Driven by fear of the far right, the EU is losing its compass, whether on migration, climate or Gaza. By undermining its own principles, Europe weakens its global position and risks losing not just dignity but political agency. With @jannikjansen.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's not just Mamdani. Michelle Wu, Katie Wilson--the Dems may soon have a remarkable cast of young, gifted mayors www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Many find comfort in thinking that Greece was (and remains) a peripheral outlier, with developments and reactions which are not applicable elsewhere. But its portrayal as an image of the future back in 2008 seems increasingly more apt. 1/

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"Privacy, the Private, and Architecture". We invite proposals for this session at the 2026 conference of the European Architectural History Network which Aarhus University will host. DEADLINE 19 September 2025. Call for papers and submission instructions: konferencer.au.dk/eahn26/aarhus

Chantal Akerman’s 1994 coming-of-age masterwork, “Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels,” can’t be reissued because of its needle drops. But a complete retrospective of the director’s work at MOMA offers two rare screenings.

Really excited to see the program of the program of the online ‘Women Architects under State Socialism Symposium’ organised in collaboration with the @eahn2005.bsky.social Women and Gender in Architecture and Urban Design Interest Group! Have a look and register to join us! eahn.org/2025/09/wome...

Excellent entretien à lire (ce serait bien que ce genre d’interview soit en accès libre). 👇

via Zoom 4-5 September

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Mourning time lost and the stupidity of our funding schemes and the dismantling of public goods, L’Intelligence au travail is a call to rebuild lasting infrastructures and organisations. Want to know more and maybe contribute? Find everything you need here: cargocollective.com/SolangeManch...

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

HOW I CAME TO BERLIN by ELIZABETH SHAW 🎨 Elizabeth Shaw, originally from Belfast, became one of Germany's most celebrated children's authors, publishing 23 books in her lifetime, and yet she remains virtually unknown in Ireland.

Gaza City’s iconic Shuja’iyya neighborhood no longer exists The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/gaza...

PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF URBAN STUDIES at the University of Helsinki. The position will focus on the study of inequality and segregation at the urban and regional levels. Deadline: Sept. 24, 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #urban #sociology

I am delighted to share my latest publication 👇👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... 1/ This idea has been in my mind for a long time. It draws on long-term ethnographic research and personal experiences on Lesvos, where I have lived and have family and friends.

2/ During this time, I witnessed not only the unfolding refugee crisis but also the impact of over-researching on already vulnerable communities. The article also reflects on my own experiences of extractivist practices, appropriation, and silencing within academia during that period and beyond.

" #Solidarität wird ... großgeschrieben. Werden Demonstrierende verhaftet, gibt es Proteste vor Polizeistationen und Gefängnissen. Geschäfte, die von Schlägertrupps demoliert werden, erhalten sofort Unterstützung. Die Botschaft immer und überall: Niemand ist allein." Von Larissa Schober. #Serbien

One note: the book doesn’t say that fires were “primarily” landlord-set (as suggested) but that real estate and insurance were primary drivers of the firestorm. The distinction matters bc racial capitalism involves extraction on many levels. Evidence shows landlords set the stage.

Marco Ferrari - Dopo la tempesta Resilienza al cambiamento climatico nell'arte e nel restauro dei giardini storici Vient de paraître chez il Mulino

Now available at www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... Dr Zoltán Biedermann Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2025 ‘Indigenous voices in the literature of travel and exploration’

More Americans should listen to more Woody Guthrie.

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

We have a cover! English translations of selected philosophical works by the German writer Karoline von #Günderrode (1780-1806), with short introductions.

10. Januar. 10:38 Uhr. 1 Grad.

Fatma Hassouna, 24 years old, a photographer who was undoubtedly targeted by the IDF when they sent missiles which burrowed into the 2nd floor of her apartment block before exploding, murdering Fatma alongside every single member of her family bar her mother. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Carla Lonzi e altri www.artribune.com/arti-visive/...

