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Zahid R Chaudhary

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."
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Holly Ranger @themauvedesert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The expression of fateful inevitability is always an invitation, even to those weaker than oneself, to identify with dominating power." On technofascism:
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The first foray into my new book on impunity www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/tec...
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Technofascism — Parapraxis
The Zone of Impunity Zahid R. Chaudhary
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Just a reminder that Anthropic's head of "Faith and Philosophy" asked a room full of transatlantic far-right politicians for ethics feedback this summer: www.desmog.com/2026/06/25/a... @desmog.com
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Anthropic Crowdsourced Ethics Feedback at a Far-Right London Confab
Company’s “faith and philosophy partnerships” lead sought “moral voices” for future AI models at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference.
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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
all your faschismustheorien are lacking if they do no register that fascism promises cuddling huge rabbits in front of fantasy cathedrals
tim pool tweeted zu trump. trump in goldener rüstung hält einen riesigen hasen und kuschelt mit ihm.
der text: "You'll never know want or loneliness again." Trump said. "The world was cruel to you, but you have Trump now."
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The temporary ceasefire has temporarily ceased
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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Fucking monsters to a person. I cannot wait until these criminals are held responsible on a level that makes Big Tobacco’s reckoning look like a slap on the wrist.
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Book Forum: "Paranoid Publics" @zahidrc.bsky.social @criticalnoise2.bsky.social criticalnoise.org/book-forum-z...
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Book Forum: Zahid Chaudhary, Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth – History of the Present
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Parts of this encyclical read like passages from Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.
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Hype, Paranoia, and the Fascist Propensity in Tech
Tech hype quite visibly matches the traits once identified as the disease of modern reason and its collapse into fascist madness, writes Fabian Muniesa.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and collapsing job prospects, AI has become a new avatar of American capitalism
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AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thoughts from me on technofascism, impunity, and The Epstein Class in the latest Parapraxis @parapraxismag.bsky.social and exciting contributions from some really excellent writers and thinkers
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parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Psychoanalytic cults. Cowboy churches. The Epstein Class. Iranian monarchists. Fascist liberals. Clinics and their radicals. Discipline and holding. Getting together, falling apart. Announcing Issue 08: Groups Available for pre-order: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/
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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
excited to announce 'legality and impunity in times of crisis' at UBC later this month. speakers will be discussing political and legal forms of impunity in the current international (dis)order. if you're in so-called vancouver, register to attend here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...
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Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis
This symposium will gather critical legal scholars, psychoanalysts, artists and political theorists from around the world to discuss legality, impunity and crisis in historical and contemporary forms,...
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 12/05/2026
NPR: Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume and rebury their father www.npr.org/2026/05/10/n...
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Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume and rebury their father
The relatives of Hussein Asasa described to NPR how they were forced to exhume and rebury their father when Israeli settlers interfered with his grave.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The financial marketplace of ideas
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“Harvard is pursuing a more integrated strategy — placing new [right wing] faculty directly within existing departments.” You *know* you’re enjoying academic freedom when admins start picking dudes in blue blazers, throwing them into your department meetings, & making you call them your colleague
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2026
New in PN: Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly "The ability of the free press, much less regime propagandists, to grapple with the scale of the loss & its implications is very much in doubt. It’s worth, therefore, laying out the nature of the defeat, who's unwilling to describe it as such, & why."
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Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly
His nonstop bullshitting can't change the facts on the ground.
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Book Forum on Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth, @fordhampress.bsky.social criticalnoise.org/symposium/
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Symposium – History of the Present
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is fundamental reading for anyone interested in a critical theory of so-called «generative AI» and its implications for our understanding of (visual) culture
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Sara Meissner @meiss5.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Earth not looking so hot
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Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This week's net.wars, "The Silicon Valley chronicles", notes the likely pending deathe of Meta's Oversight Board and reviews the shift in Silicon Valley politics laid out in Jacob Silverman's book, Gilded Rage: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/03/t...
