Gail Hamner
@mgailhamner.bsky.social
Emerita prof from Syracuse; obsessive reader; start each day with espresso and 3 pages of MF's Dits et Écrits, swim in Marx's seas, hang out with folks from the Society for the Study of Affect, and attend Duke's FTW every year. ❤️ my kitten, Truffle.
Archiving Eve
An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally…
An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally…
Archiving Eve
An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally excellent remarks from current doctoral students and newly-minted PhD’s. The organizers’ decision to center contemporary…
affecognitive.wordpress.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Archiving Eve
An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally…
An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally…
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No one way works,
it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.
Diane Di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #8
3/100
it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.
Diane Di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #8
3/100
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
No one way works,
it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.
Diane Di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #8
3/100
it will take all of us
shoving at the thing from all sides
to bring it down.
Diane Di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #8
3/100
Butler: "to repair and regenerate the earth’s living processes; to accept and affirm the complexity of our embodied lives; to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable."
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Butler: "to repair and regenerate the earth’s living processes; to accept and affirm the complexity of our embodied lives; to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable."
Kornbluh’s Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and…
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and…
Kornbluh’s Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and here and here across a canvas. It feels as if Kornbluh said to herself, "look at the gajillion iterations of today's cultural production that…
affecognitive.wordpress.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kornbluh’s Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and…
Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and…
Phoebe Boswell:"Sami, a trans woman at the start of her transition, wrote, 'The words I do not have yet. /I do not yet have the words to talk about the things that have happened to me, as if they happened to me. /I do not have the words that connect me to others, without feeling like an imposter.'"
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Phoebe Boswell:"Sami, a trans woman at the start of her transition, wrote, 'The words I do not have yet. /I do not yet have the words to talk about the things that have happened to me, as if they happened to me. /I do not have the words that connect me to others, without feeling like an imposter.'"
Black and White landscapes.
Blue Ridge fog
Blue Ridge fog
February 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Black and White landscapes.
Blue Ridge fog
Blue Ridge fog
Phoebe Boswell: "I’ve never dreamed of a nation-state. I’ve never felt at home in a thing called place. In Kikuyu, my mother’s language, it is said that home is a river. Fluid. We need new models, new paradigms."
*5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World*
*5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World*
February 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Phoebe Boswell: "I’ve never dreamed of a nation-state. I’ve never felt at home in a thing called place. In Kikuyu, my mother’s language, it is said that home is a river. Fluid. We need new models, new paradigms."
*5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World*
*5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World*
ANYONE who has worn an f’n pin or posted/flown a rainbow flag or safe space sign better be paying attention. This is when your voice matters.
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
ANYONE who has worn an f’n pin or posted/flown a rainbow flag or safe space sign better be paying attention. This is when your voice matters.
Is this true? If so, may all the curses known to humans rain down on the subhuman pos’s who did this. Just sayin’
While I can't confirm anything at this point, it looks like the National Park Service has taken down web pages for:
National Japanese American Memorial
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial
Stonewall National Monument
www.nps.gov/index.htm 🗃️
National Japanese American Memorial
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial
Stonewall National Monument
www.nps.gov/index.htm 🗃️
NPS.gov Homepage (U.S. National Park Service)
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.
www.nps.gov
January 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Is this true? If so, may all the curses known to humans rain down on the subhuman pos’s who did this. Just sayin’
Hey @syracuseu.bsky.social
You do realize that supporting diversity means supporting it when the going gets rough and not just when it's culturally trendy, right? Why has the Newhouse News Diversity Fellowship gone dark? @sualums.bsky.social who care about DEI should make their voices known.
You do realize that supporting diversity means supporting it when the going gets rough and not just when it's culturally trendy, right? Why has the Newhouse News Diversity Fellowship gone dark? @sualums.bsky.social who care about DEI should make their voices known.
January 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hey @syracuseu.bsky.social
You do realize that supporting diversity means supporting it when the going gets rough and not just when it's culturally trendy, right? Why has the Newhouse News Diversity Fellowship gone dark? @sualums.bsky.social who care about DEI should make their voices known.
You do realize that supporting diversity means supporting it when the going gets rough and not just when it's culturally trendy, right? Why has the Newhouse News Diversity Fellowship gone dark? @sualums.bsky.social who care about DEI should make their voices known.
Marx Capital v 3: “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations, as boni patres familias."
January 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Marx Capital v 3: “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations, as boni patres familias."
