Astrid Lorange

Was Claude/AI selecting a girl school and a hospital as targets?

A hand holds two copies of a book against a white wall. The book is soft cover, matte baby blue and is titled Crimes of Class by Mark Gawne and Nick Southall

Fresh from the printers - boxes and boxes of this glorious new book by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall. Coming to the Rosa site soon!

Do not let the Western media manufacture consent. Hold the anti-imperialist line. You can be against the oppression of Iranian people by their own regime and not use that as excuse to support a US & Israeli act of aggression.

Western bombs do not bring freedom or liberation to the SWANA region.

Book cover of Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction by Amy De'Ath

Behind Our Backs is out!

"In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization."
—Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

https://ow.ly/IJRh50YgW1o

attn American history comrades, who has written on the Homestead Act?

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

CORRECT

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

I find this so fucking sad actually

it's from a great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social

journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...

The only reliable way anybody has found to keep a lit mag solvent is have the CIA fund it.

& friend of Rosa, Liz Humphrys says: "Essential reading for scholars, activists and the outraged, and for those who want to think more deeply about the chasm between legal notions of right and wrong and whose interests they serve."

"...Gawne and Southall have an uncanny ability to connect the dots between personal and regional histories from below and capitalist backlash on a global scale. This book will become a classic of the Australian left."

friend of Rosa, @melindacooper.bsky.social says this about Crimes of Class: "...a truly moving work of political memoir and a profound reflection on the relationship between capitalism, crime and resistance..." (con'td)

Book Launch: Crims of Class. Mark Gawne & Nick Southall, published by Rosa Press. Saturday March 28, 3–6pm Frontyard Projects, 228 Illawarra Road, Marrickville. The flyer is typeset using the book's cover typeface and is on a background of pale blue, echoing the cover stock.

Rosa Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall in March. A Sydney launch is planned for 3–6pm, Saturday March 28 at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.

This is so good

can’t believe I haven’t read Coetzee til now, shame on me

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent (Popular Science)

Roses are red
Vice is inherent

RIP to the best

Cover of Amy De'Ath's book

Excited to read this share.google/STKJgHop3FVm...

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...

In all honesty if you read it as a complimentary list it sounds like the blurb for a Peter Linebaugh book

just listen to this whenever you are sad and it will cheer you up. mashalla mashalla mashalla to ward off evil eye but was distinctly jealous of dan here

telly reactionaries in full hysteric mode

Two sided meme that says Don't say you love the anime (With a poster of the HBO show Industry) If you haven't read the manga (With a picture of the front of capital by Karl Marx)

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

Footage like this really illustrates the full meaning of the chant: "We are all Palestinians." Authoritarian violence in Gaza and the West Bank begets authoritarian violence in Sydney. Tomorrow, it just might be you with the knee in your back and the fist in your face.

Minns is banking on to-the-bone Islamophobia in this shithole country to excuse the video of cops rushing, dragging, tackling a group of men on their knees in prayer. Fully entrenched racism sees such men as innately threatening, their prayer a provocation.

‘Violent clashes,” say the ABC headlines. No. The police attacked peaceful protesters. Our media should be outraged by the abuse of citizens by a jacked up police force but alas they love this shit. They think it will never be them.

@sydmorningherald.bsky.social blaming protestors, exonerating police violence, euphemising and neutralising what was plainly state force in the face of a large protest against enthofasicsm. typical trash media we fucking see you.

All of the footage is NSW cops assaulting peaceful protesters. They are a disgrace.

Chris Minns gave them licence to be as violent as they want.

abolish the police