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Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.

In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm

PoLAR DEF Anna Kirstine Schirrer's research with CARICOM appeared in the PoLAR this year. And her edited series on reparations is free to read on PoLAR Online: polarjournal.org/2020/07/31/s...

Generations work on family farms. With costs high and prices low, farmers worry they may lose it all. Generations have worked family farms in the U.S. Now, with costs high, prices low and tariffs causing additional difficulties, farmers say they're at risk of losing it all.

"In the first six months of 2025, there were 57% more farm bankruptcies than during the same period last year, according to United States Courts."
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The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction This fascinating show offers visitors a deeper sense of Le Guin’s maps as world-making and storytelling devices.

The maps of Ursula K Le Guin reveal a fascinating insight into world-building in fantasy fiction.
theconversation.com/the-maps-of-...

Lorraine Daston · Kaboom! Slow-Motion Extinction Historians who address such topics as extinction, which straddle the history of humans and of the Earth, face the...

"Kaboom!"/"Extinction, Fast and Slow"

Director emerita Lorraine Daston is featured in the current issue of @lrb.co.uk and on The LRB Podcast 🌋

"Extinction is a protracted, uneven process, and hard to square with our mental picture of abrupt catastrophe."

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On Oct. 30th, 5:30 PM, Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford will be discussing her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World," with Dagmar Herzog. CUNY Graduate Center, Brockway Room (6402), 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little To Help. Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

NEW: Despite federal law, disabled students in Idaho sometimes can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms.

With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

Cover of Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance by Deborah A. Thomas. The collage-style artwork features layered images of a central figure, a Black woman in a historical headwrap and blouse, and pants made of newspaper clippings. Her hands lay atop the surface of what might be a drum, that has been superimposed with a black and white photograph. Behind her is a masculine silhouette in a solid black color, though flecked with stars. At the bottom, rows of small, identical images of women in red and blue skirts appear in procession.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Exorbitance" by Deborah A. Thomas, which calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life rather than the state. #Anthropology
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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Selected Novels | Catherine Lacey on Evan S. Connell - The Point Podcast On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to Catherine Lacey about Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the normal rate.

On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Zach Fine and Jess Swoboda talk to @catherinelacey.bsky.social about Evan S. Connell’s “Mrs. Bridge”—at once a comic satire and a tender, sympathetic treatment of the mid-century American housewife, written in a style all its own.

My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

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While I agree that spatial order is crucial to social and political life, it's disheartening that some still believe a reorientation of 'liberalism' can be a solution to anything in the U.S.

“.. Some energy experts say West Virginia is a harbinger of what could happen ..

“.. As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility .. is behind on monthly bills.”

@nytimes.com $AEP
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Disabling Intelligences This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

A farm worker standing in a cilantro field. He is wearing a hat and a face mask and his hat band has the Mexican flag

"Fidel" will spend his day harvesting hundreds of boxes of parsley. He shares he is grateful for his union job that allows him to earn more in way better working conditions than non-union workers. #WeFeedYou

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

The Trump administration appears to be trying to make a global war on renewables. I spoke to @mkblyth.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the strategy of carbon dominance, how this is shaping politics not just in the US but everywhere, and what that means for the future.

The very concept of "virtue signaling" is culturally Protestant, premised as it is upon a fundamental disconnect between the true, unknowable inner self, and the outward acts that self performs. But there is no self that preexists its actions in the world. Better people enact virtue than vice.

Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 124, issue 3 (July 2025). Special issue titled Merleau-Ponty Today, edited by Judith Revel. The background features an abstract painting with textured blocks of gray, blue, black, and white. The journal’s logo SAQ appears in a black box at the top right. A footer reads AGAINST the DAY · Making Debt Visible.

"Merleau-Ponty Today," a special issue of SAQ (124:3) edited by Judith Revel, is now available. View the full TOC and read Revel's introduction "Merleau-Ponty, History Otherwise," made freely available: buff.ly/CF9KvNT

Opinion | Los Angeles Wildfires Left the City With a Toxic Mess Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.

Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy

My blurb for this book was limited to fifty word, but I could have gone on and on about how important it is, a book we will be talking about for a long time.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional.

It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”

Great episode.
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Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess

Another great book that I finished recently was @kimkelly.bsky.social’s Fight Like Hell, a history of the U.S. organized labor movement since colonial times. Gives several examples of private surveillance / violence (Pinkertons, hired thugs) and police opposing organizers—rhymes with the present!

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work”
Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
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Our hidden gem of the week details how tech doesn’t just “augment” work; it reshapes power, squeezing workers while boosting employer control.

By @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social in @datasociety.bsky.social

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