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youtube.com/watch?v=8nRVtC… How do online forums like 4chan contribute to far-right politics? Watch Katie Ebner-Landy’s lecture on "Late Fascist Aesthetics" for an in-depth analysis. 🎥 #SocialMediaImpact

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UWC Reward & Recognition 2025 Students, it's time to vote for your faculty again! Please use the link below to vote for the Faculty that stood out for efficiency, responsiveness, and diligence, which of course is the Faculty of Arts & Humanities! forms.gle/Teda5URLv7mnC4…

UWC Reward & Recognition 2025
Students, it's time to vote for your faculty again! Please use the link below to vote for the Faculty that stood out for efficiency, responsiveness, and diligence, which of course is the Faculty of Arts & Humanities! 
forms.gle/Teda5URLv7mnC4…
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"The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards" by Jeffrey Pomerantz & Jason Griffey shows how openness and consensus in technical standards prioritize public good over profit and can reshape our future beyond capitalism. #AntiCapitalism #PublicGood #Standards thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capit…?

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youtube.com/watch?v=fTazx6… Explore "The Certainty Trap" and its impact on our beliefs. Learn how certainty can lead to division and how embracing intellectual humility can bridge gaps in a polarized world. 🤝 🌍✨ #IntellectualHumility #OpenDialogue #LibraryLearning

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📖 Discover the concept of post-consciousness in AI with David M. Berry's "Synthetic Media and Computational Capitalism." This article explores the profound impact of algorithmic society on culture and value creation. #AI #Culture #CriticalTheory arxiv.org/abs/2503.18976?

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📚"Echo chambers are not necessarily epistemically or morally bad. We're in them all the time, and that's okay." Learn how they affect our daily lives and why they might not be as bad as we think. #Epistemology #Trust #SocialMedia cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Stuart Whatley's The West is Bored to Death gives an interesting and worrying look at the consequences of how we spend our leisure time newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/04/…?

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📊 New Article by Florian Buchmayr, André Krouwel into conspiracy thinking reveals that economic leftism mixed with cultural conservatism creates a hotspot for conspiracy beliefs. #PoliticalAttitudes #ConspiracyBeliefs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…?

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Inspired by the Top 5 Reads of our VC and DVCs, a vibrant book display is now up at the Atrium entrance. Come check it out, explore their favourites, and maybe find your next great read! #WorldBookDay #CopyrightDay #BookRecommendations

Inspired by the Top 5 Reads of our VC and DVCs, a vibrant book display is now up at the Atrium entrance. Come check it out, explore their favourites, and maybe find your next great read! #WorldBookDay 
#CopyrightDay #BookRecommendations
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soundcloud.com/luala-beats/th… Dr. Iva Peša, Dr. Jabulani Shaba, and Tholithemba Ndaba unpack the lived realities of toxic environments across Africa from Johannesburg’s gold mines to the Niger Delta’s oil fields and Zambia’s copper belts #EnvironmentalJustice #HumanitiesMatter

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Check out this fascinating article on what 2,000 years of Chinese history can tell us about the challenges of AI and inequality today. Let's discuss! 📚🤖 #Technology #Inequality #Discussion theconversation.com/what-2-000-yea…?

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newbooksnetwork.com/philip-j-stern… "Empire, Incorporated" by Philip J. Stern, is a revealing look at the corporations that built British colonialism. Interview hosted by Adil Hasan Khan. #EmpireHistory #NewBooks #ColonialStudies

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I did not realise the right had coopted fantasy like this. This article gives a interesting lens to read fantasy with. arcmag.org/mythic-capital/? #MythicCapital

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📚 Professor Jurgang Ing explores how China’s modernisation interplays with global historical trends in "The China Confusion." Learn how China's path aligns with the Global South's historical continuum. #ChinaConfusion #GlobalSouth #SOASResearch youtube.com/watch?v=3al8lK…

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What if Fox News isn't just propaganda, but a quasi-religious force? Discover how right-wing media creates a "sacred" belief system that prioritizes narratives over facts. #MediaMatters #MediaInfluence sagesociology.libsyn.com/sociological-t…?

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✨Dive into the complexities of nature and culture in the age of the Anthropocene. Explore how these ideas challenge traditional views and reshape our ethical and political landscapes🔗youtube.com/watch?v=ztqz7o… #Anthropocene #Philosophy #NatureVsCulture #Hegel #EnvironmentalEthics

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📖 Discover how the concept of extinction is intertwined with colonialism and politics in "Vanished" by Sadiah Qureshi. A must-watch for history and science enthusiasts! #VanishedBook #ExtinctionDebate youtube.com/watch?v=nfPFab…