“For the first time in our lives as Palestinians,” Bisan says in the same video, “we hear a voice louder than the sound of their bombs.”

A beautifully written article about how the encampments remodel the world to one we want to be a part of. One of love, hope, and justice.

NEW in Protean Magazine: Abdelrahman ElGendy on The Encampment
'In the warmth of a shared blanket on a cold sidewalk at night in Egypt’s 2011 Tahrir Square, a Tora prison cell, or a University of Pittsburgh lawn; The Encampment offers a radical reimagining of society'
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'The Encampment offers a radical reimagining of society, not merely protesting the world as it is, but actively constructing it as it should be....The Encampment poses an ultimate threat to the perceived indispensability of status quo structures.'

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My latest for Protean Magazine

On the US student intifada for Palestine, and The Encampment as a microcosm of a radical reimagining of the status quo.

Abdelrahman ElGendy (Abdelrahman ElGendy) writes about The Encampment—from Egypt's Tahrir Square to US universities—as sites of radical love, promoting revolutionary ways of seeing and being which threaten the rotten order standing against justice for Palestine.

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A point I wanted to highlight in my interview: When I think about the suburbs, ofc I'm thinking about Houston

This is the most consummate piece I’ve read about the student protests. No single quote to pull. The whole thing is crucial.

'[A] militant conception of justice as struggle runs counter to another idea of justice, latent in Human Rights Discourse, that understands political questions to be mostly settled and militant resistance and revolution to be categorically off the table.'

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“the repression of student protest has become a nationally recognized measure of institutional prestige”—Andy Hines proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/dis…

'Once the debris of Palestinian homes / is cleared, the settlers will install an ark / in a landscaped garden.'

– Lena Tuffaha

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The criminalization of dissent reflects a wider trend of university administrations prioritizing finance over student rights. The expanded definition of antisemitism has become a tool for justifying the repression of student politics, completing the picture.

ICYMI I wrote about the status-competition in the spectacular and mundane forms of administrative backlash in American higher education and how they connect to a conservative-coded demand for neutrality and free speech. Protean Magazine

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“Lines of police with zip ties turn out to be the force lurking behind the commitment of university administrations to free speech and security on their campuses.” — andy hines on the escalating history of university discipline—debt, enclosure, arrest. proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/dis…

“A claim to martyrdom rejects the meaninglessness of death, insisting that an individual death is part of a collective movement towards liberation. Mourning can only take place after liberation […]” proteanmag.com/2024/01/27/pal…

Brilliant by andy hines on how universities’ repression of students is central to the logics of reputation management and capital accumulation underpinning them.

And indispensable for understanding the pernicious operations of “institutional neutrality” 🔥 proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/dis…

'[A] militant conception of justice as struggle runs counter to another idea of justice, latent in Human Rights Discourse, that understands political questions to be mostly settled and militant resistance and revolution to be categorically off the table.'

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extraordinary piece by andy hines outlining how Vanderbilt's 'principled neutrality' is more a culmination of repressive corporatization than some sort of reasonable middle ground—and as such a playbook for what many other uni admins are doing now

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Adam Tooze Samuel Moyn 🔭 This is why Alberto Toscano's analysis is so useful. Fascism isn't the totalitarian violence of the state, but the violence of 'petty sovereignty' which often starts at the local rather than national level.

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Another great article on #WarTaxResistance
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Extremely good list—and I’m honored that my piece in n+1 with dylan saba is on there right next to bassem 𓂆’s excellent piece for Protean Magazine