Friends - I’m headed east next week and you should come hear about my book! I’ll be at NYU Oct. 5 Smith Oct 7 Wesleyan Oct. 8 holler my way for more details, I’d love to see you IRL
RIP to Patricio Guzmán, a titan of documentary. La Batalla de Chile is one of the great works of political art. I got to write for the @thebaffler.com a couple years back on memory, nostalgia, and political urgency in his work 50 years on from Chile's coup. Rest easy. thebaffler.com/latest/the-a...
The Afterlife of a Coup | Sammy Feldblum
The films of Patricio Guzmán chronicle fifty years of tumult and memory in Chile.
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On the anniversary of Chile's coup—which sent them on an "endless tour" to live in Argentina, and then Paris—I wrote for @nacla-report.bsky.social about the cosmic Chilean rockers Los Jaivas in Viña del Mar nacla.org/a-legendary-...
A Legendary Chilean Band’s Tour and the Unsettled Past
One of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking.
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🇨🇱 One of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking writes @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social nacla.org/a-legendary-...
A Legendary Chilean Band’s Tour and the Unsettled Past
One of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking.
nacla.org
Published today in Geopolitics, this article draws from my dissertation fieldwork in Taiwan. The paper balances structure and agency within a guest-worker program. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Taking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker Programme
Taiwan’s guest-worker programme has provided Taiwanese employers with low-cost labour while preventing participating migrants from establishing permanent residence and citizenship since the 1990s. ...
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we used data from the years before the permanent fission only (Jane & others wrote about the subsequent "Four-Year War" elsewhere). Despite the wealth of data from both sites, we now have an N of 2 for these events, so comparison is extremely valuable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The timing and causes of a unique chimpanzee community fission preceding Gombe's “Four‐Year War”
Objectives While permanent group fissions are documented in humans and other primate species, they are relatively rare in male philopatric primates. One of the few apparent cases occurred in 1973 in...
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Cool paper that we've all been eagerly anticipating since news of these events began filtering out! It doesn't quite make it into the MS but the process of fission and subsequent "civil war" in Ngogo is remarkably similar to what we documented in our 2018 paper on the permanent fission in Gombe....
Science Magazine@science.org · 7mo agoIn a decades-long study, researchers have documented what appears to be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. The findings demonstrate that shifting social ties alone can fracture a once unified group and ignite sustained, deadly conflict among former allies. https://scim.ag/47QE8Qw
The next time someone asks me where I think print journalism is headed, I'll probably just send them this article in the Miami Herald today.
Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it. Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable. Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.
A Borges story where the files keep getting released infinitely, more and more of them, eventually circling back around and referencing the files themselves, the people reading them, whole generations living and dying and somehow finding themselves in the files
📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!! Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing
"If only it were as simple as de-privatization." The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure and the limits of market governance.
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits…
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i do think the combination of Trump and an AI-driven tech bubble could crash the markets, but it’s very important to remember that “what are online leftists saying?” is probably the worst possible way to approach investing
Happy to see this story now in print at the @indyweek.bsky.social. I imagine he'd be pleased to find himself in Durham's paper of record talking trash about Coach K.
Sammy Feldblum@sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 10mo agoI wrote about my dad, and loving basketball indyweek.com/news/culture...
Fascinating, forensic, wise. And a moving tribute to Karen Bakker: "Essential to life, imbued everywhere with cultural and spiritual import, water is, she writes, 'a final frontier for capitalism'.”
The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 10mo ago"There is a perversity to its very existence as an economic good: water falls from the sky, for free, and its daily availability is crucial to human survival, yet it is everywhere subject to the convolutions of political economy." @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social on Thames Water and the politics of water
I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of...
break-down.org
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...
Nothing to Lose but Our Mains
The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of...
break-down.org
I'm confident the @ringernba.bsky.social family will enjoy this beautiful essay by my dear friend @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social about his late father's love for the game and what basketball can give us over a lifetime. indyweek.com/news/culture...
Requiem for a Hoop Dream
A writer remembers his late father through a shared love of basketball, from the scuffed courts of Durham YMCAs to the hallowed stands of the Dean Dome.
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Our @us.theguardian.com investigation of widespread overcharging by Dollar General and Family Dollar has caught the attention of 30 members of Congress, who have written to the CEOs requesting documents and demanding answers. @jocelynzuck.bsky.social @michaelwhudson.bsky.social @budzinski.house.gov
Congress members demand answers on price disparities at dollar-store chains
A letter from 30 lawmakers criticizes recurring overcharges at Dollar General and Family Dollar stores – questioning ‘how seriously’ the companies prioritize ethics and affordability
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As president of Uruguay, José Mujica expanded personal freedoms and aided a rapid increase in renewable energy—and left behind a country better than he found it. @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social follows his journey from militant to prisoner to head of state.
Free Radicals | Sammy Feldblum
Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.
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For @thebaffler.com I wrote about the late Pepe Mujica, one of my favorite guys, in conversation with Noam Chomsky, with some thoughts on degrowth and the Chill Revolution along the way. Please enjoy: thebaffler.com/latest/free-...
Free Radicals | Sammy Feldblum
Though José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews.
thebaffler.com
Had the pleasure of contributing a couple suggestions to @thedialmag.bsky.social's summer reading list, linked below. A dreamy—bad dream-y—novel for the Latam and politics heads; a polemic for the river lovers. Both great.
This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last yr.sorry, link: www.yahoo.com/news/america...
New article surveying recent developments in the political ecology of water. I look at legal geographies of water, Indigenous scholarship on relationality, everyday and infrastructural practices of making water, and hydrosocial territories. Hop on in: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Emerging Currents in the Political Ecology of Water
The ravages and disruptions of anthropogenic climate change have sparked renewed interest in water and its social worlds. This review paper examines four key emerging directions in political ecologie...
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New article in Geoforum: building from a historical case study of the place of water law in the colonization of New Mexico, I show how recent social movements based around acequia irrigation have refashioned the law to reassert communal control: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Liberal water law against itself: Acequias and legal contestation in New Mexico's South Valley
The passage of New Mexico’s water code of 1907 enshrined water as a publicly owned good distributed to individuals via private use rights. This system…
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