Just another normal one in Britain today

How do ethnic, racial, and colonial histories inform historical and contemporary practices of AI? Join us for an online talk and masterclass on 'Ethnicity and AI' with Kalindi Vora @[email protected] Edward Jones-Imhotep Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on 30 April 2024: eventbrite.com/e/master-class…

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right is available for pre-order. Please share widely! amazon.com/Speculative-Wh…

Please do come along for this discussion of my new book Extreme Britain & the role gender plays in extremism. I'm joined by a fantastic group of colleagues - David Duriesmith Lizzie Dearden Rashad Ali & Akil N Awan Russell Square, 1 May!

Very proud of my dad. It's a fascinating doc, well deserved!

Looking forward to chairing next week's panel on Technologies and Immersion in Wargaming. Come along -- it's free!

'In situations like those described in Gaza....it is very difficult to see how military personnel, assisted by these AI-DSS, are presently complying with their legal obligations, or whether under these circumstances legal compliance is possible at all'.

Can robotics play a meaningful role in supporting Climate Action? Hear what 60+ speakers have to say at the upcoming Climate Robotics Summit (Online, May 2-3).

climaterobotics.network/summit

There is still time to register for 'Navigating Catastrophic Times' a DoingIPS TheoryLAB and Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences joint workshop on 19 April 2024 School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary. Join us to contemplate the posthuman, catastrophe and finitude. Details and registration link below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/doing-ips-sp…

It's funny how almost every climate change solution proposed by the west hinges on the exploitation of African land and labour. Nyaruai's wonderful reporting into Eni's biofuels experiment in Kenya is just the latest example.

In search of the perfect blue dye, Bengali farmers were forced to cultivate indigo, leading to the Indigo Revolt of 1860.
Our new, gripping drama The Indigo Giant, by Ben Musgrave, opens at the Redbridge Drama Centre and tours the UK. For more information & booking
komola.co.uk/indigogiant

Join me next week for the London launch of my book 🥳 Tuesday 6 February at 6:30 Global Politics Unbound Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Next term my students will be developing scenarios for a possible future civil war in the US. I'll be sharing this as an example of what a FAIL would look like. Thanks A24!

Please donate to support Dr Kiguru’s legal fees so that she can be reunited with her family in Bristol. This is an important moment for community care and mobilisation! Please share the link below 👇🏾

King's College London alumnus Dr Maisara Alrayyes was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his house in Gaza. If you are a member of the communities of King's College London and/or the Chevening Programme, please sign this petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

University - we academics work, survive, fight & thrive in it. This should make any academic shudder. Epistemicide accompanies colonisation. Below does not solely read as an instance of symbolic destruction of knowledge; it is both symbolic and material murder of knowledge.

IHL is not just some kind of checklist, it's a whole ethos, the desire to minimise human suffering in war. THAT is the ultimate yardstick, not some delusion that offing a couple militants is so existentially important that you can blow up ambulances, hospitals, refugee camps...

'The world just screams and falls apart'
I can't get this line out of my head
(from '1945' by NMH)

The French admired Toussaint Louverture so much that they kidnapped him, left him to die in a cold mountain cell in the Jura, and threw his body in a mass grave, which was later destroyed. Claiming his legacy, putting him in the Pantheon, this is just coloniser gaslighting.