If a social media addicted billionaire says “The left is the party murder,” it’s an indisputable fact.

If a think tank founded by the Koch brothers concludes that right-wing terrorism is responsible for far more deaths than left-wing terrorism, they were just cherry-picking.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Judith Butler's response to their name being turned over to the federal government by UC Berkeley as part of a Trump administration antisemitism investigation is well worth reading: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

📒[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 7

Read “The patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their place”🌽🚜

By Kregg Hetherington @krether.bsky.social

At 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.

So happy to share our recent bilingual series with Cultural Anthropology on "Rethinking Facts from Latin America." Thanks for valiant co-editors @aballes2.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social, and our partners over at @tapuya.org @vivavivette.bsky.social.

Our conversations were quite interesting -- the hegemony of English works in so many different ways.

It's in response to this dynamic that we decided to launch our Theorizing the Contemporary series in both languages simultaneously. Initially we had proposed authors post in English or Spanish, but found almost (but not quite) everyone preferred English, for different reasons.

⭐ Cluster Introduction "Los hechos nunca andan solos: The Future of Facts in Latin America"

by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington & Eden Medina

Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655

#FutureofFacts #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social

Cluster Article “The patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their place”🌽🚜

By Kregg Hetherington (@krether.bsky.social)

Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

Tomorrow at EHESS Raspail, with Birgit Muller, Le lien alimentaire: la gouvernance des semences au Paraguay et au Canada. Rm AS1_23

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.

À Paris vendredi!

This great conversation I had with Sophie Chao about our respective plantation books is now up on ESTS. Thanks to Sophie for leading the chat and seeing this publication through!
estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Finding you all in here is an unexpected gulp of fresh air!