This essay is delightful. Capturing the wunker-tinker, off-kilter singsong delights of Telugu
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This essay is delightful. Capturing the wunker-tinker, off-kilter singsong delights of Telugu
Got to listen to TM Krishna at the Barbican this morning as part of the Darbar Festival. A very special birthday treat.
Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought: A Panel Conversation, featuring Branko Milanovic and David Lay Williams Tuesday November 4th 5pm GMT
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Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT.
With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social
Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social
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How might rethinking AI as an βemotional technologyβ transform our understanding of control, resistance, and the politics of feeling? π€ β€οΈ
Come join the Harvard S&T in Asia series for this talk by the remarkable Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social!
seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #sts
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
Really enjoyed this conversation with Nick Boggs on his new biography of James Baldwin. The book reminds us that radical love is radical politics, especially in troubled times.
I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Fintan OβTooleβs We Donβt Know Ourselves is part memoir, part history and so well-written.
Lucid, convincing case for a tax on high-value property, from the UK's most eminent housing economist, John Muellbauer.
Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth.
://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5
Wow--incredible interview with Arundhati Roy on her mother, rising authoritarianism in India and the US, and other things: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...
Brinkley Messick seated second from the right.
I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
"I entrust you with Palestine β the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The syllabus for my first course as a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas, where I will teach at Brazilβs flagship graduate program on the Amazon rainforest.
www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...
We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...
βNorthwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and FORCIBLY ADMITTED HER TO THE UNIVERSITYβs PSYCHOATRIC HOSPITALβ
Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.
Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:
If the government wants to find the money (Β£7bn or so) to make up for its welfare U-turn, there's an easy answer - just don't implement the Immigration White Paper.
ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans
https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f
This morning I woke up to the news that Zohran and his amazing, underdog run, HAVE made history!
His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.
RIP to Sly Stone. Calling someone a genius has mostly lost meaning, except when you apply it to Sly.
I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.
Rest in peace NgΕ©gΔ© wa Thiongβo
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a theorist who has a lot to teach us about thinking of ethics, community and tradition, in post-liberal times.
The AHA urges Ohioans to write to Governor DeWine and ask him to veto SB 1. This dangerous bill would undermine the integrity, quality, and reputation of public higher education in Ohio. Read our action alert for more information. ποΈ
If you're a graduate student or junior scholar interested in the intersection between racial politics and political economy please consider attending the 2025 Johns Hopkins University Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-6). Applications now open! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Still struggling with this syllabus for Data from the Margins and part of the issue is, you could do a whole class just on W.E.B. Du Bois and data.
Israeli settlers tried to murder Hamdan Ballal today, and now heβs missing after the IDF kidnapped him from the ambulance he was in. No one knows where he is. All this is targeted.
The US and others have censored this film despite it winning an Oscar.
Headline: "Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of Americaβs Parent." The order targets largely obscure agencies that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, testing the bounds of presidential power.
Trump isnβt just gutting programs that help people out of homelessnessβhe's dismantling those meant to prevent it.
The US Interagency Council on Homelessness directs the federal response to this crisis. Eliminating it is an utterly reckless move that will make an already dire emergency even worse.
