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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" 🕰️⌚️

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

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

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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@lsesociology.bsky.social

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.
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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

https://buff.ly/3EcmDOs

Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires Firefighters in Turkey are battling wildfires in the centre of the northwestern province of Canakkale, fanned by strong winds, and hundreds of residents have evacuated in precaution, local authorities and media said on Monday.

Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #Wildfire #Canakkale #Turkey

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How does one care for the welfare of child soldiers whose very vulnerability may undermine the State’s ability to wage war? In “Army of the Vulnerable,” Edmonds explores how the British army attempts to protect its own while retaining the capacity to exercise violence.

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians “I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Thank you so much!

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch.....

“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

#anthropology

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In "Breathing Free: Chronicity, Pollution, and Imaginaries of Good Work in India" Ipshita Ghosh examines how Delhi's air pollution crisis and its compounding impacts on residents' health disrupt normative ideas of work, generating a new hierarchy of values that centers the ability to breathe freely.

Just wow.

The Bird Of A Thousand Voices Tigran Hamasyan · Album · 2024 · 24 songs

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Tuff Times Never Last Kokoroko · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

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Cover of Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago by Zophia Edwards. The cover has a dark blue background and a painting in the center. The painting depicts numerous, overlapping human figures in motion, in an abstract, cubist-like style. The painting has a bold colour palette, featuring greens, yellows, reds, and blues, with the blue tones being the most prominent.

In "Fueling Development," Zophia Edwards traces Trinidad and Tobago’s democratic and redistributive development success to a specific form of Black radical working-class mobilization she calls “liberation unionism.” Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/94DOWp1