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"In this online event moderated by Lily Hu, Astra Taylor, Robinson Meyer, and Nicholas Rabb discuss the growing movement against #AIdataCenters, the political implications ahead of the #2026midtermElections and whether community organizing around this issue can lead to enduring coalition-building on a national scale."
https://youtu.be/R_jAAWnHEWA?si=cnOKHfz_Ox0T8XlG
#AI #dataCenters #tech #environment #activism #USpol #midterms #ecoactivism
#BostonReview |The #WarOnIran: A Conversation
Four scholars on the consequences of U.S. and Israeli aggression, reactions from #Iran and the #IranianDiaspora, and the warped analysis that pervades #USmedia.
w/ Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, and Naghmeh Sohrabi
moderated by Alex Shams
transcription and video replay: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-iran-a-conversation/
#MiddleEast #USpol #IranianPolitics #imperialViolence #IranWar #IranWarCoverage
#BostonReview Virtual Event
The War on #Iran: A Conversation
"Alex Shams moderates a conversation with four distinguished scholars of #IranianPolitics—Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, and Naghmeh Sohrabi—about the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli #warOnIran, reactions to the war from inside Iran and within the #IranianDiaspora..."
replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYpHjmPRZL4
#IranWar #MiddleEast #USpol #Israel #imperialViolence
#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."
#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
#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
#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
From Boston Review
Without Warrant
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
by Emily Berman
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/without-warrant/
Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing
Christopher Slobogin
New York University Press
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
Sarah Brayne
Oxford University Press
#policing #surveilance #privacy #BostonReview
"A major blind spot created by the urgency to mine for climate is the fact that, in addition to the share of the #RareEarth market soaked up by the petroleum industry, military applications are another major consumer. The U.S. military alone emits more greenhouse gases than many industrialized nations. It has also been a major catalyst in #reshoring and #nearshoring rare earth production in the United States."
#RareEarthElements #Mining #RareEarthMining
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/our-sustainable-future-starts-in-the-mine/
The Frankfurt School turns 100!
‘Of the Frankfurt School’s midcentury writing, Leo #Lowenthal and Norbert #Guterman’s Prophets of #Deceit offers the most striking insights into #Trump and Trumpism.’ says Charles H. Clavey in #bostonreview
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/charles-h-clavey-what-frankfurt-school-would-say-about-trump/
#Coronapolitics from the #Reichstag to the Capitol
Political theorist William Callison &historian Quinn Slobodian offered an extensive analysis of the #Querdenkers, examining their socioeconomic roots & psychological motivations, as well as their affinities with similar movements in the U.S.
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/fascism-never-disappears-because-people-come-to-their-senses/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5c3a32f8a6-newsletter_11_30_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-5c3a32f8a6-40988573&mc_cid=5c3a32f8a6&mc_eid=6e7afc665c
#BostonReview
#Fascism #Republicanparty