This iconic issue from Viewpoint Magazine is 10 years old this year ! Still so much to learn & appreciate in these many articles: viewpointmag.com/2015/11/02/i... (Would love to have some kind of collective reading/reflection event or discussion on publishing/political lineages if there's interest!)

Open-Access book on "Collaborative methods for planning and design from an insurgent perspective" by Juliana Canedo: www.transcript-publishing.com/search?sSear... #urban #sociology

"In its essence, the insurrectional impetus enacts the detotalization or fragmentation of existing socio-political orders. If it is to become a revolutionary opening, what is the nature of the party that could interact with detotalization or fragmentation and fulfill the necessity of revolution?"

RE. - "...J. Derrida reminds us that the word archive has its roots in the Greek word for beginning and for authority. Without control of the archive there is no political authority, he said." www.documentjournal.com/2013/05/in-2...

'communities that regard themselves as victimized can cultivate their victimhood status with such intensity that they can become perpetrators of heinous crimes.' Powerful analysis by Ger Duijzings as ever. With a glimpse on Germany's silence.

»Philipp Dorestal bietet mit dieser fundierten Einführung einen perfekten Einstieg in Fanons Denken & Handeln und löst das Versprechen des Untertitels ein« (Dominik Nüse). Zur Aktualität Fanons: BUCHPREMIERE! 12.07. | @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social Berlin + Livestream for free: www.rosalux.de/veran...

Compte rendu de manifestation: «Prisons and Prisoners in the History and Sociology of Knowledge» Par Antoine Marquis (Anger) www.infoclio.ch/fr/compte-re... #histoire #prison

'Towards the end of his life, Butler notes, Derrida’s work was dedicated to mourning as a way of asking how we learn to live and to die(...)' [ e.lrb.co.uk/cr/AQjS5RUQw... ] * 'Jacques Derrida', Judith Butler www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Das Werk des Malers Paul Cézanne ist eng mit seiner Heimat Aix-en-Provence verwoben. Im Landhaus seiner Familie, der Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, suchte er nach einem neuen Ausdruck in der Malerei. An diesem Ort entwickelte er einen Stil, der ihn zum ‚Vater der Moderne’ machen sollte. 🎥 arte 53’

A great help in working out how best to stop them in your county is this great collection, The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration:: www.versobooks.com/products/303...

"Attica rebels engaged in a praxis of abolition, generating abolitionist knowledge, theory, and practice amid conditions of carceral war. They not only imagined and dreamed a world without prisons, but put their bodies on the line to materialize their vision in the face of determined opposition."

@krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social Stellungnahme zur Absage der VA mit Francesca Albanese an der Uni Bern: “für den Schutz der Wissenschafts- und Meinungsfreiheit ebenso wie für den demokratischen Diskurs im Allgemeinen nicht hinnehmbar” krisol-wissenschaft.org/wp-content/u...

In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

I wrote a brief 'Life Stories' text about the Indian anticolonial activist A. C. N. Nambiar and his activities in 1920s Berlin for Dekoloniale. The beautifully crafted interactive map is an exciting way to tell this story. www.dekoloniale.de/en/map?kind=...

In todays episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg (@stephenlegg11.bsky.social) about his recent @ugapress.bsky.social book, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities.

Nominations are open for the 2026 SAH Publication and Film & Video Awards! Deadline September 3. sah.org/programs/sah... (Pictured: These awesome titles won the top prize in 2025.) #ArchitectureBooks #BookClub #bookcover #bookprize #BookAwards #readinglist #SAH

Get Fahd Ahmed of DRUM onto your left podcasts etc... to talk about this campaign. If you actually want to better understand what's been happening re: organizing. You're welcome.

We were delighted to host Prof Diana Allan for the Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture on 'Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon' Warms thanks for a fascinating talk, & showing of the film 'Partition'. If you missed the lecture, listen now:

Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive