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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Almost behind my back, K. Motyl and R. Schober published "Knowledge and Failure in U.S. Cultural History" in OA feat @katrinhorn.bsky.social @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social @astarre.bsky.social @dballestero.bsky.social @marlonlieber.bsky.social @julianestraetz.bsky.social and others! link below

Knowledge and Failure in
U.S. Cultural History
Edited by
Katharina Motyl and Regina Schober

1 The Failure / Knowledge Nexus: An Introduction
Katharina Motyl and Regina Schober
SECTION I
Failing Knowledge and the Privilege Not to Know
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Queerness as Lie and Liability: Recent Renditions of the Celluloid
Closet 27
Katrin Horn Failing to Care: Catastrophic Knowledge Transfer in Jenny Offill's
Weather and Judith Hermann's Daheim
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Solvejg Nitzke The Failures of Western Decolonization: Towards an Anti-Colonial
Perspective from the Global South
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Diego Ballestero Science under Siege: The Erosion of Academic Freedom and
Transatlantic Exchange under the Second Trump Administration 84
Christian Lammert
SECTION II Knowledge Production and Media Affordances: Aesthetics,
Politics, Infrastructures The Details: Knowledge Destruction in the Contemporary
Fashosphere
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Simon Strick

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9 An Ambiguous Utopia, after All: Ursula K. Le Guin, Lionel Trilling,
and the Literary Knowledge of Utopian Failure 113
Marlon Lieber
Toxic Knowledge and the Digital Pharmakon - Patricia Lockwood's
No One is Talking About This and the Failures of Social Media 132
Regina Schober The Failure of Manifest[o] Knowledge: Donna Haraway's "Eco-
Manifestos" Call for Action 149
Molina Klingler
SECTION III The Failures of Institutional Knowledge - Knowing Institutions
and Their Failures Black Tragedy in the Age of Welfare Reform: Restaging Poverty
Knowledge in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Red Letter Plays 16g
James Dorson The Failed Scholar Turned Novelist: W. E. B. Du Bois's Early Fiction
within and against the University 191
Alexander Starre Caring Bodies and Material Resistance to the Epistemic Failures of
Late Capitalism
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Juliane Gamböck-Strätz
SECTION IV
Knowledge from Below: Subversive / Subjugated Knowledges Nestling up against and with: Entwinements of Abstraction,
Abjection, Failure, and Knowledge in Nella Larsen's Passing
Marius Henderson

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Narratives of Failure in Literary Depictions of Mental Illness
Roman Bischof Vegh
251 Living on the Line: Border Epistemologies, Failure, and the
Resurgence of Subjugated Knowledges in the Québec / Vermont
Borderlands
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Astrid M. Fellner

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

En 1921, una disputa por el nombre del Cap Polonio revelaba algo mucho más profundo: la Gran Guerra también atravesó museos, universidades, sociedades científicas y redes intelectuales en Buenos Aires. reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/3124

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Antropología

Las condiciones de emergencia de la Antropología están estrechamente vinculadas con las necesidades políticas y económicas de los espacios geo-políticos occidentales. Lejos de centrarse en un estudio ...

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Comrades, I hope you’re all doing well. I’m writing because I’m currently working on an article about the challenges of teaching pluriversalities in a moment marked by the ongoing Palestinian genocide and the tightening grip of what many are calling techno‑feudal governance.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Dear Friends the deadline for #EASA2026 is 26.01. Our panel interrogates multipolarity as colonial continuity, refuses current academic neutrality and centers decolonial praxis from the colonial wound. We are looking for your proposal! Spreading it widely nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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P177: Multipolarity as Decolonial Overwriting. Dismantling Epistemic Geopolitics for a Pluriversal World [Decolonial Anthropology Network (DAN)]

This panel interrogates multipolarity as colonial continuity. We demand anticolonial anthropology that refuses neutrality, destabilizes power-laden polarities,

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

We gathered not in academia but in rebellion. Against epistemicide in Palestine, against silence polished as neutrality. Knowledge under siege is defiance. Resistance is method. Futures are built together. Read our reflections #DANRoundtable reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/2837

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DAN Roundtable

The inaugural roundtable of the Decolonial Anthropology Network felt less like an academic event and more like a rupture—an opening carved by those who refuse to bow to the machinery of erasure. We ga...

