Christine Turner’s documentary about the Afro-Futurist band who lived in Germantown for decades screened at the Black Star Film Festival last year.

Pasolini metiéndose de hostias con un miembro de la juventudes fascistas, en la noche del estreno de Mamma Roma. Roma, 22 de septiembre de 1962. A ver si se nos pasa ya la tontería de citar a Pasolini para justificar la tibieza ética y política.

Gracias a @danielgalvalizi.bsky.social por esta completa entrevista en Naiz sobre Un país entre dos tiempos (@lenguaycirculo.bsky.social ) Hablamos de la CT, 15m, Podemos y también de Trump, Silicon Valley y Zohran, redes y plazas, oscuridades presentes, potencias pasadas y -quién sabe- futuras.

Can't wait for this one. The OG covered by the New G.

Huge congratulations, Noel. A beautiful cover, and an exciting invitation to begin the art of knowing everything.

Beautiful cover — and no doubt beautiful writing!

Since I first listened to Noel talk about Llull years ago, I've been waiting for this book to come out. Very excited it's here!

👇 #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #IntellectualHistory #Scholarship

parabéns, Noel

Esto va a ser grandísimo. Corran.

Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]

Horrible nouvelle, pas encore dans la presse, mais confirmée par des sources sûres dans le monde de la musique : Sly Dunbar (Sly & Robbie) est décédé cette nuit. RIP LEGEND

Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism

Pavos, el problema es “por qué fue INEVITABLE la guerra civil española, por qué fracasó la Segunda República”, no lo que haga o deje de hacer un escritor. Nos la estamos comiendo entera. Otra vez.

"Altogether, these lies amounted to a single, great untruth: the uprising never occurred and can never occur again. But the spirit of history moves in strange ways. What is dead never quite dies."

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

Articles in a special issue on Blackness in Medieval Iberia, ed. by Nicholas Jones and featuring @mourelle.bsky.social emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/s...

Escribo en @elsaltodiario.com sobre la captura de Maduro como síntoma del agotamiento del imperialismo fósil. Una reflexión sobre el paso a formas postliberales de poder, donde el orden fósil deja de producir estabilidad y deriva hacia la coerción. www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...

Simocoe Park "Workers' Monument," dedicated to workers dead for lack of safety in their workplace, in Toronto, Canada

🇺🇲 ANÁLISIS | El nuevo viejo mundo 📄 "Trump oficializó ayer su propio corolario, la actualización de una doctrina cuya promesa de supremacía (blanca) americana sigue vigente desde 1823." ‼️Un MUST el análisis que nos deja @diegoebarros.bsky.social desde Chicago. Lean. 🔁👇🏼 ctxt.es/es/20260101/...

Un textàs, important i necessari. Gràcies, @soysauuce.bsky.social www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/muer...

Para quienes tengan tiempo estas vacaciones navideñas y ganas de escapar del ruido del presente, este archivo de cine olvidado es una excelente opción de fuga. rarefilmm.com

Pasolini=antimoderno di sinistra. Ergo, visionario & profeta. Questo non dovrebbe essere, Bifo, difficile da capire. Menos contradictorio imposible. ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

Nouvelle édition au format poche des deux volumes de correspondance choisie de Benjamin initialement parus chez Aubier. À paraître en mai aux éditions de l'Éclat

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Excelente proxecto e entrevista sobre tráfico de escravos en Galicia

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

Escribí sobre el legado de Margit Frenk (1925-2025), filóloga inmensa y maestra de maestros. Conocía como nadie la cultura oral y popular de la España moderna y fue modelo de una filología viva, útil y comprometida Gracias a @sebasfaber.bsky.social y @ctxt.es por el interés ctxt.es/es/20251201/...

muy feliz por haber recuperado dos textos de un autor imprescindible @bne.es @elpais elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Demà a Chicago!

Interested in doing a Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, cultures, and linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst? We are holding an information session next week, on Friday. Please share widely!

El descubridor del texto original de 'La colmena': "Hubiera pasado la censura, pero cayó en manos de católicos reaccionarios" www.eldiario.es/1_c1fac2?utm...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Excelente texto de Aristondo, poniendo el dedo en la llaga

Please stop what you are doing and go listen to Melinda Cooper on @thedigradio.bsky.social you will thank me later open.spotify.com/episode/3gAL...

#WalterBenjamin flüchtete vor Krieg und Diktatur, besaß ein Visum für die USA und hatte sich bis zum spanischen Grenzort Portbou durchgeschlagen. Doch dort verweigerte man ihm die Einreise. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

Argumentos como panes en este artículo de Mario Aguiriano contra la columna de Reyes Mate en El País, que enfurece y entristece a partes iguales. Excelente artículo también para ayudarnos a pensar (mejor) históricamente

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Preparing for a therapeutic rewatch of The Shining: Jameson, Fisher, and Crary

This is a nice podcast if you're interested in questions of internationalism, anti-imperialism, and decolonization, the Bandung spirit revisited and put into practice. www.returntobandung.com

Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza Monday, killing at least 20 people including five Palestinian journalists. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists

The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

Penn Libraries is hiring a Director of Academic Engagement wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...