Jessica Zu

check out this amazing NOTbook about Kabir and the shared consciousness (its relation to the Buddha) newbooksnetwork.com/the-notbook-...

and the relational metaphysics in Buddhism and quantum physics, e.g. here, www.filosofia.studiumanistici.unina.it/wp-content/u... and here youtu.be/1WTshcvIWAU?...

For all intents and purposes (the ecology) Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have had a major impact across a...

check out this amazing piece about Yogācāra relational metaphysics, tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/01/f...

Karmic pyschopolitics: May the friendliest thrive Life is precarious, more so for those who live in a neoliberal world. Byung-Chul Han names this lifeworld “the achievement society” and this neoliberal form of precarity “psychopolitics.” As achieveme...

Very proud about this piece, please check it out, tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/15/k...

Please check out this online conference. This is the first time we have scholars on African, Indigenous, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies together networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

the exact right question if you ask me

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

YouTube video by Nate Hagens How Pro-Social Technology Is Saving Democracy from ‘Big Tech’ with Audrey Tang | TGS 169

this talk makes me so hopeful, Audrey Tang on pro-social technologies and how to build up our democracy
youtu.be/aXgne-9F7uU?...

YouTube video by Planet: Critical Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp

check out this amazing book talk, youtu.be/mMbtY4ljEMQ?...

Eco-Islam When: September 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am – September 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm Where: Online Course This course will explore environmental stewardship within the Islamic tradition, emphasizing faith-inspi...

eco-islam, utsnyc.edu/blog/event/e...

Designs for the Pluriverse

and it resonates across cultures like design for pluriverse, www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-...

Actualizing the Buddha ancestors: Buddhist historiography for the multiverse To speak of “systemic” injustice is to acknowledge that large-scale practices and policies may generate inequitable outcomes regardless of the intentions of individuals. This is one rationale behind a...

the newest post on "karmic historiography" tif.ssrc.org/2025/09/03/a...

"The view of a large group of people can change quickly, ... The abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the eight-hour working day, civil rights - all began with small groups of ‘unrealistic’ radicals who refused to accept that things had to remain as they were."

What Won't Change The World Why Political Parties & Voting Doesn’t Work

"But no-one ever asks us if we wanted to be ruled over, or if we wanted others to make laws which might threaten, fine or imprison us. We didn’t vote for this situation, it was just the one we were born into, and its origins reveal this wasn't accidental."

check out my belated interview with Rima Vesely-Flad on her 2022 book, newbooksnetwork.com/black-buddhi...

About the Project - Genocide Gentry Educational and cultural institutions have granted prestigious positions to weapons manufacturers’ executives and directors, entrusting them with tremendous influence over how institutions respond—or ...

Silence is not an option.

We are not free until everyone is free. genocidegentry.org/about-the-pr...

Karmic historiography A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisition...

American Karma! tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k...

Check out my NBN interview with Alexus McLeod on his new book on Martial arts and myth-making, newbooksnetwork.com/myth-and-ide...

Juneteenth Reading List - AAR Some Suggested Titles from AAR's Reading Religion Reading Religion is an openly accessible book review website published by the American Academy of Religion. The site provides up-to-date coverage of s...

a juneteenth reading list aarweb.org/news/junetee...

Engaging our Imagination with Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding | Contending Modernities How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?

true wisdom, contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza | Contending Modernities Jews must now tell a new story to answer the horrors that a Jewish country has perpetrated, argues Peter Beinart.

this new story needs courage, contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Open House Feedback Session | REI Governance and Membership Proposal We are seeking feedback from our individual members and groups within the network on the newly floated governance and membership proposal. Read it here. Register for this open session and ask us que...

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check out my interview with Brook Ziporyn on his new book, Mystical Atheism, newbooksnetwork.com/experiments-...

"Breaking the Spell of Empire, Moving from Division to Coalition
The reckoning needed to dismantle the 500-year hallucination of settler-colonial capitalism, and why empire fractures us to prevent the coalitions that could end "

Revolution in the Wings: Breaking the Spell of Empire Gaza, Global Capitalism, and the Sacred Duty of Collective Liberation

"Gaza is not an isolated atrocity, it is a mirror. It reflects, with devastating clarity, what the ruling class is willing to inflict on any population deemed disposable."
thanissara.substack.com/p/revolution...

"Gaza is not an isolated atrocity, it is a mirror. It reflects, with devastating clarity, what the ruling class is willing to inflict on any population deemed disposable."

"Gaza is not just a war zone. It is the most exposed nerve of empire, where settler colonialism, racial supremacy, surveillance capitalism, and militarized religious nationalism converge"

this sentence haunts me "This is a karmic threshold for humanity."

Keep Showing Up · Mobilize We’re taking a stand against this administration’s cruel, egregious attacks on so much that’s good and just in our country. We will keeping showing up to build community and defend our democracy, and ...

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Ven. Chao-hwei Leads Historic Ordination in Taiwan, Sparking Debate on Monastic Gender Equality - Buddhistdoor Global The respected Taiwanese Buddhist monastic Ven. Shih Chao-hwei led a historic ordination in Taiwan when bhikshunis ordained male lay practitioner Deng Rong.

cheers, nuns ordain monks! as it should have been! www.buddhistdoor.net/news/ven-cha...