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Vigdis Hjorth's 'Long Live the Post Horn!' Breathes Life into Bureaucratic Anxiety Hjorth's novel, admirably translated by Charlotte Barslund so as to maintain the novel's Norwegian grounding, is a study in existential torpor that, happily, does not induce the same condition in the reader. The protagonist, Ellinor, is a young woman employed ... 13 Likes

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Glitch Throws Shade - Features - art-agenda In a dystopic global landscape that makes space for none of us, offers no sanctuary, the sheer act of living—surviving—in the face of a gendered and racialized hegemony becomes uniquely political. We choose to stay alive, against all odds, because ... 5 Likes

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Architecture and Cities: Verso Student Reading Architecture and Cities: Verso Student Reading.
Books that propose alternative forms of city-making and architecture: all 40% off until the end of September. 5 Likes

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Our FREE STUDENT READING EBOOK this week is Chantal Mouffe's The Return of the Political. A powerful understanding of citizenship, democracy and pluralism, and a core text from our Political Theory reading list.
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While 2020 has assaulted an already beleaguered City University of New York with a range of new challenges, the university system is also transforming into a veritable laboratory for different liberation strategies.
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The Desk and the Daring Gornick was born in 1935 in the Bronx, the second child of working-class immigrant Jews. Her father, she recalls in The Romance of American Communism, was a kind man who “stood upright on the floor of a dress factory on ... 2 Comments

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A philosophy of nonviolence: Judith Butler interviewed by Alex Doherty "I am trying to offer something like a philosophy of nonviolence. By that I mean not so much a set of prescriptions or even absolute principles but an ethos. I think my aim in this book is to think about ... 1 Comments

Shelley Douglass you don’t need to read this of course but I thought it was so good, so clear, that ...

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The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who believed that “the whole nation is the army.” In his mind, the IDF was to be an army ... 15 Likes

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Fredric Jameson demonstrates that it is the moment of reification which enables the emergence of commodification as such; or to put it the other way around, the existence of a tendency to commodification is then what motivates reification and encourages ... 32 Likes

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The American Earthquake: Mike Davis and the Politics of Disaster Adam Shatz's classic profile of Mike Davis from 1997. Shatz touches on the writing and success of City of Quartz, Davis's time working at New Left Review, and his general refusal to uncritically follow the postmodern trends of class-skeptical left ... 33 Likes

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Going Postal Rather than wondering ponderously if this is “cancel culture” or whatever, we might ask ourselves: Why the fuck were all these people tweeting? What were they thinking? What were they hoping to accomplish? What was the cost-benefit analysis that led ... 3 Comments

Hey anyone knows of a good leftist Facebook page that isn't filled with tankies?Much appreciatedThis premise is subjective and incorrect: "The main purpose of social media is to call attention to yourself." I have ...Linda Roland Danil might be of interest to you

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Hunger, or The Social Logic of Climate Breakdown When the climate crisis is referred to as anthropogenic, I tend to think of two related but separate phenomena. On the one hand, there is the increase in greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution which has contributed to a ... 9 Likes

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Noam Chomsky: We are facing the most dangerous moment in human history In 2020, Chomsky has been sounding the alarm about a variety of perils: climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump's authoritarian response to the George Floyd protests. "We're at an astonishing confluence of very severe crises. The extent of ... 2 Comments

Chomsky is one of the perils of 2020Did he finally shave? That beard was getting ragged
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When you join the Verso Book Club in September as a Comrade you'll get two new books on the climate crisis and how to stop capitalism from destroying the planet:
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam ... 1 Comments

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The politics of radical care
Carelessness reigns; 'self care' is self-serving; privatisation is swamping the care sector; in this time of global pandemic and care crisis The Care Collective are joined by Ann Pettifor, author of The Case for the ... 10 Likes

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We miss you! And hope to see you tonight @ the AKA Virtual Happy Hour TRIVIA Edition | September 16, 2020 at 6pm on Zoom (see our “story”)! Check out www.alsoknownas.org for more info on our upcoming events! Become a ... 9 Likes

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Believe in citizenship for ALL adoptees? Join our Twitter Storm 🌩 for the Adoptee Citizenship Act on Thurs 9/10 8-10 pm ET to demand justice for #adoptees living w/o citizenship and that the House Immigration Subcommittee act on #HR2731 Sign... Also Known As Inc. Retweeted

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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post New newsletter alert !🚨...and boy do we have news for you! We are excited to announce that Also-Known-As' youth and teen #mentorship programs will return... virtually (for now)!
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Join us for our Trivia Happy Hour on September 16, 2020! https://t.co/B4HSxPBv3X https://t.co/5MTkY3ItBa

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Join us for our Virtual Trivia Happy Hour with Also Known As Inc.! This event will be led by Allison Thomas, who has hosted trivia with the NYC Trivia League. Come test your knowledge of music, pop. culture, and more!
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We are now taking enrollment for our Youth and Teen Mentorship! We’ve adapted the program for the current situation, so we’re totally online in the Fall cycle, and looking forward to seeing You there! 🦋🌞🌻Questions? Email LZERNER@alsoknownas.org 📩 https://t.co/iACSzYlU6E https://t.co/UjbiRnGQSo

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Youth and Teen Mentorship registration is open!
We are now taking enrollment for our Youth and Teen Mentorship! We’ve adapted the program for the current situation, so we’re totally online in the Fall cycle, and looking forward to seeing our ... 4 Likes

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This past weekend we held our two day Annual Board Retreat to plan out 2020-2021 ! Welcome to the team Ryan, Sara, and Lucia ❤️ 🙏🏽 #adopted community: what would you like to see happen this year with AKA?! Not...

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Timeline Photos This past weekend we held our two day Annual Board Retreat to plan out 2020-2021 ! What would usually be a weekend pow-wow in an Airbnb filled w food and games was instead held on Zoom and filled with words ... 11 Likes

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5/5 How can you help the #AdopteeCitizenshipAct? 👉https://t.co/SKGRqWrBp8 in bio
-Sign the petition
-Participate in our upcoming Twitter Storm 📱 ⛈
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-Schedule A Meeting with Ur Rep + A4J 🤝
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Who wants to see the #Adoptee #Citizenship Act passed THIS year? Who’s ready to help pass it? 💪
*drum roll* It's time for an A4J Roll Call
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We are happy to share the footage from our Transracial Adoptee Panel discussion: Navigating The Black Lives Matter Movement, held on June 16, 2020!
Special thanks to our moderator @juneinapril <3 https://t.co/XwzN6YGlj7 #adoptee @blacklivesmatter #adopted #blm

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Awesome Happy Hour last night with our friends at @fccny ! We got to hear updates from our two scholarship winners fiji_fiki and @dsiegz and many others doing social justice work around the country! Special thanks to… https://t.co/IsSVmtEBQS

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