AbdouMaliq Simone

"This article examines the doubleness of precarity as an atmosphere of both how life is made marginal and how life exceeds the margins imposed."

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The new issue of Lo Squaderno is out now. It focuses on Alliances and Urban Precarity and it has Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Togetherness by Lancione and Simone.
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Workshop on Ecologies of Black Living. CIFAR at the British Academy

From the Editor Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2024)

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www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Intersections: Blackness, Islam, Palestine

In one month

The urban majorities have scraped and improvised their endurance however meagre through disattention and repression for centuries—something which coddled kleptocrats haven’t a clue. These obdurate practical imaginations from Oakland to Imbaba to Tanah Tinggi are vibrant and weary grammars for now.

Is there any conceivable force capable of warding off the extermination or total expulsion of Palestinians. Can one even imagine a rickety defence issued by the Saudis? A tipping point is near and relentlessness in raising this spectre in every occasion is necessary.Palestinian life is our life.

Essential reading. Israel is yet to exist.

American higher education actively producing the next great disillusioned generation

For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back Whether it was spent feasting or plotting escapes, the week between Christmas and the new year offered a rare opportunity for enslaved men, women and children to reclaim their humanity.

Enslaved people planned rebellions between #Christmas and #NewYear. Two examples: the Aponte Rebellion in #Cuba in 1812 and the Christmas Rebellion – or Baptist War in 1832 in #Jamaica. More in my The Conversation US article #slaveryarchive theconversation.com/for-enslaved...

Although far from a great film, it shows how cities cling to their sorrows, how the occasional flickers of grace seek to belong to an improbable endurance amid all the potentials the city offers then tends to render impossible

The Patient Efforts Behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Success in Aleppo - War on the Rocks “God willing,” the militant told his lieutenants, they would “be able to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Aleppo and Damascus soon.” That militant was Abu

A good read on HTS' recent successes in Syria situated within Jawlani's exploration of what @azelin.bsky.social calls "political salafism"

warontherocks.com/2024/12/the-...

Having engaged a network of quilombos inhabited by mostly African populations in Bangkok it is worth thinking about the concrete designs of fugitivity amid vast urban surveillance apparatuses.

Marronage downtown

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The paradigm of paradise

Although delivered in Fall 2022, it remains a crucial intervention in light of today's conditions.
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Yes they may move but their nights will be haunted by terrifying visions; djinns will pick at their skins and they will suffer inexplicable illnesses, for justice operates outside of the law, reflected in earthly matters that refuse mastery; let them come and witness themselves beyond recognition.

EROICA, by Chino Amobi 26 track album

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Global Escalation - Global Escalation The time for talk is over. The time of protest with no results is over. Find Actions Add An Action Join the Escalation Call To Action Our world has been given two choices – to accept this new level of...

Posting once again this mobilization of a General Strike--perhaps the only instrument we have left to at least try to bring to an end the most consequential matter of our time. Particularly for urbanists, our work is shaped and cannot proceed in any reasonable fashion without addressing this.

where freedom and self-attainment is largely materialized through indebtedness, where the moral panics of austerity are resulting in assaults against social reproduction, and where the territorial coherences of urban life extend beyond discernible shape and relationalities.

The city was a spiritual inspiration for a week long discussion on modalities of collective livelihood production and care, viable political contestation and aesthetics in a contemporary context where the promise of wage is dissipating,

With over 100k street traders it retains an economy based on the cross-fertilization of different sectors and goods, with urban livelihoods based on institutionalized reciprocities and territorial heterogeneity.

El Alto is an auto-constructed "indigenous" city situated at 4200 meters. With its entanglement of entrepreneurship, cosmology, festivity, and collective organization it endures as a city of international trade both within and outside capital accumulation.

Concluded: The El Alto Dialogues- Organized by the Urban Popular Economy Collective (Sheffield School), El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales Section on Popular Economy, and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, with 20 researchers from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.