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Faculty in the Media: Christine Smallwood talks careers in criticism, Middlemarch, close reading, and more with Merve Emre on Merve's podcast The Critic and Her Publics | buff.ly/40liH6x

Independent experts today urged the UK 🇬🇧 not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. “Acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as #terrorism.”

Over and over again, Mohammed El-Kurd gets asked a version of the same question: "Do you want to throw Israelis into the sea?" Here's how he answers. thenation.com/article/world/…

We had to sit through all the moralizing "don't torrent movies" PSAs for years- Meanwhile, Facebook and other AIs are torrenting millions of those files at a time & the same companies that cried about Pirate Bay and the like are cheering it on.

Sickened by the faux outrage in the UK over a rapper's anti-IDF chants. Where is the outrage over the IDF's meticulously documented mountain of war crimes? Where is the outrage against Keir Starmer's complicity in them?

We unequivocally oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

"Revisiting The Radical Aesthetic," a special issue of Genre edited by Merve Emre and Justin A. Sider, is now online. The issue celebrates the 25th anniversary of Isobel Armstrong's powerful work of critical theory. View the TOC and read the intro: buff.ly/1uXbZim

Once the slaughter is over, and it has to be over, there is an expectation that Palestinians should move on regardless of the lives lost, of the limbs lost, of the loved ones lost.   There is an expectation that parents will walk the earth with the shadow of their killed children

NEW: In a leaked email, Professor Colm Durkan, head of engineering at Cambridge University, urges students that if they push to severe financial links with weapons manufacturers “the consequences for our Department and a large part of the University would be existential”. Prof

In an age of failing economies and a neofascist backlash, what we need is Marxism. To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations are asset-stripping our brains, but we can take back control. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

More than 30 percent of all CO2 emissions since the Industrial Revolution have come from burning coal. “Today (2025) the world burns nearly double the amount of coal that it did in 2000 — and four times the amount it did in 1950. Every minute of every day, 16,700 tonnes of coal

Proscribe the IDF I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yvet…

🧵A new Highlight from #PalQuest examines how Palestinian music has evolved through exile, with mass displacement after the 1948 Nakba giving rise to distinct musical expressions rooted in resistance and cultural preservation: palquest.org/en/highlight/3…

A helpful note of caution on the Mamdani moment. On the "great leader" tendency on the left, to some extent this is a consequence of the centrality of elections in our system: millions of votes are distilled into one candidate, it's an aristoctratic, not democratic, mechanism.

The left-right distinction has endured since the inception of modern politics (i.e., 1789) because it usefully & broadly describes a set of choices which can be made by modern states. When politicians from social democratic backgrounds say this it's because they've moved right.

.Palestine Action isn’t being proscribed because they are terrorists, but because they have been astonishingly effective at disrupting the work of Israel’s largest weapons company. An inexhaustive, chronological thread of the group’s achievements to date 🧵

"Gaza film’s producer accuses BBC of trying to gag him over decision to drop it. Ben de Pear hits out at ‘PR person’ Tim Davie and claims corporation attempted to use legal gagging clauses." theguardian.com/media/2025/jul…

Officials in Gaza say more than 100 people have been killed during the last 24 hours - many of them while trying to get hold of humanitarian aid. One Israeli air strike killed at least 13 members of a single family, including six young children. And footage obtained by the

"Team leaders referred to Gazans as 'zombie hordes', the former contractor said, 'insinuating that these people have no value.'" bbc.com/news/articles/…

Tomás Mac an t-Saoir Congrats Tomas what an amazing achievement. People can hear Tomas talking about earlier parts of his epic trip here podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/tra…