Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉

Ecocide in Ukraine – ATHENA PDF ATHENA PDF with book-cover thumbnail.

I recently reviewed @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's situated, transdisciplinary account of the environmental disaster brought by Russia's full scale invasion and its wider implications in the context of the region's extractivist histories.

Essential reading 👇

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On the plane of immanence between the US and Romania, Ro sends university students trafficked by their profs and the US maintains the predators afloat, academics and the Tates all together in the tight embrace of desire and body counts.

it's fascinating how we haven't been able to move past these dynamics

Exceptional text by Negarestani that deserves to be studied.

Iran, the Greatest Inconvenience: On the Eternal Silence of a Contemporary Left - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&) I begin with what looks like a detour, an old television memory that used to put a smile on our faces. It is also a compressed model of a political reflex that keeps repeating in Iran. When I was youn...

"Anything that looks messy becomes forbidden, because it might be used, misread, exploited. This is how a left becomes politically colorblind. It loses the ability to distinguish solidarity with people from alignment with states, to oppose the Imperium without granting dictatorships a free pass..."

He's there exactly to qualify things.

If a country ran a militarised and masked force with minimal oversight and accountability to harass, detain, and murder minorities and politically opposed citizens, that country would be internationally denounced, and sanctions would likely follow. So how come no state leader speaks out against ICE?

Thank you!

I wrote about the irruption of ontological difference into the geological register by putting Heidegger and Deleuze together, running their differences through stratigraphy & Earth System Science, and asking what happens to difference when extinction removes the relationality we take for granted?

International law died many deaths over the last 26 years: in Iraq, in Palestine, in Ukraine... Every time, people accepted it because the violations happened in “peripheral” places. And now, as it always does throughout history, the periphery has caught up with the center, and it looks grim.

Coincido: atender a las formas implica ya un contenido normativo. Los formalistas rusos ya lo sabían pero me gusta más pensarlo con Foucault y Benjamin, para quienes 1. la forma del discurso delimita lo que puede decirse y 2. la forma técnica de transmisión transforma el sentido mismo del discurso.

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True about great powers and leverage. But the millions who rose, the thousands murdered, the street momentum are real. The strength of empire feeds on the ritual reaffirmation of hierarchy and inevitability, even when masked as critique.

Democracy, however fragile, can still be built from within.

Ideology is now adopted in TikTok bits for a targeted purpose and dropped within 24-48h. It's no longer even about "liberating" and "bringing democracy." I'd say that even the oil/resource messaging is weak, overtaken by my hemisphere, my backyard discourse.
Basically, domination is its own message.

Todo nuevo bajo el Sol - Corriente Cálida Editorial La política industrial, la estética de la gran escala, la tecnología renovable y la energía limpia, abundante y barata deben ser, ya, la base material del mundo, pero también la base materia...

Qué posición tan triste y poco imaginativa-un tecnoceno teñido de verde que oculta que la descarbonización gestionada por megamáquinas, finanzas y Estados fuertes prolonga el mismo régimen extractivo y colonial. Nos esperan tiempos difíciles en España y no solo por el auge de la extrema derecha.

YouTube video by OMV Petrom Neptun Deep: Start of drilling operations

The Romanian-Austrian version of "drill, baby, drill" served with a wrapping of the new security-sovereignty-strategy EU discourses. The largest natural gas extraction project in Europe de facto secures a radically insecure century ahead, all financed with EU money.

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I really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!

Alucinante, de verdad.

Image for the 1-year anniversary of the devastating floods in the Valencia region. One person's arm is helping the other climb up with a bedsheet from the flooded and muddy streets. The Catalan-language inscription reads "we will raise our voices for those who cannot do so."

El barro se limpia pero la tristeza y la rabia no.

Los toros también pidiendo Maz-off!

#mazóndimisión

Amunt València!

Una de las manifestaciones más multitudinarias de la historia de Valencia.
#Mazóncriminal

The cringe factor was through the roof. As someone was commenting under that video on YT: "cine zice, ăla e."

"We are not heroes".

“En las izquierdas de Europa occidental hay un deseo de poner un muro e ignorar lo que ocurre en el este” Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

🗣️Continuamos el domingo con esta interesantísima entrevista de @elenadesus.bsky.social al sociólogo Denys Gorbach.

📄 "Desde 2012 Rusia empezó una secuencia de guerras comerciales. Un mes era la leche, al siguiente las locomotoras." ctxt.es/es/20251001/...

In Romania, we entered the post-election phase when, aside from further limiting access to services & education through ineffective budget cuts, the Beautiful Decent Cultural Gatekeepers gather to insult those they've been gatekeeping from with stale metaphors. Annoying bc I like that Ionescu play.

I've been working on developing a critical ecosemiotic approach for the arts. A preliminary framework is the one I used in my article on Vajont & Michelucci's church. Still work in progress but for now, there are 2 regimes: 1. present-focused, vernacular-knowledge; 2. technocratic, future-projecting

Venezia lo sa da che parte stare!
Dal Ponte della Libertà per una Palestina libera

That's certainly the wiser choice.

It's an AI-produced image of the meeting between Trump and Zelensky at the White House with Steve Carell as Michael Scott from the show The Office in the gold-framed photos on the walls screaming NO GOD PLEASE NO

You mean you didn't torture yourself by watching that meeting? Here's a summary: