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Author Interview—“Experimenting with Error: A Conversation with Dan Charnas” - Antipode Online Katherine McKittrick, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University This conversation took place on March 28th at the 2025 AAG annual meeting in Detroit. Many thanks from everyone here at...

Author Interview — “Experimenting with Error” — @demonicgrounds.bsky.social speaks with @dancharnas.bsky.social about his book, “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm” antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...

Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.

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Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

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Première plainte, à ma connaissance, contre une IA sur ce motif.
Qu'est-ce qui a rendu un tel résultat possible ? Qui est responsable ?
En tout cas, un bon exemple pour illustrer le danger, scientifique et éthique, d'une IA non maîtrisée, à la fois par ses concepteurs et par ses utilisateurs.

Marc Benioff smiling in a selfie with Pam Bondi

“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”

SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.

Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

Have just been reading about the plans to gut geology, paleobiology and geography at Leicester - where many of the key figures who have developed the Anthropocene concept are based - Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters… absolute insanity. Institutional vandalism.

Call for papers!

We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.

Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun

Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

Great turn out at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally at the Scottish Parliament!

University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Battle of Zootechnics: Incorporating Race, Technology, and Ideology in Cattle Breeding Practices During Fascism in Italy, 1922–1945 | Isis: Vol 116, No 4 Abstract This article illustrates the history of an overlooked aspect of the agricultural and scientific modernization plans initiated under Mussolini’s rule of Italy: the Battle of Zootechnics. Launc...

wonderful article from Daniele Valisena

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A panoramic photograph of the many people standing on today's picket line.

A photo of two people at our picket line holding signs.

A photo of someone holding up a solidarity fist at our picket line

A photo of a banner that says We Are The University with picketers standing behind it.

An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.

I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking

A still from the H is for Hawk movie with Claire (as Helen) looking through a rolled-up magazine at a playful goshawk on a perch

Oh this is LOVELY. Claire talking about her role in H is for Hawk. She is not only an astonishing actor but an extraordinarily accomplished natural hawk-handler, entirely in tune with the birds

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

Today is the deadline to send your abstracts for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference!

Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

"People have to have a language to speak about what other possible futures are available to them,” Hall wrote. One task...is therefore to devise a language that expands the sense of what is possible"

NEW: Casey A. Williams reads Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis

www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing useful about his crimes To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page

Sequencing Hitler's DNA was always going to be a bad idea, with little upside and plenty of downside, but the way it has been done as part of a TV documentary is particularly bad www.newscientist.com/article/2504...

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
open access available now

Sign the Petition Save Geography at the University of Leicester

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

We did have artistic differences in the process though sadly and chose to split 😅

I had fun making this banner with Kiko over the weekend at least, despite the grim context of having to cancel my teaching and lose my pay, we could make it fun

a university without its staff is nothing! On strike again fighting against the cruelty and economic shortsightedness of course closures and compulsory redundancies at the University of Nottingham

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

A fantastical and unsustainable mega-project pushed by elites disconnected from reality and backed by huge volumes of fickle and self serving financial capital. Sounds familiar
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book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.

📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

These courses have not been ‘suspended’ at all; such language only minimises what is actually happening at Nottingham: a systemic gutting out of the arts and humanities with no clear business case. These cuts affect us all; please, join UCU in fighting for our future

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