Book Cover of UNGOVERNABLE SPACES - Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance by Kreider + O’Leary
UNGOVERNABLE SPACES
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere.
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
People ask the strangest questions!
It’s a book. People read them for inspiration and pleasure!
John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict
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I have this one, but may be too wide angle?
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
It's time to #ChuckZuck! Join us this month by deleting one of your Zuckerverse accounts -- #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp, #Oculus or #Threads -- and spread the social movement to #reclaimcontrol from #toxictech !
Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...
TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?
Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Go for a long walk people. It will do you the world of good. Epic stuff here from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
A grim, truth-telling interview of two decent people, standing up to their own society and calling out its crimes
“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/30/T...
On the day that Ofcom releases a report advising the UK's broadcasters to work more with YouTube, maybe worth revisiting this piece on the roots of the attention economy, and what it means for children's media, as well as much else: www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/the...
A healthy, non-predatory social media world is possible. Here is a four minute video introducing the fediverse: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...
Image credit: Iain Masterton
💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September
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"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown... The White House hopes to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, in a deal that would make Columbia’s $200 million payment look like peanuts"
"If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
A screenshot of my "Walking Method" Arena channel, featuring thumbnails of each resource
We're going to start doing hiking interviews for our Library Field project, so I created a "Walking as Method" Arena channel www.are.na/shannon-matt...
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
So glad that journalists are finally waking up to the reality of what has happened at the #Bartlett in the wake of the Howlett Brown Report. #UCL
worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite...
Some very valid questions being asked here by Paul Finch regarding the aftermath of the Howlett Brown Report. #Bartlett staff have been asking similar questions for some time without reply.
worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite...
Very sad news. I love Brian’s work, which vibrates between the transcendent and the hallucinatory. A sad loss to the Art world.
David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank
"The real project of this administration is to sever the public from reality itself — to plunge Americans into a TV-led and TV-fed collective psychosis."
Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.
© HAARETZ 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich and Bar Peleg Jun 27, 2025 6:03 am IDT
IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
