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Carolyn Prouse

@carolynprouse.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Geography and Planning, Queen's University. Anti-colonial urbanist and economic geographer. Lover of food, fiction, wine, and sport. biosecuritiesgeog.ca | geels.ca | carolynprouse.com | qcaa.ca

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This looks like an amazing resource. Digitized versions of 950 of Hall's index cards! And many other treasures.
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Stuart Hall Archiving Project
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...
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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary
YouTube video by PBS Documentaries
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Canada’s public colleges and universities are among the country’s most important economic and social drivers...Yet despite their importance, public funding for post-secondary education has failed to keep pace." More in @policyalternatives.ca's Alternative federal budget: buff.ly/va3A9Ae
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Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Post-secondary education | CCPA
A budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone re/reading Brontë's "Jane Eyre", I HIGHLY RECOMMEND also reading "Salvage: Readings from the Wreck" by Dionne Brand. #Lit The 3rd chapter takes a critical look at it in relation to Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea". "It is, above all, a novel about submission. Confinement and submission."
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How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/09/2026
More than a dozen talks from @socialismconference.org are now available to stream for free!
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Socialism 2026
Live-streamed recordings from the 2026 Socialism Conference in Chicago.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026
Privatizing airports is a terrible deal for travellers, workers, and the public purse. Around the world, it has led to higher travel costs, fewer jobs and worse working conditions.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney. Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit. Please pay attention.
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Carolyn Prouse @carolynprouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hats off to the partners of academics who are woken early to a cup of coffee and onslaught of potential project titles to workshop. The real heroes of grant-writing season! ☕️ ✍️ 🙏
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains how doomers and their "machine-god narrative" are feeding the hype machine and distracting us from the real harms of AI: www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 10/09/2026
Mark Carney says his glitzy investment summit will attract major capital to Canada. But as Nikolas Barry-Shaw & Martin Lukacs write, what Carney may be putting on the table is Canada itself—and a fire-sale of the country’s essential public infrastructure. breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The Breach
Bay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it
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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Starting in a week. Readings: Nicole Loraux, Freud, Clausewitz, Etienne Balibar, Lenin, C.L.R. James, Simone Weil, Deleuze & Guattari, Alliez & Lazzarato. Registration closing soon. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Philosophy and War - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
War is often associated with irrationality: terms like “the fog of war” and “the heat of battle” gesture at the overcoming of reasoned deliberation by rash, emotionally-charged, and libidinal forces. ...
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 08/09/2026
Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears.
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Ashwini Vasanthakumar @ashwinivasantha.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Carney and the Broligarchs - it's worse than you think. Incredibly important and worrying three-parter from @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/Series/2026/...
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The PM and the Broligarchs | The Tyee
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is such bullshit. Canada gets away with its own evils because the US demands so much attention, but it does the same things as the US while covering it with a veneer of niceness.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/06/2026
Canada is replicating the mistakes of other countries in going all in on AI without thinking clearly about the harms that could be unleashed on society in the process. It was great to chat with @hadrianmk.bsky.social to learn more about Mark Carney’s AI strategy and the many problems it presents.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/05/2026
Carney’s rhetoric not matching his government’s action once again. Germany just rejected Palantir in favour of a French company. London’s mayor blocked its police from contracting with Palantir. But Canada is still signing new deals with a company actively saying it exists to defend American power.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Mass surveillance Bill C-22 is one of the most significant laws being pushed atm, but it is getting little attention. The Bill lays groundwork for giving US warrantless access to data, compels technology providers to build surveillance tools into their systems, and strips privacy protections.
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Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him | The Walrus
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
How much do you know about the history of fascism in Canada? In my latest for Canada's History Magazine, I detail the history of fascist movements, what fed them and how they were sidelined. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/poli...
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/04/2026
Palestinian & Iranian officials were barred from entering Canada for a kick-off meeting to the FIFA World Cup. Canada must choose: Will we be a global host, or a U.S. vassal state? By @derekcrim.bsky.social, @carolynprouse.bsky.social, @nkalamb.bsky.social, @dansailofsky.bsky.social, & El Jones
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Canada’s FIFA exclusion of Palestinians and Iranians reveals a lethal double standard ⋆ The Breach
Canada says it’s inviting the world for the FIFA World Cup—but it’s acting more like a lapdog of the U.S. by shutting its borders to Palestinians and Iranians
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you’re in Kingston (Ontario) and want to see Ghost in the Machine, a critical takedown of AI because of its origins in eugenics (etc), please get your tickets here: www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/ghost-... @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social
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Ghost in the Machine
What if the real story of artificial intelligence is not about dazzling new machines, but about the old systems of power and exploitation that shaped them? In director Valerie Veatch’s provocative doc...
