Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026well besides Leibniz, who became famous for, as Michael Atiyah quipped “putting a d before a x” 000
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026TIL the delightful fact that JGA Pocock was a Tom Bombadil stan: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...arts.st-andrews.ac.ukTom Bombadil and the Anti-Matter of England · Intellectual History ArchiveThe Intellectual History Archive is a digital repository of papers from eminent intellectual historians. It is curated by the Institute of Intellectual History and hosted by the University of St Andre... 152
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"my dissertation demonstrated the simple proposition that constituent power and primitive accumulation are metaphors for one another" whether it did so or not is... debatable, but never has the letter D given someone this much satisfaction. past tense, baby, it rules. 130
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I should just make my dissertation public access y/n (only the abstract is online At This Time: academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/6664/)academicworks.cuny.eduThe Savage ConstitutionThe Savage Constitution is a constitutional ethnography of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The Sixth Schedule is a complex and technical appendix that accommodates tribal communities in... 010
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/07/2026𝘓𝘙𝘉 contributing editor Jacqueline Rose has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize for 2026. Rose has been writing for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 since 1995, and published most recently on her experiences interviewing Benjamin Netanyahu. Read that piece, and all her work for the paper, here: www.lrb.co.uk/contributors...lrb.co.ukJacqueline Rose 0246
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 25/06/2026“Much of [the New York School’s] early life exists only in speech, in anecdotes, and gossip.... When these poets die, they take their histories with them.” —Joe Dunthorne nybooks.comWhen the Rents Were Low | Joe DunthorneAn oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years. 073
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026TIL that Alex Karp’s PhD advisor was Habermas cos ofc he was (I didn‘t follow the elegiacal squeee after his recent passing besides noting it happened; did anyone mourning him grapple with this?) 000
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/04/2026this is fucking nuts:youtu.beRobert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)YouTube video by Nick Dellow 381560559
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16/04/2026Amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, we speak with Laleh Khalili, a professor of Gulf studies who researches the shipping and logistics industry and its impact on the global economy. democracynow.orgHormuz Crisis “Only Going to Get More Horrific Before It Gets Any Better”: Prof. Laleh KhaliliAmid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, we speak with Laleh Khalili, a professor of Gulf studies who researches the shipping and logistics industry and its impact on the global economy. The U... 47136
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents, as the federal government turns warehouses into million-square-foot concentration camps. It is a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.placesjournal.orgThe Warehouse, in Plain SightThat concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly. 37643
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This is the natural result of liberals completely caving on the reality that asylum is both a moral imperative and not just legal but required under domestic and international law 33559141
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranThe Xylom @thexylom.com · 09/04/2026NEW: Entering the fourth month of a health emergency triggered by a mass marine die-off, neglected coastal towns in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, are still waiting on government action. This story by @rachelreports.bsky.social is produced by The Confluence and co-published by The Xylom:thexylom.com“We Are All Still Waiting for Answers:” Papua New Guinea’s Ocean Crisis Enters Fourth MonthMass marine die-off triggers health emergency in New Ireland Province as neglected coastal towns wait on government action. 23125
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/04/2026In colonial French Polynesia, many buildings were constructed from coral, but European missionaries only recorded their own buildings. Now, direct uranium-thorium dating deepens our understanding of domestic life in the Pacific #WednesdayWisdom 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 1258
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 08/04/2026nothing engages the catastrophic imagination like packing up a large library for a long sea voyage (they could burn, drown, be eaten by rats, end up on the wrong continent, sink after being torpedoed by rogue submarines, get snatched by erudite pirates….) 010
Reposted by Nandini Ramachandranarticle-14.com @article-14.com · 06/04/2026“The police told us to ‘go back to Bangladesh’. How do we go to a place we have never known?” With #AssamPolls this week, Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how 1000s of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed despite NRC docs/valid voter ID article-14.com/post/cleared... 001
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranMindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Life boomed during the Cambrian, with evolution banging out loads of diverse weirdos including the first complex animal life—or so scientists thought! But now, hundreds of newfound fossils include what may be evidence of complex life that's even older, the first such fossils from the Ediacaran 🧪cnn.comYour squishy, wormlike ancestors are at least 4 million years older than you thought | CNNNewfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them possibly our vertebrate ancestors. 14415
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranAmy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026cool new journal issue alert! second installment from the law and capitalism conference at Duke. I have a piece in it - can't wait to read the others. lcp.law.duke.edu 02110
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/04/2026TIL that my Kevin Bacon number with Stalin is three 1193
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026packed courts occasionally rule against their rulers - just to provide the pretense that they are independent. but watch where they do this. they typically do not challenge the leader's control over government or continued occupancy of the office, which are core to maintaining autocracy. 313834
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comNurul Amin Shah Alam's death was a homicideCounty medical examiners announced the ruling on Wednesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating. 2140221621
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026"This is colonial frontier of AI: terrain built not only on land (data centers literally draining indigenous communities of natural resources) but also on language, where enchanting words discipline workers into precarity, convert human labor into a symbolic collateral for speculative value”techpolicy.pressHow AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African WorkersAI is a consolidation of labor hierarchies, a plunder of African skills, and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary. 02017
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 23/03/2026What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.labornotes.orgIn 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 YearsIn less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for i... 171505510
