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J. Moufawad-Paul
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My review of Derbent's Clausewitz & The People's War, updated and translated by @flpbooks.bsky.social, is up:
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‘Clausewitz and the People’s War And Other Politico-Military Essays’ by T Derbent reviewed by Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Since the early 2000s, Belgian scholar T. Derbent has been writing and publishing rigorous Marxist studies on Clausewitz and military strategy. Aside from a few essays and small books, however, most o...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Radical philosopher A. Shahid Stover interviewed me about my recent book months back, and it is now up on his blog:
brotherwiseinterviewsexclusives.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH vs. J. Moufawad Paul (round II)
Brotherwise Dispatch, interviews, exclusives, theory, critique, aesthetics, philosophy, critical theory, black liberation, black radical imagination,
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July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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minorliteratures.bsky.social
PS ... minor lits will be opening submissions for the month of August

all info here:

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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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June 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
This extension of the genocide in Gaza to a war on Iran should reveal how fucking gross the imperialist camp is:
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Bring The War Home?
It is now almost two years into the genocide in Gaza, a genocide that has been fastidiously documented and demonstrated to be a genocide, a...
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June 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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ajbauer.bsky.social
The world needs to boycott, divest from, and sanction the United States.
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
I have this longstanding work on political aesthetic philosophy, about an author I think is theoretically important, that I started working on years ago, got the rough draft up to 30,000+ words, and then stopped because I didn't know where it was heading a few years before lockdown…
June 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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RIP Walter Rodney, assassinated on this day 45 years ago.

Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.

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Graphic of Walter Rodney with a quote from his final speech: “What I am trying to say is simply this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all walks of life, and more particularly by the working class who are in the majority. And it is a sign of the times, a sign of the power of revolutionary transformation, when a street force member is developed into a fighting cadre in a political movement.” Graphic c/o Josh McPhee https://justseeds.org/product/walter-rodney/
June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
After watching Yerzhanov's Steppenwolf, I watched his Goliath (which was included in the Steppenwolf Bluray), which was also brilliant:
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A ★★★★★ review of Goliath (2022)
According to Gramsci, Machiavelli wrote The Prince for the people to understand the ways in which the ruling class operated since those who commanded political power would not have to read a manual on...
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June 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Watched Yerzhanov's Steppenwolf and omg it was amazing:
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A ★★★★★ review of Steppenwolf (2024)
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June 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Genocide and ecocide together.
pmbigger.bsky.social Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · May 30
Today the guardian is debuting our new calculations of climate damage caused by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greenhouse gases are not the most important reason to demand a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but this data shows yet another way that genocide harms us all.
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
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May 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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dzshaw.bsky.social
Something that we wrote as part of the On Necrocapitalism project in the wake of the of the 3rd precinct burning down, on "good" and "bad" protesters: necrocapitalism.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/c...
May 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House
Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Another giant passes.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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May 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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williamcson.bsky.social
“The Gaza government media office said that these ‘separation ghettos’ for the distribution of limited amounts of aid are a form of ‘systematic political engineering designed to prolong starvation and dismantle Palestinian society.’”
May 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Some ideas are do not deserve "civility".
Tweet from Najat (@theafroaussie): "Another week of watching people burned alive in Gaza and we're still required to be civil with Zionists, right?"
May 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
I was able to stretch my read of @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter out for a month, reading it only on the evenings of weekends, and I'm glad I was able to enjoy it for as long as I did:
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J. Moufawad-Paul's review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
5/5: A masterpiece of literary horror. Stephen Graham Jones makes the vampire mythology fresh again, within the context of settler-colonialism and colonial violence, merging both its unsettling and mo...
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May 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
I rewatched Rogue One after watching Andor, and was reminded of what I hate about the Star Wars intellectual property shibboleth despite its command on my nostalgia:
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A ★★★ review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
I decided to rewatch this after finishing the second season of Andor out of curiousity, largely to see if it followed logically from the end of the series. Aside from some actors looking ten years you...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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policingblack.bsky.social
excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.
May 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Garrett Bradley's *Time* is amazing. Aside from feeling like a narrative film movie rather than the documentary it is, the hopefulness against years of oppression felt really good to watch in these pitiless times.
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A ★★★★★ review of Time (2020)
This is the first documentary I've seen since *Harlan County USA* that feels like narrative film. Although Bradley's style is different from Kopple's, the level of access she is granted to the communi...
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May 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
I love Yerzhanov's films:
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A ★★★★★ review of The Owners (2014)
All of Yerzhanov's films are concerned with the post-Soviet gap between the city and the countryside, and how the breakdown of institutional structures following the Soviet collapse exacerbate a retur...
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May 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Thursday (5/15) at 11:30 AM EDT / 6:30 PM in Palestine

We Were Never Part of Their Future: Shameless Power & War as Symptom of Failure with Abdaljawad Omar

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We Were Never Part of Their Future: Shameless Power & War as Symptom of Failure with Abdaljawad Omar; in the background a billboard which reads "No Future in Palestine" (in Arabic) showing Palestinians being displaced in Gaza, set up by an Israeli settler in the West Bank; against a night sky; in the foreground Abdaljawad Omar in the bottom right corner; MAKC logo in the bottom left corner
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
Finally watched The Face of Another:
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A ★★★★½ review of The Face of Another (1966)
"The face digs the hole that subjectification needs in order to break through; it constitutes the black hole of subjectivity as consciousness or passion, the camera, the third eye." – Deleuze and Guat...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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“assimilated easily into” their local klan chapters
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 12
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?

TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
mlmmayhem.bsky.social
What a waste of my time:
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A ★ review of AGGRO DR1FT (2023)
God I hate Harmony Korine now. Before I just disliked him, but at least respected that he was a thoughtful filmmaker working with material from his experience. My dislike stemmed from the fact this th...
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May 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM