Resisting climate imaginaries: future compass memes as combinatory mechanisms for imagining otherwise The climate crisis is simultaneously a crisis of the imagination, signaling a cultural failure to comprehend and contest unfolding ecological destruction. Conventional media representations of clim...

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New article out! 🌍"Resisting climate imaginaries: future compass memes as combinatory mechanisms for imagining otherwise" co-authored with Tommaso Trillò and Blake Hallinan
These aren't predictions, they are invitations for imagining otherwise. Link in comments 👇

Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990 Abstract. In postwar Britain, the rise of television as a new technology and cultural form transformed the political landscape, redefining the sites and st

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My brilliant friend Tal Zalmanovich wrote a brilliant book: Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990.
This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

Humanitarianism - Irit Katz - Gaza, Stripped: Displacement, Destruction, and Necro-Humanitarianism Among the modes of violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza Strip in the aggression that followed the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, three had specific spatial dimensions of humanitarian implication...

Important article by Irit Katz www.e-flux.com/architecture...

academicsforpeace on Instagram: "What happened to Al-Lyd, and why does it still matter? Dr. Norma Musih (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) breaks down how the 1948 Na…" What happened to Al-Lyd, and why does it still matter? Dr. Norma Musih (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) breaks down how the 1948 Nakba transformed a thriving Palestinian city into a symbol of loss—and resistance. Comments promoting violence or vulgarity will be deleted.#AMA #AcademicsforPeace #reels #fyp #explainervideo #explainer #History #peaceView all comments

A short on the history of Lyd and the excellent film Lyd by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, a film that remaind us that there is another way, there always was. www.instagram.com/reel/DPRchQz...

Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe This essay begins by exploring the collaborative art installation, ‘Sediments,’ by a Palestinian citizen of Israel and two Jewish Israelis, Nawal Arafat, Maayan Tsadka and Leoni Schein, shown in Ha...

And in the middle of yet another catastrophe, a new publication, co-authored with Louise Bethlehem: Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in theshadow of catastrophe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism Defenders of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have attempted to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. But since its beginning, different forms of Zionist ideology have competed with varied anti-Zionisms...

Important to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" jacobin.com/2024/01/shau...

Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise The aid plan supported by Israel and the US has more to do with control than compassion.

Take a moment to read Irit Katz's piece on Gaza. theconversation.com/lethal-human...

Happy to share my new paper "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)"
#politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."

Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely ...

Boycotts work. For my nerds, a cultural studies approach to thinking about points of intervention in the circuit of culture: Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises doi.org/10.1080/1479...

The political imaginaiton of Trump's plan for Gaza is not new. It resonates with the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948, the Nakba, and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States. We need to train a New Political Imaginaiton.

The day Israel came for the booksellers - +972 Magazine With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of 'incitement,' police raided East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.

The day Israel came for the booksellers - www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-eas...

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

"That a beginning be made man was created."

— Augustine

The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism.

She turned to Augustine to find the principle of natality as the ground for action. It means: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.