Tristan Sturm

Dat Gaza wordt vernietigd, is bijbels voorspeld, zegt deze invloedrijke Palestijnse dominee De Palestijnse predikant Naim Khoury is christen-zionist: hij steunt Israël, ook al beschuldigt de halve wereld het land van genocide. Vrede verwacht hij niet meer, het einde der tijden is ophanden.

A few quotes on Naim Khoury in Trouw: “A Palestinian, a Christian at that, who supports Israel and uses its Zionist arguments—that sends the message that the genocide in Gaza isn't so bad. That's a powerful diplomatic tool... Yet Khoury himself is sincere in his faith.” www.trouw.nl/religie-filo...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism…

My new book coming out next month examines our apocalyptic moment--climate, conspiracy, authoritarianism, geopolitics, etc: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

Thank you for your praise, Clifton. Very much appreciated. I should also leave all social media, I rarely use it, and as I think you are saying, it too often amplifies conspiracism. Be well and take care!

Thank you @cliftonlee.bsky.social !!!

Liz's (@elizabethfarries.bsky.social ) new book, Platforming Cancel Culture, just out! Read it before you get cancelled!

“And it, in some ways, makes sense, right? It’s easier to focus on a bunch of towers than the sort of larger structures of the crisis of political legitimacy and representation that we see in Northern Ireland specifically.”

“But I think what we’re seeing here geographically, at least in west Belfast, is a group of people who have a history of being surveilled and understanding it in a particular way."

Conspiracy expert on why NI has held on to one particular ‘nonsensical’ theory: ‘In some ways, it makes sense, right?’ There’s an old joke that neatly encapsulates humanity’s ability to cling on to fervent conviction in the face of irrefutable evidence: a JFK conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven. When he’s gree...

A feature interview with me in the Belfast Telegraph why 5G towers are being burned in West Belfast. It is essentially one long quote (paywalled). See comments for title context. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...

Many years in the making. Thx for the support and contributions @censamm.bsky.social !!! Should be available in late October.

With Uzodinma Iweala (of Beats of No Nation fame), a new fellow at CAPAS! Lovely fella, writing on apocalyptic conspiracies no less!

Im unable to put myself in Trump's mind, he is mercurial, not rational. What will happen is wide open: Too strong of an act of force by Iran or Israel could tip scales. Without a Ukrainian peace deal, perhaps Trump realised Putin is not his friend. But, as said, Trump isn't a rational actor.

Will the U.S. get involved in Iran? Mike Huckabee's evangelical worldview may be the key Mike Huckabee's text to President Trump implicitly urging action against Iran had deep roots in Christian Zionist theology.

My new oped in @forward.com asking, "Will the U.S. get involved in Iran? Mike Huckabee’s evangelical worldview may be the key".
forward.com/opinion/7299...

Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥

Come join our fabulously fun and supportive Geography dept at Queen's University Belfast!

Oh wow, their music travelled farther than I would have thought!

YouTube video by The Be Good Tanyas - Topic Lakes of Pontchartrain

My first intro to Lakes of Ponchartrain was by Canadian friends of ours, the Be Good Tanyas in 2000. Faster, but no less sentimental: youtu.be/Dtywt38RnX4?...

Conspiracist knowledge geographies and the potentiality of an impossible political alliance - Tristan Sturm, 2025 This paper interrogates the epistemic and spatial dimensions of conspiracy theories through the lens of knowledge geographies, foregrounding the socio-spatial i...

My new paper asking what a geography of conspiracism might look like and how we might engage conspiracist publics: "Conspiracist knowledge geographies and the potentiality of an impossible political alliance” doi.org/10.1177/2043...

I like this kayfabe concept, normality as performance.

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Things aren't right, yet our mundane lives continue. We live in hypernormalisation (nice Le Guin quote at end): www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza | Contending Modernities This nationalism is religious at its core, sprung from a set of interpretations of the Bible that identifies the Jewish return to Israel as a prophetic sign of the imminence of the apocalypse.

Balfour was an antisemite, and the Balfour Declaration wasn’t about compassion—it was about removing Jews from Europe and fulfilling a Christian Zionist prophecy requiring Jews in Israel to trigger the end-times and the Second Coming. A century later, the end-times are here—but Jesus is still MIA.

In Christ’s Name: Christian Zionism and the Liquidation of the Gaza Ghetto | Political Theology Network The Western inability to recognize Palestinians as fully human is often attributed to Islamophobia, framed as a post-9/11 construct that portrays Muslim violence as a threat to the liberal West.

I agree, but we can go farther back still. A nice piece by Hanine Shehadeh in Political Theology that pushes "Christian Zionism" and the west's colonial designs on Palestine 300 or so years earlier: politicaltheology.com/in-christs-n...

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

I'm pleased to hear about the decline of the semi-colon. They are usually used incorrectly, often as colons or as comma splices. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jealous you weren't on that train?

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Interested in Macron, Starmer, and Merz's alleged cocaine party and the post-truth frenzy that resulted? I was interviewed on Times Radio (Hugo Rifkind) today (2:37:00-2:44:53): www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Mike Huckabee's old-school Christian Zionism is bad news for anyone who wants Middle East peace Mike Huckabee's Christian Zionism could have dire implications for Israel and Palestinians in President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

Mike Huckabee was confirmed last week as US ambassador to Israel, hence my oped on his apocalyptic designs being republished in The Forward:

forward.com/opinion/6754...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Brilliant piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on "end times fascism", an escapist resonance of Christian right and fascist Trumpers facilitating the End. They cite my oped on Huckabee, so that's pretty darn special!

@astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

New paper on why the 'illegal' should be taught in Planning and planned for in the city. In this case, we focus on people who use drugs. Thank you @bolandphilip.bsky.social, this is the result of your vision, drive, and hardwork!

Voor de christen-zionisten van Ebenezer Operatie Exodus is bezetting van de Westoever de wil van God Volgens de christelijk-zionistische organisatie Ebenezer Operatie Exodus is de Westelijke Jordaanoever het bijbelse hart van Israël. De Nederlandse afdeling helpt joden en christenen met verhuizingen ...

I was interviewed for this long form article on Operation Ebenezer Exodus, a well funded Christian Zionists org that helps Jews immigrate to Israel-Palestine to hasten Armageddon and Christ's return (in Dutch). Thx Jasmijn!: www.groene.nl/artikel/land...

Library representation. Thx @rickiorawe.bsky.social