In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, Noura Erakat discusses the Board of Peace as a template for a new world order.
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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“The destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people is decimating the guardrails that protected us all. Private sovereignty is advancing steadily, while national sovereignties—Venezuela, Cuba, and Lebanon—are undermined and others—Palestine—are preempted from being realized at all.” Noura Erakat:
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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“Freed from the constraints of international law, the Board of Peace can neatly align itself with a longtime Trump family interest: real estate development.” Noura Erakat breaks down the Board of Peace plan for Gaza:
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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“Other models of exit seek to free capital from the cumbersome demands of popular democracy. The Board of Peace is a form of escape, too—in this case, though, from a cumbersome international legal order.” Great piece by Noura Erakat / @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/exi...
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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“The exit model is being built in Palestine but may be intended for the world.” Now online, Noura Erakat on the Board of Peace:
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order.
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“All books end up to varying extents evading—exceeding—the bounds you’ve conceived of for them. For personal, political, cultural reasons I can infer but of which I don’t pretend to be certain, this particular book did so more than any other I’ve ever tried to write.” China Miéville on his latest:
Revenance Event
China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.
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"Few have written as bracingly of the barbarity that is American foreign policy. But it’s Dwight’s method that should command our attention now"
Think Again
Dwight Macdonald’s gift of self-critique.
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“All books end up to varying extents evading—exceeding—the bounds you’ve conceived of for them. For personal, political, cultural reasons I can infer but of which I don’t pretend to be certain, this particular book did so more than any other I’ve ever tried to write.” China Miéville on his latest:
Revenance Event
China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.
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@baherazmy.bsky.social, legal director of @ccrjustice.org, explains how impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for these gross human rights violations by the Trump administration:
Sadistic, Blatant, and Wanton
Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.
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Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 6d ago"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
In the @bostonreview.bsky.social, JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine discuss the rise and fall of tech worker power.
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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watching how some Dem consultants are advising candidates this cycle, worth taking a few minutes to read (or re-read) @gelliottmorris.com on the Strategist Fallacy www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Voters don’t think like strategists.
G. Elliott Morris responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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This Monday, September 21st, I'll be talking to @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine at Harvard Bookstore about their new book Against Tech Oligarchy. They've written the first sustained analysis of the tech worker movement and it's a very important book www.harvard.com/event/tan-re...
JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store and Boston Review welcome JS Tan—Ph.D. Candidate at MIT whose work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian—and Clarissa Redwine—Kickstarter union organizer and cofounder of the tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers—for a discussion of their new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry. They will be joined in conversation by Ben Tarnoff—technologist and author of numerous books, including Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian.
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“The radicalization of tech’s billionaires can be traced to the moment they saw their own employees turn against them.” @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine on the labor movement that fueled the techlash:
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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En annan bra text är On Post-Fasicsm: hur dagens fascism karaktäriseras, inte av massmöten, utan försöken att separera rättigheter och representation från det juridiska medborgarskapet i förmån för ett etnos. Relevant ang. Tidös respons på valförlusten www.bostonreview.net/articles/g-m...
On Post-Fascism
Its central characteristic is hostility to universal citizenship.
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ishaj@athunderoussecret.bsky.social · last wk.Reread the late, great Gáspár Miklós Tamás Telling the Truth about Class (2006) and was reminded of this absolute banger on (anglo) academic self-perception and the global socialist movement socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
Yuri Ivanovich Manin, most philosophical among the creators of the brilliant postwar Moscow mathematical school, explicated mathematical understanding with an epigram: “A good proof,” he explained, “is a proof that makes us wiser.”
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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“Talk of earning one’s living by playing doesn’t sound very serious, so mathematicians typically look for a more respectable name for what we seek. Given the subject’s reputation for impenetrability, it might be surprising to learn how often we choose the word understanding.” —Michael Harris
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2w agoMathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.
If the state is going to become a vehicle strong enough to overcome capital, we have to contribute to building that strength - taxes are like union dues. (And I'm with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on needing the state to defeat fossil power.) No one will pay them for you unless you pay them first.
Climate, State, and Utopia
The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.
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[for a more serious discussion of tech worker power, see J.S. Tan and Clarissa Redwine here, and in their forthcoming book, which I have blurbed]
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · last wk.1. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... So Matt Levine had a newsletter yesterday where he suggested that AI labs could "publish papers about how important it is to slow down" to coordinate an effective cartel. I have a Modest Proposal that goes one better.
“For industry elites who had grown frustrated with dealing with their own mutinous employees, Musk’s assault on Twitter’s workforce opened the floodgates, signaling to the rest of the industry that an all-out attack on its workers was not just possible but necessary.”
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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“As the GOP has grown more and more extreme, Democrats have held fast to defending a supposedly vital center—both for moral reasons (compromise and moderation are who we are) and strategic ones (the misguided appeal to the mythical ‘median voter’).” @pastpunditry.bsky.social
The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy.
Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”
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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w agoI would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.
“For industry elites who had grown frustrated with dealing with their own mutinous employees, Musk’s assault on Twitter’s workforce opened the floodgates, signaling to the rest of the industry that an all-out attack on its workers was not just possible but necessary.”
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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Unqualified "superpower" rhetoric is generally co-option by corporations the like, rather than the neurodiversity movement establishment (see @drrobertchapman.bsky.social's essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...) 5/
The Future of Neurodiversity
The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.
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“Talk of earning one’s living by playing doesn’t sound very serious, so mathematicians typically look for a more respectable name for what we seek. Given the subject’s reputation for impenetrability, it might be surprising to learn how often we choose the word understanding.” —Michael Harris
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2w agoMathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.
"We could never have anticipated how quickly the tech elite would dig up the ground from underneath us." Unionize the tech industry — for everyone's sake. It's not a magic bullet but a necessary defense and counterweight against the onslaught. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor.
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'They call the goal AGI, or ASI (artificial superintelligence), but whatever name they choose, its intrinsic worth is measured in money.' Whereas 'Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy.' www.bostonreview.net/articles/kno...
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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