Federico PF
@feperfer.bsky.social
antropología/anthropology, estudios urbanos/urban studies, Bogotá/Portland. He/him/él.
Book (almost here): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784774/urbanism-as-warfare/#bookTabs=1
Book (almost here): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784774/urbanism-as-warfare/#bookTabs=1
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Urbanism as Warfare | Cornell University Press
<b><i>Urbanism as Warfare</i> explores connections between regimes of (in)security and projects of urban modernity, bureaucratic control, and propertied citizenship in downtown Bogotá.</b> Federico Pé...
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My forthcoming book "Urbanism as Warfare" is open access for a month.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Back to the Future: Operation Cóndor, the Evolving Architecture of U.S Terror in Latin America, 50 Years Later
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Back to the Future: Operation Cóndor, the Evolving Architecture of U.S Terror in Latin America, 50 Years Later
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nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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So it’s worse than we thought
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So it’s worse than we thought
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
Metameme
They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Metameme
My forthcoming book "Urbanism as Warfare" is open access for a month.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
Urbanism as Warfare | Cornell University Press
<b><i>Urbanism as Warfare</i> explores connections between regimes of (in)security and projects of urban modernity, bureaucratic control, and propertied citizenship in downtown Bogotá.</b> Federico Pé...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
My forthcoming book "Urbanism as Warfare" is open access for a month.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/urb...
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Not suprised, but still can't get over the perversity of the linguistic choices here: classic NYT passive voice for the headline to excuse the victimizer and then very active voice to blame the victim (with the crime apparently being the 'upending of a political career')
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not suprised, but still can't get over the perversity of the linguistic choices here: classic NYT passive voice for the headline to excuse the victimizer and then very active voice to blame the victim (with the crime apparently being the 'upending of a political career')
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Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Portland’s Mayor, much of City Council, and many Portlanders spent recent days aligning themselves directly with Trump’s policies towards our precariously housed and homeless neighbors, while rabidly promoting a local extension of it.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
It’s been utterly disgraceful and profoundly disappointing.
don't know if it's just me, but the 'vacation' in the email address looks pretty sinister
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
don't know if it's just me, but the 'vacation' in the email address looks pretty sinister
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PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
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Today's must-read by @thomasbirm.bsky.social: a major corporate landlord is fueling homelessness across the U.S. *and* the mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.
The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.
The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today's must-read by @thomasbirm.bsky.social: a major corporate landlord is fueling homelessness across the U.S. *and* the mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.
The Israeli company owns tens of thousands of apartments in the South, filing evictions at nine times the national average.
please help Olfat and/or share.
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
please help Olfat and/or share.
Is it surrendering or colluding?
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Is it surrendering or colluding?
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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17 hours left ‼️ Please share! I can’t really type these yall but you know the drill.
EMERGENCY healthcare for three women + food, shelter, tarps, winter blankets for six families and a displacement camp—around 100 people.
Last check 23/2901
EMERGENCY healthcare for three women + food, shelter, tarps, winter blankets for six families and a displacement camp—around 100 people.
Last check 23/2901
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
17 hours left ‼️ Please share! I can’t really type these yall but you know the drill.
EMERGENCY healthcare for three women + food, shelter, tarps, winter blankets for six families and a displacement camp—around 100 people.
Last check 23/2901
EMERGENCY healthcare for three women + food, shelter, tarps, winter blankets for six families and a displacement camp—around 100 people.
Last check 23/2901
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.
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attention Portland
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
attention Portland