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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 4h

Candice said: water never forgets,
Leanne said: water is a map to the future.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 1d

NYC tonight friends.

Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 2d

Is there still a boycott on Oxford UP?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 2d

Are you an adjunct or VAP? Someone who works in history but outside academia? Check out this call for papers!

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) will be in the US next week discussing her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps for the Times Ahead.

Details and RSVP: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/531-th...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson US Tour
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
10/6 Chicago: haymarket house with uahikea maile
10/7 New York: museum of modern art with joseph m. pierce & candice hopkins
10/8 Minneapolis: birchbark bizhiw
10/9 Minneapolis: university of minnesota with nick w. estes

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 8d

Check out virtual and in-person events with @danilynrutherford.bsky.social, @driftinghouse.bsky.social, @naylandblake.bsky.social & @ahoffmanwrites.bsky.social in October! buff.ly/piYqz0R

Covers of Bangkok after Dark, Speculative Relations, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, The Politics of Care Work, Beautiful Mystery, Unfurl, The Dream of a Common Movement, and Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, arranged in a 4x4 grid.

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 6d

Thinking of all those big hearted ones who were abducted from the flotilla today. Free Palestine.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - White Kites and Sky Blue

YouTube video by youvechangedrecords

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 7d

Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 8d

Catch authors @burrata.bsky.social, @pepepierce.bsky.social, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @erinmcel.bsky.social , & @emmaamador.bsky.social at events in October!
buff.ly/piYqz0R

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 9d

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the freedom of future lives is the process of enactment of the verb-oriented world in the present, then we are exercising futures now, bringing futures to life in the present, we are futuring, by presencing our lives and dreams, by embodying them, here, now.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the writing is futuring (knowing that the writing is a metaphor and that the future is not written but enacted, lived), then futuring, the verb-oriented task of imagining and enlivening possibilities, is an exercise of freedom.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the future is unwritten, then the writing is futuring.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the problem is still a problem, then the resolution is unresolved.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the problem isn’t you, then the problem is still a problem.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the sex is good, then the problem isn’t you.

Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 9d

If the feeling is mutual, then the sex will be good.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election.

In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12d

NYC!

Imagining Indigenous Futures

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @pepepierce.bsky.social, and Candice Hopkins for this conversation at MoMA

Tuesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm

RSVP to attend:

Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA

How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...

www.moma.org

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 16d

New post on the stack josephmpierce.substack.com/p/the-fear-o...

The Fear of Losing

La historia oficial and a line I can't forget

josephmpierce.substack.com

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 19d

I just wish people didnt have to “American flag” these things. Every American flag is a warning sign, as Demian Dinéyazhi’ says.

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 19d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 19d

You want to read this book.

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

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