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Dimitra Kotouza

@dimiktz.bsky.social
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Psycho-tech-sci-biopolitics, reproduction, crisis capitalism. Wrote Surplus Citizens (Pluto, 2019). www.plutobooks.com/9781786803672/su…

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
These cuts and how they have been implemented undo what it means to do university. The academic community should own the courses, not some external consultant. Students & Staff need to have a meaningful participation for a university to be a university. #SaveHE #UKHE
Defend degrees, defend jobs
These cuts wipe out courses, programmes, shared knowledge, teaching and research excellence and a whole learning community, which has been decades in the making
Talk to your tutors, lecturers, and professors
Demand the Schools, Faculties, and University end these cuts 
Join upcoming meetings, letters, and petitions
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
NOUS has a track record of cutting programmes which lead to cutting jobs & departments. Their Cookie Cutter University model means the only differentiation is the (superficial) prestige institutions have from simply being old. The strength of academic research&education is gone. #UKHE #SaveHE
Nous: 
QMUL paid at least £435,000 to the Australian consultancy firm NOUS
NOUS has a track record of cutting programmes
Programme cuts lead to job losses and department closures
Staff & students kept in the dark 
QMUL acknowledged inaccuracies 
Modules cut regardless
Student choice completely diminished
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Management paid nearly a quarter million to the external consultancy NOUS, whose generic 'framework' is now used to turn QMUL into a Cookie Cutter University. These modules make QMUL. They bring students in contact with the cutting-edge research & widen the scope of academia. #UKHE
295 modules cut in the School of the Arts
Race and Racism in Performance 
Performing Illness and Disability 
Performance and Visual Culture in South Asia
Queer Borderlands
Iraqi Literature in English / English Translation 
Transgender Perspectives and Interventions 
Refugee Writing 
Indian Cinema 
Slavery, Colonialism and Postcolonialism 
Language and Ethnicity
Multilingualism and Bilingualism 
Cinema and Disability 
Intersectional Feminist Writing 
Reading South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 
Plus cuts to Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, French, German, Japanese Mandarin Chinese and Russian!
Management is cutting The research-led modules that make QMUL QMUL
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MAYS 🍉🇵🇸 @mayes99.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🍉This is how we spent our night in Gaza. The wind is tearing our tent, and the rain is flooding the little space my orphaned 🥲🖐️
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Strange that we would find a safe haven in a film full of abuse. But seeing some of the shit you experienced AND the way you felt about it in the big screen can be redemptive. Because she never lets them make her a victim.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“The world at large doesn’t always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in Out of the Blue is one of them.” (Natasha Lyonne) faroutmagazine.co.uk/dennis-hoppe...
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Revisiting Dennis Hopper's tragic tale 'Out of the Blue'
Dennis Hopper's final directorial feature 'Out of the Blue' starring Linda Manz, is a heartbreaking and tragic portrayal of girlhood.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org/in-memoriam-...
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In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Jacob Silberman: Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen claims he was talking to a Silicon Valley CEO and they agreed that “young people are joining these companies in order to destroy them because they are communists and left wingers” techwontsave.us/episode/297_...
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The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires w/ Jacob Silverman - Tech Won’t Save Us
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Some hopes flourish in CIOs’ nightmares. www.cio.com/article/4022...
cio.com
31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your gen AI strategy
Asked one major industry analyst: ‘Who is going to be motivated to adopt if they know the intent is to replace them?’
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Which is why I am attending this today www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hopeless-e...
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Hope/Less - Exploring Psychoanalytic Uses of Utopia
The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis - Annual Conference 2025 (Hybrid Event)
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New paper - "Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice" - led by @dimiktz.bsky.social w Martyn Pickersgill, Jess Pykett and me from our bio-edu-data-sci project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk doi.org/10.1080/0159...
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Brokering the brain: neuroscientific knowledge, technologies, and the translation of neuro-expertise into educational practice
Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuros...
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The nazis are coming for me so I’m going to spend my last days writing a philosophical manuscript about the ontology of revolutions
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gm0rk.bsky.social @gm0rk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A lot of white people, particularly older ones, think a person can't be a racist unless they're literally telling you they hate Black people and love Hitler. So there is a value to publicizing them doing that so explicitly.
