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Jana Bacevic

@unsocialtheory.bsky.social

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Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant, equalities & environment rep, @ducu.bsky.social. Under the pavement, the forest ✊️🌲🌳🏴

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 7h

Bron in Polish, facing the racism of the academy #etplusçachange 🙄

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 7h

Bron in Polish!

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 13h

In yet another unsurprising news, Tech/Finbro fix is a fix only for tech-and-fin-bros.

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 13h

The oil & gas industry is pushing #CCS because it locks in fossil fuels—and governments like the UK are footing the bill.
@influencemap.bsky.social reveals no CCS projects are operational in the UK, and even industry insiders doubt it works.
A win for polluters, a loss for people and planet.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard from @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social

This one advertises the end of year show at, I think, Central St Martin's school of art

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard featuring a cartoon of a knitting goat and the words: "I once had a goat that could knit, woolly garments that didn't quite fit! Legs and sleeves way too long, and they didn't half pong, while the rest of the garment just split!"

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 13h

Second I've seen in one evening!

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 23h

Am properly in London now

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 1d

Wheeeee 🤗 #archivefever #intellectualpredecessors

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
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We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
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- David Graeber

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

& "I aM s AfraID of SaYinG something wrong, you people are just too sensitive"

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Ric Crossman @riccrossman.bsky.social · 3d

"People of colour went too far. Trans people went too far. The left went too far. Sadly this leaves me no other choice but to watch another season of Great British Bake-Off and hope it drowns out the screams."

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

Forever this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

always encouraging when it starts with "it's not a ban on protests"

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

The right choice! :)

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 3d

OMG my favourite city (not *only* for the cats, though they are a major part, admittedly :)). Enjoy!

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 4d

This being Britain, obviously, we cannot demonise all people who barely speak to their neighbours, as that would lead to two-thirds of the country being deported. 🤷‍♀️ #fact #amBritish #passedmycitizenshptest

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 4d

<Looks into the crystall ball>

Hmmm, I don't know, which of these two biographical snippets about the Manchester attacker the BBC shared will be used to (further) demonise the whole population....?

Must be the weightlifters.

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 5d

They seem happy.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 5d

And, like clockwork, this will be used to further criminalise protest and stem any kind of criticism of British state's tolerance of genocide.

If I were a pearl-clutching liberal, this is where I'd go "crazy times 😫😩", but as it happens, I'm not, and I suggest you stop being too.

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 5d

The world hasn't stopped falling apart, but if relevant, Monday onwards I'll be observing this from the vantage point of @lselibrary.bsky.social archives & research for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project on non-reciprocity (janabacevic.net/research/und...), so give us a shout if around!

Uncategorical imperatives: understanding nonreciprocity

This research project, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, seeks to understand nonreciprocity as both a constitutive and ethically neutral force in social and political life. By conceptualizing ever…

janabacevic.net

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 5d

Hard relate