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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11h

I opened my tutorial this afternoon on the colonial expedition — and what it means for geography as a discipline to continue to work with the term “expedition” today — with this very article

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

APA* invites you to the first in a series of public talks in collaboration with orgs creating possibilities beyond the limits of our existing institutions. Register at bit.ly/APeoplesAcademy 🤓

A People’s Academy post titled “Reimagining Leadership Institute” Saturday Oct 17 at 3:00pm.

Register at bit.ly/apeoplesacademy

Cohosted by Black Birthing Futures. Black Girl’s* Guide to Surviving Menopause. Bloom Collective. Climate Justice Universities Union. CLLCTIVLY. Circles ofCourageous Commons. Critical Internet
Studies Institute. Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Immigration Justice Collective. Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
Options Program Inc. Powerful Pathways. Therapy Fund Foundation. School for Poetic Computation. School of Radical Imagination. The Privacy Center at Georgetown.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14h

Shameless cross-promotion! Tracy McNulty has an essay in the new @parapraxismag.bsky.social about the closure of the 388 clinic in Quebec: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/a-s.... Tracy has a new forthcoming book with @sunypress.bsky.social on the “transindividual”—not the ID-based group but…

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A Space for the Unaddressable — Parapraxis

The 388 and Psychoanalytic Treatment for Psychosis Tracy McNulty

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17h

Ha ha! Seem this time to have evaded this platform’s prim “adult content” blockers which have previously blanked out some of my posts featuring paintings/drawings

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today I submitted the final manuscript of “‘Dear Sniveling Cowards, Liars & Libelers:’ Letters of Valerie Solanas” to @dukepress.bsky.social I am exhausted but happy. Look for it in 2027! The letters are remarkable, funny, mad. I’m keen for all you all to read them 🖤

Solanas letter to Andy Warhol August 16 1967

Solanas letter to Robin Morgan October 2 1970

Solanas letter to Ti-Grace Atkinson June 16 1968

Solanas letter to The Mob August 17 1977

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20h

Toor’s drawings are also wonderful courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Toor. 2 men in bed with one pressing the leg of the other and gazing at him

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20h

The Salman Toor at the Courtauld is incredible. Can’t stop thinking about it Here is his “Fag Puddle with Carriers” 2026. In it he takes up and transforms Lotto’s The Entombment, which you can then walk downstairs to see

Toor, Fag Puddle with Carriers, 2026

Figures carrying heads and a torso of body on a platter, with a headscarved figure in the lead moving right holding a candle

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20h

Such a rich conversation between Nadia Bou Ali and Jason Barker on Lacan, Sade, Marx, Badiou &c — and on the question that surviving poses communispress.com/love-will-te...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/10/2026

The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something darker: mourning the loss of power. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/shoo...

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Shooting and craving: on NAZA and the mediated obscene

The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something darker: mourning the loss of power.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social on a deathly erotics at the heart of NAZA mondoweiss.net/2026/10/shoo...

This is the inversion of the old genre that Israeli culture produced. Shooting and crying offered the Israeli subject advance forgive-ness, as long as the Israeli could cry for the crimes that "Arabs" made them do. NAZA's confessors claim little in this specific form.
What comes out in their confessions is a de-pendency, the ordinary brush with the drug of the divine, and then its withdrawal when the service ends and the machine releases the
"engineer" or the intelligence officer back to the cafés of bustling Tel Aviv. If there is mourning, it is for this loss of power.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Astonishing paintings that made me see Renoir anew. At times annoying and interpretively perverse text in the wall labels

Renoir painting of 3 figures in a street in close proximity to one another. Man in hat to the right with back to us. Other 2 figures facing us

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bought the just published English translation (with @versobooks.bsky.social) of Kanafani’s long essay in the @ibraaz.bsky.social bookshop after listening collectively to A Lifework of Mourning

Cover of: Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hallward published a long essay in Communis this summer on the Filton 4 case which bears on what unfolded today communispress.com/may-we-expla...

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May we explain?

Why the Palestine Action Filton case may prove to be the trial of the century.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Philosopher Peter Hallward arrested for holding banner stating, “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action”

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts. muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...

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Just how much of Future Nottingham 2 was written by vastly overpaid consultants?

PA Consulting misled a government department, threatened the press, and over-charged the NHS up to £2,500 a day. So why is a PA consultant listed as the author of the Future Nottingham 2 business c…

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“In Glasgow, the ground itself seems to remember what the city would rather forget”

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Alaa Alqaisi translating under the Gaza sky

Anne Carson's works often explore fragmentation in terms of language, time, and humanity. Her poetry lingers in places where meaning breaks down, leaving silence to take over. This Arabic text felt as if it were a response to her silences, refusing to let the faceless go unnamed; it resisted erasure and insisted on bearing witness. But translating it into English, the language that leans toward abstraction, was a delicate task. Arabic carries its weight differently; it's rooted in rhythm, layered in meaning, and resistant to facelessness. English, with its grammatical economy, can smooth over the jagged edges of Arabic's emotional density. How does one render the philosophical weight of this meditation on war as a continuum, a thread that binds human history together in blood and ash? These were not linguistic questions; they were moral ones. So I had the responsibility to ensure that the rawness of the original survived the journey into Carson's intellectual universe.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah I see. The latter I can see driving all sorts of initiatives/interventions/internal attacks on departments in Britain but AFAIK the fine has not been tried. So grim

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In Britain they just cut the courses and degree programmes. What is the logic of a fine to the department?

