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Necropolitics and scripting empire: The great locust swarm (1874), the California children's war on squirrels (1918), and the lessons of early-20th-century world-conquering board games

There’s necropolitcs. And then there’s necropolitcs. (Pages 176 and180, respectively, from: The Monthly Bulleting of the California State Commission of Horticulture, vol. VII, nos. 11-12, November-December 1918. URL: https://archive.org/details/californiaground00cali/page/n4/mode/1up) What’s up with that? How about an antecedent:

Responding to social media jokes: Three archetypes of utilitarian animals in Early Modern (and Progressive Era!) imaginaries, and the civilizing imperative in industrial landscapes

Can't stop thinking like this when I see social media joke-posts. "Three types of animals defined by utility and simplified transactional relationship to humans. including categories of productivity, domestic companionship, or passive/threat/disgust/pest": British and colonial American institutional and folk taxonomy of "

Imagining 'bee-dancing' (part 2 of 2): Early Modern 'taxonomies of monsters,' 'aurality' in 19th-century Colombia, Edison's 'little lamb' (1877), humpback whale songs (1970), and deep listening

So, an acquaintance recently asked for music recommendations—something “dreamy” to help her “feel like a jellyfish” or something. The “deep listening”—attending to other-than-human ethics—may seem to be pretty abstract, but it actually came in handy in a conversation among friends that had to do with

Who gets to be 'human' in 'the humanities'?: Black geographies, 'damned' people and places, academic epistemologies, and 'liberation pedagogy'

(Originally posted elsewhere in January 2022. Edited on 4 February 2023 after the most recent publication.) A compilation. Thought they complimented each other nicely. Here we have Kanwal Hameed, Katie Natanel, and Amal Khalaf on pedagogy and the contemporary university. (Sorry, this one's kinda long--but worth it!

Responding to messages: Resources on 'police horses' and histories of land/racial bordering

(Originally posted elsewhere on 19 March 2025.) Nice. Don't know if your dissertation is specifically about horse histories; if so, then I'd imagine you already know much more than I do. So I don't know how much help I can be. I've

Whitewashed paint, the colonial gaze, self-policing, and the 'hygienic imagination'

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On tidalectics and resonances amidst ruination: Caribbean storms, Pacific tides, (post)colonial temporality, and transnational thinking

On tidalectics and resonances amidst ruination: Caribbean storms, Pacific tides, (post)colonial temporality, and transnational thinking Introduction: The Language of Storms The headlines for our stories down here in the Caribbean always come in graphic type, written by the wind, and sung by the sea […]. Now, since Hurricane Ivan swoop

'Temporal sovereignty' and the 'coloniality of the clock': Slow death, starfish time, and other contestations of time-keeping

Here’s a (long) list/summary of scholarly resources from the humanities critiquing hegemonic/colonial temporality and European historiography. Got an anonymous message/ask requesting sources critiquing time. “Temporal sovereignty”. Aboriginal/Indigenous time-keeping. The importance of the “time revolution” in the Victorian era to Euro-American understandings of geology

Responding to messages: The transmission of 'German-style' forest extraction from British India to the US, and a request about resources for history of national parks

Originally, I'd attached these tags about British imperial forestry to a post about United States treatment of forests, Indigenous peoples, and land administration from 1900-ish to 1935-ish, during a transition period when clear-cutting logging was threatening profit so the US turned to a German-/British-

'When the mayor arrives, send him to Hell for me': Sex workers' radical newspapers, race, and Cuban nationalism in Tiffiany Sippial's text

(Originally posted elsewhere on 11 June 2026.) So there’s a lot going on in this single chapter of Sippial’s. There’s something I left unrepresented in this excerpt, because I want more time to mull it over. I’ll include those thoughts as preface. So the relatively “radical”

Temporal frontiers of empire, geology, and curious intrusions of British authors in the 'first' dinosaur

Curious intrusions of famous authors (Dickens, Darwin, Thackeray, Poe) encountered when thinking on dinosaurs and empire, and the "virtual reality" of popular entertainment fantasies manifesting material imperial(ist) practice: Context is: In February 2024, popular media outlets celebrated the two-hundred-year anniversary of the formal naming of

Assiniboine project to reintroduce swift fox and Montana's obstruction: Explaining recent news (with maps) on environment and extirpation in the Northern Plains

(Originally posted elsewhere on 30 January 2021.) Wanna try to articulate how disturbing it is that Montana state agencies have just spit in the face of Native communities when undermining the reintroduction of the previously-extinct swift fox. Amazing that the Fort Peck reservation and Blackfeet reservation had just spent