It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.
Going on leave next year and what I’m most looking forward to is not having to debate the merits of AI in my university committee meetings. On the record: it sucks, it is terrible, I hate it.
Ai is probably quoting me because I can’t see: AI SUCKS.
For the Boston Review, I wrote about Somaliland and Israel, the consequences of imagining political freedom as a struggle for national sovereignty, and what growing up in and alongside Somaliland had meant for my political education.
less A quotas and more of this!
THINKING remains the sine qua non