We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

Abdaljawad Omar - the homely and the beast communispress.com/the-homely-a...

There is a scene from the Derrida documentary where he talks about how he has trouble going to sleep every night because of the creeping terror of having written something too dangerous, too cruel, or just wrong

miriam ticktin's new book will be out in december press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... against innocence: undoing and remaking the world

a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency "seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

ethics of hope and despair, week 4: antigone

I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies.. Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For all its problems, I think Graeber was really onto something in /Bullshit Jobs/ when he suggested that politics would come to be increasingly defined by the resentments of the unproductive segments of the economy towards the productive ones...

So the Light Won’t Leave Me This month Ḥattā lā yatrukanī al-dawʾ (So the Light Won’t Leave Me), a collection of Nima Hasan’s poems written in the second year of the genocidal war on Gaza, was published by Al Nasher Publishing in Ramallah, Palestine. Below is Rania Jawad’s introduction to the…

lareviewofbooks.org/article/reli... grimacing a bit at this story

What's become clearer is how utterly useless some people are.

This is a travesty. Honestly, McGill should be censured by CAUT for this decision and the changes it is making to the student code of conduct that will compromise student academic freedom and undermine the very conditions of the institution’s accreditation. Solidarity, @marxinhell.bsky.social

Now available! Drawing on Shaykh Musa Kamara’s body of work, colonial archival documents, and postcolonial knowledge production within Senegal, TEXTUAL LIFE offers a decolonial vision of the humanities. buff.ly/O1jMqC6 #ReadUP #BlackLivesInTheDiaspora

My law firm is handling a proposed class action lawsuit against this company for allegedly using people's identities to sell subscriptions w/o consent. salahilaw.com/is-academia-.... This revision appears to be an end-run around the litigation process and we are looking into it. Thanks for flagging.

JB: "Perhaps I am a fool and can only live in the world of parables. Lucky that I still have my books. But it cannot be utterly foolish to resist injustice when you so clearly see it, as, I presume, you must."

read her latest on the plane back from berlin a few weeks ago, unexpectedly emotional by the end. respect to her

well, that's that

wry review. sounds like THE DESERTERS with less courage

bidoun.org/articles/hou... incisive essay. oh to be free of these institutions and their repugnant things said pleasantly

ethics of hope and despair, week 3: the book of job and the colour of paradise youtu.be/b6AeY0GzfTA?...

In After Transformation, @maiakotro.bsky.social offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Read the intro for free now. buff.ly/TNIwz7k

clowns!

This is an excellent analysis of what has been happening to post-secondary education in Ontario. It succinctly describes how the tuition cut and freeze by Ford directly lead to the explosion of international students, and how under funded ON universities are. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

incredible and depressing how fast the decade of progress under trudeau — as slow and flawed and not enough as it might have been — is being dismantled before our eyes

new Irving Goh! reckoning with failure as an immersive impasse: flopping, drifting itself, a dark care of the self, melodrama, and postscripting intro free to download dukeupress.edu/living-on-af...

includes the worthwhile reminder that fascists are not a protected class

What a thoughtful man Mahmoud Khalil is. A must read. Was moved to know that while in detention he was reading Edward Said and Viktor E. Frankl www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

batool abu akleen

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... abysmal: uc berkeley shares 160 names with the trump administration. proud to have teachers and friends on that list, as my fondness for the school fades

ethics of hope and despair, week 2: freud on war and death, david theo goldberg on dread, and melancholia www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUd...

”Nationalization, like racialization, is always ongoing. It is never only, or merely, a fait accompli. And it is because it is continually taking place that it can be resisted.” @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social reviews memoirs by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Avi Shlaim, and Massoud Hayoun:

A beautiful, moving essay on resistance from Joan Scott www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Twenty-four years ago, after the September 11 attacks, the launch of the “War on Terror” expanded presidential authority, severely curtailed civil rights, and made a mockery of the Constitution and international law. Noura Erakat on how we are living the latest chapter of this story today:

islamic ethics and spiritual sovereignty: genres of tradition in muslim south asia by @alialtafmian.bsky.social is listed!! this will be a marvelous text undpress.nd.edu/978026821090...

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/dea... astonishing essay

The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n

raoul peck has done it again www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGME...

betty rosen - timing critique in arabic: 'abid al-jabiri and 'abd al-rahman taha against the arabic reception of kant muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic... looks solid

ethics of hope and despair, class 2: the proleptic temporality of omar el akkad's one day, everyone will have always been against this www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485...

In Memoriam: BRINKLEY MESSICK 1946 - 2025

I have polemicized that Habermas' life project was to cannibalize and aryanize the legacy of radical German Jewish thought. It's time to reclaim Adorno! blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Just out: Basit Iqbal's accout of Islamic humanitarian organizations is a superb ethnography of aid in the wake of the Syrian civil war. But it's more than that too: a philosophically rich account of how Islamic theology might inflect the questions an ethnographer can ask.

"ethics of hope and despair," day 1 youtu.be/_msusYXQIfc?...

Tens of thousands of people were tortured and murdered by the Assad regime, and now dentists are helping to identify the remains.

“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.

hilaryplum.substack.com/p/on-batool-... hilary plum's exceptional essay on batool abu akleen's poetry collection, 48kg

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Well, at least they are redirecting literary grant money to "foster AI competency" (clearly lacking in this AI generated 2nd paragraph), support for the military (as all true literature should do), and disaster recovery (books as sandbags?)