Angela Last
@mutablematter.bsky.social
Cultural geographer interested in materialism, histories of theory, political ecology, geopoetics, antiracist pedagogy and censorship. Visiting researcher at FU Berlin. mutablematter.wordpress.com
Powerful symposium on the current mechanics and dynamics of White supremacy in Germany across political positions. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... The translated version (into English) can be found here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CMG...
Tag 2 | Der grosse Kanton: Rise & Fall of the BRD | 06.12.2025
YouTube video by medico international
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December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Powerful symposium on the current mechanics and dynamics of White supremacy in Germany across political positions. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... The translated version (into English) can be found here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CMG...
Rewatched this last night while mending clothes. Super clear political analysis & does not feel long despite its run time. Thank you!
December 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Rewatched this last night while mending clothes. Super clear political analysis & does not feel long despite its run time. Thank you!
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The latest devastating forecast, which takes account of what is actually happening in the real world - in terms of both climate and climate policy - to provide a more realistic view of what we can expect
I have said it before - we are in deep, deep, sh*t
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
I have said it before - we are in deep, deep, sh*t
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
Global Warming At 3 °C By 2050? What's Behind The New German Climate Warning
German scientists warn global warming is accelerating faster than expected, raising the risk of a 3 °C rise by 2050 and forcing Europe to confront unthinkable adaptation plans. German scientists warn ...
worldcrunch.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The latest devastating forecast, which takes account of what is actually happening in the real world - in terms of both climate and climate policy - to provide a more realistic view of what we can expect
I have said it before - we are in deep, deep, sh*t
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
I have said it before - we are in deep, deep, sh*t
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
The latest seminar from Decolonization in Dialogue, in Bonn & online: decolonizationindialogue.substack.com/p/register-f...
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The latest seminar from Decolonization in Dialogue, in Bonn & online: decolonizationindialogue.substack.com/p/register-f...
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Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.
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Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
If anyone is in the vicinity of Bonn, there are still some spaces for my transdisciplinary workshop on teaching disciplinary histories: mutablematter.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
Teaching Disciplinary Histories: A Transdisciplinary Workshop
Anna Von Mertens, Midnight until the first sighting of land, October 12, 1492, six miles off the coast of current-day San Salvador Island, Bahamas, 2006. Venue: Impulse, University of Bonn Date: 27…
mutablematter.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If anyone is in the vicinity of Bonn, there are still some spaces for my transdisciplinary workshop on teaching disciplinary histories: mutablematter.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...
Petition to save Geography at the University of Leicester: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Sign the Petition
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Petition to save Geography at the University of Leicester: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
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Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Please sign this letter in support of students who are facing criminal charges and campus bans at Goethe University Frankfurt after a Palestine related protest. The AfD is behind this, portraying them as left wing extremists & putting pressure on university management: framaforms.org/gegen-die-kr...
Gegen die Kriminalisierung von Studierenden, die für Palästina protestieren | Against the criminalisation of students who protest for Palestine | Framaforms.org
framaforms.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please sign this letter in support of students who are facing criminal charges and campus bans at Goethe University Frankfurt after a Palestine related protest. The AfD is behind this, portraying them as left wing extremists & putting pressure on university management: framaforms.org/gegen-die-kr...
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This matches another forecast that global crop yields will fall by 30 percent by 2050
Bleak doesn't even begin to describe our prospects
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/parliam...
Bleak doesn't even begin to describe our prospects
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/parliam...
Parliamentary group warns of 32% drop in food production without urgent action
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture said domestic food production could decline by 39% per capita
www.thegrocer.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This matches another forecast that global crop yields will fall by 30 percent by 2050
Bleak doesn't even begin to describe our prospects
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/parliam...
Bleak doesn't even begin to describe our prospects
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/parliam...
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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HAPPENING NOW.
Join AAUP's National Teach-In on Trump's Loyalty Oaths!
Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!
Register at link below👇
#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd
Tomorrow, Oct 17pm at 2pmET on Zoom. Be there!
Register at link below👇
#AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: National Teach-In on Loyalty Oaths. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented and highly politicized regulations on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in li...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
HAPPENING NOW.
