Noirin MacNamara

Publication (& thread) The value of owning the symbols that orientate us within Subjectivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… With thanks to @MaynoothUni for open access support 1/7

A Palestinian doctor who seems to have been raped and killed in Israeli custody. Don’t look away.

I am so profoundly touched by this expression of support from Jewish organisations worldwide. The minions out there will be livid. Let's stay strong, altogether.

Thanks to the rabbis who came from all over NY to support me and stand in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters. Their words resonate with me every day since: only united, Jewish, Palestinians, people of conscience, will we win the battle against colonial genocide and apartheid, and help usher in a new era of justice and freedom in the Levant. x.com/NetureiKarta/s…

30 trucks a day! The crime against humanity of extermination includes “the intentional infliction of conditions of life” calculated to destroy part of a population. They are being targeted because they are Palestinian, making it genocide also.

OKAY so apparently it's rant time. 1. A lot of super-conservative types are ripping about Small Things Like These, because it makes them uncomfortable to have an Oscar winning actor, in a film that will be seen internationally, talk about the truth of this place. 1/

Israel's war on Gaza is a genocide, says U.N. rights expert @franceskalbs, who has just released a new report titled "Genocide as Colonial Erasure." There has not only been a failure to prevent genocide, but it has been "enabled through the various organs of the state," she says.

“I don’t give a fuck” - Coates on the prospect of losing access to power & platforms for speaking up about genocide & apartheid in Palestine.

Doctors Without Borders received confirmation that Dr Obeid MSF orthopedic surgeon has been detained by Israeli forces w/ several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital during a military operation at the hospital. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague #Gaza

Using bulldozers, Israeli Forces severely damaged today (Thursday) the @UNRWA office in the Nur Shams Camp, north of the #WestBank. The office can no longer be used. It was the hub to deliver basic services to more than 14,000 Palestine Refugees in the camp, including learning for children, health, sanitation & social protection. During the Israeli military operation, roads, water + electricity networks were also destroyed in the camp. Once again, United Nations facilities are being routinely disregarded while they must be protected at all times, including in times of conflict.

Thrilled that the HER-SELF project on women in agriculture is a finalist in the Best Social Research Programme/Project category at @Better_Farming Awards 2024. #womeninagriculture @MaynoothUni @MTU_ie @teagasc @agriculture_ie @noirinmac @MaryAnneHurle13 @AineMW @WomensAgriGroup

What a force of nature. Bravo @FranceskAlbs !

An update from Kamal Adwan hospital 28/10/2024. There’s 2 doctors for over 100 patients. Medical staff have been illegally detained. There’s no surgical services, no equipment left . Aid must be let in.

@frecklescorp 😂🥰

I’ve found Ettinger’s matrixial theory v useful for my own thinking–particularly on violence - but I also worry about the risks of re-inscribing dominant norms through its use. So basically trying to figure out the possibilities whilst accounting for its particularity.

Drawing on the work of Bracha Ettinger and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí, I argue that meaningful social transformation does require practices of translation and these must include a rigorous accounting for our histories, and consequent orientations and investments within Subjectivity 6/

I frame the argument in terms of the disagreement between Laclau and Butler on social transformation strategies – whereas Laclau theorises social transformation through articulatory logics, Butler stresses the need for the work of cultural translation - 5/

I use the uppercase ‘Subjectivity’ to refer to the broadest sense of the phenomenon of all human experiences of connectedness and differentiation, never fully elaborated 4/

What are arguably not universal are the symbolic filters through which these experiences are inscribed. I use the lowercase ‘subjectivity’ to refer to particular, culturally mediated experiences, and 3/

Publication (& thread) The value of owning the symbols that orientate us within Subjectivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… With thanks to @MaynoothUni for open access support 1/7

In this article I propose that we can reasonably assume that basic enigmas of human existence – where do we come from, why are we here, where are we on the way to – and experiences of coexistence, connection, co-emergence, loss, limit, etc within Subjectivity are universal 2/