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Since the 2000s, policy discourse and global theory have de-politicized “war,” turning it into diffuse, perpetual violence. From Bush's neoconservatism to the Gaza genocide, our French pick of the week unpacks the meaning of war today.
Ft. Catherine Hass on @lundimatin.bsky.social
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This dialogue traces the political work of food as both sustenance and strategy, centering southern Black activism. It recounts how Paschal’s restaurant became a hub for civil rights leaders and how the Nation of Islam built food systems.
With Frederick Douglass Opie
Energy-hungry data centers are consuming electricity, water, and land at scales that rival entire countries. Our hidden gem of the week maps how the AI boom deepens the digital divide and reinforces ecological colonialism.
By Miriam Aczel et al. at @ununiversity.bsky.social
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Rejecting the great-man narrative centered on Friedrich List, our essay of the week reconstructs neo-mercantilism as a polycentric ideology, one that generated distinct versions in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
With Eric Helleiner in @synesisideas.bsky.social
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The Covid-19 pandemic’s interruption of capitalist routines became an unlikely laboratory for working-class autonomy. Our book of the week dives into how this disruption shattered decades of work discipline.
By @mjfleckofficial.bsky.social on @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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Using a university library's mass disposal of books as a frame, this piece argues that the erosion of print collections weakens reading itself, not just nostalgia for objects, and that shared libraries keep ideas accessible.
By @seeshespeak.bsky.social in @yalereview.bsky.social
This video is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Social Justice: buff.ly/POdtX2e
This lecture rejects a one-way West-to-non-West model and reads Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay as part of an Indian feminist tradition that shaped debates on race, empire, caste, and liberation.
Featuring Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay at @glophi.bsky.social
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In the 1870s, a Bombay civil servant built a working solar steam engine. This piece shows how colonial officials and mill owners rejected the idea less on technical grounds than because it conflicted with imperial trade interests.
By @egholmlund.bsky.social in @theconversation.com
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William Adams was convinced that solar energy could change the world. The problem was, he needed more sun to demonstrate it.
Food, Jazz & Protest in Jim Crow DC is an episode related to Fred’s book Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution which delves into US movements for progressive change from the 1940s to
Migrating Ideas from East to West: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay on the Race Question
Lecture by Priyanka Jha
19 May 2026, 2 p.m. (CEST)
Universität Hildesheim + Live Streaming
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