A tremendous loss. Muzan was a dedicated writer and activist of the Sudanese Revolution. Her writings and talks are invaluable portals of radical, liberatory, and transformative political thought. Here is a thread of some them:
On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
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I cannot keep track with how many notifications I'm getting from all over Beirut and south Lebanon right now of the places that Israel is obliterating. There are multiple reports of multiple massacres in the past hour alone.
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
Natalie Wynn O @ContraPoints X.com Seriously where are the revolutionaries? Are they at brunch?
Liberals love this idea that they can just sit back and not be part of the socialist movement and one will just magically appear
"Palestinians across the occupied West Bank observed a general strike on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law allowing the execution of prisoners, as international condemnation mounted."
www.middleeasteye.net/news/general...
Some thoughts on bitterness and the lived experience of time in fascist times. + the wonderful work of Jennifer Packer
Das Feuilleton wärmt sich schon mal auf für den «Vibe Shift», vulgo Faschisierung, nach Mariam Lau in der ZEIT entdeckt nun auch Springers WELD die literarische Produktion aus dem völkischen Jungeuropa-Verlag. Wann Buchpreis?
I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Die #Brandmauer ist passé: Rechtsradikale und Konservative haben sich durchgesetzt und die Mehrheit errungen. Der Aufbau eines EU-weiten gemeinsamen Abschiebe-/ Haftregimes ist ins Rollen geraten. Der Weg in den #Autoritarismus ist gepflastert mit rassistischer #Migrationspolitik - alle schauen zu.
Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...
Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...
Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥
Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
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I also only realized that one is an excerpt of the other when I started watching the longer version :)
This is the full doc: youtu.be/soIUEkICiVU?...
Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question?
That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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"The Pentagon began to integrate Anthropic’s Claude chatbot into [Palantir] Maven in late 2024... The system has been used to generate proposed targets, to track logistics and provide summaries of intelligence coming in from the field."
The result?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social
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One underlying question is what happens when we embrace modelling’s political nature.
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It then becomes necessary to sustain a focus on modelling the Plantationocene’s inside—through the concept of data friction and communal counter-mapping—while also extending the gaze outside the plantation boundaries through forms of contestation and speculative thought.
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The reflections on what it means to grasp the Plantationocene as an epistemological object invite us to think more generally about what modelling does.
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The violent scalability inherent in plantations cannot easily be represented in a model fuelled by quantitative data. Such data is always an imperfect abstraction. Many aspects of human and non-human life remain beyond its grasp.
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My analysis reveals a more fundamental problem of scalability and how the origins of the Plantationocene mean taking seriously the colonial history of data collection and measurements as well as current data practices of extraction and dispossession.
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ESMs are resources for political decision-making, but their storytelling capacity is limited. The Plantationocene offers a means of destabilisation to put forward the notion that the Anthropocene limits what stories about planetary change can be told in the first place.
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I argue that earth system models (ESMs) can be understood as stories, in which each model defines the background, careful decisions are made in terms of who the characters of the story are, the variables of storylines are chosen, and potential story arcs are outlined.
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The Plantationocene is at once a metaphor, conceptual approach, and empirical category.
But what should we do with need to document the Plantationocene’s planetary impact and the inability of models to fully grasp and articulate its violent ramifications?
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