Omar Kasmani
@kasmanio.bsky.social
Berliner-by-love & cultural anthropologist @FU_Berlin | intimacy, post-migrant be/longing, queer + affect theory | author of Queer Companions (2022, Duke UP)
A big thank you @zfn.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social for hosting my reading last night. I had the fortune of sharing my writing on Berlin as it shifts from a project of be/longing to that of un/loving, that is, not the absence or opposite of love, rather its conscious withholding.
December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
A big thank you @zfn.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social for hosting my reading last night. I had the fortune of sharing my writing on Berlin as it shifts from a project of be/longing to that of un/loving, that is, not the absence or opposite of love, rather its conscious withholding.
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Love is a City in Anguish ~ reading and talk with Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social
netzkunst.berlin/metaphors/#e...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 7 pm
📍 @pankegallery.bsky.social
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea
Curatorial concept: Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek, Anneliese Ostertag
netzkunst.berlin/metaphors/#e...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 7 pm
📍 @pankegallery.bsky.social
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea
Curatorial concept: Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek, Anneliese Ostertag
November 27, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Love is a City in Anguish ~ reading and talk with Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social
netzkunst.berlin/metaphors/#e...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 7 pm
📍 @pankegallery.bsky.social
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea
Curatorial concept: Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek, Anneliese Ostertag
netzkunst.berlin/metaphors/#e...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 7 pm
📍 @pankegallery.bsky.social
From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea
Curatorial concept: Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek, Anneliese Ostertag
“It is 2024 and Berlin feels like a heartbreak” #justout my essay on the minor/ felt ways in which urban-political turmoil corresponds with matters of the heart. About digital intimacies, migrant heartache and boy-trouble, or “when home fails to inhabit you the way you inhabit it” @zfn.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
“It is 2024 and Berlin feels like a heartbreak” #justout my essay on the minor/ felt ways in which urban-political turmoil corresponds with matters of the heart. About digital intimacies, migrant heartache and boy-trouble, or “when home fails to inhabit you the way you inhabit it” @zfn.bsky.social
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Refusing to award a prize named after an SA & NSDAP member, intimately tied to Nazi socialites, to a non-German artist who called for a boycott of Israeli institutions in light of what the UN calls genocide might just set a new benchmark for hypocrisy in Germany.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow
Schelling Architecture Foundation refuses to give James Bridle the €10k prize after signing of open letter
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Refusing to award a prize named after an SA & NSDAP member, intimately tied to Nazi socialites, to a non-German artist who called for a boycott of Israeli institutions in light of what the UN calls genocide might just set a new benchmark for hypocrisy in Germany.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social
Not sure what’s broken can be sutured, or if we can knit ourselves out of German horrors, but I know that “Thin Attachments” my Berlin book project on migrant loves & be/longing now qualifies as anthropology of/with a broken heart (riffing off Behar). Bani captures a shared landscape of un/feeling.
January 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Not sure what’s broken can be sutured, or if we can knit ourselves out of German horrors, but I know that “Thin Attachments” my Berlin book project on migrant loves & be/longing now qualifies as anthropology of/with a broken heart (riffing off Behar). Bani captures a shared landscape of un/feeling.
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My book is out! Yes! "Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany" published by @berghahnbooks
50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...
50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...
Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
January 11, 2024 at 7:44 AM
My book is out! Yes! "Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany" published by @berghahnbooks
50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...
50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...
Diaspora is negotiating the terms of betrayal / You are alive here because they’re not / Over there
- Momtaza Mehri in Bad Diaspora Poems (2023, 95)
- Momtaza Mehri in Bad Diaspora Poems (2023, 95)
January 10, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Diaspora is negotiating the terms of betrayal / You are alive here because they’re not / Over there
- Momtaza Mehri in Bad Diaspora Poems (2023, 95)
- Momtaza Mehri in Bad Diaspora Poems (2023, 95)
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Congratulations to all our authors whose books have won awards since July 2023, including @darrenbyler.bsky.social, @kasmanio.bsky.social, and more!
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December 27, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations to all our authors whose books have won awards since July 2023, including @darrenbyler.bsky.social, @kasmanio.bsky.social, and more!
dukeupress.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/f...
dukeupress.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/f...
