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The Aridity Line
stoweboyd: Naomi Klein, Let Them Drown In his latest book, The Conflict Shoreline, the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman has a groundbreaking take on how these forces are intersecting. The main way we’ve understood the border of the desert in the Middle East and North Africa, he explains, is the so-called ‘aridity line’, areas where there is…
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note to future self
nine months from now you will lead a course called Advanced Seminar. It is a writing intensive course for undergraduates. what kind of writing are you good at? and what kind of writing can you hope to help the students learn through? You have led graduate seminars on design and on a variety of cyberpunk…
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The most important lesson to take from all this is that there is no way to confront the climate crisis as a technocratic problem, in isolation. It must be seen in the context of austerity and privatisation, of colonialism and militarism, and of the various systems of othering needed to sustain them all. The connections…
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Five years after the popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere, a bleak, apocalyptic strain of post-revolutionary literature has taken root in the region. Some writers are using science fiction and fantasy tropes to describe grim current political realities. Others are writing about controversial subjects like sexuality and atheism, or exhuming painful historical episodes…