Reposted by markus schwarzAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely. 501358281
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...currentaffairs.orgAI is Destroying the University and Learning ItselfStudents use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education. 000
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance." hammerandhope.org/article/colu...hammerandhope.orgThe Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at ColumbiaThe media has failed to show what I found there: community. 020
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️ #NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025 0104
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet? orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...orbit.openlibhums.orgFrom Colonial Terraforming towards a Planet-Based Solidarity: Indigenous Speculations between Planet Earth and Outer SpaceTerraforming has long been one of the most popular concepts in SF and space colonization discourses to think about the necessary territorial changes on other planets to make them livable for human lif... 170
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words. 110
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025lithub.com/silence-is-c...lithub.comSilence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against FascismWe write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi… 030
Reposted by markus schwarzKim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️ 4752187
Reposted by markus schwarzThea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social 511079293
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep." shorturl.at/K4RPqthenation.comUniversities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option.University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work. 010
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUenplusonemag.comDOGE Nation | Mark KrotovLike Critical Race Theory before it—but with a supercharged intensity, since each new campaign of right-wing hate has been more aggressive than the last—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has come to st... 000
Reposted by markus schwarzRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/ 16855298
Reposted by markus schwarzbarbaragfoellner.bsky.social @barbaragfoellner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies" ✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025 📆Abstract deadline: April 30 🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRueraaas25.univie.ac.at52nd AAAS Conference: Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities – Troubling American Studies 032
Reposted by markus schwarzJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung." Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'. uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...uebermedien.de"Sanewashing" im US-Wahlkampf: Wie der seriöse Journalismus Trumps Irrsinn normalisiertViele Medien stellen Donald Trump vernünftiger dar, als er ist. Kolumnist Johannes Franzen erklärt: Das liegt daran, dass sie sich an Regeln halten – und Trump nicht. 14719250
Reposted by markus schwarzaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 17/02/2025maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control! 121
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond. 1103
Reposted by markus schwarzBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.bostonreview.netThe Privatization of Hope - Boston ReviewAmong the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity. 09526
Reposted by markus schwarzan.schläge - das feministische Magazin @anschlaege.at · 12/02/2025Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da! Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance! Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website. www.anschlaege.at 16221
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption." thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...thebarbedwire.comMusk and Trump Are Marching Us Into a ‘New Fascism’Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now? 000
Reposted by markus schwarzErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW. 20781183066
Reposted by markus schwarzBritish Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7 110913
Reposted by markus schwarzChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025It's never too late to be yourself. 🏳️⚧️ www.pride.com/coming-out/b...pride.com'Black Lightning' creator Jenny Blake Isabella comes out as transgender at 73“This is real. I'll have more to say soon,” wrote Jenny Blake Isabella. 223396599
Reposted by markus schwarzKristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover – #books #philsky 1468
Reposted by markus schwarzSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/02/2025One of my favorite new literary magazines is on BlueSky now, y’all! Give ‘em a follow and subscribe. @hammerandhope.bsky.social 632350
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025In Zeiten wie diesen noch mehr als sonst: Abonniert das Tagebuch! 022
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Never let the fuckers win. Ballhausplatz Vienna, now. 010
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025"Despair, too, because of how accessible escape is becoming in a world that requires more rigorous close looking, every day." A timely essay on Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler and the burning world, written by Hanif Abdurraqib. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...newyorker.comLessons for the End of the WorldOn Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered. 142
Reposted by markus schwarz🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Am 3. Februar 1932 wird Stuart Hall in Kingston (Jamaika) geboren. Er gilt als das Gesicht der «Cultural Studies». Mit seinen Analysen hat er Spuren in einem breiten Spektrum von Feldern hinterlassen, wie der Medien-, der Rassismus- und der Ideologietheorie. #AnDiesemTag 🧵 18726
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025On the violences and silences of the archives and the practice of "critical fabulation": Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments and her essay "Venus in Two Acts". 120
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Was ist das für ein Urteil? Wenn man sich politisch äußert, ist das ein Freibrief dafür, dass man von der FPÖ als „pseudowissenschaftlich“ bezeichnet werden darf? Das halte ich für extrem gefährlich. 000
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025One example of settler colonial infrastructure: Space X's spaceport in Boca Chica was built on the stolen land of the Carrizo/Comecrudo. The imagined techno-utopian future is merely the continuation of the colonial violence of the past and the dispossession and extractivism of the present. 141
Reposted by markus schwarzBecca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...theguardian.com‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon ValleyThe industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s 561414584
Reposted by markus schwarzStephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 22/01/2025An American Studies that isn't explicitly anti-fascist now is one not worth having. 051
Reposted by markus schwarzThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/01/2025Trump lifted sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Within hours, Netanyahu launched a new invasion.interc.ptTrump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes InvestigatorsTrump lifted sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Within hours, Netanyahu launched a new invasion. 34243153
Reposted by markus schwarzEddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21/01/2025"Delany hadn’t abandoned science fiction to wallow in pornography, as some contended; he’d stopped imagining faraway worlds to describe queer lives deemed unreal in this one." Somehow missed this Chip Delany interview from a couple years back. Well worth reading; a singular genius.web.archive.orgHow Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the CityA visionary novelist and a revolutionary chronicler of gay life, he’s taken American letters to uncharted realms. 46217
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025"Indeed, if the Nazi dances all night, then our resistance requires something other than logic; something other, too, than cultured tsking or frantic bursts of wheel-spinning panic. We need desire — that messy, sometimes un-gentle, self-shattering descent into the underside of reason." 010
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025If anyone asks me again what my dissertation is set against, I am just going to send them these two paragraphs from the inauguration speech. 020
Reposted by markus schwarzAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Wait I thought everyone in German media had a fucking PhD in knowing exactly what a gesture means! Weird that you knew what Greta Thunberg’s stuffy meant but don’t seem to be able to identify identify a Hitler salute 1229647
Reposted by markus schwarzPetrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/... 5053032109
Reposted by markus schwarzJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025This is the world’s richest man who just bought the presidency and seized unprecedented, unaccountable power over government resources. 1632664
markus schwarz @markusschwarz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025This is not the return (as its reach and power have never been gone) but the tech-bro era of empire. Trump speaking of desert landscapes and galaxies to be conquered is a testament to the ongoingness of colonial grammars, with the volume turned up and ready to explode new worlds, again. 110
Reposted by markus schwarzDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time - The fossil fuel industry donated $75m to Trump’s campaign #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second timeIn 2021, Biden had rejoined 2015 treaty that seeks to curb climate crisis effects after Trump first pulled out in 2017 916694