markus schwarz
@markusschwarz.bsky.social
phd @ university of salzburg // thinking about black and indigenous speculations, ecology, and the unsettled cosmos. he/him.
"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance."
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
The Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at Columbia
The media has failed to show what I found there: community.
hammerandhope.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance."
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
June 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet?
orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
From Colonial Terraforming towards a Planet-Based Solidarity: Indigenous Speculations between Planet Earth and Outer Space
Terraforming has long been one of the most popular concepts in SF and space colonization discourses to think about the necessary territorial changes on other planets to make them livable for human lif...
orbit.openlibhums.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet?
orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.
“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.
All day, every day.
April 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
All day, every day.
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Looking forward to discussing ‘Rethinking and Reinventing Care’ with Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social on Thursday at the Innsbruck Gender Lecture 💜
87. Innsbruck Gender Lecture with Sophie Lewis and Friederike Beier
13.03.2025, 18:00, Hörsaal 5, GEIWI, Innrain 52e and ONLINE
Imagine otherwise: Rethinking and reinventing care.
Panel discussion with Sophie Lewis (independent researcher) and Friederike Beier (Otto S...
www.uibk.ac.at
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Looking forward to discussing ‘Rethinking and Reinventing Care’ with Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social on Thursday at the Innsbruck Gender Lecture 💜
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep."
shorturl.at/K4RPq
shorturl.at/K4RPq
Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option.
University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.
www.thenation.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep."
shorturl.at/K4RPq
shorturl.at/K4RPq
"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe
DOGE Nation | Mark Krotov
Like Critical Race Theory before it—but with a supercharged intensity, since each new campaign of right-wing hate has been more aggressive than the last—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has come to st...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe
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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"
✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at
Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at
Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
52nd AAAS Conference: Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities – Troubling American Studies
aaas25.univie.ac.at
February 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"
✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at
Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at
Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
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"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung."
Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.
uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...
Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.
uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...
"Sanewashing" im US-Wahlkampf: Wie der seriöse Journalismus Trumps Irrsinn normalisiert
Viele Medien stellen Donald Trump vernünftiger dar, als er ist. Kolumnist Johannes Franzen erklärt: Das liegt daran, dass sie sich an Regeln halten – und Trump nicht.
uebermedien.de
February 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung."
Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.
uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...
Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.
uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...
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maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!
Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.
February 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.
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The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.
The Privatization of Hope - Boston Review
Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.
www.bostonreview.net
February 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.
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Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da!
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website.
www.anschlaege.at
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website.
www.anschlaege.at
February 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da!
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website.
www.anschlaege.at
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
Unsere Situation ist prekär, aber wir wollen widerständige feministische Strategien allen zugänglich machen – deshalb stellen wir den gesamten Schwerpunkt kostenlos auf unsere Website.
www.anschlaege.at
The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption."
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
Musk and Trump Are Marching Us Into a ‘New Fascism’
Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now?
thebarbedwire.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption."
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
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Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
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In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7
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