Joshua Pocius
@pocius.org
👨🏫 Lecturer, UniMelb School of Social and Political Sciences
🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies
🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
🐈⬛ Catlady
🔬 Medical humanities | corporeal cinema | AIDS cultural criticism | bodies bodies bodies
🗺️ Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
🐈⬛ Catlady
GSC SEMINAR: ‘Extreme Misogyny, Problematic Feminisms and Governmentality of Gender in Post-Socialist China’
Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne
Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri)
Time: 13:00-14:00
Online registration:
unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne
Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri)
Time: 13:00-14:00
Online registration:
unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
GSC SEMINAR: ‘Extreme Misogyny, Problematic Feminisms and Governmentality of Gender in Post-Socialist China’
Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne
Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri)
Time: 13:00-14:00
Online registration:
unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Speaker: Dr. Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studes, University of Melbourne
Date: 2 May 2025 (Fri)
Time: 13:00-14:00
Online registration:
unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Oh this is terribly sad. Vale Linda Williams, your work was so integral to my thinking and writing on the libidinal economy of the moving image. Rest in peace 😢
Farewell to Linda Williams
We are sorry to learn of the death of Linda Williams, Professor in Film & Media and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. She passed away March 12, 2025 at the age of 79 following a l…
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Oh this is terribly sad. Vale Linda Williams, your work was so integral to my thinking and writing on the libidinal economy of the moving image. Rest in peace 😢
Looking forward to this one!!!!
PRE-ORDERS OPEN! A #transgender rights history about #LGBTQ+ standing up to Nazis in the shadow of the Third Reich! Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute and the lives of #trans patients proving that joy + life lived as your authentic self is an act of radical #resistance. 🧪🗃️📚🏳️⚧️
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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
A Weimar Story
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March 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Looking forward to this one!!!!
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All of these attacks were used by politicians on both sides and basically every media outlet to justify attacks on pro-Palestinian campaigners, pass repressive new laws and criminalise the anti-genocide movement. Now it’s revealed they were all orchestrated by one criminal syndicate
March 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
All of these attacks were used by politicians on both sides and basically every media outlet to justify attacks on pro-Palestinian campaigners, pass repressive new laws and criminalise the anti-genocide movement. Now it’s revealed they were all orchestrated by one criminal syndicate
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Just bleak as fuck: “It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just bleak as fuck: “It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”
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I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I realize that a lot of this may seem dense and like it’s a bunch of finance shit. But it’s very simple: CoreWeave, a company that sells data centers for the AI boom, loses hundreds of millions doing so and is burdened with debt it cannot hope to serve. Nobody is making money in AI. Nobody.
Vale Sandra Harding, a giant of feminist science studies and the history and philosophy of epistemology. 1935-2025.
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Vale Sandra Harding, a giant of feminist science studies and the history and philosophy of epistemology. 1935-2025.
Dawn kisses from my sweet Aušrinė, goddess of the morning star
March 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dawn kisses from my sweet Aušrinė, goddess of the morning star
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19thc/20thc eugenicists believed that philanthropy and welfare for the "unfit" were "dysgenic" forces--that these contributed to the overall unfitness of a population by "allowing" those they perceived as "unfit" to not only live, but procreate, when it was better to let those classes die.
Does everyone understand they are breaking of public services because 1) they want to privatize them to make money off of them, 2) they do not believe everyone should have access to these services. This is how white supremacist eugenicists who think empathy is a weakness function.
BREAKING: Elon Musk suggests the United States should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
19thc/20thc eugenicists believed that philanthropy and welfare for the "unfit" were "dysgenic" forces--that these contributed to the overall unfitness of a population by "allowing" those they perceived as "unfit" to not only live, but procreate, when it was better to let those classes die.
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Truly taking on the United States and its tech industry cannot be done in isolation. Countries must form a new alliance not just to develop an alternative tech infrastructure, but to fundamentally change who that technology serves — the public, not profiteers.
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
March 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Truly taking on the United States and its tech industry cannot be done in isolation. Countries must form a new alliance not just to develop an alternative tech infrastructure, but to fundamentally change who that technology serves — the public, not profiteers.
