my paper "Hyperscalers as logistical regimes" was published last week! Read on for a story about how Silicon Valley adopted ideas from the world of shipping to make (and to some extent, fulfill) promises about scale and the fluidity of the circulation of capital www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pope calls for “disarming” AI; identifies mining of rare-earth minerals under dangerous conditions as digital colonial extractivism, & grueling work of millions of data labelers in the Global South as the “new slaveries” of the digital economy. www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

excellent discussion of AI, rationality, & violence, particularly warfare &. militarism: www.bostonreview.net/articles/art...

New Dig interviews w great left-wing candidates running at every level of US politics @abdulelsayed.bsky.social , @justinjpearson.bsky.social, @darializaforny.bsky.social, @oregontammy.bsky.social, @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social, @aparnafordc.bsky.social. More soon! www.thedigradio.com/podcast/prim...

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Thursday, April 9: Laleh Khalili

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism" register here: bit.ly/sprcyale-apr9 'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

The third part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: @warghetti.bsky.social on bombs over Beirut Aslı Bâli on the arsonists of world order and a dispatch from the first days of war in Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

New Dig ep: Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid high anti-war public sentiment. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. thedigradio.com/podcast/anti...

On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com

The second part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: Maryam Tafakory’s letter to Mohsen Makhmalbaf @sinanantoon.bsky.social recalls the Iraq Invasion @selimkoru.bsky.social on Israeli-Turkey tensions Rahmane Idrissa on imperiled international law www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Join Verso today for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari. March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm NY/11am PST. Register below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Defeat as Method: Thinking from within the ruins (by Shahram Khosravi). www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/kh...

Congratulations to Juliet Nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social, whose book "Settler Militarism" has been named a co-winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. buff.ly/6YWcfZS

A fine tribute to Vince Rafael from Geronimo Cristobal. It made me recall Vince talking about his early training with Fr John Schumacher SJ, the historian of Jesuit science, at Ateneo. I suspect that's why Vince initially was interested in my work on colonial science in the Philippines...

AMÉRICA FIRST: The Americas & the New Monroe Doctrine 9-10 April, 2026, Yale University, Humanities Quadrangle

harsha walia & alberto toscano discuss fascism & colonialism today @harshawalia.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social www.tni.org/en/article/l...

headwaters foundation for justice is a minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across minnesota headwatersfoundation.org/about/

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

To Love, to Honor, to Exist: Palestinian Artists on War and Loss www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

RIP award-winning, fearless Chinese American documentary filmmaker and NYU film professor Christine Choy 🎬 "Christine Choy, who is said to have taught her film classes with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of vodka in the other." Her Wikipedia lists her party as Black Panther Party. #FilmSky

Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died.

‘Turn the volume up’: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

The New York City Board of Elections announced that 2 million people had cast ballots — the highest number since 1969.

been thinking about this a lot and want to (again) plug Astoria Food Pantry which will need extra funding to help our neighbors if/when SNAP benefits are cut off. we've already been running out of food faster than usual this month—any donation amount will help! givebutter.com/afp2025

#NoKings #Hartford

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

MIT, by emphasizing data and merit, rather than politics, set out a standard for the rest of academia. Anchoring academic resistance politicsoutdoors.com/2025/10/17/a...

At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!