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New article out! 🌍"Resisting climate imaginaries: future compass memes as combinatory mechanisms for imagining otherwise" co-authored with Tommaso Trillò and Blake Hallinan These aren't predictions, they are invitations for imagining otherwise. Link in comments 👇

My brilliant friend Tal Zalmanovich wrote a brilliant book: Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990. This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

Important article by Irit Katz www.e-flux.com/architecture...

A short on the history of Lyd and the excellent film Lyd by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, a film that remaind us that there is another way, there always was. www.instagram.com/reel/DPRchQz...

And in the middle of yet another catastrophe, a new publication, co-authored with Louise Bethlehem: Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in theshadow of catastrophe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" jacobin.com/2024/01/shau...

Take a moment to read Irit Katz's piece on Gaza. theconversation.com/lethal-human...

Happy to share my new paper "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)" #politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Boycotts work. For my nerds, a cultural studies approach to thinking about points of intervention in the circuit of culture: Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises doi.org/10.1080/1479...

The political imaginaiton of Trump's plan for Gaza is not new. It resonates with the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948, the Nakba, and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States. We need to train a New Political Imaginaiton.

The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

"That a beginning be made man was created." — Augustine The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. She turned to Augustine to find the principle of natality as the ground for action. It means: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.