Jana Bacevic

Wheeeee 🤗 #archivefever #intellectualpredecessors

"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? . 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." . - David Graeber

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

Here is an extract.

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.

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

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-...

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

"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."

👌

forever

Forever this

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

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

The right choice! :)

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.

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...

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

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

<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.

😌

They seem happy.

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.

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.

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…

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!

Hard relate

Here’s part 3 of our four part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how “AI replacing software engineers” is a myth - and how Microsoft only has 8 million active paying customers for Microsoft 365’s AI Copilot.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Abundance This is part 1 of the (anti-)work(no)shop series Against academic monocultures: rewilding the academic ‘self’ running this year (September ’25-June ’26). Sign up to learn mo…

Part 1 of Against academic monocultures (anti)workshop series now up, with the link to join the online reflection tomorrow, 3 October, 2-3pm UK time. janabacevic.net/2025/09/26/a...

YU sticker! Where?

‘Kidnapping’: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla; detains activists, Thunberg Activists on board Global Sumud Flotilla report interceptions after Israeli vessels approached.

Israel has intercepted and bombed the Sumud flotilla www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

we should bring back shame actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

"do"? pah! 😀

Earlier this year my department somehow published this, where I offer reflections on my visiting fellowship at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and write about why, if we are committed to higher education, we must fight for a borderless world: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

just in case you are thinking this requirement is "technical" or "useful", it is literally designed to delete the option of 'no personal details'.

The thing I remember most clearly about government-issued IDs is getting one at the age of 18 and one day because the other country whose citizenship I have, Serbia, obliged everyone to have one on them when out, so they could randomly arrest people for failure to prove identity when protesting. 🤷‍♀️

Abundance This is part 1 of the (anti-)work(no)shop series Against academic monocultures: rewilding the academic ‘self’ running this year (September ’25-June ’26). Sign up to learn mo…

The first part of Against academic monocultures - an (anti)work(no)shop is online! For those of you wishing to join the discussion group, see you on 3 October, 2pm UK time - sign up/subscribe to receive the link. janabacevic.net/2025/09/26/a...