Anjuli Webster
@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa. Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
On reading... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
What happens to our moral lives when we stop reading books? - ABC listen
According to every available metric, the number of people who read books across almost every demographic in countries like Australia and the United States has fallen precipitously over the last fiftee...
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capitalism has always required cheap labor and resources from a periphery, and the West has maintained that imperial arrangement through violence. it’s imperative that we transition to a post-capitalist economic system. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future Pod:
NASDAQ basically force-loaded about $25 billion of SpaceX stock into passive investor portfolios (aka, people's pension and retirement funds) by jamming SpaceX into its index right at IPO time rather than waiting the standard 30-60 days. Billions of dollars of unrealized losses already.
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2w agooh man passing through the 180 day lockup gate is gonna be a fucking bloodbath lol
"For Musk, the notion that white nations are threatened by non-white contamination is a starting point—something to be reasoned from, not reasoned to."
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Luddite here, looking for some guidance RE reviewing books for publishers that have so-called 'responsible use' AI policies (in this case Springer Nature). @gabriellehecht.bsky.social @drkyliesmith.bsky.social @araujohistorian.bsky.social do you possibly have any advice?
France is the third country to introduce a social media ban for children.
French Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Social Media for Children Under 15
In France, lawmakers passed a bill banning social media for children under the age of 15. The legislation also bans students from using mobile phones in schools. France is the third country to introdu...
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'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians
The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS
The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...
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Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.
forgot to say - video embedded in the cnbc page but you can find it over on our youtube as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XP... (comments spicy as always)
How Elon Musk's AI Empire In Memphis Became A Cautionary Tale
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On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth
Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...
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This is a good read about a strong book, but recognizing Augustine's Africanness never comes easily for western writers.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last mo.‘For some, his continual self-criticism is the admirable outworking of a genuine humility; for others, the overwrought self-doubt of a brilliant thinker slides too easily into unattractive introspection.’ Christopher Kelly on St Augustine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It's wild that the term "Free World" emerged in Western discourse in the 1940s, at a time when the Western European powers exercised authoritarian control over the colonised territories and the US was an apartheid regime with institutionalised racial segregation.
Invictos contra dois campeões do mundo! Fantástico! 👏🏾👏🏾 🇨🇻🦈
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Quinn Slobodian on SpaceX IPO, How Musk’s Wealth Warps the Economy & Fuels “Neo-Fascist” Politics
Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deep...
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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2mo agoI'm on @democracynow.org tomorrow talking about this + other reasons the IPO has been called "hallucinogenic": 💫key person risk with no deputy or successor 💫claim that xAI—lost $5b last year—has total addressable market of $26 TRILLION based on fairytale tech 💫the ways laws could block this all
An important move. Popes have previously apologized for the Church's role in the slave trade (the Jesuits were the single largest holder of enslaved people in the Americas). Leo apologizes for the legitimization of slavery, the theological underpinnings of slaving. www.nbcnews.com/world/pope-l...
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery
History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), which...
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"The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Africans 1418-1839" by Pius Onyemechi Adiele, PhD. A Catholic priest of Ahiara Diocese Mbaise, he obtained his PhD in Church History from the University of Tübingen in Germany. #OpenAccess library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on the #Ovambo #Genocide in #Angola. #colonialism #Portugal #violence #famine bit.ly/4rhHhQl
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Siyabonga Nxumalo on British #Imperialism in #SouthAfrica and the attack on parts of the #ZuluRoyalFamily: cup.org/40QsmSo
Wrote about the proliferation of metaphors of "empire" and "colonialism" to describe digital capitalism and what it might get wrong about both empires and digital capitalism. I suggest there are three missing Cs: comprador, creole, counter-colonization. www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...
In this issue’s In Memoriam section, James Ogude, Susan Kiguli, Ndirangu Wachanga, Brendon Nicholls, and Gilbert Shang Ndi reflect on the life and work of the late Kenyan visionary author and theorist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Read their tributes here: tinyurl.com/2fwmdbrd
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