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‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’ New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

‘The LAPD trains with soldiers from the IDF, and you can see, in their response to the protesters, the same libidinal thrust of disproportionate force that’s turned against children throwing rocks at tanks in the West Bank.’ Anahid Nersessian on ICE in LA: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Rabea Eghbariah on the "ongoing Nakba" - almost 80 years of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. New article in The Guardian after his "controversial" article in the Columbia Law Review. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... columbialawreview.org/content/towa...

Gideon Levy in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, calling for full sanctions against Israel: "... the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety... In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us." archive.ph/6SiZV#select...

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Inaugural conference! Media Theory at the Coach House November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto Keynote speakers: Dr. Shane Denson (Stanford) Dr. Alessandra Renzi (Concordia) Abstracts due: June 30. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

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RIP Robert McChesney www.thenation.com/article/soci...

...the federal government is undermining two fundamental principles of the American university: the right of academic departments to self-government and the freedom of members of the faculty to express their views... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the Trumpist agenda of “free speech except Palestine” and “free of DEI except Zionism” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by #Identities co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social www.identitiesjourna...

"'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #gazagenocide

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "Settler colonialism is intimately, quintessentially genocidal, because it will result, sooner or later, in the annihilation of the indigenous people if it succeeds. Look at the United States..." Incontrovertible.

On "how model minority authoritarianism borrows a gloss of “multicultural” progressiveness to lend respectability to, and animate, highly reactionary, anti-equality, right-wing politics" 🔥

What is the significance of Arendt’s reflections for us, scholars in “the zone of interest” that is the Western academy? As Arendt argued, "those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight..."

FCS 36.1, Feb 2025: Out Now! Including racial capitalism & French universalism, laughing about race in “colorblind” France, Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet, Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé & Les Soleils des Indépendances, and François Bayle & electroacoustic music

New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in Media Theory. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt... There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments that have occurred since ✨

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt