markus schwarz
@markusschwarz.bsky.social
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phd @ university of salzburg // thinking about black and indigenous speculations, ecology, and the unsettled cosmos. he/him.
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"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance."
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
The Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at Columbia
The media has failed to show what I found there: community.
hammerandhope.org
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Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️
#NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025
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I have received great feedback from friends and colleagues on this. Everyone at ILSA Conference 2024, students at the University of Augsburg, where I first developed this idea, Dave Gaertner, my mentor at UBC, where I wrote the first draft during rainy days in Vancouver. Many thanks to all of you.
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Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.
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“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.
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triofrancos.bsky.social
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep."
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Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option.
University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.
www.thenation.com
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"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe
DOGE Nation | Mark Krotov
Like Critical Race Theory before it—but with a supercharged intensity, since each new campaign of right-wing hate has been more aggressive than the last—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has come to st...
www.nplusonemag.com
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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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ellipticalnight.bsky.social
maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!
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Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.
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bostonreview.bsky.social
The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.
The Privatization of Hope - Boston Review
Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.
www.bostonreview.net
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Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da!
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website.
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Cover der neuen an.schläge-Ausgabe: Hope & Resistance – Was es jetzt für den feministischen Kampf braucht