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Aisha Kadiri

@aplkadiri.bsky.social
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Philosopher at ETH Zurich - digital colonialism, Fanon, alienation, algorithms, and subjectivity aishakadiri.org

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our special issue on Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling is out. What started in Berlin in 2022 as a collaboration between me and Tom Turnbull grew into a larger project running over several years, featuring three workshops in Berlin, Stockholm and Venice tinyurl.com/3uudrmw9 #envhist
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The Anthropocene Review - Volume 13, Number 2
Table of contents for The Anthropocene Review, 13, 2
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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"Bislang durften Polizeien Kamerabilder nur rückwirkend mit Fahndungslisten abgleichen. Nun soll das in Echtzeit möglich sein – der Albtraum aller Bürgerrechtler*innen, denn dabei werden alle erfasst, die sich dort aufhalten."
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Made me curious about film screenings, which continue to happen in Gaza.
Children watch a film during an outdoor screening in Gaza City [Screengrab/ Al Jazeera]Palestinian families watch a large projector screen at a beachfront cafe during a rare cinema event, in Gaza City August 11. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemThe Gaza Children’s Film Festival begins its screenings and will continue for a month across the campsChildren watch a film during an outdoor screening in Gaza City [Screengrab/ Al Jazeera]
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A tremendous loss. Muzan was a dedicated writer and activist of the Sudanese Revolution. Her writings and talks are invaluable portals of radical, liberatory, and transformative political thought. Here is a thread of some them:
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I cannot keep track with how many notifications I'm getting from all over Beirut and south Lebanon right now of the places that Israel is obliterating. There are multiple reports of multiple massacres in the past hour alone.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 07/04/2026
Liberals love this idea that they can just sit back and not be part of the socialist movement and one will just magically appear
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Seriously where are the revolutionaries? Are they at brunch?
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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Palestinians across the occupied West Bank observed a general strike on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law allowing the execution of prisoners, as international condemnation mounted." www.middleeasteye.net/news/general...
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Palestinians in West Bank strike after Israel passes death penalty law
Families of detainees vow to resist, while human rights groups and multiple countries denounce the law
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Some thoughts on bitterness and the lived experience of time in fascist times. + the wonderful work of Jennifer Packer
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Das Feuilleton wärmt sich schon mal auf für den «Vibe Shift», vulgo Faschisierung, nach Mariam Lau in der ZEIT entdeckt nun auch Springers WELD die literarische Produktion aus dem völkischen Jungeuropa-Verlag. Wann Buchpreis?
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 27/03/2026
I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Valeria Hänsel @valeriahaensel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Die #Brandmauer ist passé: Rechtsradikale und Konservative haben sich durchgesetzt und die Mehrheit errungen. Der Aufbau eines EU-weiten gemeinsamen Abschiebe-/ Haftregimes ist ins Rollen geraten. Der Weg in den #Autoritarismus ist gepflastert mit rassistischer #Migrationspolitik - alle schauen zu.
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EU verschärft Asylpolitik: Brüssel stimmt für Abschiebezentren in Drittstaaten
Das Europäische Parlament stimmt für eine Verschärfung der Asylpolitik. Unterstützt wurde das Gesetzesprojekt auch von rechten Parteien wie der AfD.
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/03/2026
Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...
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Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...
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AI Before the Ruins | KTH
This seminar with Anne Pasek will ask us to consider that when we look at the expansion of the AI industry what we may be witnessing are future ruins. Anne is Associate Professor in the Department of ...
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇
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Bantership Potemkin @bonesdrawstuff.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/03/2026
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
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Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 04/03/2026
"The Pentagon began to integrate Anthropic’s Claude chatbot into [Palantir] Maven in late 2024... The system has been used to generate proposed targets, to track logistics and provide summaries of intelligence coming in from the field." The result? www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’
Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This includes the the entire city of Sour (Tyre), one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with a population of ~135,200 people
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🇰🇮 🇸🇲 🇱🇨 @tgrdebate.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
„Auf Anfrage teilt ein Sprecher des Staatsministers mit, dass man sich entschieden habe, die drei Buchhandlungen nicht auszuzeichnen, weil man über ,verfassungsschutzrelevante Erkenntnisse’ verfüge.“
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.
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Vanessa E. Thompson @vethompson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@danielloick.bsky.social and I wrote a thing: "Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond", for a SI in New German Critique. @robin-c.bsky.social and H. Kundnani also contributed some really good pieces, among others! read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
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Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond
Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate ...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
German Memory Politics at a Crossroads Very happy to be part of this new special issue I wrote my article “Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany” last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
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Volume 53 Issue 1 (157) | New German Critique | Duke University Press
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And now we officially have a cover dukeupress.edu/the-business...
Sugarcane workers working in a field of tangled sugarcane stalks.