Thank the goddesses. One down, a trillion trillion to go.
US judge blocks transgender inmate's prison transfer under Trump order
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank the goddesses. One down, a trillion trillion to go.
hmmm. I’m thinking it wasn’t DEI or the Dems
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
hmmm. I’m thinking it wasn’t DEI or the Dems
Christina Sharpe: "How must we live? What architecture might facilitate that living? What urgencies move us? What delusions of inclusion are long past time to abandon? What is the tense of our speaking, the tense of our doing?"
from 5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World
from 5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World
January 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Christina Sharpe: "How must we live? What architecture might facilitate that living? What urgencies move us? What delusions of inclusion are long past time to abandon? What is the tense of our speaking, the tense of our doing?"
from 5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World
from 5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World
J. Nash: "I endeavor to mobilize Black feminist theory to mark what it feels like to find oneself open, soft, receptive, vulnerable, broken open by love, by fatigue, by repetition, by devotion. I have ... a desire to underline a place where a Black feminist theoretical tradition is still silent."
January 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
J. Nash: "I endeavor to mobilize Black feminist theory to mark what it feels like to find oneself open, soft, receptive, vulnerable, broken open by love, by fatigue, by repetition, by devotion. I have ... a desire to underline a place where a Black feminist theoretical tradition is still silent."
heck yea
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
heck yea
Saidiya Hartman: "Beauty is not a luxury; it is a way of
creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given."
Cited in Nash, with her comment, "beauty as an act of subsistence, beauty as possibility."
creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given."
Cited in Nash, with her comment, "beauty as an act of subsistence, beauty as possibility."
January 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Saidiya Hartman: "Beauty is not a luxury; it is a way of
creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given."
Cited in Nash, with her comment, "beauty as an act of subsistence, beauty as possibility."
creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given."
Cited in Nash, with her comment, "beauty as an act of subsistence, beauty as possibility."
Lo, another day stolen by insurance: I can’t find you in BCBS. I’m covered, I’ve a call out. We must charge you. Can you hold my card until I get confirmation? No- reschedule? No! What you charge me in 20 seconds will take hours to get undone. Hours later, it’s undone. But so many don’t have a card!
January 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lo, another day stolen by insurance: I can’t find you in BCBS. I’m covered, I’ve a call out. We must charge you. Can you hold my card until I get confirmation? No- reschedule? No! What you charge me in 20 seconds will take hours to get undone. Hours later, it’s undone. But so many don’t have a card!
January 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Jennifer Nash: "an ethics of writing centers contemporary Black feminist theory’s will to move its reader...Black feminist theorists’ will & push to get under their readers’ skin: being moved—as in affected, and as in transported *by words* to the scene of loss—is a form of doing justice to loss."
How We Write Now
www.dukeupress.edu
January 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Jennifer Nash: "an ethics of writing centers contemporary Black feminist theory’s will to move its reader...Black feminist theorists’ will & push to get under their readers’ skin: being moved—as in affected, and as in transported *by words* to the scene of loss—is a form of doing justice to loss."
Exactly. Don't give in before the fight is brought to you.
Rutgers, and any other schools preemptively pulling DEI programming, is an utter failure of courage in the face of political foolishness. We know better.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords.
See full statement here: mailchi.mp/mossmedia/ne...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords.
See full statement here: mailchi.mp/mossmedia/ne...
Baraka Issues Statement on Rutgers Preemptively Pulling DEI Programming, Calls for Support
mailchi.mp
January 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Exactly. Don't give in before the fight is brought to you.
Still the Blue Jays and Juncos fly and flirt, eat perch.
January 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still the Blue Jays and Juncos fly and flirt, eat perch.
Marx, Capital 3: The entire spirit of capitalist production, which is oriented towards the most immediate monetary profit, stands in contradiction to agriculture, which has to concern itself with the whole gamut of permanent conditions of life required by the chain of human generations. (754n27).
January 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Marx, Capital 3: The entire spirit of capitalist production, which is oriented towards the most immediate monetary profit, stands in contradiction to agriculture, which has to concern itself with the whole gamut of permanent conditions of life required by the chain of human generations. (754n27).
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Curious parallel: at the same time we are encouraged to extend personhood to “AI” while personhood is being withdrawn from trans ppl, the undocumented, and so on.
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Curious parallel: at the same time we are encouraged to extend personhood to “AI” while personhood is being withdrawn from trans ppl, the undocumented, and so on.