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How to Blow Up a Pipeline: A Verso Roundtable This month's Verso Roundtable on the Blog: three articles published throughout the week responding to Andreas Malm's new book How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Is it time for the climate movement to reassess its commitment to non-violence?
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4981-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-a-verso-roundtable
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Luray by Dennis Haupt - Reviewed by Lauren Stoolfire Book One – Luray
Published: November 2020
One of humanity’s colonies makes contact with an alien civilization that calls itself the Aurigan Empire. The empire politely demands the United Earth Military’s unconditional and immediate surrender and sends wave after wave ...

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Language Spring 2021 — Also-Known-As Last minute opening of additional seats for Beginner 1 Monday class! (Yes, starting Monday Jan 25 - buy the book in time for second week.) Sign up here, while seats last:
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The Fools and the Wise Rather than the comfort of indignation or derision, the assault on the Capitol should prompt us to take a closer look at the forms of thought we call rational and the forms of community we call democratic.
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Trump’s Half-Baked March on Rome
Chris Vials explores the history of fascism under Mussolini and in Latin America to interpret the mayhem at the Capitol on January 6.
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I have to nitpick a little - it's misleading to say "Communist revolutions never overturned democratic governments," or that the ...What a ridiculous 'article'.

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70% off January sale Our 70% off January sale just lasts a few more days! Pick up some of our biggest titles, including Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis, The End of Policing by Alex Vitale, Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for ... 10 Likes

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Walking from Busan to the Blue House for Workers' Rights
Korean trade union leader Kim Jin-suk battles COVID-19, winter, and breast cancer to send a message to profit-making corporations—and keep the promsie of Korea's pro-democracy movement alive.
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How Derrida and Foucault became the most misunderstood philosophers of our time - Prospect Magazine Peter Salmon on how Derrida and Foucault became the most misunderstood philosophers of our time.
"The pair are commonly cast as absolute moral relativists for whom there is no truth whatsoever—a position which not only did they not argue, but ... 9 Comments

Only with a great deal of ill will can Foucault, Derrida and Co. be construed as amoral (or moral relativist). ...Noam still doesn’t understand FoucaultDerrida was mostly hot air.

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‘I hope feminists don’t stay polite. In this society that’s absolutely useless.’ In an interview, Christine Delphy relives the formation of the 1970s women's liberation movement in France, and demands that the struggle continue.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4975-i-hope-feminists-don-t-stay-polite-in-this-society-that-s-absolutely-useless
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Why Donald Trump will never admit defeat | Judith Butler White supremacy has now resumed an open place in US politics, and Trumpism will outlast Trump, and continue to assume new forms.
Judith Butler on why Donald Trump will never admit defeat.
Whether it is deaths from Covid-19 or his ... 6 Comments

With all the litigations lining up against him it will be interesting' to see what he does admit to.
But ...Has Butler spoken much of her support for Harris's Presidential campaign?What is wrong with working and making a better life for yourself ?

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Landing Instructions for Derrida "Derrida's intellectual development is adroitly unpacked by Salmon without bamboozling the reader or peddling dime-store psychologizing. His background is sketched in: born into a Jewish family in French-controlled Algeria, Derrida acquired French citizenship (denied to the country's majority Muslim population) ... 25 Likes

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Adoptee forum - join us on Monday and learn how music and your emotions relate, and discover more about yourself through music! Free for all adoptees, but you must pre-register!
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To Understand Capitalism, We Have to Understand Shipping and Oil Khalili explores the global history of capitalism by centering the ship and oil, the world’s most important commodity, on the Arabian Peninsula, which possesses the planet’s richest deposits of “black gold.” This fascinating book ably examines the economic and geopolitical ... 1 Comments

The whole "capitalism is based on oil" narrative is really outdated and very poor marxist economics.

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"It was clear even to a broader culture that physical space was consequential—as an instrument of violence, injustice, lethality, repair, innovation and even survival."
Keller Easterling on some of the books and ideas that have shaped her thinking: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4976-reading-mutualism-a-contemplation-after-medium-design 7 Likes

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As we watch on as a struggle of binaries plays out in the US, ahead of the publication of her timely new book, architect and writer Keller Easterling asks: ”What if political stances were also placed on a spectrum that ... 6 Likes

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70% off January sale Announcing our 70% off January sale! Includes lots of amazing books from last year, including Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis, The End of Policing by Alex Vitale, and lots more!
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On latest episode of the podcast Politics Theory Other, Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, discusses climate activism and the fetishization of nonviolence.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4973-politics-theory-other-107-climate-activism-and-the-fetishisation-of-nonviolence-with-andreas-malm 1 Comments

Great episode!

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Identity Collage Prompt #1 : Share something about the culture(s) you identify yourself with.
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Also-Known-As 25th Anniversary : Identity Collage The International Adoptee Identity Collage is a collaborative initiative that invites members of the international adoptee community to submit creative pieces that reflect their identities as an adoptee. The identity collage will culminate in a display at the Gala in ... 6 Likes

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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post 🎉 Meet tonight’s moderator, former President of Also-Known-As, Marissa Martin!
Join us for a special event with transnational and transracial adoptees and learn about our global community!
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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post 🎉 Meet our panelist, Hong Kong adoptee, licensed psychologist in New York City and Professor in the graduate Counseling Program at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, Amanda Baden!
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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post Meet our panelist, Chinese adoptee, member of AKA since youth mentorship, chef, musician, athlete, Hope Johnson (@hopeeatsnyc) !
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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post Meet our panelist, Korean adoptee, assistant professor at the VCU School of Social Work and Founder of Also-Known-As, Hollee A. McGinnis!
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Photos from Also-Known-As, Inc.'s post Meet our panelist, Taneka Jennings, Korean adoptee, Deputy Director of Programs at HANA Center, founding member of Adoptees For Justice, former President of KAtCH: Korean Adoptees of Chicago
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