In green font, it says The Business of Racism

In smaller black font it says Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
re: Kansas today, but everything generally—I don’t repeat what’s become a talking point about the number of trans people being so small to be so targeted. The number of people harmed is not a fight I want to have when that number could be one and the harm would still be wrong.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
En ce moment à Nice, rassemblement de fascistes. J'ai passé la journée à prévenir mes ami.e.s racisé.e.s et LGBTQIA+ de ne pas sortir. Une amie a été menacée par 6 hommes. On se rend compte de la dinguerie ? ?? ?
Rassemblement de fascistes à NiceFascistes avec des torches
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
All of this thread
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
No es fácil. #Photography Raúl Cañibano, Cuba.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"We're talking about solidarity with students and workers
and you're talking tracking shots and close-ups! You're idiots!"

- Jean Luc Godard during the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...
Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on AutostraddleHot for Revolution
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Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. 

Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination
Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Jack Lew is teaching at Columbia, Samantha Power is teaching at Harvard, Sonali Korde is teaching at Rice, Jake Sullivan is teaching at Harvard...
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
It is totally fine for people who have been harmed to hear an apology and refuse to accept it. To acknowledge it and never trust the person saying it. To expect more than words. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable because the real world does not function like a sitcom.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
This is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words
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Patrick Breitenbach @patrickbreitenbach.de · 26/01/2026
Roadmap Palantir Einführung in Deutschland: Hessen, 2018 (CDU/Grüne) NRW, 2022 (CDU/Grüne) Bayern 2024 (CSU/FW) Baden-Württemberg 2026 (CDU/Grüne) Dobrindt fordert 2025 die Einführung auf Bundesebene. PS: AfD Bayern fordert dazu noch ein deutsches ICE.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/01/2026
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/01/2026
“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
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Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
this became very clear to me in the interview I did for this piece. Nat Raymond, who designed satellite observation to predict atrocities, concluded "“documentation is no substitute for political will.”" The satellite system predicted accurately; the international community failed to act on it.
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Satellite Surveillance Can Trace Atrocities but Not Stop Them
George Clooney’s pioneering data project documented horrors in Sudan, but that wasn’t enough.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Palestine Action hunger strikers are up to day 70 of their hunger strike. This is the largest coordinated hunger strike in British prisons since 1981, and the govt seems content to let them die (again). Raise your voices. Do whatever is in your power. impactpolicies.org/news/746/uk-...
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UK Hunger Strikers Expose Cruelty in Palestine Action Terror Label
UK Palestine Action hunger strikers face 70-day ordeal, exposing human rights cruelty in terror policy. Urgent appeals demand justice amid crises.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Having killed hundreds of aid workers, Israel is now completely banning 37 aid orgs from entering Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, Oxfam, Caritas, and World Vision. This is an obvious war crime and thousands will die. Any comment from our government?
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'Simply unprecedented': Israel banning dozens of charities from Gaza
The Israeli government says the organisations have not met new requirements, which include recognising Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and banning any so-called "de-legitimisation" of Israel.
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Akram Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is my family, and this is me. I’m trying to provide everything for them, but I can’t do it alone… I need your help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart ♥️ chuffed.org/project/help...
A photo for me and for my family; My name is Akram. I’m from Gaza. I’m not a father, but since my father passed away, I carry the weight of one. There are six of us.
 
Before October 7, we were studying and dreaming.
 Today, our home is gone — and every dream is on hold.

Sarah’s lupus is getting worse.
Solaf’s dream of becoming a dentist is slipping away because we can’t afford it.
Areej paused her engineering studies to support her sister.
Mohammed lost his school term after getting hepatitis.
 And Sanaa, after losing her daughter, is still our second mother.

We’re no longer dreaming. We’re just trying to eat, find shelter, and afford medicine.

Any help — even $5 — could keep a family from breaking.
Thank you for seeing us
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