Norma Musih
@normamusih.bsky.social
Researcher of Visual Culture and Digital Media.
Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.
Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.
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Norma Musih
@normamusih.bsky.social
· Jun 14
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...
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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....
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.
This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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.
This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.
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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
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
www.au.dk
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
Important article by Irit Katz www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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...
www.e-flux.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Important article by Irit Katz www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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...
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
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October 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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...
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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....
Important to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" jacobin.com/2024/01/shau...
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...
jacobin.com
June 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Important to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" jacobin.com/2024/01/shau...
Take a moment to read Irit Katz's piece on Gaza. theconversation.com/lethal-human...
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.
theconversation.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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
#politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art
OnlineFirst - "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)" by @normamusih.bsky.social:
#politicalimagination #HannahArendt #Art
#environmentalcatastrophe #sciencefiction
#Palestine #Exile
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#politicalimagination #HannahArendt #Art
#environmentalcatastrophe #sciencefiction
#Palestine #Exile
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019) - Norma Musih, 2025
This paper examines Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's film In Vitro (2019) as a site for reimagining world-building through Hannah Arendt's concept of ...
journals.sagepub.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
#politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art
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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.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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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...
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 ...
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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 damage of Trump’s Gaza plan has already been done - https://www.972mag.com/trump-gaza-damage-israeli-society/
The damage of Trump’s Gaza plan has already been done
The proposal to cleanse Gaza tapped into a deep undercurrent in Israeli society — endangering any chance for a peaceful future in the region.
www.972mag.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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.
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The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/
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.
www.972mag.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/
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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...
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.
www.techpolicy.press
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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...
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"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.
— 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.
December 24, 2024 at 1:34 PM
"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.
— 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.