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The Second Nakba
My right eye won't stop crying, it's as if it were mourning the second Nakba now underway. From the other I can see the amalgam of gains and losses of…
Dec 29, 2023
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The Categorical Crisis Moment
There’s a categorical category crisis going on. People in higher education: this means you, now. The categorical requirement to denounce that has been…
Dec 13, 2023
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Bare Witness
To be a bare witness is to bear witness without protection. All I can do is profess my anarchy, my refusal of state-religion and its inevitable…
Dec 7, 2023
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Nicholas Mirzoeff
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November 2023
To Strike In the Dark
There's a culture war going on around Palestine. In this post, I offer three actions to strike in the dark. The "dark" is all the space outside white…
Nov 13, 2023
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Nicholas Mirzoeff
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October 2023
To See the Rubble in the Dark
How can I see with and in solidarity with Palestine after this week? I try to see the rubble in the dark--this newsletter explains what I mean by that…
Oct 14, 2023
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Nicholas Mirzoeff
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White Manet
At the new “Manet/Degas” show at the Met, I went on a white dérive, following white paint, whiteness, and white supremacy. I saw Manet trying to shift…
Oct 3, 2023
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September 2023
Monet and the Fear of a Black Communard Planet
Experiencing the wildfire-rendered red sun and watching Ja'Tovia Gary's "Giverny Suite" changed my mind about Monet. The title tells you how and it…
Sep 14, 2023
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Nicholas Mirzoeff
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August 2023
The Mass Strike and the Counter-Revolution:
So this is kind of a niche post:-) This summer I read Rosa Luxemburg on the 1905 mass strike and as her editors suggest, I tried applying her ideas to…
Aug 31, 2023
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July 2023
"If you could really listen" (For Sinéad)
"Child Abuse! Yeah! Child Abuse! Yeah." After O'Connor's untimely death I reflect on why I, a survivor of child abuse, couldn't hear this line in her…
Jul 27, 2023
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"If you could really listen" (For Sinéad)
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June 2023
Supreme White Sight: Statutes and Slavery
White sight is supported by infrastructures that include the state and the statue—backed up by statute. By its assertion of antiblackness as a principle…
Jun 30, 2023
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Typautocorrect fail
Whether through my typo or autocorrect madness, the artist Fulvia Carnevale, from Claire Fontaine, had their name misspelt in my recent post (now…
Jun 26, 2023
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"Foreigners Everywhere"
My title is also the title of the 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa. It’s taken from a series of neon sculptures by the artist…
Jun 26, 2023
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