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"Looking at birds helps us notice connections, imagine better worlds, and build new solidarities across differences, including across species." The post Birds Beyond Birding appeared first on Public Books.

"I was already there, and I was already an ethnographer. I was interested in borders as sites of state violence. I became very curious and I thought I would like to follow the guns south." The post "Our Guns Make the Violence That People Are Fleeing": Iev

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience-that is, those not at elite institutions-are least likely to receive them.

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America may have its longest life as a particularly vivid example of the ways in which bad faith will always manifest in terrible prose.

Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation's first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings? Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation's first re

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry's ongoing capture of higher education.

R. F. Kuang uses the confluence of romantasy, academic satire, and dark academia to pose a more interesting set of questions. To wit: What is the magic that scholars find in the academy?

Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.

There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.