Jens Andermann 🇵🇸 🌹
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Latin Americanist, writer, gardener (Brooklyn/San Telmo). At NYU, editor Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Latest books: Jardín - Entranced Earth: #Art, #Extractivism and the End of #Landscape - Tierras en trance: #arte y #naturaleza después del #paisaje. Writes on arts of survival and unspecific #aesthetics, and on the cultural and political tides of the circum-South Atlantic. Arsenal FC. #Argentina #Brazil #Brasil #Chile #Latinoamerica #latam #LusoAfrica https://jensandermann.com/
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Also much recommended: Zac Zimmer's excellent analysis of the T&F/Microsoft deal and neoliberal academia's shady #AI profiteering: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569325.2024.2418083
Out now with free-access review dossier "Asia-Latin America: a critical corpus" guest-edited by Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Check out: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/current #LatinAmerica #Asia #culture #journals
Paul Cantrell❝Far right news isn't a for-profit concern, it's a loss-leader for oligarch-friendly policies.
It's a steal: a million bucks' worth of news buys America's ultra-rich a billion dollars' worth of tax-cuts and the right to maim their workers and poison their customers for profit.❞
Nail on the head from @pluralistic:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/
Just so you get a sense of the Orwellian "silent majority" newspeak of #NYU leadership, here are some pearls from their "letter to the community":
#NYU Provost Dopico & President Mills then justified campus bans of three internationally renowned academics (all from the humanities!) with "security concerns". Straight from the playbook of totalitarian dictatorships. #Gaza #genocide https://tinyurl.com/mrx2pubs
2 faculty members arrested at Bobst demonstration - Washington Square News
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Update, 3:48 p.m. NYU spokesperson John Beckman said the New York City Police Department “came to the scene” after demonstrators blocked the library’s last open entrance at around noon, “ignoring the clear direction of Campus Safety officers and repeated attempts by university personnel to de-escalate the...
#NYU leadership just regaled us with their version of events: just as last term, unspecified "threatening graffiti" were used to justify arrests of peacefully protesting students and faculty trying to ptotect them, who were also declared "persona non grata" on campus. tinyurl.com/mrx2pubs
En la jardinería planetaria, en vez de escuelas, habrá ensamblajes, alianzas transfecciones: su forma de asociación, más que a la asamblea de Naciones Unidas, se parecerá más a los rizomas o a las diásporas, modos de dispersión compartidos por vegetales, musgos y hongos. https://tinyurl.com/2p8yecv6
This book seeks to contribute to an exercise of the imagination that is both critical -a historical critique of the landscapes of #modernity- and speculative -a conceptual wager on the afterlives of #landscape and the emergence of new spatiotemporal constellations of the living. #art #ecology #literature #latinamerica