“'Best practices' emerge as something like the anti-literary, as a risky and facile shorthand that avoids the difficulty of imagining the specificity of any given condition, and allows for easy portability and the simulation of accountability in the mode of alibi."
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 AM
“'Best practices' emerge as something like the anti-literary, as a risky and facile shorthand that avoids the difficulty of imagining the specificity of any given condition, and allows for easy portability and the simulation of accountability in the mode of alibi."
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
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January 28, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Pls elevate your mind by reading this wonderful piece by @arunadsouza.bsky.social on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-82) and the making of the expansive new exhibition of and around her work, now at BAMPFA in Berkeley.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
A Cult Figure, Silenced Too Soon, Resurfaces
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Pls elevate your mind by reading this wonderful piece by @arunadsouza.bsky.social on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-82) and the making of the expansive new exhibition of and around her work, now at BAMPFA in Berkeley.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/a...
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There are so many people displaying so much courage in the face/s of fascism.
Sit with that. Courage is a virus.
Sit with that. Courage is a virus.
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
There are so many people displaying so much courage in the face/s of fascism.
Sit with that. Courage is a virus.
Sit with that. Courage is a virus.
If I were *an* historian, I’d write a history of Africa using dildos as my archive.
So many dildos across Africa!
So many dildos across Africa!
January 28, 2026 at 10:12 AM
If I were *an* historian, I’d write a history of Africa using dildos as my archive.
So many dildos across Africa!
So many dildos across Africa!
Based on *stuff*, it seems the promise of STEM is that it comes with more government control.
No wonder Ruto is pushing it so hard.
No wonder Ruto is pushing it so hard.
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Based on *stuff*, it seems the promise of STEM is that it comes with more government control.
No wonder Ruto is pushing it so hard.
No wonder Ruto is pushing it so hard.
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and this is not even Machine learning or any other useful technology which has been roped into AI - the tweet explicitly says they are using generative AI
January 28, 2026 at 8:03 AM
and this is not even Machine learning or any other useful technology which has been roped into AI - the tweet explicitly says they are using generative AI
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Hyderabad is often the digital testing ground for dystopian technostate policies. here we have the police department which routinely runs counterinsurgency programs in the city adopting openAI tech
January 28, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Hyderabad is often the digital testing ground for dystopian technostate policies. here we have the police department which routinely runs counterinsurgency programs in the city adopting openAI tech
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(someone is spamming the flower feed—and I think that's fascinating)
January 27, 2026 at 4:35 PM
(someone is spamming the flower feed—and I think that's fascinating)
What I'm thinking through:
Unlike AIDS, Covid-19 never became African.*
*I should add “not yet.” It still might. After all, HIV-AIDS became African after it was gay in the global north, as Neville Hoad puts it in Pandemic Genres.
Unlike AIDS, Covid-19 never became African.*
*I should add “not yet.” It still might. After all, HIV-AIDS became African after it was gay in the global north, as Neville Hoad puts it in Pandemic Genres.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 PM
What I'm thinking through:
Unlike AIDS, Covid-19 never became African.*
*I should add “not yet.” It still might. After all, HIV-AIDS became African after it was gay in the global north, as Neville Hoad puts it in Pandemic Genres.
Unlike AIDS, Covid-19 never became African.*
*I should add “not yet.” It still might. After all, HIV-AIDS became African after it was gay in the global north, as Neville Hoad puts it in Pandemic Genres.
I should stake this dahlia.
(I should have staked it weeks ago.)
(I should have staked it weeks ago.)
January 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I should stake this dahlia.
(I should have staked it weeks ago.)
(I should have staked it weeks ago.)
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Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...
www.biospace.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth
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Anyway, it’s time to stop letting men be in charge of the African Union.
January 27, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Anyway, it’s time to stop letting men be in charge of the African Union.
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Human rights defenders in Tanzania say that armed forces may have killed up to 3000 people following protests during last years election. The leader of the opposition is still in jail as are many members of his party. Nary a peep from outside the country - for get outside the region.
January 27, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Human rights defenders in Tanzania say that armed forces may have killed up to 3000 people following protests during last years election. The leader of the opposition is still in jail as are many members of his party. Nary a peep from outside the country - for get outside the region.
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Museveni is trying to kill Bobi Wine for daring to run against him and there is no international community to speak up in his defence. The AU has already rolled over and congratulated Museveni on the sham election, and after years of enabling Europe and the US are now too distracted by their own
January 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Museveni is trying to kill Bobi Wine for daring to run against him and there is no international community to speak up in his defence. The AU has already rolled over and congratulated Museveni on the sham election, and after years of enabling Europe and the US are now too distracted by their own
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The writing is very entertaining as well
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
“The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response.”
THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION
The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
www.closertotheedge.net
January 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The writing is very entertaining as well
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
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Not all heroes wear capes.
Two women have been charged with biting the fingers of U.S. Border Patrol officers moments after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend near the scene of an immigration enforcement action.
Women accused of biting agents’ fingers moments after Alex Pretti was killed; one had tip bitten off
The biting occurred while the women struggled with the agents, according to the charges.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Not all heroes wear capes.
someone will have great fun juxtaposing Hugo ka Canham's Riotous Deathscapes and Neville Hoad's Pandemic Genres
Boo
Boo
January 27, 2026 at 7:37 AM
someone will have great fun juxtaposing Hugo ka Canham's Riotous Deathscapes and Neville Hoad's Pandemic Genres
Boo
Boo
"I turn to poetry as a way of interrupting what could be called neoliberal uses of testimony, documentary realism, and memoirs as the privileged archive for thinking about the role of affect in public life."
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 AM
"I turn to poetry as a way of interrupting what could be called neoliberal uses of testimony, documentary realism, and memoirs as the privileged archive for thinking about the role of affect in public life."
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
—Neville Hoad, Pandemic Genres
The TikTok censorship is fascinating!
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 AM
The TikTok censorship is fascinating!
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This compulsion to repeat will keep happening as long as Blackness remains a problem for thought
A lot of the critique of this moment is asking for a normative return to the ideological promises of U.S. statism
It’s akin to a recrudescence
It’s akin to a recrudescence
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 AM
This compulsion to repeat will keep happening as long as Blackness remains a problem for thought