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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am no Zionist, massively disagree with the Netanyahu government, and want to preface what I say with that. This is no place to be debating the ethics of Israel. Innocent Mancunians were murdered on Yom Kippur because they were Jewish. There can be no equivocation about that. It's not the place.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Please avoid Gen AI as a default position. Not only does it have dire environmental and mental health implications, not only do we grant enormous political knowledge-power to these giant companies by using it, it also destroys and disorients thinking. 4/4
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Even sooner, the sycophantic language and flatteringly selective information it presents drove me off the wall. Telling it to stop the flattery just did not work. No wonder it drives vulnerable people psychotic(including family of people I know). 3/4
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Soon, I realised it was just disjointed verbosity and that I’d wasted too long with it when I could be using my own mind and credible information sources, literatures and and tools to have gone much further. 2/4
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
AI chatbots — A technology of disorientation. At first, I thought it may be good for brainstorming and fast text editing. It was useless with anything to do with data processing — it was making data up and lying about it. 1/4
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Now obviously, the British political/media class have enthusiastically frog-boiled themselves into believing that dragging off two hundred old ladies is just normal, regular centrist moderate politics. But you are not them, you should recognise that this is absolutely deranged authoritarian lunacy.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I urge you to note that “The government today arrested 400 anti-genocide protestors, The Ministry For Crackdowns said those committing terrorism would be crushed by the full force of the state” is the kind of thing you see in background news reports in scifi movies about future dystopias.
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🏹🐦‍⬛Katniss Everdeen🐦‍⬛🏹 ❌👑 @p-r333.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
ARE YOU READY YET⁉️⁉️⁉️ NOBODY IS GOING TO COME AND SAVE US, WE HAVE TO SAVE OURSELVES‼️‼️‼️ THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THEM IS TO SHUTDOWN COMPLETELY‼️ BY👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 generalstrikeus.com
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Some people (a lot!) want this to happen in the UK as well, sadly. And nobody is stopping them. They are walking on eggshells around them.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
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UK: Arrest of Palestine Action solidarity protest leaders 'a clear violation of international law'
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Newnham College, Cambridge. Horrifying. We have to stop this happening in other British universities
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Our esteemed expert here appears to have gone from just innocently asking (in 2018) “Is Rising Ethnic Diversity a Threat to the West?” to answering (in 2025) that yes, the degenerate races pose an terrible threat to the herrenvolk and should be driven out en masse. Its not 'a grift'. Its who he is.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
There is NOTHING about #Gaza in my @bsky.app feed. Even if I search for “Gaza” or “Palestine” I get 2-3 day old posts. One has to go back to fascist X to get Gaza news and commentary. The exit happened a while ago when Gaza accounts were being deleted but it’s long lasting and deeply depressing.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How long before they start shooting? It’s a wonder this hasn’t happened yet. Wonder if they are already using an AI algorithm that systematically prevents POC from having a license (not that human agents wouldn’t be doing the same).
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
So far, we know that the Americans sent neo-Nazis, Christian Zionists and anti-Muslim Christian Nationalists to Gaza - and it’s those men that have been opening fire on Palestinian civilians along with the IDF.
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David Traynier Ⓥ @dtraynier.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
History will one day record that while the UK Govt continue to facilitate the worst genocide of the 21st Century, ordinary people protesting against it were subject to 'the greatest mass arrest in history'. #Israel #Gaza news.sky.com/story/police...
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Police make arrests at protest in support of proscribed group Palestine Action
Legislation to proscribe Palestine Action came into force on 5 July, making it a criminal offence to show support for the organisation, carrying a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Protesters at London’s Parliament Square for the right of Palestine Action to protest are being arrested one by one now.