Reposted by Nandini Ramachandranarticle-14.com @article-14.com · 23/03/2026“They only made Muslims stand in line. Why are we made to suffer like this?” Data show that 9/10 districts with highest no. of voters ‘under adjudication’ in WB's special intensive revision of rolls have a Muslim voter population of >50%, reports Sayantani Upadhaya article-14.com/post/in-west...article-14.comIn West Bengal, Errors, Opacity & A Skew Against Muslim Voters—Latest Question Mark Over India’s Election ProcessThe revision of West Bengal’s electoral rolls has removed or placed over 12 million voters under scrutiny—with half of these, more than any other state, ‘under adjudication’ after the final roll—marke... 011
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/03/2026We’re terrible stewards of our planet.rfi.frWar threatens Gulf's dugongs, turtles and birdsFrom sea turtles to birds and the gentle dugong, the Persian Gulf's diverse but fragile marine life is threatened by the bombs and oil of the war in the Middle East. 9608202
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 16/03/2026New book just dropped: Covers both digital security and how to build trust in networks and across groups. Took a quick glance at it, and it looks accessible to beginners and pretty thorough. Full text available online at no cost. readnarrowpath.comreadnarrowpath.comThe Narrow PathThe Narrow Path is a comprehensive guide to digital security, community organizing, and network coordination — the three skills that matter most right now. Written for ordinary Americans who want to a... 17934
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/03/2026On geopolitics around Iran, I trust no one's opinion more than I do Trita's 12713
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Palestinian political prisoner LEQAA KORDIA has been released from the ICE dungeons of Prairieland in time to celebrate Eid at home with her family. From @gazamom on X 13616
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranTommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social · 16/03/2026On "Squad Assembles" movies in general, which are secretly about full employment, and on "Sinners" in particular, which moves the Squad Assembles movie to Jim Crow Clarksdale and does something radical with the genre in the process. 0165
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Palestinian writer Malak N Hijazi's essay reflects on growing up in Gaza — the realities of white phosphorus raining down on your school, losing a childhood friend, noting the olive-coloured eyes of a soldier. Existing here means existing 'in disappearance'.buff.lyI Exist in Disappearance by Malak N HijaziPalestinian writer Malak N Hijazi's life writing piece reflects on growing up in Gaza — the realities of white phosphorus raining down on your school… 042
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranNew Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"I sat on the ground, waiting for Saif to materialize. Time in the Libyan desert doesn’t move like in Paris; it stretches." Inside a secret meeting with Moammar Gadhafi's son, shortly before his recent assassination. newlinesmag.comA Desert Picnic With Libya’s Most Wanted ManA secret meeting with Saif al-Islam Gadhafi revealed a fugitive heir still trying to shape events long after the fall of his father’s regime 021
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranCenter for a Stateless Society @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026There's an abundance of five alarm fires right now, but pay close attention to the one going on with the Prairieland case. A jury will decide today if the government can criminalize protest, speech, and thought. So much hinges on this. Follow @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social for updates. 04720
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/03/2026➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%. 24633
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/03/2026This is from 1975. 5870032505
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranMaryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026As US/Israel continues to pound Tehran worth knowing how earthquake prone the city is. The US has promised to unleash 1000 & 2000 pound bombs. It may be doing it already. How those attacks might impact the 60+ fault lines running under Tehran is terrifying to imagine www.stimson.org/2023/tehran-... 083
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranSara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.comthekeymagazine.comHome | The KeyThe Key is a new online magazine brought to you by the Palestine Festival of Literature. 59958
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranErin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Airwars, a non-profit group tracking civilian harm in conflict, found that the initial days of the U.S.-Israeli campaign in Iran hit significantly more targets per day than any campaign in recent decades. The targets also map heavily onto the highest populated areas. airwars.org/record-pace-...airwars.orgRecord pace of strikes in Iran bombing campaign: analysisU.S. and Israel hitting more targets than any previous campaign, numbers suggest 03025
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranIf you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Oh look it’s the Hindutva doing the DNC-fascism two-step. 426372
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 01/03/2026“In 2021 more than fifty environmental defenders were assassinated in Mexico—more than in any other country.” —Anjan Sundaram nybooks.com‘We Think They’ll Kill Someone’ | Anjan SundaramIndigenous communities in Mexico who oppose the construction of megaprojects on their lands do so at great risk. 033
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026A++ intro to a constitutional theory article 2352
Reposted by Nandini Ramachandranalex arriaga @alexarriaga.bsky.social · 03/03/2026“Asylum is your story." nysfocus.com/2026/02/26/i...nysfocus.comThree Journeys Through New York’s Asylum MazeIt’s almost impossible to win an asylum case without an attorney. Finding one is a tall order. 033
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026🔴 Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning, Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...open.substack.comPaul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of ReckoningVeteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness 4196107
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen. 18887692890
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranMitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026After many years in the works, Jim Jaffe & Marc Galanter's source book on panchayats is finally out! This will be very useful for teaching, plus it has a nice introduction on panchayats in South Asian legal history: orientblackswan.com/details?obsi... Buyers in the US can get it via Abe Books.orientblackswan.comOBS - The Panchayat in Modern India Documents and Cases since 1800Orient BlackSwan 185
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This story made me happy on an otherwise bleak day 020
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranTruthout @truthout.org · 26/02/2026Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, was found dead five days after US Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop without informing his lawyer or family where he was, making it impossible for Shah Alam to find his way home in sub-freezing temperatures.truthout.orgNearly Blind Rohingya Refugee Found Dead After Being Stranded by Border PatrolNurul Amin Shah Alam’s family spent days searching for him in sub-freezing temperatures before his body was found. 45132
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026There’s a lot of genre history 101 in this essay (+ one very nice sentence about, um, my husband‘s novel, not that I’m counting) but not (far as I can tell) much of a point to it. (also “vanishing” rather a hyberbole by his own evidence) 130
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranProtean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 31/12/2025Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...proteanmag.comSlumlord Empire • Protean MagazineIn this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu... 1147
Reposted by Nandini RamachandranLeora @leorahugs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026me talking about the latest queer sff with my friends like 317537
