seem to have just completely gutted any attempts at interaction, can't post anything that finds its audience.

unprompted Google chrome pop up asking if I want it to do my homework for me

best recent works in feminist STS?

"There is no such thing as “professional neutrality.” Instead, there are those who know what they think by arriving at a critical—and self-critical—account of themselves and the world, and there are those who don’t bother doing this." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

sincere post -- does anyone have any tips for working with a specific kind of student who: is smart, comes to class, but has some kind of block that prevents them from doing assignments? often put too much pressure on themselves. i have encountered a few of these over the years, would love help

any major engagement with sohn-rethel in geography?

"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules. Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling." www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...

grading papers today and it's ai ai ai ai ai ai ai

i know Verso got screwed over by their distributor going bankrupt and there's also inflation etc...but i'm still having some sticker shock from $40-$50 price tags

Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!

newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"

really cool posts on the Verso blog from Eric Sheppard (last week) and Helga Leitner (below), on David Harvey's early work. wonder who they might have lined up for later books? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

my mom (south dakota npr listener) somehow went from Stacy Abrams to the bell hooks book about class??

some of my students this semester working on a political ecology of "pickleball gentrification"

I'll be at Anthropocene Consequences with many comrades later this month. should be a compelling conversation in Chicago. much more info on the website ac-chicago.org

I reviewed the new John Hultgren book - definitely of interest to geographers and political ecologists of all stripes! the book made me consider questions like how to understand anti-environmentalism as a global project, and whether it really is jobs vs the environment

#geography #geosky ⤵️

Bloomberg did some great video journalism about the oil wastewater crisis in Texas. If nothing else, you need to learn about Hawk Dunlap. If you were scripting a movie about the oil industry, you couldn't come up with a better character.

"Western institutions marshalled all...academic and digital repression against grassroots witnessing, unsuccessfully so far...the latest functions of a “geographic violence” that requires the myth of absolute distance between the West and the Other to obscure the proximity of colonial warfare."

How have geographers, geography departments, and geographic thought been affected by Israel?

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

1987 report on Johns Hopkins geography grad students demanding their university divest from apartheid South Africa. they sustained severe burns when their campus encampment was firebombed by frat bros. report from the Socialist Geography Specialty Group newsletter.

🎂✨ We are happy to share our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025)! It features ten guest editors, Michaëla Danjé, Xan Coppinger, Lissell Quiroz, Kai Bosworth, Sara Greavu, Andrea Francke, Giuliana Vidarte, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Ana María León, and Koni Benson.

really cool "graphic format article" from Sage Brice on "Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

just tryin some stuff out

is AAG a democratic member organization? how common was AAG member resolution proposal and voting in the past? in 1990, AAG considered an amendment to allow resolutions to be brought within *24 hours* of the annual business meeting! here's Neil Smith:

going to become a historian of the AAG as a bit, I guess!

Having received my copy of this issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social in the mail, I am extra stoked and grateful to have been included in such a fantastic publication! Thank you to @kaibosworth.bsky.social & @davidegilbert.bsky.social for this! Also the editor Leopold & all the other contributors

I’m excited to see this crucial book out in the world. Its essays offer key insights for navigating universities as terrains of struggle.

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

can confirm the exhibition acknowledges this too!

reminder -- this event on BDS strategy in academic associations is tomorrow! be sure to register in advance

seems like there's plenty of amnesia about the history of membership democracy in the AAG. we used to vote on things as simple as a $5 increase in dues!

completed a peer review, accepted to read a revision of the article, the editor seems to have not sent my peer review to the authors lol.

What is the power of ‘direct land politics’ today, from the Americas to SE Asia? Me in conversation with @antidogmatist.bsky.social with guest editor @kaibosworth.bsky.social in @thefunambulist.bsky.social, a vital source for all things politics and culture. thefunambulist.net/magazine/ten...

austerity at my uni this year -- no more food purchases. no per diem on travel, no food at receptions, no pizza for student events. we're tightening our belts literally this time.

please join us next week for an online event with colleagues in other disciplines who have worked to bring BDS resolutions to votes within their academic associations!

"Private enterprise is unable to sustain itself without intensifying state intervention, and national governments are helpless without an endless well of privately financed debt. The farther this dynamic proceeds, the more redundant these institutions become."

just noticed that when you're on Canvas, google lens automatically pops up asking if you need "homework help" with AI

two applications finished today on the "day off," probably zero chance but you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

last 2 times I've ordered a specific edition of a book and received a different edition or cover. it's a roulette - another reason why bookstores are superior

started writing a book yesterday 😇