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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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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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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Looks interesting!
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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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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I also only realized that one is an excerpt of the other when I started watching the longer version :)
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is the full doc: youtu.be/soIUEkICiVU?...
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ANTIFA"Chasseurs de Skins"/RF/OfficialHD/ English Subs
YouTube video by RESISTANCE FILMS
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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
The article is part of a special issue on the “Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling” edited by @adamwickberg.bsky.social from @anthropocenekth.bsky.social and Tom Turnbull from @mpiwg.bsky.social 13/13
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
One underlying question is what happens when we embrace modelling’s political nature. 12/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It then becomes necessary to sustain a focus on modelling the Plantationocene’s inside—through the concept of data friction and communal counter-mapping—while also extending the gaze outside the plantation boundaries through forms of contestation and speculative thought. 11/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The reflections on what it means to grasp the Plantationocene as an epistemological object invite us to think more generally about what modelling does. 10/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The violent scalability inherent in plantations cannot easily be represented in a model fuelled by quantitative data. Such data is always an imperfect abstraction. Many aspects of human and non-human life remain beyond its grasp. 9/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My analysis reveals a more fundamental problem of scalability and how the origins of the Plantationocene mean taking seriously the colonial history of data collection and measurements as well as current data practices of extraction and dispossession. 8/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
ESMs are resources for political decision-making, but their storytelling capacity is limited. The Plantationocene offers a means of destabilisation to put forward the notion that the Anthropocene limits what stories about planetary change can be told in the first place. 7/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I argue that earth system models (ESMs) can be understood as stories, in which each model defines the background, careful decisions are made in terms of who the characters of the story are, the variables of storylines are chosen, and potential story arcs are outlined. 6/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Plantationocene is at once a metaphor, conceptual approach, and empirical category. But what should we do with need to document the Plantationocene’s planetary impact and the inability of models to fully grasp and articulate its violent ramifications? 5/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The term emphasises the transformative capacities and moral culpability of those humans who engaged in land dispossession, deforestation, the extensive cultivation of crop monocultures, and the subjugation and displacement of enslaved people. 4/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Plantationocene takes the historical and environmental impacts of the plantation system as its analytical departure point. 3/
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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If you don’t have access, feel free to let me know so I can send you a pdf. Alternatively, you can find the pre-print here: philpapers.org/rec/KADCTP More details on my argument below 2/
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Aisha Paulina Kadiri, Counter-modelling the Plantationocene - PhilPapers
This article takes the Plantationocene concept as a departure point to question Earth System Models (ESMs). The term emphasises the formative role of plantation ecologies and colonialism as drivers of...
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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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