Norma Musih
@normamusih.bsky.social
AI, Visual Culture, and Digital Media. Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.
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Prompt Culture: From Lines to Surfaces in AI Image Generation - Norma Musih, 2026
This article introduces ‘prompt culture’ as an emergent ecosystem at the intersection of artificial intelligence, language, market economy, and visual culture. ...
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Podcasts generated from the empty PDF file revealed the underlying template NotebookLM uses to generate its podcasts. The deep voice starts the podcast: "All right, so topic redacted, awaiting remaining source material." There was nothing in the source material. dataverse.no/file.xhtml?p...
New article out! 🌍"Resisting climate imaginaries: future compass memes as combinatory mechanisms for imagining otherwise" co-authored with Tommaso Trillò and Blake Hallinan These aren't predictions, they are invitations for imagining otherwise. Link in comments 👇
My brilliant friend Tal Zalmanovich wrote a brilliant book: Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990. This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.
I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky
Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Important article by Irit Katz www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - Irit Katz - Gaza, Stripped: Displacement, Destruction, and Necro-Humanitarianism
Among the modes of violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza Strip in the aggression that followed the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, three had specific spatial dimensions of humanitarian implication...
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A short on the history of Lyd and the excellent film Lyd by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, a film that remaind us that there is another way, there always was. www.instagram.com/reel/DPRchQz...
academicsforpeace on Instagram: "What happened to Al-Lyd, and why does it still matter? Dr. Norma Musih (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) breaks down how the 1948 Na…"
What happened to Al-Lyd, and why does it still matter? Dr. Norma Musih (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) breaks down how the 1948 Nakba transformed a thriving Palestinian city into a symbol of loss—and resistance. Comments promoting violence or vulgarity will be deleted.#AMA #AcademicsforPeace #reels #fyp #explainervideo #explainer #History #peaceView all comments
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And in the middle of yet another catastrophe, a new publication, co-authored with Louise Bethlehem: Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in theshadow of catastrophe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe
This essay begins by exploring the collaborative art installation, ‘Sediments,’ by a Palestinian citizen of Israel and two Jewish Israelis, Nawal Arafat, Maayan Tsadka and Leoni Schein, shown in Ha...
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Important to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" jacobin.com/2024/01/shau...
Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism
Defenders of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza have attempted to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. But since its beginning, different forms of Zionist ideology have competed with varied anti-Zionisms...
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Happy to share my new paper "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)" #politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art
@natureandspace.bsky.social · last yr.OnlineFirst - "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)" by @normamusih.bsky.social: #politicalimagination #HannahArendt #Art #environmentalcatastrophe #sciencefiction #Palestine #Exile journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Boycotts work. For my nerds, a cultural studies approach to thinking about points of intervention in the circuit of culture: Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises doi.org/10.1080/1479...
Contextualizing Boycotts and Buycotts: The Impure Politics of Consumer-Based Advocacy in an Age of Global Ecological Crises
Despite their popularity and significance, there is a paucity of communication scholarship on boycotts and buycotts. This absence may be due to an erroneous assumption that such tactics are merely ...
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The political imaginaiton of Trump's plan for Gaza is not new. It resonates with the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948, the Nakba, and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States. We need to train a New Political Imaginaiton.
+972 Magazine@972mag.com · last yr.The damage of Trump’s Gaza plan has already been done - https://www.972mag.com/trump-gaza-damage-israeli-society/
The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/
The day Israel came for the booksellers - +972 Magazine
With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of 'incitement,' police raided East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
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My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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"That a beginning be made man was created." — Augustine The final lines from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. She turned to Augustine to find the principle of natality as the ground for action. It means: the world can always be other than it is if we decide to act.
