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Runette Kruger
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Distopia.
the Undercommons.
Researching Liberatory SpaceTime.
Pinned
This volume captures outputs from the EVC AI conference held in Nairobi at the end of last year. The journal is open source - my analysis may of interest to humanities and arts educators.
journals.unesco.go.ke/index.php/jk...
Ready when you are. 📝
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lis Lange.
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Doing some research for an essay and it struck me that what we are dealing with goes far beyond criminality and corruption, as heinous as the depth of that has transpired to be. No, what we are witnessing is widescale treason.
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The rap / Mamdani crossover my heart health needed 😭

***MamDAAHnieeee*** 🫶
Know this, I will be saying "bring the flavor to the rice" for the next, oh, 5 years
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Powerful Afrikaans poem about masculinity and the power of vulnerability, from Herman Wasserman's poetry collection “Waterman”.

"ons sal saamhuil en saamsing
totdat elke boytjie dit weet:
water kan ook rotse breek"
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Paintings by American artist Kenny Harris, 2020s, from his Moka still life series.
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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To our friends in Jamaica: your beautiful island is loved across the world. Our hearts are with you as you face nature at its most destructive.
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
America being run as if the president is a hostile foreign agent.
Oh wait.

Several (dozens of) other sovereign nations suffering that fate as well. Huh. What a time to be alive.
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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CFP: Literature and Aesthetics, thematic issue: Time of the Wolf

https://arthist.net/archive/50953

Literature and Aesthetics, thematic issue: Time of the Wolf
Ali Shobeiri. University of Sydney/University of Leiden, Eingabeschluss : 15.12.2025
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October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Sculpture by Chicago-based Danish artist Marie Herwald Hermann, 2020s, who creates still life tableaux with stoneware, shelving, and other objects.
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Hind Rajab Foundation takes 24 Israeli soldiers to ICC over killing of six-year-old - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-takes-24-israeli-soldiers-icc-over-killing-six
Hind Rajab Foundation takes 24 Israeli soldiers to ICC over killing of six-year-old
<article data-history-node-id="430499" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-takes-24-israeli-soldiers-icc-over-killing-six" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hind-rajab-foundation-takes-24-israeli-soldiers-icc-over-killing-six" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hind Rajab Foundation takes 24 Israeli soldiers to ICC over killing of six-year-old</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Hind Rijab Foundation has taken 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders to the International Criminal Court over the killing of Hind Rijab, a six-year-old Palestinian child.&nbsp;</p> <p>The foundation identified the<meta charset="UTF-8">&nbsp;Vampire Empire Company&nbsp;of the<strong>&nbsp;</strong>52nd Armoured Battalion&nbsp;operating under Israel’s&nbsp;401st Armoured Brigade as responsible for the killing of Hind, six members of her family and two Palestinian medics.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Foundation said three key senior Israeli commanders were responsible: Colonel Beni Aharon, commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion; and Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company.&nbsp;</p> <p>The foundation said an additional&nbsp;22 identified tank crew members&nbsp;of the same company "directly participated in or facilitated the attack".</p> <p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> <p>"The attacks were carried out&nbsp;with full knowledge&nbsp;of the victims’ civilian and protected status, following&nbsp;prior coordination&nbsp;between the Palestinian Red Crescent and Israeli authorities," the foundation said in a statement.&nbsp;</p> <p>"The Foundation’s legal team concludes that these acts amount to&nbsp;war crimes,&nbsp;crimes against humanity, and&nbsp;genocide, under&nbsp;Articles 6, 7, and 8 of the Rome Statute," the statement added.&nbsp;</p> <p><meta charset="UTF-8"></p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The passing of the pioneering South African writer and critic leaves behind a body of work that challenged racial mythologies, unsettled identity politics, and grounded transhistorical vision in the particulars of place. africasacountry.com/2025/10/zoe-...
Zoë Wicomb’s local universalisms
The passing of the pioneering South African writer and critic leaves behind a body of work that challenged racial mythologies, unsettled identity politics, and grounded transhistorical vision in the p...
africasacountry.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Registration is open. Register for in-person and online.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🗣 Free to attend online Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage. October through December!
arthist.net/archive/50799
Photographic Cultures and Heritage (online, 30 Oct-25 Dec 25)
Prof Gil Pasternak. Photographic History Research Centre / online
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October 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Very cool!
Attendance free.
arthist.net/archive/50784
Global New Voices 2025 (online, 13 Nov 25)
Man Li. Online via Zoom, 13.11.2025
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October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM