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Ash Sharma

@ashdisorient.bsky.social
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autodidact : teacher : cultural studies : global film: black marxism : cognitive mapping: inter-asia : contemporary art : darkmatter journal : open access : dis-orienting rhythms : undercommons : poet : affirmative sabotage substack.com/@ashwanisharma1

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
In-depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/06/b...
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Black Theory in Britain
In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Blac…
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Sign the Petition
Defend Rajiv Menon's right to independent advocacy
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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DARK ENERGY ft BANTU, XUANNI, SANSAN, DHANGSHA
“Dark Energy” presents a night of bass music colliding with electronic noise, with four protagonist...
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Two Way Dreaming presents Small Talk Screening
Two Way Dreaming presents Small Talk Screening – An inferno of pleasure and madness: postcolonial cinema in 1980s London.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A new special issue of open access journal darkmatter darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org/envisioningp...
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Issue-18: Envisioning Planetary Futures through the Arts and Creative Media · darkmatter hub
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...
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Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Mark Serwotka isn’t ONLY a transphobe, he’s literally married to the founder of Woman’s Place UK “Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London. Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Tragic Utopias
1970s Revolutionary Struggles, Third Cinema, Memories of Bandung
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Gaza has sealed the fate of the West, even if the repercussions are not felt for decades. The damage has been done. There is no way to undo what has been witnessed by billions of people, both in the West and in the Global South.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Bandung at 70
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025
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Ekō @eko.org · 11/08/2025
No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
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URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif. We are w
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza www.bmj.com/content/390/... The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"Western powers are not only colluding in genocide, but ... language has been twisted beyond recognition: mercenaries slaughtering the starving call themselves the ​'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation'; wars of aggression become ​'self defense.'"
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
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Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Now that U.S. officials have wrapped up their visit to Potemkin aid distribution sites in Gaza, the IDF can resume the regularly scheduled shooting of desperate people seeking food.
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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
You might be interested in Stuart Hall comparing the active urban risk-based play of Sesame Street quite favourably to its much more paternalistic, domestic and racialised middle-class British equivalents for the Open University. youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
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1982 Open University Programme About Children's Television
YouTube video by grodvin
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/06/2025
"We’ve had authorities in Bangladesh telling us we shouldn’t even be editing footage of garment workers and activists advocating for their rights, and we’ve been followed by the police in Cambodia, but we have never encountered anything like this" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti-terror laws
Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest group
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover
Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... Today!
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Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen
On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Latest Tricontinental Dossier, The Bandung Spirit In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left? thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
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The Bandung Spirit
In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of ...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread,meat,shoes,coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything" I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 08/05/2025
Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations? www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
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How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century? | Common Dreams
To celebrate the spirit of Bandung is not simply to mark 70 years since the Asia-Africa Conference, but to affirm what being faithful to its principles and ideals means today.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Redirecting...
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
So this looks good: a Bandung conference at LSE. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Noer Rachman, Hilmar Farid, Su Lin Lewis, John Munro, Jesook Song, Priyamvada Gopal, Ashwani Sharma ('independent scholar' -- way to go), Ling Zhang, Zhiguang Yin. #Bandung
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.
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International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
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“Pools of Blood”: Israel Kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Incl. Attack on Restaurant and Marketplace
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Pale...
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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex." Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...
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Illegally Female
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Whither the University
After the love has gone
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Third Cinemas
On Ritwik Ghatak and Payal Kapadia
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Screening Resistance
Exploring the changing media in challenging racism and fascism.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/03/2025
(and lots of online attendance left too of course!)
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/03/2025
We still have some places left for in-person attendance. Read more and register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-op... (please note the separate registration for each day!)
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Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism
The third installment of the Radical Open Access Conference focuses on the relationship between openness and activism.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/03/2025
Full schedule now available for the Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference on 10 and 11 April 2025 (online and Cambridge University Library): radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/...
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Schedule – Radical Open Access Collective
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Whither the University
After the love has gone
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Forget Decolonising the University, Abolish It
Affirmative sabotage as critical intimacy
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Call for papers: Historical Materialism Conference East and Southeast Asia, 'The Asian Capitalist Conjuncture: Contradictions and Critiques'. Taking place at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, between 23–24 July 2025. Please circulate to colleagues and comrades widely!
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Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025 - Historical Materialism
Since the mid-2010s, East and Southeast Asia have witnessed an unending chain of uneven uprisings against interlocking oppressive processes of racial capitalist accumulation. This new conjuncture has ...
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The Masterplan has just one aim, to make money for Westfield insidecroydon.com/2025/03/09/t... #Croydon #Westfield
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The Masterplan has just one aim, to make money for Westfield
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Town Hall planners handing over Masterplan responsibilities for the town centre to Westfield, as Inside Croydon reported this week, has left reader CARL LUCAS angry that our…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Here's the news in 1925: policing, airport expansion and sport insidecroydon.com/2025/03/02/h... #Croydon #History @davidmorgan100.bsky.social
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Here’s the news in 1925: policing, airport expansion and sport
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: For all the modernisation of our lives in the 21st Century, a flick through the pages of a local newspaper from 100 years ago shows that there were key similarities, as DAVID MOR…
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
thyblackman.com/2025/03/01/1...
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10 Essential Angie Stone Songs That Define Her Legacy – A Soulful Tribute.
As we keep her family, friends, and loved ones in our prayers, let’s also keep her music alive by sharing it with the next generation. Rest in power, Angie Stone—your voice and spirit will forever rem...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/03/2025
Looking for some weekend reading? Take a peek at our new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more www.historyworkshop....
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The New Left
In this new and free-access Virtual Special Issue, Andrew Whitehead brings together almost 50 years of writing and reflection on the New Left
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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon López (Tao Forms 2025) taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/revision
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Revision, by Fred Moten & Brandon López
11 track album
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Ash Sharma @ashdisorient.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Retotalising Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction to its History - Historical Materialism
I’ve divided this presentation into four distinct parts.[1] A shorthand description of these might be Conventional narratives of capitalist origins Commercial capitalism as a better alternative Modern...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2025
Souleymane Cissé, an award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday. He was 84.
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Souleymane Cissé, Celebrated Malian Filmmaker, Dies at 84
He won multiple awards during his 50-year career, including the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and spent his life championing African cinema.
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Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024) endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...
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Azad Ashim Sharma @azad-ashim.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social
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Cafe OTO → Karenjit Sandhu + Harmony Holiday + Emma Gomis, Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm
Welcome to the first MUSHAIRA of 2025! Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry, performance, and music, curated by the87press. This February, we’re celebrating three exciting titles coming up l...
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