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Latin America, US foreign policy, Indigenous cultures, Cold War, development theory and practice. Catastrophe as method.

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[Cornell University Press @CornellPress]

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And that Icelandic poet was… Marshall McLuhan

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

Björk on Icelandic TV, aged 22, explaining how a TV works: "An Icelandic poet told me it was millions of little screens sending light onto you... So you just swallow and swallow. But I read the scientific truth. You shouldn't let poets lie to you."

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Local cops and their union bosses have welcomed - and in some cases invited - Trump’s federal takeovers of US cities. @stschrader1 traces this alarming synthesis of local & federal power for The New York Review https://t.co/JpgVetc2sv

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Melinda Cooper an always indispensable guide to the present: “Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.” https://t.co/CasbDDEQp4

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Book haul. Clockwise from top left: tz’utujil, q’anjob’al, jakalteka, uspanteko, español, uspanteko, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel

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Glad to see my translation of Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala up in the Verso catalog, due out in October. First time published in English after 70 years. Deserves a wide readership for its relevance to both history and the present!

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Glad to see my translation of Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala up in the Verso catalog, due out in October. First time published in English after 70 years. Deserves a wide readership for its relevance to both history and the present!

[Sebastian Budgen @Sapronov27]

The Verso Autumn 2026 catalogue is now online:

https://t.co/4Ooj8GDTti

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Book haul. Clockwise from top left: tz’utujil, q’anjob’al, jakalteka, uspanteko, español, uspanteko, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel

[moe tkacik @moetkacik]

A brief history of American NarcoTerrorism as told through Marco Rubio's family cocaine trafficking enterprise
https://t.co/UqP818H9Ko

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hadn’t realized Robert Frost rebooted kipling for jfk: We see how seriously the races swarm In their attempts at sovereignty and form They are our wards we think to some extent For the time being and with their consent, To teach them how Democracy is meant https://t.co/4GafcnYyk0

[priscilla page @BBW_BFF]

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

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This poem highlights the difficulties of memory in the aftermath of Guatemala's genocide. Those digging up the past (literally the corpses of the dead) are graverobbers, threatening to reopen the scars that have not fully healed.

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This poem highlights the difficulties of memory in the aftermath of Guatemala's genocide. Those digging up the past (literally the corpses of the dead) are graverobbers, threatening to reopen the scars that have not fully healed.

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Another attempt at translating Humberto Ak'abal, using both Spanish and K'iche':

The Grave Robbers (Esal kaminaqib)

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I weep for my heart’s pain,
I don’t sleep thinking of the day
When everyone can really sing
The song of earth
Without blood running from the scars.

[dedalive @dedalive]

Another attempt at translating Humberto Ak'abal, using both Spanish and K'iche':

The Grave Robbers (Esal kaminaqib)

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The buried rag unearthed,
The shouting skull,
Shattered ribs,
All the pieces of bone
Are witnesses to those moments
That bring back the old ghosts.

[Todd Wolfson @ProfTWolf]

Join us on October 17 for a town hall at @CCPedu with @FSFCCP and @HigherEdLabor on Labor, Higher Ed and the 2024 election! @AAUP @AFTunion @NEA @CWAUnion @StrikeDebt