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
As data and compute power become spatially fixed as expensive and integral infrastructure, it won't be surprising when the dynamics of violently securing its logistics emerge in ways geographers have documented in sectors like fossil fuel extraction and shipping. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘It means missile defence on data centres’: drone strikes raises doubts over Gulf as AI superpower
Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026
I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:
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Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club
The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
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Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco
The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Of the $6.4B announced for Ontario PSE yesterday, 45% or so was just taking $ out of SFA and handing it to institutions. Another chunk of $, maybe as high as $3B (unclear) involved taking $ announced in '24 and '25 & putting it into the base out to 2029-30 Actual new $ over 2025-26 base? $0-2B.
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Carolyn Prouse @carolynprouse.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have feelings about the new Canada Impact+ Chair program (Spoiler: it’s 💩) Read the latest from Queen’s Coalition Against Austerity (QCAA): ‘Deep Impact+: New Canada Chairs Program Steers Queen’s Towards High Tech, Military, and Undemocratic Futures’ qcaa.ca/2026/02/11/d...
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Deep Impact+: New Canada Chairs Program Steers Queen’s Towards High-Tech, Military, and Undemocratic Futures
Over the last several weeks, faculty, staff, and students have been asked to rearrange schedules at the last minute; we’re pulled into job talks and appointments committee meetings through hushed t…
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
In case you have missed this. Excellent project. www.authoritarian-stack.info
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
BIAD is baaaaaaack! And this #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics preview is pure🔥. Great to hear the entire team back in action: @shireenahmed.bsky.social @amirarose.bsky.social @brendaelsey.bsky.social @jessicawluther.com & @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social They haven't missed a beat.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past. www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute
In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...
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Priyansh @privaricate.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/... “ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organisations,” the agency said in a statement.' The IOC's militarised spectacle
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ICE agents from US set to help with security at Winter Olympics in Italy
The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are set to begin on February 6, with shock at the late news of ICE involvement.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading. This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment. 1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Ep. 171: Trump and the FIFA Clusterf*uck We are joined by @privaricate.bsky.social to discuss the absurd FIFA Peace Prize and the political economy and geopolitics of how the FIFA World Cup will unfold against the backdrop of US depravity at home and abroad. open.spotify.com/episode/6vYt...
Trump dangling the medal for the FIFA Peace Prize
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A great opportunity for those doing co-production work with urban communities.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thrilled to share this new article co-authored w/ Abbie Hardcastle on 'The Everyday Geographies of Cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures, and gendered financial subjectivities.' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Everyday geographies of cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures and gendered financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom
Drawing on feminist scholarship on money and finance and ­geographical scholarship on everyday life and masculinities, this article examines the promises and futures that investment in and use of c...
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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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Assistant Professor of Urban Geography/Climate Crisis
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/12/2025
Another "plan" for Gaza with the same visual aesthetic as all Network State dystopias. Beware tech fascist billionaires bearing promises of AI-enhanced abundance. Gift Link: U.S Pitches Project Sunrise to Turn Gaza Into High-Tech Metropolis www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | U.S. Pitches ‘Project Sunrise’ Plan to Turn Gaza Into High-Tech Metropolis
The Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff drafted blueprint could see the U.S. commit to roughly 20% of some reconstruction costs over 10 years.
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Carolyn Prouse @carolynprouse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Yesterday, QUFA members voted in favour of divesting our pension from weapons!! This is a HUGE victory and testament to months of organizing. It’s just a first step - we’re only one union in the larger multi-institutional University Pension Plan - but it’s a massive one. 🍉 ✨
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
the university is not too broke for this i guess www.newswire.ca/news-release...
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Bell and Queen's University joining forces to build sovereign AI supercomputing infrastructure in Canada
/CNW/ - Bell, Canada's largest communications company1, and Queen's University (Queen's), a leading research-intensive institution, today announced they have...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...
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The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want - The American Prospect
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"GIS, Policing and Us" -- a brilliant resource (partly funded by the Antipode Foundation) for investigating the entanglement of Geographic Information Systems and urban policing in North America gispolicingandus.com
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GIS, Policing and Us
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/12/2025
Digital sovereignty requires ripping Microsoft out of essential systems and ending reliance on its infrastructure, not allowing it to rebrand dependence as sovereignty.
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I don't normally post FT content, but, wow, this article is excellent! Surveys a range of actors, initiatives, and critics active in this space. It can feel niche teaching about this so great to see it covered in a single article. #startupcities #blockchain #cryptobros #neoreaction #chartercities
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Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
www.thenation.com/article/soci... Co-wrote with @julesboykoff.bsky.social about today's nonsense
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FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize”
With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“This seems like a perfect metaphor for Queen’s. We still look like a university and act like a university, but we have lost our sense of purpose, our “soul,” our mission…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Faculty unions should absolutely advocate for anti-racism and decolonization, including in Palestine. To argue otherwise is to be a collaborator. (I am agreeing with this article.) www.speechaxe.com/say-it-aint-...
‘Say It Ain’t Divisive!’: How to Stifle the Work of Faculty Unions
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felipe magalhães @felmagalhaes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Trazendo o Lefebvre antifascista para 2025 (em português em breve). Bringing the antifascist Lefebvre to 2025. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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Tracking, with Stefanie Felsberger | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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