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1. The crane wife - really popular a couple of years ago, a fantastic personal essay about relationships and a field-trip https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/
2. Why keeping a pet is fundamentally unethical - very interesting essay, I don’t necessary agree with the premise but I think it made a great attempt and has changed how I see pets and our power in relation to other beings in https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical
3. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge. This is really cool philosophical (logic) paper, and i am bringing it to you in two parts - read the link first, it is an explanation of the paper (for those of us who are not philosophers). then read the paper itself (search The name of the essay in google- east to find a pdf) https://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers
4. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native - fantastic essay on what it sounds like, by Patrick Wolfe, the originator of the field of settler colonial theory. For me (stem guy, no arts background) it’s pretty confusing and dense but I keep returning to it and taking a little more every time, especially bc of the great Australian specific analysis. PDF easily available online
2. Why keeping a pet is fundamentally unethical - very interesting essay, I don’t necessary agree with the premise but I think it made a great attempt and has changed how I see pets and our power in relation to other beings in https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical
3. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge. This is really cool philosophical (logic) paper, and i am bringing it to you in two parts - read the link first, it is an explanation of the paper (for those of us who are not philosophers). then read the paper itself (search The name of the essay in google- east to find a pdf) https://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers
4. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native - fantastic essay on what it sounds like, by Patrick Wolfe, the originator of the field of settler colonial theory. For me (stem guy, no arts background) it’s pretty confusing and dense but I keep returning to it and taking a little more every time, especially bc of the great Australian specific analysis. PDF easily available online
Sep 30, 2024
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⭐I'm suggesting some articles I read recently:
The Commune Form: A Conversation and On the Recurrence of Neoreactionaries - Both are from the most recent edition of the eflux magazine. The first one is an interview with Paris Comunne researcher Kristin Ross, and the second by author Yuk Hui brings a Hegelian analisys to Trump recent re-election
Camp-space: The exceptional duality of the Palestine refugee camp - article that preceeds a small short film about the Palestine refugee camp
Amid Land Disputes, An Unconventional Map Preserves Practices of Secrecy in Indigenous Communities - recent reread when i was writing my counter cartography rec
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🗒On the History of AAVE/Black American English: https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/%E2%80%98it-don%E2%80%99t-be-like-that-now%E2%80%99-%E2%80%94-english-history-african-american-english
"The Bronx Slave Market": https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/the-bronx-slave-market-1950/
Greenwashing & Climate Creative Accountability: https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change Relationality and Indigeneity: https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14744740211029287
"The Bronx Slave Market": https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/the-bronx-slave-market-1950/
Greenwashing & Climate Creative Accountability: https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change Relationality and Indigeneity: https://sci-hub.st/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14744740211029287
Jun 3, 2025
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📚Take off the training wheels that is third space theory and dive into the big leagues
Henri Levebfre The right to the City and The Production of Space - If I could keep one white french man... David Harvey Rebel Cities:From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - This is the effort of Harvey to document and argue for urban revolution and heavily dialogues with Levebfre theory of the city being a place of social organizing and revolution. David Harvey Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - This is a post occupy Wall-Street David Hervey, reviewing a lot of his own work and the work f leftist activism. It's much more interest in the aspects of circulation of capital rather than production, in face of an increasingly financialized economy so his dialogue is much stronger with the Third Volume of Marx's capital Sérgio Ferro Design and the Building Site - My ride or die, Ferro dives into the politics of work in the construction site and how it's tied to the control of knowledge and who can build. Ruth Gilmore Abolition Geography:Essays Towards Liberation - The one author in this list that doesn't work in a Marxist Frame work. Her work is more focused on power and control through incarceration and the racial relations present in it. I recommend reading Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics along side her. F.T.C Manning Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal - This is a short article by Francesca Manning arguing on the importance of the theory of Ground Rent to understand the control and power over land. I questioned this as a rec because is so theory dense, but I really like her work and simply didn't want to leave her out.
Henri Levebfre The right to the City and The Production of Space - If I could keep one white french man... David Harvey Rebel Cities:From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - This is the effort of Harvey to document and argue for urban revolution and heavily dialogues with Levebfre theory of the city being a place of social organizing and revolution. David Harvey Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason - This is a post occupy Wall-Street David Hervey, reviewing a lot of his own work and the work f leftist activism. It's much more interest in the aspects of circulation of capital rather than production, in face of an increasingly financialized economy so his dialogue is much stronger with the Third Volume of Marx's capital Sérgio Ferro Design and the Building Site - My ride or die, Ferro dives into the politics of work in the construction site and how it's tied to the control of knowledge and who can build. Ruth Gilmore Abolition Geography:Essays Towards Liberation - The one author in this list that doesn't work in a Marxist Frame work. Her work is more focused on power and control through incarceration and the racial relations present in it. I recommend reading Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics along side her. F.T.C Manning Geographies of ground rent: Periodizing ground rent theory, spatializing ground rent refusal - This is a short article by Francesca Manning arguing on the importance of the theory of Ground Rent to understand the control and power over land. I questioned this as a rec because is so theory dense, but I really like her work and simply didn't want to leave her out.
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So sweet to send them to thank them for your shared experience, and I’d much rather look at one of these than ten pics from that day
Jan 23, 2024
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🧃go to events even if u think they’ll be iffy - better to have some memories of living life than none, go to library, go sit on the nearest grass
also u can’t expect good arts and culture if u don’t support the bad/amateur stuff as well 🦀
Jan 30, 2024
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⭐It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.
Jan 23, 2024