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a phd candidate, birder, fox, turtle, and tree
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Our new issue, Vol. 22, No. 2, is now available online!

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May 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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If the commodity cannot be sold then there is no value, no matter how much labor is used up in its production. [3/3]

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David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025
David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...
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April 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Farah Bazzi & فرح بزي @FarahmBazzi One of my favorite James Baldwin lines; "There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend."
April 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Personality of Power" by Brian Massumi, which retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Donald Trump’s persona. #PoliticalTheory #CriticalTheory
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Cover of The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life by Brian Massumi. The background is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses. The author's name is in white text at the top, the title in red in the middle-right, and the subtitle in white below.
April 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Support libraries, call your reps: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...
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March 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Ever wonder what happens to garbage after we throw it away?

In today’s episode,  where our garbage actually goes and the stinky business of trash disposal.

Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/O6l0Pld
 “The more I dug into the waste trade, the more I realized that it bore striking resemblances to the drug trade.” —Alexander Clapp
March 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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WHAT IF WE KISSED feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...
thesenesx.bsky.social Steph ✨ @thesenesx.bsky.social · Feb 22
what if we were russian and french soldiers 👉👈 and we kissed to take down the ottoman empire 🥺
An old painted medallion with a Russian and French soldier holding each other close. The description from wikipedia reads: A French medallion dating from the post-Tilsit period. It shows the French and Russian emperors embracing each other.
February 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Suppressing LGBTQIA+ voices robs scholars, readers & future generations of vital insights; creates a precedent for silencing dissident voices; & undermines the dignity of people everywhere.

full statement here: https://bit.ly/4hUL8yb
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AUPresses Decries Executive Order on Gender - Association of University Presses
We join with publishers, authors, booksellers, and librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society.
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February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It’s hard to grow in containers.
February 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM