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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 5h

She can be the phallus, that is even better.

Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 6h

Lese #StanislawLem als Teil meiner #sciencefiction Recherche zu #Staatenlosigkeit. Stelle fest, dass eine Karriere vom Widerstandskämpfer zum Autoschlosser zum Arzt für angewandte Psychologie zum Kybernetiker zum Übersetzer zum Schriftsteller heute nicht nur schwer vorstellbar, sondern unmöglich ist

Lila Buchcover Stanislaw Lem. Die Untersuchung. Kriminalroman. Suhrkamp

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 6h

Wer in Paris ist (@rheinze.bsky.social), gehe in die @labnf.bsky.social, da gibt es eine Ausstellung zu #LeviStrauss 70. Jubiläum von « tristes tropiques» (Traurige Tropen). Mit spannenden Objekten aus dem Archiv: seiner Schreibmaschine, Proto- #Strukturalismus Skizzen etc
www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/av...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, notes sur le « Système de parenté Nambikwara ». Bloc note dérelié - BnF, département des Manuscrits, NAF 28150 (123f)

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 13h

Reading up on the latest #NobelPeacePrize winner #Machado, thinking that the main effect of this prize - given to an individual mostly - is that globally it seems to divide people even more.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14h

Ich sehe eine große - und bis jetzt auch in der Wissenschaft zu wenig artikulierte - Gefahr darin, dass alle, die sich für “Anti-Antisemitismus” engagieren indirekt der #noAfD in die Hände spielen. Um dem vorzubeugen muss man unbedingt kritische jüdische Stimmen zentrieren & ihnen viel mehr zuhören.

Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 1d

(fast) jeder AfD Schmock hat ne Israelfahne in der Bio. was das heißt? Trumprassismus nacheifern.
Antisemitismus ist nur, wenn es rassistisch ausbeutbar ist; sonst ist er: normal, lustig, höhöhö.
Beides echte screenshots desselben MdB.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14h

Cool, thanks!

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14h

Have to look into these, have not heard about them…

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14h

Yes precisely. That’s why I don’t think Attac‘s example works. It rather cements what is already established. To me at least, these dinosaur, frog, unicorn costumes work (just as all the costumes did in Myanmar after the military attempted a coup in 2021), bcs they do not employ the same signifiers.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15h

Interessanter disclaimer am Anfang. Danke, dass Sie sich hier deutlich positionieren und herzlichen Glückwunsch an Sie beide!

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15h

Yesterday I spent 4hrs in the kitchen, cooking #plof, a dish known from Mongolia to Iran. My version is Southern Kyrgyz style with red rice, lamb, apricots, raisins and lots of spices.
To be shared with friends and family.
The ultimate comfort food.
A small 🧵
#CentralAsia
#cooking
#tradition
#food

The final product: plof being served on a traditional blue-white-gold coloured porcelain plate I once bought in Uzbekistan.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15h

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 15h

That sounds bad, but also completely misses what Graeber had in mind. Performances are to disrupt the capability of the state / those in power to constitute the symbolic order per se. So “inverting misery” (eg Attac) is precisely not working as it doubles down on the same signifiers. Frogs work. 🐸

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 1d

(fast) jeder AfD Schmock hat ne Israelfahne in der Bio. was das heißt? Trumprassismus nacheifern.
Antisemitismus ist nur, wenn es rassistisch ausbeutbar ist; sonst ist er: normal, lustig, höhöhö.
Beides echte screenshots desselben MdB.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Important thread on what it means to be an academic in the US right now - let alone one who is researching ‘the wrong’ topics or looks ‘other’.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

The Pope is #ContraAI and cites Hannah Arendt 😍🙏🏼 #Vatican #PopeLeoXIV #AI

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Excerpt from Pope Leo’s speech: “Artificial intelligence is changing the way we receive information and communicate, but who directs it and for what purposes? We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings, and that the information and algorithms that govern it today are not in the hands of a few.

Dear friends, thank you for your work! I offer my best wishes as you reflect upon the challenges that we face.

The world needs free, rigorous and objective information. In this context, it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist (The Origins of Totalitarianism, 474).”

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Siehe auch: Beyer, J. „Das Recht der Anderen. Rechtsethnologie zwischen Pluralität, Indigenität und Alterität.“ In: Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung. Eine Einführung, edited by @cmboulanger.bsky.social , Julika Rosenstock und @singelnstein.bsky.social . Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 91-108.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Final step: add dried apricots and yellow raisins (washed), finely chopped parsley and dill, an entire garlic bulb (cleaned) and close the lid. Punish whoever tries to open it during the next 40min.

Plof in its pre-final stage with all ingredients assembled

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Throw the rice and the meat in and stir. Then add water … #plof #CentralAsia

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the best! That’s what I am making :)

Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

After having fried the meat you throw in onions, garlic, haldi, jeera, muscat, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper powder, salt. Then add carrots, green chili, a few small tomatoes.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Locally sourced, halal lamb, colourful carrots, herbs, garlic, white onions…

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

After sorting: washing. This is the colour of the earth in #Kyrgyzstan - and it makes me miss it so much. #CentralAsia
Cooking #plof

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Right now I am sorting the rice to make sure there are no stones in it … this is Üzgenskii ris - red rice from the Ferghana Valley.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Every Central Asian knows what’s up …

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