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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 7h

Its worth it! I do also think archive fever is an important intervention into the wider conversation especially if read with gil anidjar’s attempts to really blow it up.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 8h

Are you familiar with the postcolonial/poststructuralist reckonings with moses and monotheism (via yerushalmi) with Said and Derrida?

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 8h

Would feckin love to read that tbh

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 8h

💯

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 8h

الروح ترجع انشالله

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 10h

Watching tarr and kraznahorkai’s damnation in celebration of a rare nobel w.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 10h

As an 80s kid from the arab world i think my most MAGA coded belief is the world was better when you could smoke inside

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 12h

Obviously a stop to the mass death is good but feels more like one can perhaps breathe and reflect as opposed to celebrate.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 12h

Please excuse some of us if we are not necessarily elated.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 12h

Aahahah i noticed your urban planning panel going thru the program - walla come on our panel if there’s room! Literally the fred head panel and you are one certified fred head

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13h

‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts

Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16h

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 13h

Just booked my eurostar and sorted out teaching! There the whole time but will have to run sunday

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 13h

Am indeed comrade! will be presenting on video games, saudi and fred jameson on the jameson panel

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 13h

Same.

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 17h

A superb essay by Ashok Kumar from the latest issue of the BREAK–DOWN – a brilliant tour of the political economic terrain of fossil capital, from which springs essential strategic advice for activists. A must read!

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 2d

End of an era

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

Is thisthe best methodology section ever written or the worst?

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

We decided today that if i were a white woman i would be ‘rose’ but insist on being called ‘rosa’

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 3d

Looks pretty freaking fire

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 3d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

workshops4gaza
October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

somebody made something to appeal exactly to me lol

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

My dentist is turkish, my barber syrian, my grocery store pan-ummah, my doctor moroccan.

Am in the whitest place i’ve ever lived by FAR yet the infrastructure of my social reproduction is staffed by arabs and muslims.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4d

Lol

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4d

Twee halen, een betalen!

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 4d

Go to drunk, Germany. You’re bed!

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