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A friend and I are visiting the London Renoir exhibition this weekend to assess whether we’re willing to give credence to Jackie Wullschläger’s assessment in the FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Renoir’s reputation restored at the National Gallery

The contradictions of the artist’s life and work are explored through his enduring fascination with love

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely horrifying from the American Psychiatric Association. Read @ruha9.bsky.social’s whole thread

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Adam Tickell really fell off eh?

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Applications open for Oxford University scholarship which will "fully fund a Palestinian scholar to pursue a DPhil (PhD) commencing in October 2027 at the School of Geography and the Environment." www.geog.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

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Palestine-Oxford Scholarship in Geography and the Environment

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you're casting about for amusement in London on the evening of Friday 20 November, I'm giving a talk at KCL on mushrooms and social reproduction. They've got a bit of security at the building, so if you're not at KCL but would like to go, contact aaron.rosenberg at kcl dot ac dot uk

Teal green event poster with a close-up image of pink oyster mushrooms. Text reads:

Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex. Plasticities. Friday Nov 20 2026, Bush House SE 4.16, 5-6:30 pm. King's College London Department of English Environmental Humanities.

"Plasticities," the title of the talk, is in the Barbie typeface.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.

A photograph of an art exhibit from the Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein library showing a shelf of redacted Epstein files

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, the university *is* the crisis socialtextjournal.org/periscope_ar...

Our field is under threat from state legislatures, university regents boards, and politicians who have sought to curtail or fully dismantle the academic study of gender and sexuality. (Indeed, the extent to which the field of WGS has been best supported in public universities may porta d a particular kind of
peril in this moment.) But at Harvard, the single biggest threat to the study of gender and sexuality has long come from the institution itself.

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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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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'identifiable content for data companies' yes indeed

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Updating history of geographical thought lectures & came across 1972 interview with @davidharvey.org in LoC where he's in the midst of reading Marx having moved to Baltimore – and uncertain whether Marx has the correct solutions to Marx's correctly identified problems www.loc.gov/item/2024600...

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Geographers on film: David W. Harvey

Geographers on film is a collection of recorded video interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers between August 1970 and the early 1990s, including scholars who have shaped the discipline. The ...

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glasgow 21st November 3-5.30pm The Doublet presents 'Pubs for the People' and an afternoon discussion about how pubs help us understand the nation over a few pints. Meet authors Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh in conversation with Les Back www.eventbrite.com/e/pubs-for-t...

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Pubs for the people

The fight for the pint and the nation By Sivamohan Vall! Book Launch!

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pubs for the People has arrived Described by @leninology.bsky.social as "one of the sharpest and strangest books ever written about English nationalism" What more can anyone want? Order: www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t stop watching every movement of the mayor’s arms and the student protestors’ hands around him

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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This essay is so illuminating, not only because it names the “sympathy” without obligation that structures state, corporate, and media refusals of accountability, but also how the Abraham Accords have shifted the ground of Arab world geopolitical solidarity with Gaza. And much more besides.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Photo taken June 2027 in Skopje, North Macedonia

Graffiti on side of building: “RIP Aaron Bushnell” “Free Palestine” “Israel [word scored through] is committing genocide”

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gana on Aaron Bushnell’s political act via Jaspers’s concept of “metaphysical guilt” — the binding of “conscience to conduct” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/gaz...

The guilt of having watched, known, and failed to stop mass violence is not a seizure of the moral high ground; it is the subjective register of what Jaspers called metaphysical guilt, and one of the psychic forms through which acknowledgment becomes binding.
At its extreme limit stands Aaron Bushnell, the young American airman who, declaring that he would "no longer be complicit in genocide," set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in
Washington, D.C. His self-immolation stands as a tragic testimony to a metaphysical guilt that refused to remain rhetorical-unbearable proof that the moral self-indictment described here
can bind conduct to conscience. Melancholic
moralism does not guarantee action but it is the disposition from within which action has, again and again, actually proceeded.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Guardian goes full-scale attack on Green Party, I keep thinking of Gana’s @parapraxismag.bsky.social essay I read yesterday: so many work to transform Gaza into a site of sympathy that demands *no obligation or binding claim* on those who witness www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/gaz...

This transformation entails a redistribution of sympathy. Palestinian suffering does not disappear; it is absorbed into a broader field of concerns where it no longer commands a binding claim. The result is a geostrategic detachment: Gaza remains visible, its images and voices circulating as before, but the affective ties that might render its demands compelling are loosened. One sees, one hears, and one may even express concern, but without obligation.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Listen to political economist Ashok Kumar, my colleague at my former employer, explain the stakes of the Green Party’s motion

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh Hannah I’m so sorry. So much grimness everywhere

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hang on was this a *one-hour* stoppage. Takes me back to AUT days

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a final paragraph www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...

To challenge the world itself, to practice anti-Zionism, we cannot, then, begin with Europe’s figures of alterity, or with relational ethics, but rather with the world of Palestinian struggle and its emergent political subject. If anti-Zionism is to become the indictment of colonial modernity that it should be, it must be entirely indifferent to the totems of an incorrigibly imperial “Western civilization” and its contemporary racial regimes; it must begin with the void or “the outside” that is the cosmopolitical world of Palestinian struggle. It’s from this world, which is also a condition of worldlessness—a world with no place in the world—that we might learn what it means to rebel against the intolerability of the world today. It’s from here that we might glean how the child faces a tank with stones in their hand, if only to learn how to speak.

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