Red book cover of ‘Inventory’ by Dionne Brand

A book to read today and everyday

don moore: "the struggle over geography ... is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings." seminar syllabus to guide us through: www.jstor.org/stable/24498... remembering a very kind conversation in his office when early in grad school. r.i.p.

Former minister Catherine McKenna blasts the heads of Canadian oil companies MONTRÉAL — Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada’s oil industry are figures close to American President Donald Trump who are “taking us for fools” and putting both t...

"Canadian companies in the oil industry are bringing in an extra $170 million in profits every day because of the war in Iran, which has pushed global oil prices up by more than 50 per cent, according to an analysis published by @policyalternatives.ca" halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/19/f...

read this one weeks ago but am drawn back to it...

the beginning of ibn arabi's chapter on the waystation of trial (#317). "why did he not from the first build that house / to last, its life not to perish? / it did nothing to deserve ruin / so why did he raise it up and why did he lay it waste / the hand of trial but toyed with us and it..."

la puissance de la douceur: "certain encounters do not necessarily heal but still preserve something essential against the world’s brutality: the possibility of a relation intimate enough to near suffering--yet disciplined enough not to consume it"

Hopelessness and Love in an Israeli Prison After 33 years, the Palestinian author Nasser Abu Srour is finally free. He speaks to New Lines from exile in Cairo

“Words, for the prison writer, are both personal and political, a means to self-determination and to bearing witness.” Toby Lichtig interviews Nasser Abu Srour, who was recently released after 33 years in an Israeli prison. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

My Year In November 18ths | Defector Time began tormenting me in March of last year. I had been traveling for weeks to promote my book about gossip, a kind of capstone to the fastest-paced era of my life. All of it—the podcast we made, t...

i wrote about my year with On the Calculation of Volume defector.com/my-year-in-n...

haha, indeed. let's also get into *princeton anthropology* and its conceits about what makes for proper ethnography, and its deep conservatism and the structuring unreality principle of ivy arrogance, here for all of it

also, not the point, but.......princeton? yuck

An Ode to Loss - Issuu “I’m scared of a history that has only one version. History has dozens of versions, and for it to ossify into one leads only to death…we mustn’t see ourselves in their mirror, for they’re prisoners of...

roula hajjar - an ode to loss (2024) issuu.com/divisionrevi... reading nasser abourahme with avgi saketopoulou

First We Take Manhattan | Contending Modernities A political victory can show that Islamophobia is not inevitable or invincible. It can spark the recognition that Islamophobia connects the local and the global, the metropolitan and the periphery, th...

THEN WE TAKE BERLIN contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre... (on grammatical islamophobia in the post-racial order & the implications of political victory)

B-Sides: Albert O. Hirschman’s “The Passions and the Interests” - Public Books “The Passions and the Interests” charms the reader as it persuades. Much of that charm is about its content as well as its style.

“The Passions and the Interests charms the reader as it persuades.”

Hirschman’s book, argues Lorraine Daston, “is a history of the invisible hand at work even within those very arguments for the existence of the invisible hand.”

Thrilled to announce my book, SEASONS OF FURY, will be out on August 25. Based on years of reporting and archival research, this book is a narrative history that follows four families to trace the rise of Islamophobia in the US.

You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672414...

Reminder that Carney is cutting funding to Environment and Climate Change Canada by 45%.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

well i don't know about any of that but i'm keen to hear charlotte's comments, should be good

Jewish Currents speaks with philosopher Elad Lapidot about how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated.

jewishcurrents.org/when-jewishn...

avgi saketopoulou - exigent sadism: austerity logics and the antireparative turn share.google/t2Tr1fKSVdXk...

they will not stop until they are stopped.

I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...

obligatory classic theonion.com/study-iraqis...

well. the great satan

Quote in a BBC report (since deleted): "Radon, also in his 20s and living in Tehran, said: "About them hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb,.or levelling Iran. My honest reaction is that I'm OK with all of these."

This war has been extremely revealing about the limits of the lived experience/local voices industrial complex:

What is Critique? A conversation between Amira Mittermaier // Sylvain Piron (2) YouTube video by Allegra Lab

amira mittermaier & sylvain piron, "what is critique?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwC...

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is dead | The Narwhal Proposed under Bill 5, Ontario’s Species Conservation Act is officially in force, leaving many at-risk plants and animals, like redside dace and barn owls, unprotected

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is officially dead. The new Species Conservation Act is replacing it, but leaves many plants and animals — and their habitats — without protection. via @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

enshittification of everything, case in point (foul image advertising this real anthro news article: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ten...)

burn it all!!!!!!!

We enter the spring with momentum and optimism: A message from President Susan Tighe Dear members of the McMaster community, As we finally turn the corner from winter and start to see the first green shoots of spring, I want to update our community on some green shoots we’re growing h...

mcmaster president: we enter the spring with momentum and optimism news.mcmaster.ca/message-from... what world does she live in

The Reckoning • EQUATOR Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

“Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition.”
www.equator.org/articles/the...

The HQ of the UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon.