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Jason Hickel - "We need a real progressive alternative – a democratic ecosocialist movement" In the run-up to his event at this year's Festival of Debate, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel speaks to Alice Flanagan about degrowth and his hopes for mass mobilisation across the globe.

"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...

The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?

“What of our dreams today, under the influence of the algorithms?”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“Living right” is on air! Thank you @armanc.bsky.social !

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This is beautiful - as scientists are fired or lost their federal funding, Silenced Stories generates awareness and advocacy. #CantFireScience

If you have a story, share it here: forms.gle/XnC9kyp9uTaZ...

silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists

@silencedscience.bsky.social

Forrest Hylton | ‘The streets are ours, Milei’ Javier Milei’s popularity and legitimacy have been significantly eroded since he came to power in 2023, as pessimism...

‘Argentinians are showing others who wish to resist the advance of far right governments – in Latin America, the US or Europe – how it can be done.’

Forrest Hylton on anti-Milei protests in Argentina, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

« American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out ‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader. »

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

‘What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned?’

Perry Anderson on regime change in the West, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tomorrow at UdeM! @anthropologieudem.bsky.social @sciencepo-udem.bsky.social

At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer:

Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.

Written by an A-1 department chair :-)

Prof. Agnieska Pasieka presenting her new lab and research programme at @anthropologieudem.bsky.social's Café Anthropo, packed with students and colleagues.

For #AnthroDay @anthropologieudem.bsky.social had @knomascus.bsky.social presenting on ecological and anthropogenic determinants of lemur genomic diversity and @agadarancia.bsky.social presenting her new social movements lab to a packed house in Café Anthropo. A-1 day with some A-1 colleagues!

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

CASCA 2025 – McGill, Montreal Fourwaves - CASCA 2025 – McGill, Montreal

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS & ROUNDTABLES 

Join us in Montreal, where waters and people have long met, for the 2025 Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) on the theme of “Confluences” (May 7-10, 2025).

Please, submit your proposals by FEB 7 by visiting event.fourwaves.com/casca2025/pa...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

« This brings us back to my earlier question of why pro-Palestine scholars are being invited when it would have been so much simpler and less dramatic not to engage us(…)If calling this a genocide makes us valuable to these institutions, it is because they are sensing the cracks in their narrative»

This is a chilling account, chilling also due to the fact that the story on all those “ordinary good guys” sounds so familiar

A Better Conversation | David M. Perry Get more from David M. Perry on Patreon

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities.

www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Merci ☺️

Two days left to apply for this panel on "unwritten narratives of activism" at #SIEF2025 in #Aberdeen with @agadarancia.bsky.social PLEASE SHARE 🙏 nomadit.co.uk/conference/s... ✊🏾✌🏾

In preparation for a conversation about education & anti-Zionism later today, I pulled out the 3 books that taught me about Palestine, resistance, & liberation when I was a teenager in the 90s. These books by Palestinian writers saved my life. They also taught me how to be an anti-Zionist.

"We can throw a wrench into the war machine": Why pro-Palestine Canadian authors are boycotting the Giller Prize - Toronto Life 1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.

“We can throw a wrench into the war machine”: Why pro-Palestine Canadian authors are boycotting the Giller Prize
Comics artist and illustrator Michael DeForge, an organizer with CanLit Responds and No Arms in the Arts, on protesting the award’s lead sponsor’s stake in Israeli arms manufacturing

Tomorrow in New Haven!

Can’t wait to hear about your students’ responses - thank you !

Merci @mihiress.bsky.social

Looking forward to it!

"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."

Selma Dabbagh | The Case against Israel Finally, something shifts. The ruling by the International Court of Justice is said by public international lawyers to...

Selma Dabbagh on The Case Against Israel in the LRB blog