Cities Under Siege
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...
Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege is available as a free download.
"Here’s urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. A fundamental and very scary report from the global red zone."
- Mike Davis
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Just watched the video of what looks to be another ICE murder in Minneapolis and thinking again of the incredible bravery of these protestors, facing out of control armed paramilitaries with only whistles and phone cameras.
24.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 177 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 3
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
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Somebody told me once that most of religious studies is really about media, and most of media studies is secretly about religion.
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Devoted to the church of Fugazi
What a weird format! I’m writing this essay on an airplane currently flying over the North Sea, and it’s hard not to feel like an overeager seatmate muscling my way...
Happy to have been part of this forum at @immanentframe.bsky.social on Latour, science, trads, punks, and the feeling of (being) discipline(d)!
I focused on how leftism has increasingly been cast as the politics of "you can't" while "conservativism" has taken on the mantle of "do what thou wilt."
17.12.2025 17:43 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Good essay! What a big, beautiful, sprawling production this was. Hope people read it.
17.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sarah Mesle’s Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
This book was incredible!!! Riveting, brilliant, funny, moving, relatable, all of it. I have rarely read a non-fiction book so fast and happily. Cannot recommend it enough to my humanist friends
11.12.2025 03:34 — 👍 51 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration
15.11.2025 11:31 — 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
World Building - The Massachusetts Review
A Review of Reasons and Feelings by Sarah Mesle (University of Chicago Press) Sarah Mesle’s Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now is a new contribution to the University of Chicago Pres...
"This section defines REASONS AND FEELINGS itself quite brilliantly: it’s a book working to avail itself of a different style of the “guide to writing” genre to attempt to know the world differently."
Jon Hoel on Sarah Mesle, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/10/28/w...
28.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
red book cover with pink lettering and a black arrow that says "REASONS & FEELINGS: Writing for the Humanities Now by Sarah Mesle"
This book is officially out today. I feel pretty confident that everyone in my feed (academic and not) could use it — I certainly got a lot from reading it in process, and, also, hearing Sarah say these things to me live and in person over a period of many years. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
20.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
16.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 278 🔁 96 💬 4 📌 8
Adding in some other LK pieces into the thread. A recent short interview with TYR bsky.app/profile/yale...
09.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Project MUSE - Essays from the 2024 English Institute: Expression
Good morning! If you'd like to read smart things instead of all the stupid things, the new ELH is out, with essays from The English Institute. New work by Quashie, Post, Orlemanski, Yousef, CW Smith, Tongson, and yours truly, introduced by Fleissner and Enelow.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
13.09.2025 12:40 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
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AND NOW the 2nd part! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
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The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
04.08.2025 12:17 — 👍 69 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 2
Good to join The American Vandal for this conversation about Jameson, ideology, and methods of literary analysis!
05.08.2025 17:51 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.
24.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 57 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Temporary cure for the oozing polycrisis blues: spend a couple hours chatting with @annakornbluh.bsky.social & @c-also.bsky.social about Fred Jameson.
Don’t forget to press record.
17.07.2025 01:57 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Really good to think and talk with y’all!
17.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I am so honored and FIRED UP to introduce the legendary Angela Davis on Yale’s campus tomorrow, for a two-day lecture series on Abolition. Let’s go!
14.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
Historian turned psychotherapist, writing essays about care, dependency and everyday life after institutional abandonment. From GA. Fond of a good pie.
Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.🍉
📚 Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. Assistant prof of religious studies at Eckerd College.
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
associate professor; cinema & media studies; critical theory; public money; aesthetics; abstraction
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
(posts do not reflect the views of my employer)
English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him
Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
Artist. With family and friends make a space called SOCIETY for art, its discourses, and histories
Head of comms @GBIF.org, writer, poet, communicator, producer, husband, father. 💩posting about literature, music, biodiversity, sustainability, design, #biodiversity. Decolonization begins at home (and abroad), restoring Indigenous roots.
prof at WashU Law. teaches criminal law & procedure. papers at https://ssrn.com/author=1660906. occasional thoughts at https://postcardsofthehanging.substack.com/.
The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
