Jelena Subotic
@jelenasubotic.bsky.social
I write books and academic things. OG AI hater. https://jsubotic.com I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨I have a new piece in @coco-journal.bsky.social about how much Nazi-looted art is still in museums across East Central Europe and why these museums refuse to return them to their rightful owners. Part of a special issue ed. by @efinkel.bsky.social and Irena Kalhousova on trauma in IR.
Compounded historical trauma and cultural restitution in international relations - Jelena Subotić, 2026
This article develops the concept of compounded historical trauma to analytically distinguish a single traumatic incident from a succession of interrelated trau...
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I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoI knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
It is also so condescending to men who are portrayed as just dumb fucks who only like to beat things with sticks
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoThere's just really no way to exaggerate how dumb & pathetic & offputting I find everything about this.
Happy anniversary of the capture of the Strait of Hormuz in 1622 by a combined Safavid Empire and British East India Company fleet, to all who celebrate.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3mo agoPremium Newsletter: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852 billion through 2030 to pay for its compute costs, and must pay $75bn a year for Oracle's 7.1GW of Stargate data centers, or Oracle will collapse, destroying its share price and Larry Ellison's entire empire. www.wheresyoured.at/how-openai-k...
OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...
Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing
A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.
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Studying art or pop culture? Going to APSA? Join us Sept 2! I'm chairing a "Studying Cool Stuff Seriously" @interpretivemm.bsky.social short course. Featuring @mweitzel.bsky.social @micahenglish.bsky.social @jelenasubotic.bsky.social @alexislerner.bsky.social @colleenwood.rocks and more
New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped
The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed
Fuck yes!!!! Excited to get my settlement!
Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 4mo agoNew on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!) Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
I would like to volunteer for this, and only this, committee
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo agothis morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.
the top of the pope’s to do list is “excommunicate JD Vance” and you can’t convince me otherwise
Andrew Kinsey@andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Pope is cooking now. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
🚨starting now!🚨 Our panel at #ISA2026 will present our latest special issue on cultural heritage and politics. The special issue editor @jelenasubotic.bsky.social is kicking us off with her presentation.
🚨I have a new article! Here I explain how looted art objects have over time become objects of stigma for some grand European imperial museums, while for others (*cough* the British Museum) they keep on keeping on. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Restitution of looted art in international politics: Benin Bronzes as objects of stigma
Restitution of colonial-looted art has recently regained steam. Accelerated by the Savoy-Sarr report (2018), commissioned by French president Emmanuel Macron, several countries have begun negotiati...
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Now online! Johan Hjelte (Gothenburg) reviews "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" by @jelenasubotic.bsky.social (@academic.oup.com, 2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo agoA statement from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan:
Delighted to announce that I’ll be attempting to fill the very big shoes of my sometime golf partner, Brent Steele, as co-editor of @gsqjournal.bsky.social with my sometime tennis partner, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social. Very excited to work with Jelena, Chris & the awesome GSQ team!
Went on Closer Look with Rose Scott today (Atlanta NPR) to discuss the Iran conflict with her and @jelenasubotic.bsky.social. www.wabe.org/not-americas...
'Not America’s war' : Experts, Closer Look listeners react to US–Israel strikes on Iran
A joint military campaign by the United States and Israel against Iran is rapidly escalating into a broader regional war. The operation, known as Operation Epic Fury, began on February 28, 2026. Since...
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If anyone is interested I just did a 1hr call in talk show on my local Atlanta NPR station about this shitshow in Iran
'Not America’s war' : Experts, Closer Look listeners react to US–Israel strikes on Iran
A joint military campaign by the United States and Israel against Iran is rapidly escalating into a broader regional war. The operation, known as Operation Epic Fury, began on February 28, 2026. Since...
wabe.org
oh my goodness she seems to think Special Envoy for the Shield is a real job
I am at the airport and this was my first thought. My second was I am a little sad I don’t get to yell “Nazi Barbie”every time I see her staring from those TSA screens.
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
This is 💯 a chatGPT hallucination because these morons know nothing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoKristi Noem: "It reminded me of the quote that is often attribute to George Orwell that states, 'People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.'"
“All of the couples were somewhere between happy and thrilled.” This guy.
Mamdani Surprises Couples at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau
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