‘Men don't have resolve. They have generational patriarchy induced false confidence.’

A brilliant interview that sums up a powerful life of scholarship.

"I don’t believe one should just stay away from power, but I don’t think we should embrace it. Power is a fatal thing for intellectuals"

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'To what extent, beneath the now-fetishized aesthetic, was socialist modernism meaningfully the product of a radically different social system to liberal capitalism?'

Owen Hatherley on 'Socmodernist' architecture, in NLR 155.

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🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:

Highly recommended, and it takes only 10 minutes.

Timothy Snyder - WATCH: Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

A stranger in my own land,
Only 7 kilometers far away
But it feels like you are moving further.
Tell me,
Will I ever feel your warmth again?"

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"Even now, more than two years later, the deaths of more than a hundred children from consuming toxic Indian-made cough syrups have failed to spur any comprehensive action by Indian or global health authorities," write Vidya Krishnan and Arshu John.

I don’t think there are any plans to govern, just to destroy.

In the final chapter of my book, Between Two Rivers, I talk about rock art and inscriptions in Saudi Arabia that tell us a bit about Nabonidus, the Babylonian king.

This dark boulder sits on reddish sand outside of Tayma, a major, multicultural hub of ancient trade. It seems unremarkable at first.

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.

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Through her practice Riwaq, Amiry has ‘tirelessly worked to preserve Palestinian collective memory through the documentation and restoration of architectural heritage across Palestine’ in an ‘enactment of sumud, the Palestinian tradition of steadfast perseverance, through architecture’:

I took part in a podcast hosted by the
Somerset House, London on the 'Salt hedge of India' that the British govenrment set up in the 19th century. This podcast accompanies an installation that is now on display at the Somerset House on the 'Salt hedge'. channel.somersethouse.org.uk/podcasts/pro...

I flatly refuse to be miserable for more than an hour. It serves nothing. When a bad feeling lingers I act as my own emotional immune system, latching onto it, analyzing its causes, its potential weaknesses, crippling it any way I can.

Sometimes I have to ask others for ideas. But I do not stop.

"I have to get the fuck out of here."

Me, anywhere

Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay

Who do you think I am describing?

They have very short attention spans, pay no attention to detail, whatever looks good is good, they get swayed by the new flashy thing in the market and want that for themselves.

Founders. Not babies.

Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.

‘Men don't have resolve. They have generational patriarchy induced false confidence.’

I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like 'em myself.

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