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Exactly. And, with the expulsion of critical humanities, it turns out casual academics can offer more to public intellectual life outside academia than inside universities that reduce all thought to ‘high tech innovation’, alongside senior colleagues who don’t understand the basics of solidarity.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Though tiny, pathogens could become Israel's deadliest weapon in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/thoug…
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Though tiny, pathogens could become Israel's deadliest weapon in Gaza
After surviving nearly two years of genocide, Palestinians forced into a guarded zone on Rafah's rubble could face infectious disease likely to kill more people than the bombs
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Terrorism Act 2000 specifically ensures that it is lawful to organise for the de-proscription of a group. There should be no law in democracy that cannot be opposed. That is the very mark of democracy itself. Help us share legal info elsewhere: www.wedonotcomply.org
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
BREAKING Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors. This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent. www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Published this doi.org/10.1177/0952... at @histhum.bsky.social striving to fairly represent SSGAC’s apparent efforts to be ethical and progressive while pointing out contradictions. Feels like time wasted! How swiftly eugenics was unmasked under a ‘fair-wind’ far-right govt. The future looks grim.
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Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025
Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The startup named Herasightm after the goddess who threw her disabled child off a mountain, seems focused on public outreach using embryo selection for IQ to win over far rightwing pseuds & techbros
A tweet "Elon Musk thinks our new embryo screening startup, 
@herasight, is "cool". Cool." with a picture included in the tweet of a web widget showing an embryo selected for IQ. A quote tweet of Cremieux a pseud who "tweets about race & genetics"
see here for more background on Cremieux/Lasker: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics

Text reads:
"The widget pictured below gives you the expected range of predicted IQs (or disease risks) for the number of embryos. The difference between the average and the highest gives you the expected gain in IQ if you were selecting the embryo with the highest predicted IQ. "
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ
Text from an FAQ in Okbay et al 20222: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z 
a similar same statement is made in an FAQ in 2025: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1.supplementary-material
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"The results of SSGAC studies have sometimes been used by online platforms, including some companies, to predict individual outcomes. We recognize that returning individual genomic “results” can be a fun way to engage people in research and other projects and to feed or stoke their interest in genomics. But it is important that participants/users understand that these individual results are not meaningful predictions and should be regarded essentially as entertainment. Failure to make this point clear risks sowing confusion and undermining trust in genetics research"
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
PSC statement on Keir Starmer's announcement on possible British recognition of Palestinian statehood in September. Read here: palestinecampaign.org/psc-statemen...
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“Israel has come under huge international pressure as images of starving people have prompted an outcry” What pressure? Palestinian state recognition after the entire population is tortured and decimated, ‘if Israel agrees’ and while still selling them weapons? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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At least 91 killed seeking aid in Gaza as US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Israel
Crowds of hungry people waiting for humanitarian aid at Zikim crossing shot at by Israeli soldiers
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 23/07/2025
“What we have seen is a lot of funders who appear to be very aligned with us, progressive on everything but Palestine, who won’t have conversations with us.” Journalists & nonprofit newsrooms detail how Palestine coverage is scaring off nonprofit news funders, @nicolefroio.bsky.social reports.
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Palestine coverage scares off nonprofit news funders
Journalists and leaders of nonprofit newsrooms detail losing funding and crackdowns on coverage mentioning criticisms of Israel
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It’s really a defamatory way to push the police to NOT protect but arrest antifa protesters. And I suspect it’s motivated not by fear of imagined pitchforked communists out there now, but by fear that the slightest shift to the left now could open the gates for big movements in future.
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Yesterday a taxi driver was chased because he was brown, last week in Epping a hotel worker was attacked because he was brown and last year people were dragged out of their cars because they were brown - if being anti-immigrstion is not racist, the fellas missed the memo
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Is number 10 working for reform uk?
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Loved @raeblodmas.bsky.social ’s post. These songs by Klaus and Tina were mid-childhood loves — wonderful to be guided by this passionate stream of associations ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/raeblodm...
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On turning around
The first of some summer writing (perhaps)
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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hackney Council is hiking nursery fees by up to 69% – £500 more a month for some families. Parents are fighting back – and need your help. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ha...
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Hackney Council: Freeze nursery fee hikes now
Hackney Council is hiking nursery fees by up to 69% – £500 more a month for some families. Parents are fighting back – and need your help. Add your name:
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