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

✊ The word expands. 📚 So does the deadline. 🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025. 📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia. If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it. Because thinking is also resistance. #decolonialconference

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@dgska.bsky.social : While Palestinian genocide unfolds & fascism rises in Germany, silence is complicity. Will we take collective action or keep researching in our ivory tower as comrades resign over our political void? Neutrality serves the oppressor. What is our position?

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Does anyone know if, during the @dgska.bsky.social members’ plenary, a clear and dignified stance was taken? Was there a decision to sever ties with academic institutions of the State of Israel—institutions complicit in occupation and the silencing of entire peoples? #dgska2025

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

1/ This is a summary of my panel at #dgska2025. We asked: what happens when decolonial theory, born from the wounds of the Global South, is turned into ornament for the European academy? A theory of fire turned into polite rhetoric.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

After the roundtable on Palestine at the #dgska2025, the @dgska.bsky.social must cut ties with all Israeli institutions. In the face of genocide, it is our ethical and moral duty: solidarity is not abstract—it demands rupture with structures of oppression and genocide

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Today we spoke, listened, unlearned. The panel Un/communalizing Decoloniality became a space of insurgent thought, where theory walked and archives trembled. Gracias to all who challenged, shared, and stayed. The struggle is collective. #dgska2025

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

At the plenary More-than-human Un/Commoning, reflecting on decolonial perspectives of nature: how water and land are not resources, but relations that sustain collective life #dgska2025

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🚨 Call for proposals open! Deadline: Oct 3, 2025. 📍 April 6–7, 2026: in-person conference 🌐 April 8, 2026: online sessions A space for dialogue, struggle & imagination across borders. Join us! ✊🏽 #DecolonialConference2026

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

To decolonize is to confront power, to tear off the mask of complicity. ✊🏾 The Decolonial Conference is not an event, it is a trench: where voices meet, where new worlds are imagined, where dignity becomes action. Los Angeles, April 6–8, 2026.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

To crown as “hero” a man who was misogynist, racist, xenophobic, transphobic, and a cheerleader of genocide is to betray our own dignity. Killing is wrong—but so is sanctifying the oppressor’s voice.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Little by little, I am re-establishing the community in the other virtual space. Look for me as @InsurgentMemory. Let's reconnect!

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

My former X account @diballestero was suspended, but insurgent memory cannot be silenced. From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.

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Guerra en la Universidad @guerraenlauni.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

La European Association of Archaeologists ha enviado un email a todos los organizadores de sesiones en el próximo congreso amenazando con censurarlas si permiten que se critique el genocidio en Gaza. Es un ataque intolerable a la libertad de expresión. Boicot a @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Dear colleagues! Have any of you had your Twitter account suspended? How long did it take to get it active again?

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 URGENT: @XSupport wrongly suspended my account @diballestero, claiming I’m not a “real user.” This is absurd — I’ve used it for years, for my professional work. I need your help: tag @XSupport and demand reactivation. Let’s make noise until they fix it.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Now my Twitter account @diballestero has 0 followers and I follow 0 people. I am informed that my account is permanently “in read-only mode.”

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. So many feels!

Me holding the packet from Sage in the lift

Me showing the book cover of the Handbook. The cover lists all the co-editors names

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Tried to log in to X, first got the “rate limit exceeded” warning, and then mysteriously my account was suspended for being “inauthentic.” Now I’m shown as having 0 followers and following 0. How is this a fair system? I’m a real person, not a bot.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Milei's government is a fascist4 regime that only survives by force of sticks, gas and bullets. There is no more time for resignation: popular rebellion is not only a right, it is a duty. Take to the streets before they take them away from us!

