Olga Touloumi
@touloumi.bsky.social
architecture | media | spatial politics | feminism
education worker by day, writer by night, and feminist 24/7
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (UMN, 2024) https://tinyurl.com/ycxbedpm
F A A C https://faacweb.wordpress.com/
education worker by day, writer by night, and feminist 24/7
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (UMN, 2024) https://tinyurl.com/ycxbedpm
F A A C https://faacweb.wordpress.com/
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Olga Touloumi
@touloumi.bsky.social
· Nov 17
📣 My book Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Public Interior is out and thanks to the good people at
@uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.
@uminnpress.bsky.social I have a promotional code to share! Happy to conspire for events, talk to your students, or put together a panel.
Thank you for featuring Assembly by Design in exceptional company @iajournal.bsky.social !!
☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...
The International Affairs summer reading list 2025
There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…
medium.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thank you for featuring Assembly by Design in exceptional company @iajournal.bsky.social !!
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As institutions retrofitted themselves to house Richard Serra’s massive steel forms, this piece shows how his work transitioned from confrontational public interventions to museum-bound monuments.
By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com
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By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com
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Man About Town | Mariana Mogilevich
Perceptive critics noted early on that Serra’s sculpture only made sense in relation to its time and place and gave meaning only to those specific conditions against which it unfolded. Serra insisted…
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May 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As institutions retrofitted themselves to house Richard Serra’s massive steel forms, this piece shows how his work transitioned from confrontational public interventions to museum-bound monuments.
By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com
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By @mmogi.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com
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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️
See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.
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I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...
April 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I don't know why I hadn't heard before about Jan Banning's Bureaucratics project — documenting the material culture of civil administrations in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen janbanning.com/2022/07/01/b...
That was fun! Also useful for anyone curious to know what the book is about. Thank you @danielryansyd.bsky.social
If you missed @touloumi.bsky.social 's wonderful talk about her new book Assembly by Design you can catch up on it here. Great response from Claire Zimmerman too. youtu.be/MBoBv3Xwhds?...
Olga Touloumi - Assembly by Design
YouTube video by Architecture, Design & Planning
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March 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
That was fun! Also useful for anyone curious to know what the book is about. Thank you @danielryansyd.bsky.social
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Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not.
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Last time Trump demanded social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants, it was only for immigrants outside the U.S.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not.
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New from the University of Georgia Press @ugapress.bsky.social , @stephenlegg11.bsky.social 's Spaces of Anticolonialism explores the anticolonial movements in Delhi before India’s independence, analysing subaltern geographies and hidden spaces through a spatial governmentality lens. bit.ly/LeggSOA
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New from the University of Georgia Press @ugapress.bsky.social , @stephenlegg11.bsky.social 's Spaces of Anticolonialism explores the anticolonial movements in Delhi before India’s independence, analysing subaltern geographies and hidden spaces through a spatial governmentality lens. bit.ly/LeggSOA
This event looks fantastic for those in NY! Do not miss
Please join us at The New School next Friday evening!
What protocols do we need now? Our latest anthology As for Protocols responds to this question. Join us for the launch on Mar 21, at 6:30pm @thenewschool.bsky.social, feat. contributors @shannonmattern.bsky.social, Salome Asega, Silas Riener, and Robert Sember. veralistcenter.org/events/as-fo...
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This event looks fantastic for those in NY! Do not miss
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Please join us at The New School next Friday evening!
What protocols do we need now? Our latest anthology As for Protocols responds to this question. Join us for the launch on Mar 21, at 6:30pm @thenewschool.bsky.social, feat. contributors @shannonmattern.bsky.social, Salome Asega, Silas Riener, and Robert Sember. veralistcenter.org/events/as-fo...
As for Protocols Book Launch | Vera List Center
Mar 21, 2025
veralistcenter.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Please join us at The New School next Friday evening!
Come hear me talk with Claire Zimmerman, who co-edited a fantastic volume on nationalist internationalisms! March 11 6:30pm ET. The event will be online!
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Come hear me talk with Claire Zimmerman, who co-edited a fantastic volume on nationalist internationalisms! March 11 6:30pm ET. The event will be online!
Must read!
.@zentralwerkstatt.org and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
January 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Must read!
Throughout my experience in US academia, my hate for abstract writing remains an uncomfortable constant. Don't get me wrong: I understand the algorithm (here is what others say; here is the gap; that's how I will address it; and that'swhy we should care about it), but I have no love for it.
