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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

This link should come with trigger warnings, can't believe what I just read:

"The Arabs would certainly accept it now, cutting off my nose, then my two ears, then my eyes, tearing out my tongue, cutting off everything that sticks out of me, torturing me, then shooting me to death."

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

Butler summarizing Hegel, I should add.

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

"The community's necessary aggression against womankind (its internal enemy) appears to be transmuted into the community's aggression against its external enemy; the state intervenes in the family to wage war."

Judith Butler, Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death (2000)

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

It's mind-boggling and very much in tune with al-Essa's book, truly maddening.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11h

It is!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11h

I'm looking forward to reading your opinion!

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 11h

All of the #BannedBooksWeek remind me that the type of banned book which I have always been interested in are those 19th Century ones with book-cloth coloured with the arsenic-containing Paris green pigment. A rare category of book which is actually dangerous in itself as poisonous physical object.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11h

Sad addition to Bothayna al-Essa - Her book might have a specific background rooted in the reality of a particular country but:

Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 12h

For #BannedBooksWeek

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 12h

The fabrics are gorgeous!
(I like this particular bot a lot, the way he paints Central Asian architecture and fashion - if that's the correct word here - is just such a joy to look at.)

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 7d

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 13h

Francesca Albanese's 3 reports for the UN can be read here (free e-book) :

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

😱 Wasn't that prediction supposed to be a joke? How disappointing, horrible choice!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

Ich denke, das ist einfach auf die Geistlosigkeit des SZ-Magazins zurückzuführen.

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

Ha! Looking forward to diagnosing frost :)

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

... audacity: "I would die for you" HAHA "would", not "will". Because fighting, killing, dying is always the job of others, isn't it?

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

Intellectual honesty in publishing also means checking whether an author lives up to the ideas they're trying to propagate. Current ex.: A book that argues in favour of fighting and dying for one's homeland by an author who has NOT served and DOES NOT plan to should have been binned. The ...

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't even know there are different types of frost - thank you for sharing it!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 18h

Ouch indeed!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 20h

Bin so froh, dass Sie mit diesem Vater gesprochen haben, es ist wichtig, dass die Opfer ihrem Ärger Luft machen können und zwar gerade Leuten gegenüber, die Einfluss und einen gewissen Status besitzen, wenn schon der Bundespräsident für diese Probleme taub ist, sie sogar noch verstärkt. Danke!

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

I forget what I wanted to
mean to you.
I forget what I
meant to give to you, that I haven’t.

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes i think teaching literature is just teaching listening, attunement, becoming subject to the alterity of the text

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, I'm not in Abu Dhabi but I liked the text, thank you for sharing it!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

* program (and probably more) 😬

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

That program is like a wish list come true, I love Peter Burke's books and connoisseurship is an interesting and important topic.

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