Thank you for featuring Assembly by Design in exceptional company @iajournal.bsky.social !!

As institutions retrofitted themselves to house Richard Serra’s massive steel forms, this piece shows how his work transitioned from confrontational public interventions to museum-bound monuments. By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com buff.ly/DKEQjUA

@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️ See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information. Please repost.

I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...

That was fun! Also useful for anyone curious to know what the book is about. Thank you @danielryansyd.bsky.social

Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not.

New from the University of Georgia Press @ugapress.bsky.social , @stephenlegg11.bsky.social 's Spaces of Anticolonialism explores the anticolonial movements in Delhi before India’s independence, analysing subaltern geographies and hidden spaces through a spatial governmentality lens. bit.ly/LeggSOA

This event looks fantastic for those in NY! Do not miss

Please join us at The New School next Friday evening!

Come hear me talk with Claire Zimmerman, who co-edited a fantastic volume on nationalist internationalisms! March 11 6:30pm ET. The event will be online!

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Throughout my experience in US academia, my hate for abstract writing remains an uncomfortable constant. Don't get me wrong: I understand the algorithm (here is what others say; here is the gap; that's how I will address it; and that'swhy we should care about it), but I have no love for it.

Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 ! Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop... Deadline: >>Feb 21<< 👍

@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

When I was in college I worked at the library. One of my least favorite tasks was shelving books. One day I happened upon a book of Nikki Giovanni’s poems and my life was forever changed. Rest in Power and Thank You.

I'm currently working as an independent scholar and writing a history of the material and spatial cultures of broadcasting in 20s30s England with a focus on BBC Broadcasting House & the wireless sets manufactured by EKCO Ltd.

"...back in the day when ppl wld talk abt 📕 bans, [they'd] say “Oh, you must be 🤗! Bc the minute they ban a 📕 everybody’s running to get... it.” But now we’re living in a different ⏰, where it’s legislated. If 📚 are banned, + ppl try to put them into the ✋ of young ppl, they lose their jobs."

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Thank you for reading @coastofbohemia.bsky.social ! Your thoughtful post made my day! I hope we get to meet one day :) (psst @uminnpress.bsky.social )

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My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...

Just published an article in ATR: Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History Free eprints!

This is such a wonderful article on weaving together, not just building, collective life and its spaces! 🧶🪡🧵

Lots of starter packs out there, but haven't seen any for architectural history yet, so I assembled one. Please send along suggestions for additions. The pack is broadly conceived (architecture / urbanism / landscape) and covers any period, but should focus on history / theory. go.bsky.app/CqLE4UM

The “public sphere” today. Tradwives, pod bros and wellness grifters www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

Achievement unlocked. You get your first review, expertly done by Alexander Stagnell, a review that opens your work to IR conversations; and Quinn Slobodian, whose work has been important for mine, posts about it. Somebody please pinch me.

The Non-Aligned Archive (Arhiv Nesvrstanih) is the most exciting project I am working on. It is a digital archive documenting the presence of African, Asian, and American communities in Croatia, and will be publicly presented in May 2025, online and offline.

📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at @uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.

New #ArchitecturalHistories publications 👇 “Field Notes: Athens in Flux” by Olga Touloumi et al.: doi.org/10.16995/ah.... “Managing Luso-Utopia in Guinea-Bissau: Imperial Fictions and Dwelling Practices in Late Portuguese Colonialism (1945-74)” by Rui Aristides Lebre: doi.org/10.16995/ah....

Shannon is a constant inspiration. It was such a privilege to be in dialogue her! I loved every minute of it