Another thing to advertise before the year is out:
I contributed an essay (along with Jerome Whitington) to the Against Catastrophe group, commenting on the lovely digital artwork of Antonia Hernandez and Solveig Qu Suess. Check it out!
https://t.co/FsDdPUMTMC
Another recording from the Sonic Acts symposium is out this week! Watch or listen back to filmmaker & researcher Solveig Qu Suess's lecture ‘Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains’ on the #Mekong river and its many transformations: https://t.co/ILQ6jYyJbp 💧
The Taz attempts a criticism of our scientific methods, clumsily making several basic errors. When confronted about their falsehoods and misrepresentations they respond saying it’s only a cultural review.
I will be in Amsterdam for this years's Sonic Acts Festival, sharing thoughts on water, documentary and energy infrastructure through my ongoing filmic work along the Mekong River. Hope to see you there!
We are now accepting applications from Southeast Asian scholars for the 2024-25 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Apply by February 1 for this program, which provides 8-12 months of support for research and writing.
https://t.co/hO1G7W2umj
Israel has now dropped 50,000 tons of explosives on Gaza’s civilian population in 63 days—three times more than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
Call it what it is: GENOCIDE
Every urban studies journal should get on the phone with each other now and dedicate their next issues to amplify and counter the total urbanicide taking place regardless of what their publishers think about it. This is becoming business as usual and everything else is irrelevant
Just now, @ranjithoskote was driven to resign from his distinguished role at #Documenta, for reasons involving the word #antisemitism. The real story is ... just so perverse and bizarre, and it's worth going over. A thread.
Coediting a special issue with @yandong_li_ on "Energy and Media" for @JOUR_CN_CINEMAS and hopes to bring together emerging work on China media/tech and energy culture! Please share! Paper abstract due Dec 30. See CFP in image.
Today the @LRB is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events. https://t.co/6aIFZsfPlx
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF.
When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening.
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SO pleased to have contributed to this beautiful issue of Radical History Review on 'The Political Lives of Infrastructure', executed with much care and amongst great company. (thnx @nisaface Wesley Attewell, @eMitchellEaton)!
Read intro here👉 https://t.co/q9NFhPynje
Preliminary analysis by FA, @alhaq_org & @earshot_ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
We're excited to share an open position for a new professorship. Join us as the head of the new MA programme Transversal Design.
Find the full call here:
https://t.co/T95XCvFaJu
The call is in German for now, but applications in English are welcome as well. Apply by October 13.
We are in Laos to attend the 4th #MekongRiverCommission Summit, which will see heads of state of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam come together to discuss the shared management of Southeast Asia’s largest river.
@AronTWhite reports👇
#mrcsummit@MRCMekong@AKittikhoun
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Documentation of transmediale 2023 online now 💥
Find all the video recordings of the discourse programme as well as photos in each event of the schedule.
► https://t.co/YGF24SO87D
Video recordings are also available on our YouTube channel 💡
►https://t.co/bkoZWpB1T3