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
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Canada and its allies should start looking at sanctions against US political and economic leaders, to make them feel the consequences of their actions. That should include tech billionaires, especially Elon Musk.
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
March 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Canada and its allies should start looking at sanctions against US political and economic leaders, to make them feel the consequences of their actions. That should include tech billionaires, especially Elon Musk.
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
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The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
www.disconnect.blog
March 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
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Demi Moore can still win if she takes Pennsylvania
March 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Demi Moore can still win if she takes Pennsylvania
Arrived at work nice and early for the first day of semester and was greeted by a gorgeous (huge!) butterfly trying to get into my office building 🦋
March 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Arrived at work nice and early for the first day of semester and was greeted by a gorgeous (huge!) butterfly trying to get into my office building 🦋
Had a nightmare that Elon Musk was my boss and he was trying to hack me up with a chainsaw. Nearly escaped with my wit and ingenuity but then his minions stole my escape vehicle and I ended up also wielding a chainsaw, induced into lateral violence against my peers.
March 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Had a nightmare that Elon Musk was my boss and he was trying to hack me up with a chainsaw. Nearly escaped with my wit and ingenuity but then his minions stole my escape vehicle and I ended up also wielding a chainsaw, induced into lateral violence against my peers.
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
My new casquettes arrived from AliExpress :)))))) 🧢 🚲
March 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My new casquettes arrived from AliExpress :)))))) 🧢 🚲
I find this deeply cringe but my therapists both chastised me for prefacing personal disclosures with “this is so cringe” so consider this therapeutic praxis: when im frustrated or devo I’m going to occasionally STOP, REFLECT, and list 3 GOOD THINGS that recently caught my attention. 🧵
March 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I find this deeply cringe but my therapists both chastised me for prefacing personal disclosures with “this is so cringe” so consider this therapeutic praxis: when im frustrated or devo I’m going to occasionally STOP, REFLECT, and list 3 GOOD THINGS that recently caught my attention. 🧵
I really need better phone-bed nexus hygiene. Lately I’ve found myself doomscrolling in bed before I sleep, which gives me night terrors. Worse still I keep waking up incredibly early (3am, 4am, 5am). Too early to actually get out of bed, and so I doomscroll again, obliterating my optimism and mood.
March 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I really need better phone-bed nexus hygiene. Lately I’ve found myself doomscrolling in bed before I sleep, which gives me night terrors. Worse still I keep waking up incredibly early (3am, 4am, 5am). Too early to actually get out of bed, and so I doomscroll again, obliterating my optimism and mood.
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I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.
🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official
February 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.
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The Ukrainian ambassador now just has her head in her hands in the Oval Office.
A global embarassment.
(📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)
A global embarassment.
(📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Ukrainian ambassador now just has her head in her hands in the Oval Office.
A global embarassment.
(📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)
A global embarassment.
(📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)
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Scientists and educators in Australia and NZ!
Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do?
We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do?
We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Ideas for how to be GOATS
Ideas for how to be GOATS Guardians Of (Australian) Academia, Teaching, and Science The title of this is jokey but the intent is absolutely not. It is intended as a compendium of resources for Austral...
docs.google.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Scientists and educators in Australia and NZ!
Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do?
We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Have you been watching the state of the world and wondering what you can do?
We've created a crowdsourced document with resources and links with ideas. Pls check it out, do them, contribute your own, and share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It’s always a pleasure to have @niedermeyer.online on the show, but especially as Elon Musk remakes the US government, we need to understand there are means at our disposal to curtail his power by targeting his companies — Tesla in particular.
Elon Musk looks invincible, but a lot of his power and wealth is tied up in Tesla.
This week @niedermeyer.online joins @parismarx.com to explain why Tesla is more vulnerable than it might appear and how hurting it can cause problems for Musk.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/265_...
This week @niedermeyer.online joins @parismarx.com to explain why Tesla is more vulnerable than it might appear and how hurting it can cause problems for Musk.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/265_...
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It’s always a pleasure to have @niedermeyer.online on the show, but especially as Elon Musk remakes the US government, we need to understand there are means at our disposal to curtail his power by targeting his companies — Tesla in particular.