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The Silicon Valley chronicles
We should have seen this coming. At Platformer, Casey Newton reports that Meta has discussed pulling funding for the Oversight Board after 2028 after already re
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“As B’Tselem showed in its 2025 report Our Genocide, the dehumanisation of Palestinians is a long-term process. The debate is not about facts. It is about recognising Israel for what it is: a state that systematically kills Palestinians with impunity & erodes international law & basic moral norms.”
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This new edition of "Getting to Yes" is a game-changer!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Really look forward to being in conversation with Prof. Deborah Thomas about On the Semicivilized, at the Middle East Center of U Penn on Tuesday March 31. If you are in Philly, please come by! mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/...
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On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo | Middle East Center
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This close reading of the historical record not only lays out what is at stake in the upcoming Supreme Court's consideration of "birthright citizenship," it also points to why the Trump administration is so adamant about censoring history. They can't handle the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
“But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending…studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers &organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning”
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Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Open call for the full ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on the Jerusalem Post. This is Israeli political culture, and as the author note: “This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science.” Genocide as as a science.
Seen in this context, the prospect of deradicalization is nothing more than a forlorn hope for avoiding the harsh reality, which is the following:
The only way Israel can ensure how the Gaza Strip will be governed, and who will govern it, is to govern it itself. Moreover, the only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of
"another people" is to remove "the other people" from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself.
This is the only feasible path to durable deradicalization of Gaza.
This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science.
The writer spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense
establishment, is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, a member of the Israel Defense & Security Forum
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This happened to me yesterday when this company secretly recorded a scholarly seminar I hosted on Zoom and posted it. I was able to get it removed, but WTF.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Text mining before the age of LLM training.
Detail from a woodcut from Dürer's Apocalypse, showing a man (St John) devouring a book. Source: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-uer-dr-ah-0333-5
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This was a bit of a labour. First drafted in the first days of the trump in a fever that is largely gone from this version. But insurance, finance, theory and a Stuart hall cameo survive if you like that kind of thing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/03/2026
BREAKING: A jury in Los Angeles finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial.
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Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial
A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services.
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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Coming Soon! FinTech Capital, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, accounts for the rise and ubiquity of fintech and its global transformation of everyday financial transactions. The book is out in July in the US, and in September in the UK. Available for pre-order here: tinyurl.com/bdz2pjn5
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Fintech Capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
OpenAI's discontinuing its video model #Sora just a few months after a spectacular deal with Disney shows just how little these AI companies care about their so-called products. AI video apps are, to quote Hito Steyerl, «onboarding tools»—their function is less commercial than ideological … 1/
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters."
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Jameson: it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism Trump: why not both?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:
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FBI Teaches Agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims Are 'Violent, Radical'
The FBI is teaching its agents that ordinary American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that Islamic charity is no more than a “fundin...
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David Fasteson @davidfasteson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This new article was written by a professor at Colby College. Dr. Jacobs has written multiple books. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Bridging the Red-Blue Divide, One Concrete Deed at a Time
The evidence is in: working together to solve local problems reduces polarization.
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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame
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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Next week: Noura Erakat gives the Edward Said Memorial lecture at Princeton @sjp-princeton.bsky.social @princeton.edu
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 20/03/2026
To future-proof my book contract (better safe than sorry), I added an AI clause that says AI tools of any kind cannot be used in the review or preparation of my book (also no genAI art can be used for cover, etc) Very grateful to @slstalter.bsky.social for example from her most recent contract.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/03/2026
Check out this new report published today providing the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how #academicfreedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher ed. 👀 This report is useful for anyone hoping to collectively bargain meaningful AF protections.
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New Report: Academic Freedom and Collective Bargaining
A new report co-released by the AAUP and the National Center provides the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how academic freedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements acros...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/03/2026
The notion of an “Epstein class” has already damaged the reputations of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and anyone else who showed up in the Justice Department’s document dump. The fallout could last for years, if not decades.
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Why the Epstein Files Fallout Keeps Growing
Business leaders have blamed a range of villains for public anger toward the status quo, but it’s past time they take some responsibility.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump’s team of Epstein class advisors says it out loud more often than you’d think: “consumers are the last of our concern right now”
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