The good people @muftah.org had me and @dbessner.bsky.social on to talk the "Fascism Debate"! Even w/ a lot on the cutting room floor, and so much more to cover, it's a pretty deep dive. I hope generative at addressing this question and why it's important, analytically and politically...

Muftah Magazine@muftah.org · 4mo ago

This is an excellent dissection of the fabled ‘fascism debate’ in America, India, Israel, and beyond featuring two voices whose critical disagreements offer much needed clarity. From @proteanview.muftah.org

The good people @muftah.org had me and @dbessner.bsky.social on to talk the "Fascism Debate"! Even w/ a lot on the cutting room floor, and so much more to cover, it's a pretty deep dive. I hope generative at addressing this question and why it's important, analytically and politically...

Muftah Magazine@muftah.org · 4mo ago

This is an excellent dissection of the fabled ‘fascism debate’ in America, India, Israel, and beyond featuring two voices whose critical disagreements offer much needed clarity. From @proteanview.muftah.org

This is an excellent dissection of the fabled ‘fascism debate’ in America, India, Israel, and beyond featuring two voices whose critical disagreements offer much needed clarity. From @proteanview.muftah.org

On Fascism with Daniel Bessner and Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Episode 15 of the Protean View podcast

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This brilliant article by @materialistjew.bsky.social lives rent-free (ha ha) in my head during discussions like this. Living within American borders does not necessarily mean you're not part of the colony. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-e...

The Extractive Circuit | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Although capitalism promises a cheap, efficient path to plenty, it delivers a costly, privatized system based on impossible inputs in a finite natural world.

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Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The problem with American politics isn’t ultimately the American people. We have a political system which is not designed to represent us or translate what we want into law. Our system doesn’t respond to our demands or interests—and 8 million people showed up this weekend.

I've been offline for health reasons but in light of today's unequivocal, and wholly unjustifiable act of American imperialism against Iran, I wanted to reshare this piece which is sadly still timely two years after it was written...

Brooklyn Institute@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Faculty Writing: Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "Isfahan Tableaux" for @LateLightBISR | An early and yet all too timely preview from issue 2, written in Spring 2024, on Orientalism, imperialism, aesthetics, and American & Israeli aggression against Iran | buff.ly/WuvOpR1

I've been offline for health reasons but in light of today's unequivocal, and wholly unjustifiable act of American imperialism against Iran, I wanted to reshare this piece which is sadly still timely two years after it was written...

Brooklyn Institute@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Faculty Writing: Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "Isfahan Tableaux" for @LateLightBISR | An early and yet all too timely preview from issue 2, written in Spring 2024, on Orientalism, imperialism, aesthetics, and American & Israeli aggression against Iran | buff.ly/WuvOpR1

Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Race, Caste, and Capitalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

What explains the persistence of racial inequality, throughout time and across the most diverse societies? For much of the 20th century, the predominant assumption in the United States was that race f...

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There is no defense of Syracuse's actions and no excuse to not support Sultana's full exoneration and reinstatement. Proud to have signed this early and easily.

Cristina Temenos@ctemenos.bsky.social · 9mo ago

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

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(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | buff.ly/LBvGC7P

A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions

Ajay Singh Chaudhary@materialistjew.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions

Ajay Singh Chaudhary@materialistjew.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

@materialistjew.bsky.social latest song I wrote inspired in part by your work www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/s...

From the FolkPunk community on Reddit: The 11th Hour

Explore this post and more from the FolkPunk community

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Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.

Schrodinger’s Element | Ajay Singh Chaudhary

In her new book, Thea Riofrancos homes in on the extraction of lithium—and the thorny problem of an ecologically sound energy transition

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In great company among the initial 300+ signatures to this effort to pressure the NYTimes to live up to the barest standards of journalistic integrity in their coverage of Palestine. You can be too by signing here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?

What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?

rare masahiro sakurai fail...

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

Ross Tweets Games@rosstweetsgames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

Ross Tweets Games@rosstweetsgames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Turns out the reason all the climbable rock faces in Ghost of Yōtei are white is because they are covered in bird shit. Genius.

I watched Southland Tales per @williammparis.bsky.social's recommendation last night and, as promised, it was completely unhinged and I loved everything about its radical commitment to being totally incomprehensible and baffling. art is so cool I love human beings

I revisit this piece -- on Doom 2016, by @materialistjew.bsky.social -- at least once a year. it has become bedrock, and only more relevant lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...

And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...

Grief: a catalyst for social change? – DW – 06/27/2025

On this special edition of DW's Inside Europe, we take a break from the news to explore grief as a lens for understanding global events. Author Sarah Jaffe joins host Kate Laycock to unpack how loss—f...

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Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Imperial Entanglements: an Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (In-Person) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Having several origins—from literary studies to Marxist historiography to anti-colonial thought itself—postcolonial theory examines marginality, difference, migration, slavery, servitude, identity, ra...

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Teaching this course again after 3 years - still a few spots left! Scholarships available. Come learn about the political and social dimensions of cancer research, and why after more than fifty years of the War on Cancer, victory is still elusive. Sign up at the link below.

Brooklyn Institute@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Cancer-Industrial Complex: Biology, Medicine, and Business | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/x4B7Xsx

This was a super fun and fascinating interview with Thea on her new book and the many thorny but vital issues it raises...

The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 10mo ago

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

"we have been zealous for bad causes"

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters." In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south. That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.

Zionists prepare for Yom Kippur by doubling down on as many crimes against humanity as possible. Then repent their inability to fit in just a few more.