Those mountains are older than the concept of trees and bones and you WILL respect them
Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 2d agoIt's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains
Andrew Alan Johnson
@andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Stockholm University. Senior historian, Firaxis. Water, ghosts, ruins, games. สนใจเรื่องไทย แม่น้ำโขง https://andrewalanjohnson.com https://www.dukeupress.edu/mekong-dreaming
Kris Lorischild@direkris.itch.io · 2d ago
I’ve just published a new article on the ethnography of the weird, looking at ghosts, dreams, and what it means to take ethnography seriously. Out in Cultural Anthropology, open access. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
View of Encounters at the Edge of Night: An Ethnography of the Weird | Cultural Anthropology
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This is the stuff. Right here. This is a relevant issue small enough to fix, but huge enough to make a difference. This is how local governance should be.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d agoIf it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
Colleges should not have athletics. period. DI and DII athletics programs are a financial drain on universities. Competitive sports bears no relation to our academic mission. Take that $ and give it to expanding need-based financial aid. #edusky #academicsky
94% of Division I Athletics Programs Lost Money
Minnesota State at Mankato trims 60 jobs, U. of Alaska cuts out-of-state tuition, and visa limits pose revenue risk.
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It's interesting moving from West Virginia, where all the industrial jobs getting offshored to places like Thailand created a certain Rust Belt vibe growing up, to suburban Bangkok where all the industrial jobs getting offshored to China has created a very similar Rust Belt-y atmosphere
Here’s the plan: 1) more sausages in games. Better cheese. 2) smoking now mandatory. Techno or jazz now mandatory. 3) all characters wear tracksuits. 4) philosophical deep dives in every game, regardless of genre
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.Balkanize the video game industry aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Important correction to a number of posts I have seen today: Your grandfather did not leave you PS2 games, he left you stamps. There is no such thing as a “childhood Wii U.” The Wii U came out two years ago. There is no such thing as 00s dad rock. Dad rock is from the 1970s.
Continuing on the ethnography kick, we now move on to @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social's Ghosts of the New City about the unsettled physical and spiritual landscapes of post-97 crash Chiang Mai, a city I'm looking forward to learning more about
The Weekly Read is "Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations" by @drgokcegunel.bsky.social, which analyzes how inventive infrastructure embodies broader imaginations of energy futures. Read it for free thanks to the De Gruyter eBound Foundation. buff.ly/QICbbIj
If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 2w agoBecause the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
Khun Chang Khun Phaen: sex, war, magic, love triangles.
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 2w agook let's do a discourse: what historical text absolutely needs the big budget film treatment, AND will create the need for a review by a scholar in a prestige publication? for medieval Europe, either: -- Song of Roland -- Book of Margery Kempe
This goes for us grown-ups too. Read outside of your comfort zone. Read outside your favorite genres. Read in another language. For me, this year I got into Miranda July and Moshfegh - not “my” genres. And loved them. I try to read in French and Thai as much as I can.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease read..... #BookSky
Film you’ve watched more than six times. Hard mode. youtu.be/mnOLUnExHvw?...
A Hundred Years of Safety - Delta's 2025 Centennial Safety Video
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Jeremy Cohen@jeremyfcohen.bsky.social · 2w agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
"Before he was Prufrock, he was ... J. ALFRED."
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3w agoStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
“But the Odyssey was successful and a win over the right-wing chuds who are awful! We can’t critique it for not getting the nuance in the poem!” ^ This is a Calvinist take. “There are absolutely good people and absolutely evil people and we need to defend the good and shun the evil.”
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Actual diversity in academic departments doesn’t line up with political stances. It’s more like “I’m reading Buddhist critiques of existentialism; she’s doing economic anthropology; he’s doing Kristeva and horror. We three are in charge of the speaker series.”
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We joined 58 other press freedom and human rights organisations, including@rsf.org in urging Thailand to halt the deportation of Chinese investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong. Bai faces risk of political persecution, arbitrary detention and torture if returned to #China. Journalism is not a crime.
"Grift" is entirely accurate here. An academic expert in my field would normally go for $500-$1k. A mid-range person (like me) might go for $0-$500. $50k is unthinkable, both to ask for and to give. These kinds of fees are why Turning Point, CR etc couldn't get speakers to campus, not "woke."
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd@llassabe.bsky.social · 4w agoPsst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k
Really great post from Pamela Corey, writing for the MoMA, on the Mekong and art (and really happy to see my own work cited here)! post.moma.org/mekong-and-m...
Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regionality in Southeast Asia - post
Alongside technocratic and geopolitical frames, other epistemologies exist [for understanding the Mekong]. For riverine communities, the Mekong holds cosmological significance and yields situated know...
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James Cameron's Aliens was released 40 years ago today. 40 years of Burke.
Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
Alt: Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
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