Rida Fatima
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For all its problems, I think Graeber was really onto something in /Bullshit Jobs/ when he suggested that politics would come to be increasingly defined by the resentments of the unproductive segments of the economy towards the productive ones...
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
For all its problems, I think Graeber was really onto something in /Bullshit Jobs/ when he suggested that politics would come to be increasingly defined by the resentments of the unproductive segments of the economy towards the productive ones...
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Easter in the genocide. Again.
April 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Easter in the genocide. Again.
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just received: ammar azzouz's _domicide: architecture, war, and the destruction of home in syria_ www.bloomsbury.com/ca/domicide-... to be read alongside ayham dalal's _from shelters to dwellings_ and the edited MIT collection _design to live_
Domicide
The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has…
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February 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
just received: ammar azzouz's _domicide: architecture, war, and the destruction of home in syria_ www.bloomsbury.com/ca/domicide-... to be read alongside ayham dalal's _from shelters to dwellings_ and the edited MIT collection _design to live_
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cixous on how clarice lispector demands a form of life to read her form of language:
"To know how to read a book is a way of life. One reads while eating bread and butter, while walking, while opening and closing with the book the whole space of a lifetime."
"To know how to read a book is a way of life. One reads while eating bread and butter, while walking, while opening and closing with the book the whole space of a lifetime."
January 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
cixous on how clarice lispector demands a form of life to read her form of language:
"To know how to read a book is a way of life. One reads while eating bread and butter, while walking, while opening and closing with the book the whole space of a lifetime."
"To know how to read a book is a way of life. One reads while eating bread and butter, while walking, while opening and closing with the book the whole space of a lifetime."
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"Placenta-Book", translation by Tobias Ryan,
an article on "Agua Viva" by Clarice Lispector,
in AGNI
agnionline.bu.edu/review/place...
an article on "Agua Viva" by Clarice Lispector,
in AGNI
agnionline.bu.edu/review/place...
Placenta-Book: On Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.
agnionline.bu.edu
January 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Placenta-Book", translation by Tobias Ryan,
an article on "Agua Viva" by Clarice Lispector,
in AGNI
agnionline.bu.edu/review/place...
an article on "Agua Viva" by Clarice Lispector,
in AGNI
agnionline.bu.edu/review/place...
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Read this extraordinary conversation between Huda Fakhreddine and Yasmeen Hanoosh: themarkaz.org/huda-fakhred...
Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza
A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.
themarkaz.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Read this extraordinary conversation between Huda Fakhreddine and Yasmeen Hanoosh: themarkaz.org/huda-fakhred...
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‘Each of Polanyi’s sweeping claims tends to make modern historians’ hackles rise, the interpretation of the industrial revolution in particular.’
Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stefan Collini · The future was social: Karl Polanyi’s Predictions
The Great Transformation was an exceptionally bold effort to make sense of contemporary developments on an international...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
‘Each of Polanyi’s sweeping claims tends to make modern historians’ hackles rise, the interpretation of the industrial revolution in particular.’
Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stefan Collini on Karl Polanyi’s ‘The Great Transformation’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘The fact that Trump is absurd is part of his mastery; the fact that he knows he is – knows what his absurdity is for – another.’
T.J. Clark on Trump in the society of the spectacle:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump in the society of the spectacle:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.)...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
‘The fact that Trump is absurd is part of his mastery; the fact that he knows he is – knows what his absurdity is for – another.’
T.J. Clark on Trump in the society of the spectacle:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump in the society of the spectacle:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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released this week and already out of stock
On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
released this week and already out of stock
On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
January 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
Femboys in the Factory | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Because irony is dead, Sisi has revealed on his new palace walls, a verse from the Quran quoting Pharaoh: "O my people, is not the kingdom of Egypt mine, and these rivers flowing beneath me?"
Not sure if Sisi missed the memo, but Pharaoh's end wasn't so fabulous.
Not sure if Sisi missed the memo, but Pharaoh's end wasn't so fabulous.
December 26, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Because irony is dead, Sisi has revealed on his new palace walls, a verse from the Quran quoting Pharaoh: "O my people, is not the kingdom of Egypt mine, and these rivers flowing beneath me?"
Not sure if Sisi missed the memo, but Pharaoh's end wasn't so fabulous.
Not sure if Sisi missed the memo, but Pharaoh's end wasn't so fabulous.
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gil anidjar - the death of the people journal.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/fid/article/...
The Death of the People
| Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
journal.ifdt.bg.ac.rs
January 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
gil anidjar - the death of the people journal.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/fid/article/...
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The Remains of Reason: On Meaning after Lacan
Dominik Finkelde
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014809...
Dominik Finkelde
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014809...
The Remains of Reason - Northwestern University Press
Unpacking the central role of the unconscious in the relationship between mind and world Over a series of careful readings and accessible discussions, prefac...
nupress.northwestern.edu
January 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Remains of Reason: On Meaning after Lacan
Dominik Finkelde
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014809...
Dominik Finkelde
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014809...
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journal.fi/temenos/issu... special issue of temenos on the burning of the qur'an
Vol. 60 No. 1 (2024): Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion
journal.fi
December 20, 2024 at 2:09 PM
journal.fi/temenos/issu... special issue of temenos on the burning of the qur'an
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forever has fallen
كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُۥ ۚ
everything perishes except the face of god. is that a revolutionary slogan? yes and no; but in assad's syria, it delivers you to a charnel-house
كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُۥ ۚ
everything perishes except the face of god. is that a revolutionary slogan? yes and no; but in assad's syria, it delivers you to a charnel-house
December 11, 2024 at 9:44 PM
forever has fallen
كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُۥ ۚ
everything perishes except the face of god. is that a revolutionary slogan? yes and no; but in assad's syria, it delivers you to a charnel-house
كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُۥ ۚ
everything perishes except the face of god. is that a revolutionary slogan? yes and no; but in assad's syria, it delivers you to a charnel-house
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The man who smuggled the infamous Caesar photos of people murdered by the regime to the wider world. He says even his children didn’t know it was him, but now that Assad has fallen he can speak freely
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8c...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8c...
December 12, 2024 at 8:32 PM
The man who smuggled the infamous Caesar photos of people murdered by the regime to the wider world. He says even his children didn’t know it was him, but now that Assad has fallen he can speak freely
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8c...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDfTN8c...