Nabeel Zuberi
@nabeelzuberi.bsky.social
music listening, films, media, communication, cultural studies
This reflection, from the Nature editorial team, is outstanding. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection
Universities and media organizations need to scrutinize their roles in the events that led to this tragedy.
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Also (and you should have access via your university) this somewhat over-generous long read in the FT from just yeasterday bsky.app/profile/tony...
Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 4d agoJames Orr and the gospel of the new British right - great piece by @helenwarrell.bsky.social and @ramshodgson.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/20e4e472-1...
Architects of hip hop and fast food
Episode 16 - Double Dee and Steinski
YouTube video by fastfoodlegend
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Returned from holiday to find this beauty in the post, which I have the honour of speaking about at Simon’s book launch next month. There’s only one other colleague whose book I’ve aged decades waiting for other than this one, and they know who they are! *cough* @eicathomefinn.bsky.social *cough*
BREAKING: Guardian’s Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk – yet published anyway
BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway
Author Kelechi Okafor has released a series of internal emails showing the Guardian knew how vulnerable Arday was - yet continued anyway
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🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Read an extract from Lauren Martin's new oral history of dubstep, Aftershock: The Seismic Impact Of Dubstep, in which Laurie Osborne aka Appleblim and Sam Shackleton recall the development of their influential Skull Disco label. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...
Read an extract from Aftershock: The Seismic Impact Of Dubstep - The Wire
In this extract, taken from the chapter “Mystical Warriors”, Laurie Osborne aka Appleblim and Sam Shackleton recall the development of their influential Skull Disco label
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Save 30% on #NewBook "We See with the Skin" by Roshanak Kheshti, which examines how Zora Neale Hurston’s understanding of Black skin as both seen and seeing offers radical insight into racialized perception and Black consciousness. buff.ly/cRSJS3j
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Reflecting on his time in Zionist prisons, Basem Khandaqji provides crucial insight into seeing the prison as an alternative site, coercively imposed, for understanding the world. Read the essay in the Jerusalem Quarterly Winter 2025 Issue: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
📢 🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢 🇵🇸 - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
Passing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene | Politics Theory Other
Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's
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OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Before they all quickly forget their role in this predictable tragedy, the issue is about the rightwing media only, it's about the media as a whole in a system in service of white patriarchal cis able supremacy
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 4w agoI'm all for accountability but it's a bit strange that the Guardian is spending so many resources and words covering Arday while cases of unethical behaviour abound in what remains a white boys club environment...
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
Many Lolina favourites since the Hype Williams days with Dean Blunt. Essential EP that reminds me of Cristina's sensibility on Ze.
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YouTube video by Lolina - Topic
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"Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civ...
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
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This article by @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social looks so good. 1st paragraph of abstract:
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor@rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 10mo agoI finally have a peer-reviewed publication to my name! I'd appreciate it if you all would be kind enough to read and share. I'm trying to comment on the reductive nature of the 'apex' form of techno-process driven war that seems to be the limit of martial imagination. doi.org/10.1057/s429...
"The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards" Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab, asks Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo?
The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards
Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab?
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