Gavin Jacobson of Equator in conversation with political philosopher Michel Feher and anthropologist Chowra Makaremi about the events in France. Essential reading for those who want to understand the meaning of October 17 — then (1961) and now (2026). www.equator.org/articles/fra...
‘We Are the Children of the Algerians You Didn't Drown’ • EQUATOR
Two leading thinkers on France’s politics of revolt and the spectre of fascism
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Anthropologist and CNRS tenured researcher Chowra Makaremi @chowmak.bsky.social and philosopher and cofounder of @diagrammes.bsky.social Michel Feher @michelfeher.bsky.social on France’s politics of revolt and the spectre of fascism
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · last wk.On 17 October, French protesters chanted: “We are the children of the Algerians you didn’t drown in the Seine.” Our own Gavin Jacobson in conversation with Chowra Makaremi and Michel Feher on the revolt, the crackdown and the spectre of fascism: www.equator.org/articles/fra...
If you aren't already subscribing to equator you should be. This magazine has attitude. Writing by South African Nobel prizewinner JM Coetzee www.equator.org/articles/dus...?
Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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check out this reading group! 🔥
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...
This is going to be so great. Guests include: Esmat Elhalaby, Rebecca Karl, Mrinalini Sinha, Geoff Mann, Richard Seymour, Susanna Hecht, David Wallace-Wells, Laleh Khalili, Sunil Amrith, Chinnaiah Jangam, Alexander Zevin, Deepti Singh, Ericka Beckman and others!
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...
This is going to be so great. Guests include: Esmat Elhalaby, Rebecca Karl, Mrinalini Sinha, Geoff Mann, Richard Seymour, Susanna Hecht, David Wallace-Wells, Laleh Khalili, Sunil Amrith, Chinnaiah Jangam, Alexander Zevin, Deepti Singh, Ericka Beckman and others!
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...
This fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...
Late Victorian Holocausts • Events • EQUATOR
6 Sep 2026
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in my favorite new magazine @equatormag.bsky.social
The European Review of Books@europeanreview.bsky.social · 4mo ago« In recognition of the fact that football causes heart attacks, the Estadio Azteca was built near Mexico City’s Institute of Cardiology, » writes Juan Villoro in @equatormag.bsky.social Day 22 of europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-footnotes/
For @equatormag.bsky.social, I interviewed Antonio Spadaro (Vatican Undersecretary, papal confidant, and co-author of a book on faith with Martin Scorsese) about the theological and geopolitical stakes of the pope’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. www.equator.org/articles/to-...
To Dwell in Possibility • EQUATOR
A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age
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The senior Vatican advisor @antoniospadaro.bsky.social talks to @gavjacobson.bsky.social about the Pope’s AI encyclical – which radically critiques both Silicon Valley transhumanism and Trumpism
@equatormag.bsky.social is for both people who are curious about the world, and those who wish they were. It is for the politically homeless, the ones seeking a moral oasis among the navel-gazing necropolitics of Western corporate media. It is also for those who'd rather be nomads.
On the Occasion of a Magazine • EQUATOR
In a previously unpublished essay, Thomas Mann reflects on America’s ‘terrifying moral decline’
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i somehow give equator money yet forgot to follow them on bsky - anyway if you would like to read internationalist leftist thought that isn't infested by dumb parochial tankie nonsense, i cannot recommend equator highly enough. invaluable.
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 5mo agoUnder the cover of an information blackout, the Islamic Republic is brutally cracking down on – and disappearing – organisers and dissidents. Sahar Delijani writes about an ongoing hidden war in Iran.
Equator is a marvellous publication.
‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’ • EQUATOR
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons
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If you are looking for new online magazines to read, Equator just launched and looks very promising www.equator.org/about/what-w...
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David Wolf, thank you for introducing me to @equatormag.bsky.social. I haven't stopped reading this magazine since this edition of the SLR. They are consistently producing incredible writing & reporting the most interesting stories I'm reading in (digital) print right now.
The Sunday Long Read@thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 8mo agoMorning! We've got a collection of awesome stories for you curated by this week's guest editor, David Wolf. David is the editor of the Long Read, The Guardian’s flagship longform section. Enjoy his picks! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
This is one of the smartest things I have read in many years. Thanks to @andisheh.com for unknowingly turning me on to @equatormag.bsky.social!
Good Jews, Bad Jews • EQUATOR
What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism
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Equator is fast becoming a regular read for me, and this conversation about Mali and the Sahel juntas was particularly interesting
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 6mo ago“The junta can no longer offer a solution to this crisis, and it has in fact turned into an obstacle to a solution” - a conversation with Rahmane Idrissa about the extremist offensive in Mali.
Great analysis of Orban's defeat from Ivan Krastev c.o. @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Mittel Man • EQUATOR
What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe?
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I signed up for free for @equatormag.bsky.social when it launched but I have so consistently read & enjoyed the articles that show up in my inbox that I just started paying. Well-written and thoughtful and interesting pieces from around the world: www.equator.org
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From the @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement and damn, was that ever proven 100% correct in short order.
"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 11mo ago"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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@naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists confronted the horrors of the First World War – and why their work speaks to us today: ”Evisceration was as real and material for many of these young artists as their evident desire to burn it all down.” www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful. So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning... Enjoy!
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Good people here, well worth your time
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · last yr."Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new." Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration. Join us: www.equator.org
This is so needed. Can’t wait!
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · last yr."Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new." Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration. Join us: www.equator.org
Equator Magazine just launched today. It’s the sort of venture we need like we need air- erudite, cosmopolita, merciless and brave. Congratulations my brilliant friends @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org
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Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org
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