Thrilled to be in @Parapraxis_Mag with an essay on Pasolini, the fantasy of home security, and guests and thoughts that come unbidden https://t.co/KWAnrCPcAg

"[T]he narrative has taken hold that ICE agents are rogue cops or cops on steroids, trained to terrorize or simply untrained. Strangest of all in this story is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and

How have we come to accept the perpetual, world-ending wars waged by states, and what would it take to end this acceptance? The Psychoanalysis of War is at its most aspirational, speculative, and fanciful when, turning to the question of “what … is to be done?" -@rmcglaze

Friend of the podcast Ramsey McGlazer has a new essay in Parapraxis called The State Terrifier If you've enjoyed his appearances on Red Medicine you'll not want to miss it!

NEW EPISODE: Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Global Civil War w/ Candela Potente and Ramsey McGlazer We trace the life of a militant psychoanalyst; from Red Vienna, to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua via the Spanish Civil War and Peronist Argentina...

SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO — Windy City residents run off immigration agents to save a man mid-abduction at 63rd and Kostner Ave.

Los días que faltan — Samera Esmeir @Alberto63137378 https://t.co/quvlZT4Bvv

Not much is left to say about Gaza. Words are no good. But we write as though they are, like a struggle without assurances. I gathered these thoughts as I read the posts of a journalist in Gaza (see epigraph). But they are meant as a way to think with those of us on the outside.

"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics." -- Samera Esmeir (@JustAttuned), "The Days Before." Available now on the Critical Times blog: https://t.co/sUVqEuNIYt

Since the start of humanity’s first live-streamed genocide, I’ve heard people ask how the footage coming out of Gaza hasn’t yet stopped the world. I wrote about western journalism’s self-regard and the limits of the war photograph, for @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/20oc6P1ibR

This is one of the most morally repugnant, cowardly, equivocating things I have ever read. Especially cannot believe “bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk” at the end of the text

From the latest issue of Critical Times: @UssamaMakdisi, "Beyond the Palestine Exception." https://t.co/CsgweQdjjl

winner of the zohran mamdani lookalike contest held at my house

Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now! Featuring @UssamaMakdisi, Ajay Skaria, @HennyZiai, Zamansele Nsele, @ArtistSenzeni, Adil Hasan Khan, and Leire Urricelqui. All articles available here: https://t.co/0y1yPBhmaq

In their world, cities are battlespaces, civilians are latent threats, and humanitarianism is not a limit — but a tool of war, a way to kill the people, and the idea of the people.

Students are harbingers of how future generations will view this historical moment and the role of universities in it. History will celebrate principled students like Logan Rozos, not the cogs in the machine of racist repression.

There's a top shortage in literary criticism

i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below

Palestinians in Gaza City are foraging for wild plants or finding food washed ashore, in a battle to survive amid Israel's total blockade—the longest closure since October 2023. Read this dispatch from @Rashaaboujalal1

El mejor resumen del plan de gobierno en dictadura y ahora

Perhaps few would've predicted how there is not even a figleaf of legal proceduralism here--no charges, no due process, just untrammeled discretionary executive power. But this is the realization, not opposite, of what heavily lawyered drone strikes and renditions initiated.