Visual Activism C-Map

Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy

In March 2025, comrades from across the San Franciso Bay Area and beyond gathered across two facilitated convergence spaces to host Nick Mirzoeff and explore his concept of “seeing in the dark,” a provocation currently in circulation through his recently … Continue reading “Visual Activism C-Map”

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The Clock Men

Priscilla Wathington

All day, the talk is lint. Committees meet and look at their calendars. The carpet hardly moves. The lobby doesn’t even smell of corpses.   It’s Monday here. There’s a salad bar here. In Rafah, a wall is blown off … Continue reading “The Clock Men”

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Five Poems

Omar Zahzah

“Do You Condemn Hamas?” Do you know the weight of 77 years’ worth of bones, villages, and homes? The sound of olive trees screaming through flames? Do you confuse prison break With apocalypse, Genocide with self-defense, Or do you know … Continue reading “Five Poems”

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Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter

Sherena Razek

In February 2024, I was invited by Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch to contribute a short entry to their publication Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies: Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation about concepts developed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. … Continue reading “Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter”

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Livestreaming and Deadstreaming: On the Optics, Politics, and Effects of Violent Imagery in Comparative Perspective

Wazhmah Osman

In this important conversation and dossier about ways to enact transnational feminist solidarity with Palestinians from the perspective of women scholars from the Middle East and Asia, I share my insights on war and imperialism in Afghanistan. I comparatively explore … Continue reading “Livestreaming and Deadstreaming: On the Optics, Politics, and Effects of Violent Imagery in Comparative Perspective”

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