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ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism.

Link to @hcampsm.bsky.social 's challenge to Chibber's narrow conception of materialism in the quoted post.

ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism.

You can find Bilal Zahoor's response to Chibber's separation of capitalist and colonialism history in the quoted post.

Promo Graphic for Resistant Communiqués (RC) for the first episode of season two. There is an image of Anna Lekas Miller on the left. The text above her reads, "Journalism, Social Media, and the Age of Disinformation with Anna Lekas Miller" Below that is the RC logo, and below that it reads "ResistantCommuniques.com @ResitantCommPod"

Resistant Communiqués is proud to return with the 1st episode of our 2nd season, featuring journalist & author @annalekasmiller.bsky.social. She discusses misinformation, the state of 21st-century journalism, & the role of content creators in the spread of information. bit.ly/rc2026annalekasmiller

It’s been one year since the Assad regime fell, prompting a sequence of events that culminated in a new government leading Damascus under Mohammed al-Jolani, an ex-militant in al-Qaeda's Syrian wing. Here, Têkoşîna Anarşîst evaluates the previous year and the existential threat facing Rojava today.

Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Deeply informative piece by Nazanin Shahrokni

'Who speaks for Iran?—and from where?'

via @journalspectre.bsky.social
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What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

Aaron Boehmer writing for @thenation.com .

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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

trying again:

"We may choose to foreground specific voices, but that choice should be explicit: these are the voices *we* amplify, not *the* voice of the Iranian people."

Nazanin Shahrokni for @journalspectre.bsky.social

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The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and argues that the liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular c...

"The liberation of oppressed Kurds and the emancipation of the region’s popular classes are bound together. In order to resist their ruler’s divide and conquer strategy, the region’s working classes must oppose Kurdish oppression."

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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Unless you are in echo chamber, yr movement spaces (like mine) are likely imploding

"Solidarity is not grounded in identical analysis, synchronized outrage, or emotional unanimity. Solidarity is disciplined commitment to remain in relation under conditions that continually threaten relation itself"

Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

The brilliant Nazanin Shahrokni on who speaks for Iran:

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On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story – Spectre Journal Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism's, and in particular Vivek Chibber's, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.

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Beyond the Wage Relation – Spectre Journal Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.

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“Gender Ideology,” Bodily Mutilation, and End of the Masculine West – Spectre Journal Taking Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies as a starting point, Tiffany Berruti looks at the reactionary right's fixation on trans persecution.

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Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem – Spectre Journal Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York "housing crisis" and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.

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The Impossible Made Real – Spectre Journal Kwaneta Harris interviews Uhuru Rowe about his experience since being released from prison after thirty-one years behind bars.

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Knowledge Without Fear – Spectre Journal Sandy Shan analyzes the complicity between the neoliberal university and the security state in a call for solidarity with Chinese academics in the United States.

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Thanks to our authors from last month: Sandy Shan, @kwanetaharris.bsky.social , Holden Taylor, Ben Rosenfield, Tiffany Berruti, @hcampsm.bsky.social , and Bilal Zahoor.

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Women in Place by Nazanin Shahrokni - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Nazanin Shahrokni teaches International Studies at Simon Fraser University and is the author of Women in Place ( @ucpress.bsky.social ).

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Who speaks for Iran?—and from where? – Spectre Journal Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Given the events of the previous week, we're putting this out a day early.
Read Nazanin Shahrokni think through the meaning of solidarity when stretched across an uneven and unequal geopolitical landscape. What does it mean to speak for “the Iranian People?"

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The Artist Is Present (Online) | Los Angeles Review of Books Sophie Bishop’s new book tracks the pressures artists face to conform their ‘brands’ to the demands of the algorithmic boss.

I find Sophie Bishop's research on "influencer creep" very generative and have been turning to it a lot. So I was pleased to be able to write a review of her book here!

On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story – Spectre Journal Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism's, and in particular Vivek Chibber's, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.

Second part of the dossier, Bilal Zahoor's "On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half a Story," here.

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Found this an interesting read.

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Beyond the Wage Relation – Spectre Journal Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.

Part two of a dossier. You can read the first part, @hcampsm.bsky.social 's "Beyond the Wage Relation," here.

spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-w...

On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story – Spectre Journal Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism's, and in particular Vivek Chibber's, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.

spectrejournal.com/on-vivek-chi...

Bilal Zahoor challenges Vivek Chibber's reduction of capitalism to a hyper-local story of the English countryside, arguing for a nuanced understanding of the diverse interconnected accumulation processes in world capitalism.