Today on Edge Effects podcast, Elijah S. Levine speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a Black placemaking practice, which can shape our imagination of a world without police. Listen/read more: edgeeffects.net/celeste-winsto…

deadline is friday!

some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! politicalecology.org/session14

Americans are amazing. They think freedoms are dependent on the goodwill of rulers but still believe it's a democracy. Their elections keep getting stolen and they think they'll fix it by voting. And their famed system is now giving a choice between a genocidaire and a fascist.

The struggle playing out in Atlanta is a fight for the future. If the state is successful in its prosectuion, then this will set a terrifying precedent going forward. No act of protest is protected, and no one is safe.

10/26 - 4pm ET

Fanonian psychoanalysis, settler colonialism, and Palestinian Resistance with Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi
youtube.com/watch?v=duZfw-…

Another thoughtful and piercing essay against the assault on Gaza in The Drift, this one by Nancy Ko—a must-read and must-circulate, on how we got here, and who gets to resist

thedriftmag.com/turning-the-ta…

For n+1, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Temptations. Playback.

what’s something i should do w a few days in seattle around uw?

I don't disagree with the sentiment here, but again, the Sphere is not some new postmodern commodified nightmare: the entire prehistory of the cinema in the 19th century was full of this kind of thing, from postcards to moving panoramas to Hale's Tours

“The original idea of In the Mood for Love is called The Three Stories About Food. So it’s about eating” - wong kar-wai

I was very happy to commission this essay from Nicholas Russell because it's the first time I've seen someone hammer home how the dehumanizing effect of social media is part and parcel, *and even a tool necessary for* the dehumanization required by capitalism
mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-npc-ific…