"Birth rate problems are technocratic problems that emerge primarily out of the failure of neoliberal biopolitics to adequately organize reproduction for the needs of capital; pronatalism is an attempt to impose an ideology that will do so..."
So much useful framing in this from @lesja.bsky.social
Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
yes! I co-teach a course on art, gender and sexuality at UNSW and would love to use it in that context!
‘The Islamic Republic is likely to emerge transformed or weakened in ways not yet visible. But the notion that it would simply dissolve under pressure was always fanciful.’
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US’s war on Iran, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
y'all !!!!
I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
Was Claude/AI selecting a girl school and a hospital as targets?
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.
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?
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)
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
Roses are red
Vice is inherent
RIP to the best
Excited to read this share.google/STKJgHop3FVm...
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