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Palestine will only be free with the destruction of the Zionist settler colonial state.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Milei's regime shoots to kill and already has a name: #Guerrero, 1st Corporal, file 103208. A direct shot at #PabloGrillo who was documenting the repression against pensioners. Every crime of this regime is engraved in the popular memory. We do not forget. We do not forgive.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The powerful write history, but in my seminars we read it the other way around: from below, from the nobodies, from those who always pay the bill. Because learning is also an act of rebellion reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/seminarios

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Seminarios

Aquí dejo sembradas las voces y las preguntas que nos acompañaron en el último seminario. Palabras que no son mías ni tuyas, sino de todos los que las escucharon, las pensaron, las discutieron. No son...

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Germany, that laboratory where history tested its most perfect horrors, now applauds the monster reborn. 19.5% for the AfD: memory betrayed by those who swear to honor it. The ghosts did not die, they only learned to smile for the cameras.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I would like to present the new logo of our ‘’Decolonial Anthropology Network‘’ made by the great Argentinian artist ‘Luxor’. Join the network, let's create a world where all worlds fit: www.easaonline.org/networks/decolonial/

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Germany’s election isn’t a shock—AfD’s surge is the rotten fruit of a far-right wave poisoning Europe. Capitalism’s collapse breeds fascists: anti-immigrant, anti-worker, pro-elite. We’ve seen this before—time to resist and fight back!

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

To remain silent in the face of the most sadistic colonialism in Gaza and Lebanon is to align oneself with the genocidal regime of Israel, it is to betray the damned of the earth.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

While rubble, bodies and ancestral memories cover Gaza and Lebanon, the European "decolonial" academy, in its silence, seems to forget that decolonizing is not a slogan, but an act of struggle. To remain silent in the face of the most brutal colonialism is to align oneself with the oppressor

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

Israel regime defied #ICJ decision to cease hostilities in #Rafah. In an unprecedented act of barbarism it dropped 2,000 lb bombs more than 60 times in 48 hours burning people alive. Such sadistic and dehumanizing behavior evokes the worst of fascism.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

The antidemocratic Javier Milei, in his eagerness to be the most subservient servile of the United States, makes a mocking version of his presidential coat of arms with AI. This is the result, the new official shield of the Argentine presidency.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

#Biden administration's defense of Israel's genocidal regime brought imperialist violence to its own soil, militarizing universities and repressing students and faculty who rise up in resistance. The struggle is global, and solidarity knows no borders

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Today the fascist government of Jmilei once again repressed community cooks, activists, journalists and photojournalists who demonstrated for food at the doors of the Ministry of Human Capital

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claude zachary @leftist101.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

West Belfast, Ireland, today.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Writing some reflections on anthropological archives, which are an authentic colonial thanatological device.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

While activists, civil society, students and some professors raise their voices against the #PalestinianGenocide, the deafening silence of academic institutions reveals their complicity with oppression. This omission is synonymous with complicity in crimes against humanity.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

The walls, the barbed wire fences, the lines that divide the land are ghosts that seek to control and discipline No more maps, only geographies that are reborn from the endless walk of struggle! No more borders, only the immensity of worlds where all the worlds to come can fit!

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

We cannot allow those who are complicit in the #Palestinian genocide to feel comfortable in any public space. We must make them feel the weight of the people's judgment, confront them in every instance and demand justice. Complicity deserves public repudiation and forceful action

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

The so-called "cease-fire" in #Palestine only masks the continuation of the occupation and oppression. Israel's colonial state must be dismantled and its apartheid regime must be ended.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Western "decolonial" academics build lavish theories on the ruins of indifference. How many more must die by bombs, bullets, displacement and famine on the altar of academic indifference before we break this complicit silence? #FREEPALESTINE

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