Faisal فيصل
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
House Arab
academic in the low countries
academic in the low countries
‘I refuse to let their deaths become the backdrop for a polite speech about peace‘ 🔥✊🏽
At the Cinema For Peace Awards in Berlin, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania delivered a powerful speech condemning Israel’s war on Gaza and the international complicity that, she said, enabled the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab.
February 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
‘I refuse to let their deaths become the backdrop for a polite speech about peace‘ 🔥✊🏽
Is there a technology that the left is excited for?
Yes
Yes
February 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Is there a technology that the left is excited for?
Yes
Yes
Wowow
the EU deploying a visual language of 'computer vision' in its social media posts about diversity is....certainly a choice.
February 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Wowow
just a reminder, you can’t spell email without ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:28 PM
just a reminder, you can’t spell email without ai
Knew this was by @lalouverouge.bsky.social even before clicking it, on the back of the one paragraph excerpted and its resonance with comrade‘s excellent essay/book
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
February 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Knew this was by @lalouverouge.bsky.social even before clicking it, on the back of the one paragraph excerpted and its resonance with comrade‘s excellent essay/book
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...
Ok comrades were all thinking it. Were all feeling it in our bones. The time is ripe. the furor, refusal and hatred of ai is just the start. Lets go back to first principles and abolish email.
February 18, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Ok comrades were all thinking it. Were all feeling it in our bones. The time is ripe. the furor, refusal and hatred of ai is just the start. Lets go back to first principles and abolish email.
i like the developments in television technology a lot too, truly staggering technical achievments, and i also enjoy video games.
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
i like the developments in television technology a lot too, truly staggering technical achievments, and i also enjoy video games.
rereading lauren berlant essays just to feel something
February 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM
rereading lauren berlant essays just to feel something
I just heard the phrase ‘ai agents’ for the first time is it too early to get drunk
February 18, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I just heard the phrase ‘ai agents’ for the first time is it too early to get drunk
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My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Had the thought that keir starmer looks like bizarro adam tooze and no am fixated
February 18, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Had the thought that keir starmer looks like bizarro adam tooze and no am fixated
Nailed it
Part of the reason this is all so tiresome is that what we're calling AI is a political project combining a bunch of preexisting sociotechical processes designed to shift power from the masses to the managerial class. A non-exhaustive list in no particular order:
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
February 18, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Nailed it
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The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...
Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist ...
thedigradio.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...
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Reposted by Faisal فيصل
At the Palais de Tokyo, an exploration of French critical theory’s influence on American art finds inspiration in diasporic thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.
A Surprisingly Enjoyable Show About Critical Theory
An exhibition about the influence of French critical theory on American art finds inspiration in diasporic thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.
hyperallergic.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
At the Palais de Tokyo, an exploration of French critical theory’s influence on American art finds inspiration in diasporic thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.
Ur fuckin jokin
The British Museum has removed the word ‘Palestine’ from information panels and galleries following pressure from the group UK Lawyers for Israel:
British Museum removes the word ‘Palestine’ from exhibits
The British Museum has removed the word ‘Palestine’ from information panels and galleries following pressure from the group UK Lawyers for Israel
www.newarab.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Ur fuckin jokin
Any fellow nerds remember this just incredible essay by (if irc) trans writer on mad max fury road? irc it kind of centered on the guitar playing character. @seanobrien.bsky.social does this ring a bell?
February 14, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Any fellow nerds remember this just incredible essay by (if irc) trans writer on mad max fury road? irc it kind of centered on the guitar playing character. @seanobrien.bsky.social does this ring a bell?
Sorry for horny on main but my god arundhati roy is so hot
Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlinale over 'jaw-dropping' stance on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arundhati-roy-pulls-out-berlinale-over-gaza
Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlinale over 'jaw-dropping' stance on Gaza
Indian author withdraws after jury head Wim Wenders says film festival should 'stay out of politics'
www.middleeasteye.net
February 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Sorry for horny on main but my god arundhati roy is so hot
youtu.be/2evOCtIGGxw?...
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
The beautiful losers الحلوين الخسرانين
YouTube video by Yasmine Hamdan - Topic
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
youtu.be/2evOCtIGGxw?...
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
Yasmine hamdan has written a horrifically apt anthem that is very specifically aimed at the millenial arab hipsters in diaspora post-genocide (of which i obvs one) and not sure if i love it or hate it
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar (i teach across 4 programs all with different forms, deadlines, procedures)
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar (i teach across 4 programs all with different forms, deadlines, procedures)
just listen to this whenever you are sad and it will cheer you up. mashalla mashalla mashalla to ward off evil eye but was distinctly jealous of dan here
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.
www.thedigradio.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
just listen to this whenever you are sad and it will cheer you up. mashalla mashalla mashalla to ward off evil eye but was distinctly jealous of dan here
Real one
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026
The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.
thewire.in
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Real one
Hahahahah kier starmer
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Hahahahah kier starmer
It would be a nice world if you thought ‘hey that person has a nice voice, i would love to hear them read the entirety of moby dick outloud’ and then like social security or smthn would pay that person to record themselves reading the entirey of moby dick out loud
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 AM
It would be a nice world if you thought ‘hey that person has a nice voice, i would love to hear them read the entirety of moby dick outloud’ and then like social security or smthn would pay that person to record themselves reading the entirey of moby dick out loud
I just found out the one place I like in this little village is switching ownership soon and comrades AM GUTTED
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I just found out the one place I like in this little village is switching ownership soon and comrades AM GUTTED