Ich sagte vor einigen Monaten schon: Hartheim, Hadamar, Sonnenstein etc - nie wieder war wohl nie so gemeint

#Sanismus #Ableismus #Sozialdarwinismus #Faschismus
#Psychiatriegewalt #EpistemicViolence

Slide deck from a talk titled "The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Who Shapes What We Know Online?" that I delivered at the ISOC India (Mumbai Chapter) yesterday: zenodo.org/records/1745...

#knowledge #openknowledge #epistemology #epistemicviolence #epistemicjustice #ISOC

Original post on digitalcourage.social

Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird. Ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer […]

Whiteness doesn’t just extract :it curates critique, defines the radical, controls who gets to speak

A major inequality project critiques empire...without naming the structure that underwrites it: whiteness.

Link to my piece in next post

#Degrowth#RacialCapitalism #EpistemicViolence #Gaza#racism

Democracy and the Epstein Regime: A Democracy Abused and Raped in Captivity This article examines the Jeffrey Epstein case not merely as an instance of individual criminality but as a systemic symptom of democratic decay, elite capture,

Democracy and the Epstein Regime: A Democracy Abused and Raped in Captivity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#Epstein #DemocraticDecline #EliteCapture #LegalInstrumentalization #EpistemicViolence #MediaSilence #ImpunityRegime #TransnationalGovernance #Kompromat #Trump

Gaslighting in politics: how a female experience became universalised Gaslighting, a form of manipulation coined to describe relational abuse within couples, has become a tool for collective political analysis. What does this shift from the private to the public sphere ...

🧠 #Gaslighting is no longer just personal—it’s political. From #Trump to #Putin, it’s now a tool to erode collective truth & sow disorientation. By @francesca-b.bsky.social
voxeurop.eu/en/gaslighti...
#Feminism #PostTruth #Politics #Disinformation #Frappat #RobinStern #EpistemicViolence

If you're feeling harmed by trump & MAGA Cult, you could be experiencing their #EpistemicViolence

Symptoms of their harm and trauma can include:

Exhaustion
Isolation
Self-Doubt
Depression
Anger
Hypervigilance
PTSD
Alienation
Silence
Withdrawal
Sense of Powerlessness
Disconnection
Numbing
Pain

Trump & MAGA use #EpistemicViolence by

* Denying tribal sovereignty
* Denying womens bodily autonomy
* Dehumanizing BiPoC, women, LGBTQ+ folx
* Erasing our contributions, histories
* Dismissing racism, sexism, discrimination and social injustices
* Legalizing sexual violence

Other impacts of trump and MAGA's #EpistemicViolence:

* Social inequality: They perpetuate systems of oppression by reinforcing the superiority of white men and the inferiority of all others

* Historical amnesia: They erase crucial historical narratives, preventing an account of past injustices

Impacts of trump and MAGA Cult's white supremacist #EpistemicViolence on Americans:

* Loss of agency: Victims lose their ability to define their own realities and participate meaningfully in society

* Psychological harm: It can lead to feelings of isolation, self-doubt, and profound alienation

Trump & the MAGA Cult are engaging in #EpistemicViolence:

* It's more than just silencing us.

* They’re actively discrediting and invalidating our lived experiences, identities & existence.

* They’re erasing our histories & contributions.

* They're imposing their identity & culture on us.

Epistemic oppression, resistance, and resurgence

Trump and the Republicans are engaging in #EpistemicViolence, a complex and deeply harmful phenomenon, inflicted on individuals or groups through the systematic destruction or devaluation of their knowledge, ways of knowing, and ability to contribute to knowledge production.

Hold on to your books and journals, keep pdfs of your articles and chapters on a harddisc. Academics worldwide can no longer trust scholarly work digitally distributed from the US, due to epistemic cleansing by a fascist government.

#Scholasticide #EpistemicViolence

Epistemic Injustice and Violence Epistemic violence and injustice are deeply ingrained in knowledge production and academic practice – this volume starts a conversation towards a new, transformative philosophy.

Dann doch lieber hier.

#epistemicinjustice #epistemicviolence #philosophy #compassion #latetotheparty

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Today, 2 pm, we will hold a conversation on #Imperialism, #SettlerColonialism & #EpistemicViolence: Edinburgh #University 's role in #Dispossession & #Genocide in #Palestine

sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...