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Katherine McKittrick
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
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lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker

most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com

we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful.

As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."
What is the prison-industrial complex, and why is it a useful concept for thinking about the American carceral state? Ruth Wilson Gilmore The idea for conceptualizing what we have come to describe as mass incarceration using the term “prison-industrial complex” first materialized in an article that Mike Davis published about twenty years ago in the Nation. What Mike launched into our consciousness was a provocation to think about prison, punishment, and the carceral in as expansive of a way as we had learned to think about the military-industrial complex. While a number of people over the years have written about what that complex consists of, I think I probably have written the most, or at least gone on at the most length, in part because as a PhD student I studied the military-industrial complex to shreds at the seminar table of the economist and socialist Ann Markusen. The prison-industrial complex consists of the uniformed and civilian personnel who work anywhere from the streets to the courts, to the jails, to the prisons, to the postprison-release programs, and so forth. It includes the boosters in the towns or neighborhoods where prisons and jails are built. It includes the intellectuals, including myself, who make their living either designing or condemning the design of systems of punishment. It includes finance capitalists who lend money to states and municipalities to build or improve their lockup systems. It includes the various firms that sell goods and services to states and municipalities, including the federal government, in order to keep people locked up or to keep them under surveillance when they’re not locked up. So that can be anything from food service to ankle monitors and anything in between. All that put together is the prison-industrial complex. Most of the dollars that flow through it originate from public treasuries, and they fall into the hands of people in the forms of wages, salaries, utility bills, and everything else it takes to k…
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
Perfect. Frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social
1. the reinterpretation of Shelley is urgent, smart AF
2. the decisions hoisted on the monster are stunning
3. the attachments to modernity (empire and its racial-economic trappings) are quiet and cutting
4. Victor. Elizabeth.
5. setting, lighting.

✌🏾💕
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
I’m still cheering for the Jays—they are an incredible team—and I don’t really like the Dodgers lol
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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stuartelden.bsky.social
"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
The covers of Harvey's books Consciousness and the Urban Experience and Paris, Capital of Modernity
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
brilliance is kindness!
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🥂✌🏾
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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realgdt.bsky.social
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Watch Sunday Morning: Extended interview: Guillermo del Toro - Full show on CBS
In this web exclusive, the Oscar-winning director talks about his latest film, his reimagining of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and about his lifelong love of the mythic horror tale
www.cbs.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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katgeographic.bsky.social
Inspired by Katherine McKittrick’s 2025 AAG Stanley Brunn Award lecture, this panel will explore the tensions between sharing stories and protecting them, particularly when working with or within marginalized communities.

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October 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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katgeographic.bsky.social
📢 Call for Panelists | #AAG2026
“Ethics, Creativity, and Refusal in Storytelling and Scholarship”

Interested in joining our panel? Email 📩
kstack@vols.utk.edu + EFrazier@MissouriState.edu

Full panel description ⬇️
www.canva.com/design/DAG2h...
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
...I've encouraged folks to skim my Library Field syllabus, which I hadn't perused for a very long time. It's pretty good!, if I may say so myself :)
Library Field
Composite of M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (Chappron, Ancien Avocat, 1827), via Biodiversity Heritage Library and Public Domain Review; and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, Color Problems: A Pra…
syllabusproject.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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realgdt.bsky.social
Cinemas playing FRANKENSTEIN right now!! frankensteingdt.com
Frankenstein | Official Website | October 17 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Frankenstein on the official site. In theaters October 17 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Guillermo del Toro. Starring: Oscar Isaac, ...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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antipodeonline.bsky.social
Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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bungatuffie.bsky.social
www.guitarworld.com/artists/bass...
“One of the most visionary and influential bassists in the history of our instrument”: Anthony Jackson, low-end legend who pioneered the concept of the modern six-string bass, dies aged 73
Al Di Meola has led the tributes to a session icon who took the instrument to new frontiers
www.guitarworld.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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jamiepeck.bsky.social
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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sobinfluencia.bsky.social
McKittrick analisa diversos textos de intelectuais e artistas que vão de Sylvia Wynter à dupla de música eletrônica Drexciya, explorando como narrativas de imprecisão e relacionalidade interrompem sistemas de conhecimento que buscam observar, indexar, conhecer e disciplinar a negridade.
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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sobinfluencia.bsky.social
Saiba mais sobre a campanha, o livro e a autora em benfeitoria.com/queridaciencia
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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sobinfluencia.bsky.social
Em Querida ciência e outras histórias, Katherine McKittrick traz um estudo rigoroso das metodologias negras e anticoloniais. Apoiada nos estudos raciais, na geografia cultural e no feminismo negro, posiciona tanto as narrativas, quanto as histórias negras como estratégias de invenção e colaboração.
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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redemmas.org
Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore
redemmas.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
…dear science translation!
October 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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antipodeonline.bsky.social
Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
antipodeonline.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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thewalrus.ca
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
demonicgrounds.bsky.social
this Tylenol business uncovers the depths of misogyny. I mean these people despise women and mothers and mothering and are finding ways to destroy their kids by implying autism is a disease (impure, passed on) and by and shoring up eugenic thinking. brainless violence.
September 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM