Penguin Random House India has refused to publish a comic by Joe Sacco on anti-Muslim riots caused by Hindutva leaders' genocidal rhetoric in 2013.
The mega publisher would not publish unless the writer modified statements in response to right-wing Hindutva objections.
I taught it last semester and it is a brilliant work.
Interview at EQUATOR on the Pope's superb and much-needed intervention in the AI debates: www.equator.org/articles/to-...
SO GOOD 👏🏽
Equator is kicking off the World Cup with an essay from Mexico by the legendary Juan Villoro – on the unequal billing of the three host nations, the “cautious attitude” of fans who fear being deprived of a great public spectacle, and the moments of magic to come
"No algorithm can make war morally acceptable. AI can only make war faster, more opaque and more impersonal. The technology will lower the threshold for the resort to violence." www.equator.org/articles/to-...
“Just as the first Leo upheld the dignity of the worker in the age of the steam engine, so the new Leo means to uphold the dignity of the person in the age of the algorithm.”
Motherfucker is gonna make me un-lapse.
www.equator.org/articles/to-...
More on vile systemic violence and the very cowardice that enables said violence:
www.equator.org/articles/sce...
“In recognition of the fact that football causes heart attacks, the Estadio Azteca was built near Mexico City’s Institute of Cardiology.”
Juan Villoro translated Francisco Cantu
www.equator.org/articles/no-...
Strongly recommend the Equator podcast. This episode was excellent. Going through all of them at the moment while I draw.
Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt
Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt
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“In recognition of the fact that football causes heart attacks, the Estadio Azteca was built near Mexico City’s Institute of Cardiology.”
Juan Villoro translated Francisco Cantu
www.equator.org/articles/no-...
Why an Indian publisher dropped Joe Sacco’s new book on a riot in north India
Pankaj Mishra and @naomiaklein.bsky.social discuss how modern fascisms differ from those of the mid-20th century -- and how US tech firms are complicit in the dystopias of today. Find us on any major podcast app of your choice. Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to know more.
A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age
