Darren Byler
@dbyler.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
“Autonomy from men is autonomy from capital that uses men’s power to discipline us.” —Silvia Federici Happy International Women’s Day! www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
Every Woman Is a Working Woman - Boston Review
Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.
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NEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Chilling essay from Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar:
Darren Byler@dbyler.bsky.social · last yr.“In the illegal settlements, we find Israelis who [.] are [.] often young families priced out of Tel Aviv real estate. Similarly, affordability meant that the so-called “Gaza Envelope” was again leading in home purchases in Israel only months after October 7th.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
“In the illegal settlements, we find Israelis who [.] are [.] often young families priced out of Tel Aviv real estate. Similarly, affordability meant that the so-called “Gaza Envelope” was again leading in home purchases in Israel only months after October 7th.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
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Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."
“With that kind of access, even a small team can search the entire government for employees whose job titles contain suggestions of wrongthink, or who might resist takeovers or wield bureaucratic tools to slow the pace of change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
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“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
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⭐ New essay on AES Online! ⭐ "Snapshots of Post-Assad Syria" by Charlotte Al-Khalili @sussexuni.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #AnthroSky Read it here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
Snapshots of Post-Assad Syriaby Charlotte Al-Khalili - American Ethnological Society
“Welcome to Syria,” greeted the robust man as he took our passports. He was seated at a counter, behind security glass. The man, unlike the young men carrying
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*️⃣ *️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣ *️⃣ Featuring articles by Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Gil Hizi, Carole McGranahan, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, & Laura A. Meek, w/eds' note by @llwynn.bsky.social, Susanna Trnka, & @kopyor.bsky.social! Find it here!: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...
The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
Today, at a hearing in the South Bangkok Criminal Court regarding the unlawful detention of 43 Uyghur men for 11–12 years, I testified as an expert witness. My statement in English is below. The Thai and Uyghur versions will be posted soon.
For the record this story was originally reported by @capitol.press, who is out with another profile of another Venezuelan refugee with no criminal record who has been sent to Guantanamo for having tattoos:
ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo (SCOOP)
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Getting Andrea Long Chu to stick a fork in Pamela Paul is the critic version of a Mortal Kombat fatality. nymag.com/intelligence...
Goodbye, Pamela Paul
The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
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Bangladesh: "At least five hospitals run with US funding have suspended operations in the Rohingya camps" "...waste management and landfill activities, managed by a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation, have also been suspended a day after the USAID letter was issued..."
Darren Byler@dbyler.bsky.social · last yr.The Rohingya community is being devastated by the suspension of USAID. www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-inf...
Update from WIRED head @katie-drummond.bsky.social. We're hosting a webinar for subscribers w/ our reporters and editors next Thursday, Feb 13 @ 1pm ET.
The Rohingya community is being devastated by the suspension of USAID. www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-inf...
Rohingyas hit by US fund cuts
Trump administration’s executive order to suspend US-funded projects and funding globally has started hitting the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, which is sheltering more than a million Rohingya and tak...
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The Trump administration has tapped Darren Beattie to handle public diplomacy at the State Department. This is an appalling choice for many reasons. One is that Beattie has spent the last few years alternately denying and cheering on China's repression of its #Uyghur community. 1/3
Rush Doshi@rushdoshi.bsky.social · 2y agoThe new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
“The stock price of Geo Group, a private prison operator that sells monitoring technology to ICE, has more than doubled since Mr. Trump won [.] Cellebrite’s shares have also nearly doubled in the past six months and Palantir’s shares have risen nearly 80 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...
The Surveillance Tools That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.
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“The Government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People’s Republic of China [.] warning the group was at real risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment if they are returned.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Thailand must immediately halt deportation of 48 Uyghurs to China: UN experts
GENEVA – The Government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People’s Republic of China, UN experts* said today, warning that the group was at real risk of tort...
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48 Uyghurs face immediate deportation from Thailand to China where they will face persecution. If you work in HE or research, we urge you to sign the statement addressed to the Thai authorities asking for the group of detained Uyghur men to be given safe haven. forms.gle/zWw3GbTvvqiu...
Urgent Researcher Statement on the Status of Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Thailand
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra Office of the Prime Minister, Royal Thai Government Government House 1 Phitsanulok Road Dusit District, Bangkok 10300, Thailand Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampo...
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This is a horrifying prospect. The deportation of Uyghurs in Thailand to the PRC is such a flagrant breach of the principle of non-refoulement.
Darren Byler@dbyler.bsky.social · 2y agoMore details here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/w...
Went long on our two-year investigation into the Uyghur refugee crisis and the reporting behind the story. With @nyrolaelima.bsky.social benmauk.substack.com/p/40-the-lon...
Horrific news coming from Thailand of imminent mass deportation of Uyghur migrants to China where they face long term imprisonment. www.change.org/p/the-petiti...
Sign the Petition
The Petition to Thai Government: Don't Deport Uyghur to China
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@nyrolaelima.bsky.social · 2y ago❗️❗️BREAKING EXCLUSIVE FROM THAILAND'S IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTER Authorities have taken all the other county detainees to another place. Uyghurs are the only ones left in the cell. Deportation is happening NOW.
GEO Group on a post-election earnings call: “We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement, and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.” inthesetimes.com/article/depo...
The Profits of Fear
Trump’s mass deportation plans are a racist racket with deep roots in U.S. history and law.
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WTF. Appalling to see @nytimes.com publish this imperialist drivel. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...
Opinion | O Canada, Come Join Us
Perhaps Trump is not making a threat but offering an opportunity.
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