The End of College Life If they persist, Donald Trump’s attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life.

The End of College Life — “Every year in the United States, almost 20 million people go to college, […]. But college life as we know it may soon come to an end. […] Higher education is in chaos, and professors and administrators are sounding the alarm.” #AcademicSky #EduSky

I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Cover of DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning by Anna Munster. The cover features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.

In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory
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Fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers take Donna Haraway's chart of transitions and unfold new perspectives, addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century.

Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’ His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated

Decided to reread this interview this morning before work.

This is an amazing book, starting with the "impossibility" of being both Black and Swiss. Composer Jessie Cox asks what if Black Swiss were not defined by the state and whiteness as difference, but more like jazz improvisation, a conversation from those who, like himself, are Black and Swiss.

It's been a week. The shock part is over; the awe part never happened. Time to be throwing sand into the fascist gears, y'all.

Denmark telling Mr Trump to fuck off.

If this is a message you endorse, spread it.

Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country ‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.

president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Screencap of Twin Peaks, agent Cooper drinking coffee during breakfast, telling Audrey Horne : "Well, Audrey, to be perfectly honest, I'm tired and a little on edge."

ain't that a mood

1,200 scientists have asked the government to pass the Climate & Nature Bill for the action necessary to protect our civilisation & the natural world.

Here are just some of them.

MPs: please listen to these experts and vote for our future next Friday 🙏 #CANBill
www.zerohour.uk

Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 4,5, and 6 on cd

Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 4,5, and 6

This says everything, everywhere, all at once.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

Australia! YouTube video by Jared Stern

I have said it before, and I will say it again, Trump is the moment that the president jumps the shark from regular everyday villainy to cartoonish super villainy. Every time he talks about invading Greenland or Canada I think of this clip.
youtu.be/MRWowww2lEI?...

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

Open Cultural Studies Volume 8 Issue 1 Volume 8, issue 1 of the journal Open Cultural Studies was published in 2024.

🍀 Special Issue: "Critical Green Theories and Botanical Imaginaries: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements" published in Open Cultural Studies 8.1 (2024), edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki

Enjoy the issue here:

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

Diversity Reading List in Philosophy (@diversityread.bsky.social) Decolonising and diversifying philosophy curricula - news and announcements.

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Picture of the digital cartography of new materialisms

For those folks (aka philosophy & critical theory aficionados) that are interested in my #digital #cartography of #newmaterialisms after today’s #UCCFutures talk, do check out the navigable app here (best watched on pc): dhstatic.hum.uu.nl/digicart/

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ANTENNAE ISSUE #65 'Dataism' is now available online!
Antennae’s ‘Dataism’ focuses on the impact AI and other forms of data analysis and rendering are having on art making, curatorial practices, and writings that center on ecocritical themes.

Download free at www.antennae.org.uk