Read more about #EdgeOfSpaceTime -- and why it's a book that welcomes you, yes you, into the boogie wonderland of our cosmos -- in my newsletter: news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.

Rereading Rosa Luxemburg on militarism and capital for no particular reason today. Eurocentric theorists routinely underplay(ed) the central role colonial expansion and imperial war played in the history of capitalism. She was a rare exception and possibly why I have always loved her.

Cover of the Sep 1969 issue of Soviet journal Ogonek. Photo taken by Zond-8 spacecraft as it circled the Moon. Quote from Lenin: "All the wonders of technology...will become the property of the people, and from now on, human intelligence and genius will never be turned into a means of violence."

Great article—if you want to know why so many universities, even across oceans, are singing the same tune, look to the consultants selling them the same plans! I like this point that the same-ness distills down to the department and class level too. we all become fungible units.

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the logistics of shipping oil and the economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz substack.com/@turbulencep...

From strikes for Gaza to organizing against anti-LGBTQ policies & visions beyond capitalist collapse, read work from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @alfatau.bsky.social, @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social & more. inthesetimes.com/magazine/cap...

Also if you live in NYC, a low lift thing you can do to support adequate funding for our libraries is to make a copy of these half sheets and drop them off in public places in your communities. Also share with co-workers, family members, etc.. drive.google.com/file/d/1Cm2L...

Once a cornerstone of online democracy, the humble hashtag is quietly vanishing — and with it, a little piece of user power, says @etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy. 🔗 tinyurl.com/pzvxpstk TLDR 👇 #langksy #linguistics #digitalcommunication #digitaldiscourse

anybody familiar with the attitudes of Irish historians, political scientists, and/or theorists? curious what the reputation of Oliver Cromwell is as a historical figure amongst those folks, and whether it's changed much in the last few generations

Still a couple of places left - course starts next week with the interpretation of Césaire's 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.

I love how some folks are justifying these "content creator" college majors by explaining that "it's not about posting; it's about entrepreneurship" — and that's no better. The ubiquity of entrepreneurship on campus is why 💰 is the pedagogical telos + colleges churn out sociopathic hedge funders

Book Launch #2 April 2 - 12pm Eastern Join us as we celebrate the new book Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries Learn more and register: https://libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resisting-erasure-libraries-in-palestine-and-palestine-in-libraries-2/

#OnThisDay in London radical Black herstory, 1980: Black Women Fighting Back! Three day National Black Women’s conference opens at Tottenham Green Education Centre, N15. The second national conference organised by the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent

I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, responsible for around 0.5C historical warming. But it is very short lived. Unlike CO2 it acts as a "flow" rather than stock pollutant, with impacts based on the rate of emissions rather than cumulative emissions.

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

This is what I hope Open Streets will become under @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social — more than just places for people to dine outdoors, but true third spaces where anyone is welcome and all people can enjoy time outside, alone or with others, without being required to spend money.

April 6 marks the 100th birthday of the great Randy Weston. We're putting on a free concert in Cambridge, MA on April 12 at 4pm to commemorate him and launch an incredible exhibit drawn from his archives: bluestoafrica.eventbrite.com

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...

Slovenian excellence

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

Great phrase, cognitive surrender: if we professors are allowed to keep yapping away and lecturing, it will show how important oral reasoning and argumentation are for keeping your marbles intact. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're also treating our readers to a gorgeous conversation between dream hampton and Jason Moran discussing the legacy of D'Angelo's beloved music (tinyurl.com/2nmn23bx), an essay on the end of the Blackbuster from Ian F. Blair, and an essay on Raoul Peck's filmmaking career from Lovia Gyarkye.

#OtD 16 Mar 1972 four UK Black Power activists were assaulted by police in Oval tube station, falsely accused of stealing handbags and jailed. The officer responsible was later exposed for falsifying evidence frequently in order to frame Black men stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8811...

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️ The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions can be uploaded to our submissions portal on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net

Is anyone on here a specialist in the landscapes of Devon? I might have a small but pleasant job for you.

Melinda Cooper’s essay on the Epstein household and its political economy contains this on Marx and Varoufakis 🎯 www.equator.org/articles/eps...

brain going blank - any good work on timetables? @shannonmattern.bsky.social do you have some pointers? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

#OtD 10 Mar 1896 surrealist writer, model, anarchist and anti-racist Nancy Cunard was born in London. Active in promoting Black writers, opposing the invasion of Ethiopia, helping Spanish anti-fascist refugees and working with the French resistance. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8214...

Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.

Starting now - Black Scare / Red Scare Study Group Announcement + Some Sunday Thoughts on Iran www.youtube.com/live/_UagCax...

The apocalyptic reports have come true, dilute in our arterial solvent the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks we stay awake lambent ... and we've become scientists of without under force, out of water, across loading with bearings, of us - Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature for the Time Being"

On deciding to be a writer, Dionne Brand said, “I thought of life itself as difficult, and writing about life as much easier. Living was hard, so writing was better.”

“Under the cover of an existential war against the Palestinians, Israel is accelerating measures that alter Jerusalem’s demographic composition, religious character and legal status” - UN experts warn against the irreversible ‘de-Palestinisation’ of Jerusalem www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

"I was shaken by a protracted deprivation and an organized abandonment had pushed people to a point where war could begin to resemble deliverance." --- Shahram Khosravi

a clumsy self-portrait of sighting for the first time in the bookshop ”curatorial design” book i co-edited w/Wilfried Kuehn with curatorial design we tried to open up a space for rethinkong architcture by repositioning it in relation to public, practice and pedagogy lenz.press/products/cur...

I love to see it. Even the Black Panthers saw the impact of automation in Detroit auto industry (faster lines, more injuries). So they updated their "Ten-Point Plan". ——— 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace, and people’s community control of modern technology.

last day to watch this incredible collection of film fragments by doplgenger (isidora ilić and boško prostran) curated by greg de cuir jr. at @eflux.bsky.social Yugoslav dissolution in the 1990s keeps on haunting me as we live within this catastrophe www.e-flux.com/film/program...

Chairwoman Elaine Brown turns 83 today. She was the first & only woman to lead the Black Panther Party. And she led it during its most turbulent time when Huey was exiled in Cuba & COINTELPRO had decimated its ranks. She also oversaw the expansion of its survival programs. Happy birthday to her

This @thedigradio.bsky.social episode with Minnesota organizers is excellent, especially how they talk about multi-racial, multi-issue organizing for the long-term.

For people needing podcasts on iran: thedigradio.com/History%20of...