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Marc Garrett

@mgarrett.bsky.social
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Researcher in post-digital culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1h
It is very cute seeing people receive their copies of the field guide!!
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1h
Burnham clears path to EU summit with post-Brexit breakthrough ft.trib.al/UvmTBdE
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Burnham clears path to EU summit with post-Brexit breakthrough
UK and Brussels to go ahead with key November meeting after agreeing to kick talks on industrial subsidies into next year
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 1h
I don’t think this is a good idea
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 5h
the genius Sophie Abromowitz is back with an essay on Resident Evil and addiction
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Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector
“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus...
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/09/2026
Two exhibitions at the Puffin Foundation Center chronicle 250 years of organizing, social movements, and civic engagement in the city.
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Museum of the City of New York Inaugurates New Activism Center
Two exhibitions at the Puffin Foundation Center chronicle 250 years of organizing, social movements, and civic engagement in the city.
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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old." @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/09/adac...
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The Last Revolutionary Filmmaker
Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politicall...
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 28/09/2026
Free to read: 'The Rise of the Chatbot Professor', a think-piece by Christof Royer. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/christo...
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Think-Piece: Christof Royer, ‘The Rise of the Chatbot Professor’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
By Christof Royer
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"That the work of art is a commodity like any other is, from the standpoint of the market, not false. The commodity character of the work of art is indeed part of its material support. After postmodernism, autonomy cannot be assumed. It must instead be asserted." Nicholas Brown
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 28/09/2026
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused #Climate
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New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Germany is building a digital Noah’s Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2026
For only $5 a month you can ensure EFF's lawyers and activists are prepared to defend your right to speak freely online. eff.org/join-m
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Defend Privacy and Free Speech
Renew Your Support for Online Rights Thanks for renewing your support towards our mission to defend civil liberties and human rights online! Use the same email address to...
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really appreciate the Guardian's continued focus on what's happening in Gaza
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We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us
Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/09/2026
Be careful, friends—this scam is everywhere writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...
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Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware
I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
By Magnus Hirschfeld. A collection that explores the intricacies of gender identity and expression. Includes #MagnusHirschfeld's pioneering studies on gender transitions, intersexuality, and transvestism, Illustrated by Max Tilke. #TransDayOfVisibility www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXM423VD
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Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part
Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part
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Investigate DOGE @investigatedoge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Elon Musk and his DOGE operatives ran roughshod over our government...& created real-world disasters that impacted 100s of thousands of lives. We need lawmakers who will commit to issuing subpoenas & launching immediate investigations into Musk’s actions...” www.aol.com/articles/adv...
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Advocacy Group Demands Congressional Pledges To Investigate Elon Musk’s DOGE - AOL
An advocacy coalition known as the Investigate DOGE campaign is urging congressional lawmakers and midterm candidates to commit to formal investigations into the Department of Government Efficiency, t...
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Old, bad habits that you have from 2025-era agents" *All your painfully-learned 'agentic engineering" was a one-year fad. How often do you plan to buy into this? You could have bought meme-stocks with one percent of that effort youtu.be/jDG7L5HuBnk?...
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I talked to 50 people building with AI. It’s a mess.
YouTube video by Less Bitter
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kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty pumped about our new research project, about people's experiences with once-ubiquitous technologies & what happens when they disappear. First up: the landline. We just expanded the project website big time! Take a look & get in touch if you might want to collaborate: www.everyobject.org
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Every Object an Archive
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
I wrote about the press' irresponsible AI doomsday coverage:
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Lazy Journalism At The 'End Of The World'
U.S. corporate media long ago gave up on accurately describing abject reality.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target losing gamblers. This is yet another example of how online behavioral advertising hurts real people.
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026
As the Israeli Prime Minister addressed the United Nations, dwelling at length on New York’s mayor, crowds outside demanded his arrest. hellgatenyc.com/netanyahu-ho...
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 24/09/2026
Over the past 15 years, the coastal communities of the Caribbean have undertaken the arduous task of learning what they can about sargassum and converting the waste various products. However, climate change is making the task increasingly sisyphean. (Published 2024) www.thexylom.com/post/turning...
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Caribbean Countries are Turning Seaweed Trash into Bricks and Fertilizer
“There is a lot of money out there, and now we just must mobilize it towards the supply chain.”
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24/09/2026
“I would be a voice that speaks up on so many of the issues that I know young people care about.” Zack Polanski on what he would do for young people if elected as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we look into the reporting behind our feature on the women still struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
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Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women’s Lives
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we look into the reporting behind our feature on the women still struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.
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The Amargi @theamargi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Inside Jinwar, a women-only village in Rojava built as a refuge from domestic violence, forced marriage, and displacement. Residents say spaces like it are needed more than ever as women's protections come under threat. www.theamargi.com/posts/jinwar...
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Jinwar: Inside Rojava’s women’s village
Today, as it is every evening, the council of Jinwar is meeting to discuss the day’s work and plan for tomorrow. Although it is already September, temperatures in the Kurdish-majority region of…
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 24/09/2026
The life, work, messages, and warnings of James Baldwin, a writer and author you need to know about junoryleejournalism.com/2026/03/16/j...
