Ryan Fong

Guys!!!! You guys!!!!! The Introduction to *Speculative Relations* has dropped!!!!! You can read it here: www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-...

Detroit Institute of Arts to host first major Native American art exhibition in 30 years ‘Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation’ features some 90 works of art from more than 60 artists from the Great Lakes region

‘Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation’ features some 90 works of art by more than 60 artists from the Great Lakes region.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

Sign with a fish that reads The only king we need

a king salmon sign

WA State, I love you

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video.

Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

Empire always comes home.

All the sins we have committed abroad were always destined to find us in our homes, on our streets.

We're being haunted by the violence we allowed to thrive.

I should have predicted that my first real time conversation with @zugenia.bsky.social would have been two hours of 🔥✨💥🌈💫. Look out world, because the witchy Chinese kids are starting to join forces!

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

From WaPo:
“Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday — coming after the announcement of a ceasefire deal — killed at least 19 people across Gaza, according to the enclave’s Civil Defense service. The rescue agency said in a statement that many of the strikes targeted residential areas.”

Standing in solidarity with those protesting at MLA today and over the whole conference. I resigned from the committee I was serving on and will not be renewing my membership. It’s the least I can do in my stand against the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza.

Feeling tremendous guilt that I can’t contribute to every single Go Fund Me myself, as if I alone were meant to be the public safety net.

This sort of thing simultaneously erases the work of indigenous and Native Americans, while ALSO reducing us to props in your own political psychodrama. We're not actually here to make you feel better or save you, we have our own mahi here at home.

It’s always, *always* connected to colonialism.

I’m so sorry. This is terrible on so many levels.

NYPD overtime pay in the subway went from $4 million to $155 million this year Subway crime is down slightly. Fare evasion tickets and arrests are way up.

Defund the police gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...

Ffs. Imagine having your research agenda be the top concern here. It’s like the text I got urging me not to vote “uncommitted” because Biden has done “a lot for our roads.”

THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide Steven W. Thrasher Foreword by Jonathan M. Metzl Now in Paperback Having spent a groundbreaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Steven W. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings, showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.

Hi Bluesky friends, wanted to let you know I am writing a new book called THE OVERSEER CLASS. Picking up where THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS left off, THE OVERSEER CLASS will explore Black cops, gay managers, a Latino head of ICE + other marginalized ppl who amass power by cracking the skulls of their own.

‘Cold-blooded massacre’: Israeli forces kill over 104 aid seekers in Gaza Over 100 killed and 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians collecting food aid in Gaza City.

“More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...

A 'great flood' of AI noise is coming for the internet and it's swallowing Twitter first The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

"Over three days in February, cybersecurity firm CHEQ tracked the proportion of bot traffic from X...three-quarters of traffic from X was fake, compared to less than 3[%] of traffic from each of TikTok, Facebook and Instagram."

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

These Aquarians! 😳😳😳

University recognizes “employee appreciation week” with “self-guided tours” of PR-friendly spots on campus.

Alternatives:
👉No univ spam for the whole week
👉A live-streamed seminar in which employees teach senior admin about workload, stretched resources, &c. With a test.
👉free N95s & better IAQ

Most university administrators are looking for a better position elsewhere (at another university, private sector, whatever), and therefore they have to show how "bold" and "innovative" they are. And that involves shaking things up. Of course, if it goes poorly, they're not left holding the bag.

The Evisceration of Diversity Programs Is Upon Us | Dame Magazine There is a child in America—a worker, a dreamer—whose hard work will never be recognized. They will struggle and toil for little or no end. At best, their labors will be co-opted and stolen; at worst,...

I’m tired of defending diversity initiatives and pleading for my humanity. Let’s call this movement against DEI and affirmative action and equality what it really is: neo-segregationist. And let’s be clear about what we want instead: Integration. www.damemagazine.com/2024/02/13/t...

Abstract: The terminology we use in eighteenth-century studies needs to encompass both the period's and the field's global reach. James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour provides a starting point for considering the terms that were used to imagine the eighteenth-century Pacific from Great Britain, the importance of refusing eighteenth-century fictions in and from the Pacific, and the need to expand our critical vocabulary in the field beyond the frameworks of the transatlantic world. This essay proposes "Endeavouring" as a Pacific-focused corollary to the term "Columbusing" in order to advance anti-colonial scholarship in eighteenth-century studies and broaden its scope and vision.

More from the newest ECF special issue:
"Endeavouring" and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions,
By Nikki Hessell
muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic...
ECF journal, U of Toronto Press
Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 145-148
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Read ECF at Project MUSE!