Julia Elyachar
@jeelyachar.bsky.social
Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
So great to talk with the wonderful Fatima Seck, co-host of Conversations in Atlantic Theory atlantictheory.transistor.fm/episodes, about my book On the Semicivilized. I am so grateful to you, Fatima, for your amazing questions. I learned so much from you!
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Julia Elyachar On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
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November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So great to talk with the wonderful Fatima Seck, co-host of Conversations in Atlantic Theory atlantictheory.transistor.fm/episodes, about my book On the Semicivilized. I am so grateful to you, Fatima, for your amazing questions. I learned so much from you!
open.spotify.com/episode/2QAV...
open.spotify.com/episode/2QAV...
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No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
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Over at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social offers a timely primer on housing politics and policy in New York City.
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Over at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social offers a timely primer on housing politics and policy in New York City.
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Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
academicpublishingpod.alitu.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
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Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.
Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.
Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.
Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.
Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.
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A RADICAL VISION FOR MAMDANI’S NEW YORK CITY
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A RADICAL VISION FOR MAMDANI’S NEW YORK CITY
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If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
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SUPPORT MERIP: You can show your support for MERIP by picking up a poster or a tote bag today! All products printed locally in a union shop!
Merchandise
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November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
SUPPORT MERIP: You can show your support for MERIP by picking up a poster or a tote bag today! All products printed locally in a union shop!
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Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say
Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine.
But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.
Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...
A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social
A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social
Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future
In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust.
At fir...
www.merip.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...
A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social
A must-read from the new issue of @merip.bsky.social by @rafeefz.bsky.social
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I will start telling my students that the biggest chance for them to succeed in the future job market is to spend their entire (under-)graduate studies learning how to think for themselves. If they survive this hardship & frustration, they’ll eventually outdo everyone cutting corners
#AI #ContraAI 🤖
#AI #ContraAI 🤖
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“Larry Ellison’s Oracle & Peter Thiel’s Palantir now form a single operational spine for digital governance and defence, from cloud infrastructure to predictive analytics. And Trump’s Gaza peace plan looks like the vehicle thru which that spine could extend into Gaza’s reconstruction.” 10/16/25 …1/
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Larry Ellison’s Oracle & Peter Thiel’s Palantir now form a single operational spine for digital governance and defence, from cloud infrastructure to predictive analytics. And Trump’s Gaza peace plan looks like the vehicle thru which that spine could extend into Gaza’s reconstruction.” 10/16/25 …1/
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The amazing ppl at IDEAS ON Fire are offering a free first book webinar.#academicsky
Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series
Our free webinar series guiding authors through critical stages of the academic publishing journey for first books.
ideasonfire.net
September 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The amazing ppl at IDEAS ON Fire are offering a free first book webinar.#academicsky
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Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Balaji (a close associate of Thiel & Andreessen) leads the “network state” movement, which encourages tech elites to build their own “countries” by acquiring physical territory w/in host countries & building “parallel institutions” to replace existing ones in media, education, finance, & science 1/
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Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.
This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.
This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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A truly remarkable interview with my colleague Lana Tatour on race and the question of Palestine: rss.com/podcasts/2-p...
Race and the question of Palestine in a time of genocide: Lana Tatour | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
The second episode of 2 Pals & a Pod features special guest Dr Lana Tatour, a ‘48 Palestinian, academic, writer, and relentless critic of settler colonialism. Tune in as we discuss Lana’s new co...
rss.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A truly remarkable interview with my colleague Lana Tatour on race and the question of Palestine: rss.com/podcasts/2-p...
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AFP (10 freelancers in Gaza across text/photo/video) : since the agency founded in 1944 we’ve had journalists killed, injured or imprisoned, but none of us can recall a colleague dying of starvation.
Which is imminent.
Which is imminent.
⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
AFP (10 freelancers in Gaza across text/photo/video) : since the agency founded in 1944 we’ve had journalists killed, injured or imprisoned, but none of us can recall a colleague dying of starvation.
Which is imminent.
Which is imminent.
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In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
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Bombing a seed bank
After the U.S. occupation of Iraq began in 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank, eliminating hundreds of indigenous seeds, writes Lala Thaddeus. The U.S.-based Iraqi Seed Collective is working to bring extinct Iraqi vegetables back to life.
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prismreports.org/2025/06/24/i...
Saving Iraq’s seeds, one garden at a time
The U.S.-based Iraqi Seed Collective is using the practice of saving seeds to bring extinct Iraqi vegetables back to life
prismreports.org
June 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bombing a seed bank
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to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation
The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
trib.al
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation
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"Iran has been subjected to the world’s most extensive sanctions program for the better part of the last decade."
Coercion and Inequality | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj & Zep Kalb
The distributional effects of sanctions in Iran
phenomenalworld.org
June 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Iran has been subjected to the world’s most extensive sanctions program for the better part of the last decade."