When free press is the focal point of human rights discussion this year, CCP keeps charging journalists and media that dare to challenge them and speak the truth. Among many others, the arrests of Denise Ho, Margaret Ng are prime examples. RELEASE THEM! theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

#HongKong police were raiding the office of an online news outlet on Wednesday after arresting six people for conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. #StandnewsHK koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2021…

THREAD: 1.After the Apple Daily closure, Stand News became the largest free media in Hong Kong. Today, we have witnessed another forced closure with a number of arrests. The message Beijing sends is clear: report in the way that we allow, or end up in jail.

Mubi’s Notebook magazine is a celebration of cinema in print bit.ly/3bBcBrR

These days, the most exciting video essays for me are those that make perceptible: - our bodily conditions as spectators - the larger systems working behind the image (technological, industrial, political) - and the ways that a mind and body can interact with the image

FILMS FROM IRAN FOR IRAN: a solidarity fundraising programme of films by womxn, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work. Over twenty works by fifteen artists. Free to watch til 4/1 in English / français / فارسی another-screen.com/films-from-ira…

1) With 50% more participants and video essays than last year, the latest Sight and Sound magazine video essay poll is an unprecedented attempt at capturing the diversity of the field. And so there is a lot to process. Some main thoughts: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

"We want to highlight the rich history of Filipino workers and their political struggles, and show the Martial Law period was a time of massive strikes and protests led primarily by a dynamic labor movement". We introduce the new archive by Philippine Labor Movement Archive.labourreview.org/archiving-labo…

Revisit our eight-part series on the Social Life of Algorithmic Harms, which includes explorations of how algorithmic harms play out in child welfare agencies, nursing homes, diabetes care, carbon emissions, and more. points.datasociety.net/the-social-lif…

Ok, mandatory book promotion thread since it's out today with Verso Books. This book has been a long-time coming, initially proposed in 2015 or so, but then Helen and I had three kids and the book took a backseat versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

2) My first academic article is published!!! It's about #microbes and #bioremediation in polluted electronic waste soils, toxic transformations, and micro-scaled ways to understand #chemosociality. Open source! doi.org/10.1177/026327…

『Taking a “Night Walk” in Silence』Hope Davison yidff-live.info/en/4456/ 『“GAMA”: Unearthing Okinawa’s Historical Memory through the Depths of Time』Emilie Choi Sin-yi yidff-live.info/en/4460/ #YIDFF2023 #山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭

Preliminary analysis by FA, Al-Haq الحق & earshot.ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.

Today the London Review of Books is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

So Yuri Furuhata ⁦Yuriko Furuhata⁩ has this really intriguing new piece on cloud atlases and nuclear geopolitics. Cloud atlases are so fascinating! The Nuclear Geopolitics of Anthropogenic Clouds e-flux.com/architecture/a…

Frédéric Lordon on the war in Gaza: ‘To dominate without bearing the stain of evil: this is perhaps the ultimate fantasy of the dominant.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

New piece by eyal weizman, unflinchingly sharp as usual. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

IDF INFILTRATES LEBANON RADIO An urgent message from the IDF broadcast on Lebanese radio: "The IDF is targeting Hezbollah military positions in your village and does not intend to harm civilians. If you are in or near a Hezbollah-used building, you must evacuate the village by