Alejandro Jaramillo
@alejh.bsky.social
Anthropologist (PhDing @nyuanthro), photographer, and documentary filmmaker. Investigating Colombia's "emprendimientos de paz". Section editor of VNMR @culanth.
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My review of Anthony Dest’s thought provoking book “Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia” on @polar-journal.bsky.social
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Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia
Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia (Stanford University Press, 2025), By Anthony Dest Reviewed by Alejandro Jaramillo (PhD Candidate, NYU) Researchers, both nationally …
polarjournal.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
My review of Anthony Dest’s thought provoking book “Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia” on @polar-journal.bsky.social
polarjournal.org/2025/09/17/d...
polarjournal.org/2025/09/17/d...
Reposted by Alejandro Jaramillo
Close your eyes and point in almost any direction, and you’ll find an area of acute knowledge loss.
“We’re going to suffer this massively, in both the short and the long term.”
“We’re going to suffer this massively, in both the short and the long term.”
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Close your eyes and point in almost any direction, and you’ll find an area of acute knowledge loss.
“We’re going to suffer this massively, in both the short and the long term.”
“We’re going to suffer this massively, in both the short and the long term.”
Reposted by Alejandro Jaramillo
their inability to understand that land doesn’t vote only worsens with time
May 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
their inability to understand that land doesn’t vote only worsens with time
The transformation(s) of spectatorship since October 2023 are such that make it impossible to discern between a passive and a captive audience.
May 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The transformation(s) of spectatorship since October 2023 are such that make it impossible to discern between a passive and a captive audience.
Starting this feed languishing over the many other I have started in my tenure as a millennial but in the hopes it will be the definitive one.
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Starting this feed languishing over the many other I have started in my tenure as a millennial but in the hopes it will be the definitive one.
Reposted by Alejandro Jaramillo
Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...