Aly

phd student / critical geography + cultural politics + philosophy

[Aly @meaningloos]

Well I tried to read but it’s paywalled

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The advent of reading “altered people’s consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of,” @RoseHorowitch argues—and the decline of reading will bring about changes of the same magnitude: https://t.co/OCYJABNvWo

[Aly @meaningloos]

https://t.co/AMIHrHIdZb

[Aly @meaningloos]

I wrote an essay on how universities becoming more self-referential is causing them to turn inwards, away from the public, diminishing their relevance and capacity to respond to the ongoing epistemic crisis. Link in replies.

[Aly @meaningloos]

As the structures that once gave meaning and sourced identities collapse, narrative identity is the viable approach to conceptualizing modern identities. Since reality is subjective, the self is the primary site of meaning-making. Meaning can no longer be externally sourced.

[Aly @meaningloos]

Amsterdam

[Aly @meaningloos]

So the new strategy is to have a symbolic deal between the US and Iran for stabilizing the economy and claiming victory, while Israel continues the war (also on behalf of the US)

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Israel not bound by Iran deal, says cabinet member

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/VkaFBdFU8c

[Aly @meaningloos]

Obsessed with the cover

[Aly @meaningloos]

@shaabiranks I agree, reading Fanon first explains the current system of domination and coloniality, and then Marx provides structure for understanding how domination is organized through class and material conditions

[Aly @meaningloos]

Yes (to an extent). People assign meaning to encounters based on an internal interpretation structure that is composed of: perception of the other + perception of self + perception of self in relation to other + previous lived experiences

[critter @BecomingCritter]

do people actually do this or is it totally made up

[Aly @meaningloos]

Could the reason obsession and backrooms are popular with a wider range of audiences (compared to previous horror films) be because more people want a viewing experience that is more intensely felt in the body

[Aly @meaningloos]

@nidfakti Her work being co-opted and used by others to legitimate colonialism and war is not her fault. She just shared her story

[Aly @meaningloos]

Most people dismissing Persepolis as “orientalist westen caricature” have not experienced fundamentalist & religious authoritarianism firsthand. The film accurately captures (Islamist) moralized policing + is based on her lived experience (which is not necessarily generalizable)

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

Marjane Satrapi made a career out of proliferating orientalist western caricatures of her own people. While Satrapi cashed in on racist campaigns thinly veiled by anti-patriarchal rhetoric calling for 'regime change' in Iran, she never once used her platform to speak out against the ongoing existential threats presented by Western powers against Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian and ALL other Muslim women in West Asia. It's a fitting end for someone who remained blithely silent through three years of genocide in the region that raised her to literally die of grief over the loss of one gangly Swedish white guy.

[Aly @meaningloos]

While unfortunate, it is still an insightful autobiographic account of a specific time + place

[Aly @meaningloos]

Persepolis' focus on islamist fundamentalism means that it is (unfortunately) more likely to be co-opted and by western liberals and strategically employed to manufacture consent for interventionism and regime change.

[Aly @meaningloos]

Mind you in a country where approx. 86% of women have undergone female genital mutilation

[Aly @meaningloos]

The film was especially formative for me as a teenager in Egypt when the muslim brotherhood and salafists were in power. Some gov. priorities were: policing women's 'un-islamic' clothing, restricting women's right to divorce, using blasphemy laws to silence dissidents, etc

[𝕱𝖆𝖊𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑 @Faedriel]

i’m doing this to you tomorrow

[Aly @meaningloos]

Trying to stay in the present but also cautious of recency bias but also everything is historically situated and meaning requires repeated reference over time

[lev (sumer is icumen in) @abookofsymbols]

we should normalize talking about our relationships with Time. like do you have a healthy relationship with Time, what is your experience of temporality, etc.

[Aly @meaningloos]

Timothée Chalamet in Wittgenstein (1993)??

[Aly @meaningloos]

It’s meaning-making summer