OUT 31 OCT YUSUF MUMIN JOURNEY TO THE ANCIENT #YusufMumin - founder of #BlackUnityTrio with Abdul Wadud and Hasan Al-Hut - unveils previously unreleased music from his personal archive! Featuring liner notes by Mumin and Pierre Crépon order (LP/digi) bit.ly/406AsGa

Many media outlets are now recognising that Israel is committing genocide - but still not identifying what governments should be doing to stop it. Me on the new stage of denial.

Dayum anthonybraxton-bam.bandcamp.com/album/quarte...

Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/

From the Archive: Dirk Baecker, 'Why Systems?' - with reference to three seminal books on cybernetics, communication theory and the calculus of distinctions, this article discusses points in Niklas Luhmann's sociological systems theoretical thinking. (2001) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excellent

Amazing piece by @andyw23.bsky.social

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Today's soundtrack

Cecil Taylor Unit Live at Antioch College, April 3, 1971 Cecil Taylor (age 42), piano Jimmy Lyons (39), alto saxophone Sam Rivers (47), tenor and soprano saxophones, and flute Andrew Cyrille (31), drums youtu.be/wDB3_2QguNg?...

Filming deportations as political propaganda is just pure barbarism @teamlabouruk.bsky.social - anyone involved should be ashamed

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records 2025) sylviecourvoisier.bandcamp.com/album/bone-b...

Why not support by getting his forthcoming album, taking on Braxton's comps? stevelehman.bandcamp.com/album/the-mu...

I'll have a go at this, my favorite album released in the: 1970s: Frank Wright, The Centre of the World 1980s: George Clinton, Computer Games 1990s: Cecil Taylor, The Tree of Life 2000s: MF DOOM, Mm..Food 2010s: Aphex Twin, Syro 2020s: Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Bryan S. Turner, one of the living legends of sociology, has written an excellent article about the tricky issue of academic decline and explores how we might imagine and create a post-university future.

Important time to revisit Saleh's amazing work over the last ten years...

Great reporting from C4

The release of prisoners from the infamous Palestine Branch in Damascus. "10 years!" shouts the man in a red shirt. "What's happened?" asks the man in the blue shirt. "The regime has fallen" is the response.

This is no ordinary prison. It was called 'the human slaughterhouse' by Amnesty International.

The media isn't reporting the collapse of the Assad regime as the huge advance in human freedom it is. I’ve written this text for the IPM giving background on Assad’s detention and torture state. Please read, and share. qunfuz.com/2024/12/07/a...

Useful

The resurrection of the Syrian revolution is a small light in a dark world

Good morning! As part of the Leo Records reissue program on Bandcamp, the FULL-LENGTH VERSIONS of Live In Bologna and Live In Vienna are now available digitally for the first time! burningambulance.substack.com/p/spend-blac...

Andy Wilson and I discussing Castoriadis a couple of months back on his William Blake podcast www.travellerintheevening.com/p/blake-cast...

Seaside stroll

Adam Tooze talking sense on China open.spotify.com/episode/4aZI...

The view from Kalaja e Gjirokastrës, nearing dusk, November 24