Amanda Vincent

move slow and repair things

"In this class, [we'll] interrogate the way land, plots, + gardens are racialized + gendered, as well as the garden as a site for underground survival + sustenance... [We'll 👀 @ Hannah] Höch, [Derek] Jarman, Maria Thereza Alves, Candice Lin, Precious Okoyomon, Michael Rakowitz, Cameron Rowland..."

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

The garden in movement as a space and practice of care A garden developed by professors at a French secondary education institution, Lycée Agricole Jules-Rieffel, demonstrates how landscape maintenance can function as a caring practice. Designed in con...

I'm pleased to announce that my article "The Garden in Movement as a Space and Practice of Care" has been published in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social. Thanks to @tim-waterman.co.uk and Zannah Matson! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YQ7GT...

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Yadkin!

Not because Minnesotans are louder but because they are harder to exhaust.

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’ On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

@aat-transcribes.bsky.social

If your dopamine receptors light up like a Christmas tree when you watch this and you haven't yet seen the Canal+ series Ovni(s), well, now you know what to do.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

This is the side I land on and yet I struggle to make a valid counterargument to everyone post Tafuri who says that architecture can never situate itself outside the system in place and aesthetics will always be co-opted.

The fascist’s imperative is the aestheticization of politics but that doesn’t give the left the excuse to abnegate the aesthetic question altogether. Aesthetics is politics made tactile. There is no leftist project from Lenin to FDR without a vision of the world they wanted to build.

oh hey I'm flailing around trying to finish an article on the role of utopianism in post 68 French architecture and this is getting me focused again.

It does matter! You need to build a world before you can advocate for it! You have to ask what that world would look like and sometimes that means literally. What is your answer to nostalgia bait and slop? Why is only one side allowed to make images?

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

This is a good piece

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Contents | Contemporary French Civilization 50, 4 Fatima Daas’s debut novel, La Petite Dernière (The Last One), has been both lauded and attacked for its autofictional representation of a Muslim lesbian growing up in Paris’s marginalized suburbs. Analyses of this work have focused on the protagonist ...

Volume 50.4 of Contemporary French Civilization is available, including the 13th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award-winning essay, "The right to feel bad: ambivalence as resistance in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière (The Last One)," by Blase A. Provitola

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/cfc/50/4

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.

A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.

If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

This is a really great discussion and a particularly interesting read alongside the French perspective in the "Paroles d'histoire" episode about Andor Season 2. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...

The Great Grocery Squeeze How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

Possibly the most interesting angle on food deserts I've read yet: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

It'll be chaotic, chances of survival are low to very low.

(alternate french history) damn these tree potatoes are amazing sweet

man in safety green coat and matching knit hat stands along a construction-fenced stream bank cradling a bundle of branches that will become live stakes in the bank. he has a moustache and a smile beneath his brown sunglasses.

stream restoration work has many stake holders.

Thank you @aperturecinema.bsky.social See you there!

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR

It's all fun and games until someone decides to check the archives, you know, the place where they specialize in saving stuff b/c it might be interesting to someone one day ... I have never broken a code thanks to an archive but I have found some entertainingly sick burns!

@caseyjohnston.bsky.social has a banger of a newsletter today with the mini essay on "Gardening to Save the World" at the top. Just yes.