I'll be talking online with the Democracy Innovation Program at Bard College and two kindred networks in Aotearoa / New Zealand, the Goodlife Collective and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Join us on Monday 4/20 at 5pm ET / Tuesday 4/21 at 9am NZDT.
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Tuesday April 28, 6-8pm
Gilman 50, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus (3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, 21218)
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Poster for screening and panel discussion of “Polluted by Design: Histories of Waste and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Baltimore.”
Over the past year, @anandian.bsky.social and I have joined forces with our students and the remarkable folks at South Baltimore Community Land Trust to produce a 4-part documentary series on the history of environmental (in)justice on the city’s southern edge. It’s called “Polluted By Design.”
Friends in the Boston area, I'll be talking about my recent work at MIT on Thursday afternoon, feel free to stop by if you're around.
It was great to join Texas Public Radio to talk about our social and political predicaments in the United States. We began on the Texas border and wound up talking about Christian ethics, humanoid teachers, dystopian fiction, and much more. Listen via the link below.
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Catch me live on Texas Public Radio today at 12pm CT, talking about my new book and our American dilemmas.
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Some students at JHU invited me to help reflect on this question. Let’s just say that there’s a lot to think about!
Day 3: new thread continuing sampling Bill Connolly’s book Resounding Events — part memoir/part theory. The book gives his perspective on the rewards and trials of political theory from mid century to the coronavirus pandemic. Characteristically funny, insightful, brilliant, & politically astute /1
“I don’t exist in an after climate crisis—we know now that there is no after, only varying degrees of loss, varying degrees of change.”
"The Future of Here gathered and presented imaginary artifacts from the everyday life of a future people that might one day inhabit the landscape of this city we now call Baltimore, once our own civilization was long gone."
Last winter and spring, I took a journey deep into an imagined future with artist @auntiemojo.bsky.social and an amazing group of students at Johns Hopkins University. Here's a glimpse of the future river culture we conjured together at the Peale Museum in Baltimore.
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Spaces held in common shape our ability to imagine and practice a collective life with others unlike ourselves. @civiccommonsus.bsky.social has been exploring this challenge, and it's been a real privilege thinking along with them. Link below and in my bio.
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"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from... whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
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ANAND PANDIAN: That space of normal life, that sense of the everyday that we all take for granted, has somehow been punctured. BLAIR: Anand Pandian is an anthropology professor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls Of American Life, And How To Take Them Down." PANDIAN: I think a lot of people have the sense now that they have to stand up and say something. They can't pretend that normal life can simply go on, as it does, even if everything in our lives conspires to give us the illusion that somehow we could just go on.
Privileged people can ignore fascism for a while, telling themselves things are normal. Then all of a sudden fascism smacks them in the face and they realize their comfortable way of life is at risk.
I was on NPR Morning Edition this morning! Speaking for, well, 37 seconds, but grateful for this chance to weigh in on unacceptable ICE violence in Minneapolis and the truth that so many in this country have begun to insist on, that “normal” life cannot go on like this.
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NEW: @anandian.bsky.social wandered across America to find out why fear and division were increasing. Read our latest article to see how he found fortification of our lives — SUVs, security cameras, even clothing — reflect a deeper cultural anxiety about strangers and belonging: tinyurl.com/24zujewh
The snow (and ice, yes) a reminder: be kind to your neighbors, those of your and other kinds, those here to stay and those passing through.
'When the divide between self and other becomes as stark as it has in everyday American life, efforts to address collective predicaments or to respond to the suffering of others can meet with deep skepticism.'
#isolationism #individualism #collectivity #society #justice #environment #resistance
As @anandian.bsky.social argues, rejecting global climate action reflects not only fossil fuel lobbying but habits of thought that address wellbeing in sharply individualistic terms. “To make meaningful change…we have to address these ways of living and thinking.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s no coincidence the 66 int’l orgs Trump quit cluster around climate and arts & heritage. Trump knows better than most green transformation is a social & cultural issue. It now falls to the rest of us to fill the culture gap in climate policy & action.
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From Trump’s rejected treaties to our daily lives, we’re building walls around ourselves | Anand Pandian
MLK Jr insisted that what affects any one of us will affect all of us. His understanding of the “network of mutuality” that sustains us all is an essential lesson for this fraught moment in the US, I argue in a new op-ed for the Guardian.
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“The ocean was forever unfolding, forever exploring, forever tinkering with form”—another engrossing tale from Richard Powers, with characters you keep wondering about, and lyrical language that takes you deep into the sea.
"These days, so much turns on our collective ability to open ourselves to new ways of being with one another. This is the first lesson from Millie's world: You don't have to be the same to be close." This extraordinary new book by Danilyn Rutherford is such a moving and compelling read.
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
Really looking forward to this conversation about Danilyn’s powerful new book. Join us!
