Thank you to the brilliant folks at the Avery Review for hosting this piece of writing, and in such incredible company, for this issue. #averyreview

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

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Afrikaners “name themselves natives, a word they deployed as a slur for us, in the hope that they might adopt, in the act of naming, our relations to the land and all that it entails. The demand for a white ethnostate requires our dispossession again…” - Nolan Oswald Dennis in The Funambulist #59

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recurse 4 a late planet [lush] by Nolan Oswald Dennis. / Working diagram (2025-ongoing). // "In South Africa today the rehabilitation of Apartheid is being pursued under the guise of white indigeneity." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bla...

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IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

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“Is science equally the surveillance satellite and the COVID vaccine?…We must also consider who is investing in scientists, in their thousands, protesting for protections of Western science.” averyreview.com/issues/71/ou...

Stop what you’re doing and go read the latest issue of The Avery Review - with incredible pieces by Gabriella Demczuk, Sanie Irsay, Sydney Rose Maubert, Mohamad Nahleh, @divyampersaud.com, and Faris Shomali. Online here:

wrote about how trump is going to annihilate the field of architecture for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!

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"...the question remains whether Africa can chart its own course through the cosmos, informed by the rich histories of scientific knowledge and celestial relation born out of the continent, or whether its space endeavors will reproduce familiar patterns of extraction and control."

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What amazed me while reporting this was that ACSA felt the best course of action was to gather design education's foremost social justice advocates on an editorial board & then antagonize them by blowing up a JAE issue on the top social justice issue of our time www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

More context from @zachmortice.bsky.social on ACSA’s decision to censor the Journal of Architectural Education’s Palestine issue (+ then some). Re: institutional capitulations, performative repair + ivory tower knee-bending; do give this a read; it’s an important moment in our discipline.

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A short interlude for the upstairs and downstairs apartments.

Grateful to Scroope Journal (from the School of Architecture at Cambridge) + editors Nick Frayne & Jerry Chow for the invitation to contribute to volume 33: Disenclosure; and to world a little around writing as a spatial practice. Honored to be in this company and to have a print copy in hand. ♥️

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Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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"What does it mean, in the midst of our genocide, for Palestinians to make freedom by making place? Might it be not simply to revive (transform?) what is dead, but also to inhabit what is alive? Gilmore’s reminder to “make freedom by making place” is a tactical as well as imaginative proposition."

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An incredible statement of support from MESA, on the cancellation of the Palestine issue by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Huge gratitude to these colleagues. Read it below:

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The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.

Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.

Unfortunate, but not unexpected news. I hope the editors find a venue for the contributions, which were submitted last month and were in peer review ahead of last week's decision by ACSA. Maybe a special issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social? www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Very unfortunate that one of the only welcoming and radical institutions in architecture (the JAE) is being detonated by a bunch of MAGA sympathizers on the ACSA board www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Spent parts of my career thinking ACSA/JAE wasn't for me, but for the past four years (thx to Nora Wendl / McLain Clutter / great editors + board), JAE has been one of the best journals going. ACSA hasn't "protected" anything—they've unmade it with their own hands. www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

1/8 - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - the parent organization for the Journal of Architectural Education - has cancelled the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of the journal - titled “Palestine,” and fired our Interim Executive Editor.

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

"The Asscn of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced [yesterday] it has canceled a forthcoming Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) edition abt 🇵🇸.... The announcement arrived on the same day McLain Clutter, JAE interim executive editor, was fired by ACSA." Shameful.

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