Founding editor @equatormag | former @newstatesman
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"The terrifying thought that strikes you while watching the film is that we have already crossed some kind of historical event horizon and are living in that eternal present." I wrote about the enduring power of Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Children of Men' newstatesman.com/children-me…
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The first time Mahmoud Khalil called home, he thought he might be back in a few days.
“Later that night, as I was trying to sleep, I heard loud cheers. A few men approached my bed, calling for me to look at the TV screen. It was split: me and Trump.”
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Thrilled to launch our new Alternatives to Capitalism public lecture series at LSE this year with Evgeny Morozov on Socialism after AI, co-hosted with @Equatormag! lse.ac.uk/events/ai-socialis…
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Just a reminder that in two weeks I'll be giving a talk at LSE, co-hosted by @lea_ypi and @Equatormag. It's on socialism after AI. Details: lse.ac.uk/events/ai-socialis…
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Simon Abkarian as cinematic embodiment of the anti-communist (de Gaulle) / communist (Manouchian) divide in the French Resistance.
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This, by JM Coetzee, in @Equatormag, about an actual genocide in South Africa, is very good. equator.org/articles/dusklan…
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I'm biased ofc, but I think this is the best piece published in the NYT in years to think with about how we got here, where we are heading, and how we might want to consider a different path and approach. nytimes.com/2022/04/05/opini…
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If interested: Global reading of Mike Davis' "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World", one of the best Marxist takes on a timely point. History is always new, it never is...
I'll be discussing chaps 4-6 on October 4th.
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BIG VERSO NEWS! Next month we are launch a new series on China called Hundred Flowers. Against both China hawkery and uncritical admiration, the series will publish rigorous analysis of China's past and present. The first 3 books in the series are available for pre-order now!
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New pieces by Coetzee and Siccardi on 'growing up in the shadow of genocide' in 'Equator'.
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I love equator, they don't fuck around.
JM Coetzee for @equatormag, on growing up in South Africa: ‘Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically.’ equator.org/articles/dusklan…
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JM Coetzee for @equatormag, on growing up in South Africa: ‘Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically.’ equator.org/articles/dusklan…
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So good to hear Chinnaiah Jangham talk about the class/caste politics of the Indian famines. Also good to finally hear people who don't reify empire. The level of discussion is superb. Nice work @equator
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Today! 4pm BST.
Last minute sign up: equator.org/events/late-vict…
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you WILL meet your future wife at the equator magazine late victorian holocausts zoom reading group
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Still time to sign up and join the masses at the first @Equatormag reading group.
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Will help lead this discussion on Sunday with Equator and Verso on Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts. Link below if you’d like to sign up
This is happening next week. Over 500 of you have already signed up to join but we’d love to see more of you there. Sign up here (pay-what-you-can): equator.org/events/late-vict…
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Latest Interregnum is an empirically dense exploration of climate change, wildfires, feedbacks, and biodiversity loss.
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @leninology on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:
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