Matthew Archer

ok deleting this infernal portal from my phone, but before that some advice: drink more tea, support local artists, 读毛主席的书

«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images

enough doomscrolling for the day/week, but: if you’re targeting water infrastructure you’re evil, and if you support this, at all, you’re also evil.

i saw a post recently that somehow migrated from the manosphere to whatever my digital milieu is, and it pains me to admit they’ve 1) discovered anthropology and 2) misinterpreted theories of initiation rites

I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something

trump is married to an immigrant.

Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies Welcome to Maastricht University! At Maastricht University, we value cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field that examines how culture shapes and is shaped by power, media, identities, economie...

New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University.

We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely.

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AI slop in a mcdonald’s slop ad

new tag yourself just dropped

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“squeeveillance”

essay published a year or two ago in surveillance & society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

“squeeveillance”

LITERALLY just watching

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

'Amsterdam passed a world-first motion seeking to end the "excesses" of unsustainable advertising, such as "flying vacations at rock-bottom prices". And the city's newly passed ban goes even further by restricting advertising for meat as well as fossil fuel products.'

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

venn* but also venom tbh

venom diagram of gays worried about being transitioned against their will and straights worried about being homosexually hit on

New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

Hairdressers as ‘everyday influencers’ on climate change and sustainability This report presents key findings from interviews with hair salon owners taking climate and/or sustainability action (mostly through membership of the Green Salon Collective).

New CAST report on "Hairdressers as ‘everyday influencers’ on climate change and sustainability", by Dr Briony Latter (@brionylatter.bsky.social) & Dr Sam Hampton (@samhampton.bsky.social). 📣💇

Read the report: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Key messages thread 🧵

Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land-based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abid...

"surprisingly little attention has been paid to land in relation to pesticides—to the point of dismissiveness"

Exploring the Pesticide-Land Nexus
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Bernie Sanders interviewed by NYT's Sydney Ember published on May 18 2019

www.the-scientist.com/generation-x...

imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int...

I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.

can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart.

www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.

what i love (read: don’t love) about duke press books is that you can read the title and subtitle and still have no clue what the book is about ♥️

i keep seeing people say european leaders are cowards or spineless. this is a bit true, but the bigger issue is that they're selfish and stupid and racist.

belgian foreign minister: this is a clear violation of international law

also belgian foreign minister: but who cares lol

www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1999...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist.

GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution.

Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

we need a universally accepted gif response for when your first impulse on social media is totally wrong and someone corrects you and they’re absolutely right, something that’s friendly and not performative and not super cloying or apologetic