Simon Dawes

CFP Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference  November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference !

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Daniella Lock | Heavy Power During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...

‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’

New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Anahid Nersessian | ICE’s War on Home The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...

‘The LAPD trains with soldiers from the IDF, and you can see, in their response to the protesters, the same libidinal thrust of disproportionate force that’s turned against children throwing rocks at tanks in the West Bank.’

Anahid Nersessian on ICE in LA: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah Israel controls the lives of all Palestinians, without equal rights or equal representation: this is an entrenched one-state reality

Rabea Eghbariah on the "ongoing Nakba" - almost 80 years of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

New article in The Guardian after his "controversial" article in the Columbia Law Review.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Gideon Levy in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, calling for full sanctions against Israel:

"... the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety... In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us."

archive.ph/6SiZV#select...

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship.

Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

The UK media discover Israel is off the leash Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza.

www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media...

Dangerous Connections: Technology and Gender Violence in the Digital Age Sociologia della Comunicazione is calling for submissions to a Special Issue on Cyber-VAWG!

site.unibo.it/cybervawg/en...

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.

www.common-wealth.org/publications...

« Gaza : nous refusons le silence » Tribune d'étudiants en journalisme.

www.acrimed.org/Gaza-nous-re...

CFP Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference  November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

Inaugural conference!

Media Theory at the Coach House
November 7-8, 2025
Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Shane Denson (Stanford)

Dr. Alessandra Renzi (Concordia)

Abstracts due: June 30.

CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

Be a Trans Ally

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.

RIP Robert McChesney

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The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note | Sheldon Pollock Like a mob boss, the government threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic freedom and faculty governance

...the federal government is undermining two fundamental principles of the American university: the right of academic departments to self-government and the freedom of members of the faculty to express their views...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI

On the Trumpist agenda of “free speech except Palestine” and “free of DEI except Zionism”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed The rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...

www.platformspace.net/home/nrx-a-b...

'Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism'

New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by #Identities co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social

www.identitiesjourna...

Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...

"'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #gazagenocide

Genocide, neutrality and the university sector - Rafeef Ziadah, 2025 The ongoing destruction in Gaza demands urgent academic and ethical reckoning, exposing the complicity of universities and scholarly disciplines in sustaining s...

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "Settler colonialism is intimately, quintessentially genocidal, because it will result, sooner or later, in the annihilation of the indigenous people if it succeeds. Look at the United States..."

Incontrovertible.

On "how model minority authoritarianism borrows a gloss of “multicultural” progressiveness to lend respectability to, and
animate, highly reactionary, anti-equality, right-wing politics"

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What is the significance of Arendt’s reflections for us, scholars in “the zone of interest” that is the Western academy?

As Arendt argued, "those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight..."

FCS 36.1, Feb 2025: Out Now!
Including racial capitalism & French universalism, laughing about race in “colorblind” France, Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet, Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé & Les Soleils des Indépendances, and François Bayle & electroacoustic music

i'm only just now doing it lyself but i THINK that you can choose, so you go to either your followers or following page and it scans them, then you can add all to bluesky (or pick n choose)

you can use sky follower bridge to transfer twitter followers to bluesky

New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social
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My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in Media Theory.

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There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments that have occurred since ✨

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee.

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