Readings, samosas, conversations + discounted copies 🥳 Join us this evening in Berlin-Neukölln as we introduce and celebrate “Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere” @dukepress.bsky.social
December 15, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Readings, samosas, conversations + discounted copies 🥳 Join us this evening in Berlin-Neukölln as we introduce and celebrate “Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere” @dukepress.bsky.social
On affective postures of the state and the companionable histories we sense and feel in the queer-affective weave of the sacred in Pakistan - read my invited entry in the Contending Modernities series “Enlivening the Nation” - contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints | Contending Modernities
The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.
contendingmodernities.nd.edu
December 7, 2023 at 11:44 AM
On affective postures of the state and the companionable histories we sense and feel in the queer-affective weave of the sacred in Pakistan - read my invited entry in the Contending Modernities series “Enlivening the Nation” - contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
The lovely Hajra Haider Karrar and I met this afternoon to co-conspire for a-soon-to-be-coming deliciously abundant berlin-mehfil for this darling-of-a-book. Stay tuned and save the date: 15 December. Oh and it’s currently 50% off, so get your copy now @dukepress.bsky.social
December 6, 2023 at 3:37 PM
The lovely Hajra Haider Karrar and I met this afternoon to co-conspire for a-soon-to-be-coming deliciously abundant berlin-mehfil for this darling-of-a-book. Stay tuned and save the date: 15 December. Oh and it’s currently 50% off, so get your copy now @dukepress.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @kasmanio.bsky.social, whose book "Queer Companions" has won the 2023 Ruth Benedict Book Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph from The Association for Queer Anthropology! ow.ly/O38i50Q9swl
November 20, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Congratulations to @kasmanio.bsky.social, whose book "Queer Companions" has won the 2023 Ruth Benedict Book Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph from The Association for Queer Anthropology! ow.ly/O38i50Q9swl
On how to properly react to an amazing edited volume: Cutie Queer Companion @mxschnepf.bsky.social meets Pakistan Desires @dukepress.bsky.social - goes (rightfully) bonkers!
November 16, 2023 at 3:26 PM
On how to properly react to an amazing edited volume: Cutie Queer Companion @mxschnepf.bsky.social meets Pakistan Desires @dukepress.bsky.social - goes (rightfully) bonkers!
On enduring, if not surviving, the thickness, mastery and violence of European history and its cruel manifestations in the present.
November 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM
On enduring, if not surviving, the thickness, mastery and violence of European history and its cruel manifestations in the present.
From this day forward, following the great German example, I shall only work with those White-German academics who have publicly denounced or distanced themselves from Habermas. Punkt.
November 15, 2023 at 5:17 PM
From this day forward, following the great German example, I shall only work with those White-German academics who have publicly denounced or distanced themselves from Habermas. Punkt.
Queer Companions @dukepress.bsky.social wins the 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize 💕 In her email, the chair of the prize committee (AQA, Association for Queer Anthropology) noted, “the book took our breath away.” What an absolute honor this is; thank you for the love and recognition!
November 2, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Queer Companions @dukepress.bsky.social wins the 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize 💕 In her email, the chair of the prize committee (AQA, Association for Queer Anthropology) noted, “the book took our breath away.” What an absolute honor this is; thank you for the love and recognition!
A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
October 27, 2023 at 10:48 AM
A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
Reposted by Omar Kasmani
EASA statement
"We call for an immediate ceasefire and immediate humanitarian relief for the people of Gaza, and a commitment from Israel and all governments to a peace process that deals with the historic inequalities, injustice and structural violence in the region."
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"We call for an immediate ceasefire and immediate humanitarian relief for the people of Gaza, and a commitment from Israel and all governments to a peace process that deals with the historic inequalities, injustice and structural violence in the region."
easaonline.org/outputs/supp...
easaonline.org
October 24, 2023 at 1:40 PM
EASA statement
"We call for an immediate ceasefire and immediate humanitarian relief for the people of Gaza, and a commitment from Israel and all governments to a peace process that deals with the historic inequalities, injustice and structural violence in the region."
easaonline.org/outputs/supp...
"We call for an immediate ceasefire and immediate humanitarian relief for the people of Gaza, and a commitment from Israel and all governments to a peace process that deals with the historic inequalities, injustice and structural violence in the region."
easaonline.org/outputs/supp...
If one is to go by Jesus’ example, at 20 something followers, there’s still hope for me. Hello bluesky-beauties. I’ve arrived!
October 21, 2023 at 1:45 PM
If one is to go by Jesus’ example, at 20 something followers, there’s still hope for me. Hello bluesky-beauties. I’ve arrived!