🏆🏆Absolute pleasure to be awarded the:
-RIS Best Article Prize for "Theorising the Memescape: The Spatial Politics of Internet Memes
-Honourable Mention for BISA Michael Nicholson Best Thesis Prize @MYBISA
-BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Best Thesis Prize

my hard pivot to environmental (still digital) politics going strong. really enjoyed Ted DeLay's Future of Denial, this one's going super well too 😇

the poor, degraded image has become the aesthetic norm of this administration. they render all serious political desires and imaginaries in a coat of silly aestheticisation to keep up with the zany and the interesting and the cute which Ngai diagnosed as the primary forms of late capitalism.

omw back to turkey for the month, i'm reading this beautiful collection of ecosocialist essays by richard seymour on the way. this bit especially stood out so far.