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James Baldwin | “Confronting with passion the Conundrum of Life”
“All Western nations have been caught in a lie; the West has no moral authority.”
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 24/09/2026
The story of the business of slave labor in America junoryleejournalism.com/2026/01/15/p...
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From Plantations to Corporations: The Business of Forced Labor
“You just sell it like you were selling cars or real estate or hamburgers.”…
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 24/09/2026
A journalism piece about punk musician, Elliott Smith, a folk punk artist you need to be listening to junoryleejournalism.com/2026/07/12/e...
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ELLIOTT SMITH | “Headlights Burning Bright Ahead of You”
“I’m never gonna know you know. But I’m gonna love you anyhow.”…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
better yet: plagiarized
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #books inventingrealityediting.com/2...
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21 Awesome Tips on Formatting Paper Books
Click the title for the full article.• Wait to format text until editing is done One rookie mistake made by many self-publishing authors is that they start formatting their manuscrip…
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Patrick Gerard @patrikgerard.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New post (thanks to @annieknk.bsky.social for her edits+feedback) looking at the structural forces that make misinformation and disinformation so hard to combat, why current responses like fact-checking keep falling short, and what that means for American democracy. open.substack.com/pub/american...
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American Unreality — Part 2: The Social Gravity of the Lie
Springfield and the Social Production of Reality
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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@irishtimes.com Can you please learn to distinguish between e-bikes (legal, safe, convenient, limited to 25km/h, you have to pedal) and electric motorbikes. The picture is of the first type, the story is about the second www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Man and teenager arrested after reports of e-bikes being driven dangerously in Belfast
Police chief commends actions of officers that ‘prevented further immediate danger to road users’
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act. cnn.it/4762qFb
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Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google’s AI | CNN Business
Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such...
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 20/09/2026
Well done again 🇪🇸 Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence euroweeklynews.com/2026/09/19/s...
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Spain’s new weapon against drink spiking: an ice cube that traps the drug as evidence
A Madrid startup has built an ice cube that turns blue, bitter and solid the instant a drink is spiked, trapping the drug as evidence for police.
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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Thanks for your wonderful recovery, translation and analysis work that has helped me and many other scholars and activists do our work.” ─Deborah Meem, Prof. of Women's Studies, U of Cincinnati. Magnus Hirschfeld * Karl Ulrichs * Trans #MagnusHirschfeld www.amazon.com/dp/B083SMVMQ9
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The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress (Part Two of Three Parts)
Amazon.com: The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress (Part Two of Three Parts) eBook : Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael: Kindle Store
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If a government agency uses neural dust to extract a map of your cognitive architecture, is it theft of intellectual property? /s?
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you read the replies you’ll see that Pinker was always a race science supporter, it’s just that nobody paid any attention. Maybe we should start noticing when celebrity scientists are fans of pseudoscientific ideas, and adjust our opinion of their competence accordingly
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Socialism is not about delivering a nice policy agenda that makes a capitalist economy work more effectively. Socialism is about shifting power from capital to labour – with policies a means to this end." Excellent @graceblakeley.substack.com piece. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
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How to Fix a Broken British Economy
Andy Burnham has correctly diagnosed the problem – the country is run in the private rather than the public interest. Here’s what he must do if he really wants to end the blight of neoliberalism.
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Protyus A. Gendher @survivorliteracy.com · 15/09/2026
We tend to imagine that power began with kings, armies, and governments. But the truth is older, simpler, and far more durable. #power #control #sociology
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The Hostage–Pledge System: The Original Operating System of Power
The hostage-pledge system, foundational for early European power dynamics, utilized human beings as collateral to secure treaties and alliances. This method fostered stability and governance through the threat of harm to hostages. Its principles, emphasizing conditional safety and political leverage, have evolved into modern systems of domination and control.
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Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance @ceacg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We now welcome abstract submissions to the session "Politics of Addiction in a Global Digital World" at the 2027 World Congress of Sociology. The congress will take place on 4-10 July in Chonnam National University, South Korea. Find more information on ISA's website 👉 bit.ly/46sDgQV
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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The data center is the visible infrastructure of an economy that seems to need a community’s resources while needing few (if any) of its members, Stephen Holmes @stholmes0707.bsky.social explains. bit.ly/4h1wVRm
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The People Not Worth Replacing
Stephen Holmes sees a critical difference between otherwise similar political reactions to immigration and data centers.
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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This link should do the trick: prosyn.org/ClHmf6o?h=AE...
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When Words Are No Longer for Us
Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I started The Prisoner on a whim and oh my god I love The Prisoner.
Title card for The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan smooshed on a beach by a large white inflatable ball.
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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For Part I of the JHI Blog's retrospective on Mrinalini Sinha’s "Specters of Mother India," we present Susan Pedersen’s 2006 review, hitherto unpublished. @dukepress.bsky.social
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Universal Rights and the Specters of Indian Feminism, Part I: A Review by Susan Pedersen
In 1927, an American's polemic sets off a storm in British India; Indian women refuse to be spoken for; their activism transforms the political history of rights....
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pirate crews, charted
Chart of connections between pirate crews. From Rediker's early article, "Under the Banner of King Death" tho reproduced in Villains of All Nations.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"I am but skin & bones..."
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