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Heute 1. Teil der Vortragsreihe zu Faschisierung. Patrick Eiden-Offe:
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen. 18–20 Uhr, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin. Und online.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen. 18–20 Uhr, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin. Und online.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
[:de]Allianz für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft[:en]Alliance for Critical Scholarship in Solidarity[:]
krisol-wissenschaft.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Heute 1. Teil der Vortragsreihe zu Faschisierung. Patrick Eiden-Offe:
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen. 18–20 Uhr, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin. Und online.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen. 18–20 Uhr, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin. Und online.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
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New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography,...
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New pub alert! Check out our reflections on how to reach the history of geography in more critical and inclusive ways! An all-star cast of commentators! Conceptual reorientations and practical strategies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7HMD...
The EU is trying to implement mass surveillance under the guise of children's protection. Check out your country's local campaign. In the meantime, here is a useful tool to contact your
EU representatives about the dangers of 'chat control': fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool
EU representatives about the dangers of 'chat control': fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The EU is trying to implement mass surveillance under the guise of children's protection. Check out your country's local campaign. In the meantime, here is a useful tool to contact your
EU representatives about the dangers of 'chat control': fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool
EU representatives about the dangers of 'chat control': fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool
Just one example of how the German press (BBC equivalent) frames anti-genocide demonstrations: triple emphasis on 'islamist' gender segregation, 'expert' warning about 'anti-Western' alliance between islamists and left, massive police presence required, sources: police, social media, local news.
September 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Just one example of how the German press (BBC equivalent) frames anti-genocide demonstrations: triple emphasis on 'islamist' gender segregation, 'expert' warning about 'anti-Western' alliance between islamists and left, massive police presence required, sources: police, social media, local news.
Brief response to discussions on AI & teaching, whose focus on plagiarism and 'algorithmic thoughtlessness' can sideline wider issues e.g. around epistemic injustice and the licensing of (fascist) desires.
Teaching AI/AI and Teaching
Example of ‘Feindbild’ use in the German media (Source: DW): Orbán’s campaign against Soros. Book revisions are in, and I keep on finding things I would like to include. Some of t…
mutablematter.wordpress.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Brief response to discussions on AI & teaching, whose focus on plagiarism and 'algorithmic thoughtlessness' can sideline wider issues e.g. around epistemic injustice and the licensing of (fascist) desires.
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Umfragerekorde, absolute Mehrheit in Sachsen-Anhalt in Aussicht – die AfD scheint unaufhaltsam. Doch das ist ein medialer Mythos. Unser Deep Dive als Video: youtu.be/CicXQejYiPA
Was dir die Medien über die AfD verschweigen!
YouTube video by Volksverpetzer
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September 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Umfragerekorde, absolute Mehrheit in Sachsen-Anhalt in Aussicht – die AfD scheint unaufhaltsam. Doch das ist ein medialer Mythos. Unser Deep Dive als Video: youtu.be/CicXQejYiPA
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In den nächsten zwei Semestern organisieren wir diese interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe "Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien". Jede Vorlesung an einer anderen Uni und hybrid! Ich spreche am 20.1. am @zfk-mr.bsky.social Marburg.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In den nächsten zwei Semestern organisieren wir diese interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe "Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien". Jede Vorlesung an einer anderen Uni und hybrid! Ich spreche am 20.1. am @zfk-mr.bsky.social Marburg.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation
The Greens in my current federal state lost a lot of votes and are convinced that it’s because of their environmental themes, not because of their support for the hostile environment... 🫣
September 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Greens in my current federal state lost a lot of votes and are convinced that it’s because of their environmental themes, not because of their support for the hostile environment... 🫣
Dear Keir Starmer, illegal migration is not the problem. The problem is not admitting how fucked the country is from a combination of Brexit and 14 years of Tory rule that empowered the rich and ruthless. IDs are a nonsense response. Please stop making racist policies as a distraction!
September 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Dear Keir Starmer, illegal migration is not the problem. The problem is not admitting how fucked the country is from a combination of Brexit and 14 years of Tory rule that empowered the rich and ruthless. IDs are a nonsense response. Please stop making racist policies as a distraction!
High school student Judith Scheytt received & lost prestigious Grimme award for spot on criticism of German media bias. Prize withdrawal was based on shoddy AI generated report on supposed 'antisemitism' after Christian group complained. No fact checking! Final deathstroke of German media reputation
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
High school student Judith Scheytt received & lost prestigious Grimme award for spot on criticism of German media bias. Prize withdrawal was based on shoddy AI generated report on supposed 'antisemitism' after Christian group complained. No fact checking! Final deathstroke of German media reputation