Emma Pask
@egpask.bsky.social
historical anthropologist: Texas, land, bats, ecology, myths, technoscience, disease
THE ASSET CLASS publishes today! The book is a roving investigation of private equity, a surreptitious realm of finance that has infiltrated almost every corner of our lives…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcNL... guess I don't need to write the book about the range anymore
Earl Sweatshirt, SURF GANG - Home on the Range
YouTube video by Earl Sweatshirt
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straight fire from Melinda Cooper as usual
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
check out my new essay wrestling with Texas history in @publicbooks.bsky.social out today, on Juneteenth. www.publicbooks.org/lone-star-fu...
Lone Star Futures - Public Books
Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has unfortunately also been a place where those liberties find some of their ends.
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especially loved this, wish that I had written it myself. /2
New at PB, @egpask.bsky.social reviews “Texas: An American History” (@yalepress.bsky.social), which shows how the state’s obsession with telling its own history in the present is a central political tool.
Lone Star Futures
Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has unfortunately also been a place where those liberties find some of their ends.
publicbooks.org
a little preview of my research is out with @engagement-anthro.bsky.social today aesengagement.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/d...
Damage Control: A Million Bats and Not-So Public Health at a Texas Prison
This paper by Emma Pask examines the troubling disparity between the state protection afforded to a bat colony in a former cotton warehouse and the neglect of incarcerated men at Huntsville Prison.…
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During the past six years taxpayers have spent at least $472.4 million to resolve police misconduct lawsuits, setting a new record, according to a WTTW News analysis. news.wttw.com/2025/02/10/f...
Final Tally: Chicago Taxpayers Spent At Least $107.5M to Resolve Police Misconduct Lawsuits in 2024, Analysis Finds
During the past six years taxpayers have spent at least $472.4 million to resolve police misconduct lawsuits, setting a new record, according to a WTTW News analysis.
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Anyone who did a PhD at the University of Chicago knows what a loss this is. chicagomaroon.com/45313/news/b...
Bill Callahan, Former Woodlawn Tap Owner, Dies at 78
Callahan, who worked at and later operated the Hyde Park bar for 55 years, passed away on January 14.
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CSN, one of Canada’s largest labor federations, believes Amazon’s move to shutter its Quebec warehouses is intended to stifle organizing efforts elsewhere — and it is determined to hold Amazon accountable: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0... 1/2
Amazon Lays off 4,500 Workers in Quebec to Bust Their Union
Faced with the prospect of being forced to sign a labor contract as early as this summer, Amazon has gone to extreme lengths to evade its obligations under Quebec’s labor code. On January 22, it annou...
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Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day. @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social
The Long American Counter-Revolution - Boston Review
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
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In The Leftovers, "desirability emerges through strategies that individuals use to survive the end of the world," write @damfales.bsky.social and @lilyscherlis.bsky.social. "Hotness functions as more than a reality effect: it indexes characters’ shattered expectations" post45.org/2024/12/hotn...
Hotness at the End of the World - Post45
We are not over Nora Durst. But watching just the pilot of The Leftovers, you wouldn’t get it. When the show starts, Nora is the poster child for the collective grief associated with two percent of th...
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Now accepting pitches for future issues. Got an idea? Invite us to your party, and let’s build Limn 13 together. Website for more details.
over the moon to have been awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for my forthcoming book - alongside such a brilliant group of writers. You can read more about it here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...