January 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Throughout my experience in US academia, my hate for abstract writing remains an uncomfortable constant. Don't get me wrong: I understand the algorithm (here is what others say; here is the gap; that's how I will address it; and that'swhy we should care about it), but I have no love for it.
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Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 !
Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop...
Deadline: >>Feb 21<<
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Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop...
Deadline: >>Feb 21<<
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Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops • Call for Abstracts
THE COSTS OF ARCHITECTURE NETWORK SUMMER 2025 WORKSHOPS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: February 21, 2025 The Costs of Architecture Network is pleased to announce a call for paper abstracts for a series ...
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January 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 !
Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop...
Deadline: >>Feb 21<<
👍
Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop...
Deadline: >>Feb 21<<
👍
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When I was in college I worked at the library. One of my least favorite tasks was shelving books. One day I happened upon a book of Nikki Giovanni’s poems and my life was forever changed. Rest in Power and Thank You.
December 10, 2024 at 2:10 PM
When I was in college I worked at the library. One of my least favorite tasks was shelving books. One day I happened upon a book of Nikki Giovanni’s poems and my life was forever changed. Rest in Power and Thank You.
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I'm currently working as an independent scholar and writing a history of the material and spatial cultures of broadcasting in 20s30s England with a focus on BBC Broadcasting House & the wireless sets manufactured by EKCO Ltd.
November 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I'm currently working as an independent scholar and writing a history of the material and spatial cultures of broadcasting in 20s30s England with a focus on BBC Broadcasting House & the wireless sets manufactured by EKCO Ltd.
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"...back in the day when ppl wld talk abt 📕 bans, [they'd] say “Oh, you must be 🤗! Bc the minute they ban a 📕 everybody’s running to get... it.” But now we’re living in a different ⏰, where it’s legislated. If 📚 are banned, + ppl try to put them into the ✋ of young ppl, they lose their jobs."
Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025
The author Jacqueline Woodson has been in censors’ cross-hairs for years, simply for writing queer characters into young adult books and documenting racial consciousness. But she’s unus…
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December 4, 2024 at 3:39 PM
"...back in the day when ppl wld talk abt 📕 bans, [they'd] say “Oh, you must be 🤗! Bc the minute they ban a 📕 everybody’s running to get... it.” But now we’re living in a different ⏰, where it’s legislated. If 📚 are banned, + ppl try to put them into the ✋ of young ppl, they lose their jobs."
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🌟🌟FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION🌟🌟
As you design those spring syllabi, permit me to remind you about "Modernism as Liberation: J. Max Bond Jr. at Mississippi's Mary Holmes College," the 1st publication from my work on architect J. Max Bond Jr., from JSAH, June 2024. 1/3
As you design those spring syllabi, permit me to remind you about "Modernism as Liberation: J. Max Bond Jr. at Mississippi's Mary Holmes College," the 1st publication from my work on architect J. Max Bond Jr., from JSAH, June 2024. 1/3
December 3, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Thank you for reading @coastofbohemia.bsky.social ! Your thoughtful post made my day! I hope we get to meet one day :) (psst @uminnpress.bsky.social )
I've marveled at the seamlessness of translation at UN mtgs. @touloumi.bsky.social's story of its machinery--equip., spatial config., + interpreters grinding, "enabling the fantasy of organic communication" toward smooth internationalism--is full of insight. And pics! Arch, design, media, int'l law.
December 2, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Thank you for reading @coastofbohemia.bsky.social ! Your thoughtful post made my day! I hope we get to meet one day :) (psst @uminnpress.bsky.social )
👇 media, architecture, telephones
Hello Bluesky - quiet poster here sharing architecture, urbanism, and heritage/preservation research and teaching, plus telephone buildings (like this favorite in Columbus, Indiana).
November 30, 2024 at 3:34 PM
👇 media, architecture, telephones
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My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA...
www.thedigradio.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:19 PM
My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
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Just published an article in ATR:
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Free eprints!
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Free eprints!
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Elaborating on the techniques that the Black Studies scholar Cedric Robinson uses to write the histories of racial capitalism, this essay outlines a way to approach longue durée architectural histo...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Just published an article in ATR:
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Free eprints!
Racial Capitalism, Cedric Robinson, and a Method for Architectural History
Free eprints!