#BostonReview book talk

#SamKlug in conversation about his book #TheInternalColony with Prof. Chad Williams

"Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global #decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the #BlackFreedomMovement in postwar America."

https://youtu.be/rBmNJh5w_3w

#BlackHistory #UShistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLiberation #internalColonization #CivilRights #racialCapitalism #decolonialStruggles #books @bookstodon @histodons

"What kind of sausage is that? Surely Weisswurst, made of available scraps on the butcher’s floor."

Brian Eno on #AI in the Boston Review

https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/ais-walking-dog/?utm_campaign=EOY%2002024&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=339221335&utm_content=339221335&utm_source=hs_email

#BrianEno #BostonReview

#BostonReview Virtual Event

A year following the October 7 attacks in #Israel, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, aided by the United States, continues a war of reprisal widely condemned as genocidal. Under these conditions, what paths to a ceasefire—and a larger political resolution—are possible? What would a long-term, just, and democratic settlement look like, and how can it be achieved?

webinar replay: https://youtu.be/7MuOKnxku-k

#Palestine #Gaza #WarOnGaza

@palestine

#RobinDGKelley via the #BostonReview

«Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik»

Dear President #NematMinoucheShafik,

As a former #ColumbiaUniversity faculty member and father of a #Columbia graduate (PhD ’21), I am quite frankly appalled by your draconian, unethical, illegal, and dishonest actions toward your own students and faculty.

#education #Israel #Palestine #protest

Read the rest here:

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik/

and This, from #BostonReview
dated Feb 23 2024
#IsTheStateHereToStay

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/is-the-state-here-to-stay/

This story was my first response to the Trumpian Time of Troubles (I'm tempted to refer to it as the Time of Trumples; let me workshop that name a little...)

I couldn't be happier to be seeing my fiction in Boston Review!

#shortstory #bostonreview #trump

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/nomenclator-of-the-revolution/

"I suppose it's just as timely a story today, while the National Grifter is threatening the Republic yet again, even as he tries to outrun three criminal indictments."

https://thesubwaytest.com/2023/08/03/nomenclator-drops-on-august-18/

#secretscifinetwork #scifi #bostonreview #trumpindictment #shortfiction

"I suppose it's just as timely a story today, while the National Grifter is threatening the Republic yet again, even as he tries to outrun three criminal indictments."

https://thesubwaytest.com/2023/08/03/nomenclator-drops-on-august-18/

#scifi #bostonreview #trumpindictment #shortfiction

#FathersDay #readinglist from the #BostonReview has an old piece of mine in it. https://mailchi.mp/bostonreview.net/reading_list_5_14_23-112224?e=6e7afc665c

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/anne-fausto-sterling-biology-fatherhood/

#BostonReview Ages of American #Capitalism: A History of the United States
Jonathan Levy
"Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state."
#Economy #History #Politics #PublicPurpose #RethinkingPoliticalEconomy

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/portrait-of-the-united-states-as-a-developing-country/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5fb4787842-reading_list_2_18_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-5fb4787842-40991225&mc_cid=5fb4787842&mc_eid=03b51eac01