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details of a hybrid conference I am organizing on Merleau-Ponty, Althusser and post-1968 Marxist thought at Leiden University, as part of an edited volume I will be co-editing. 27/28 May GMT+2

So singapore can just deport people based on their political leanings?

🗣️ 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 ✍️ (from @jacobin) #OpEd In the New Geo-Economic Order, Price Shocks Are Here to Stay by Dominik A. Leusder “Less than three years after the disruptions of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine subsided, the world economy confronts another sustained energy and supply chain shock. The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, and Iran’s retaliatory strikes against US military assets and oil production infrastructure across the Persian Gulf, have brought shipping through the all-important Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared the closure the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.” Some 34 percent of globally traded crude oil, 19 percent of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, and 16 percent of the trade in refined petroleum products such as diesel and jet fuel travel through this narrow passage between the Arabian Peninsula and the Iranian coast. Although Iranian officials had claimed that non-US and non-Israeli affiliated vessels may transit unharmed, the marine insurance industry responded by canceling war risk coverage for commercial shipping effective March 5. Transit collapsed by 80 percent thereafter and now stands at close to zero. The situation has been compounded by Iran’s targeting of refineries and storage facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. With shipping halted and storage insufficient, most petroleum and liquefied gas production in the region must eventually be shut down — and requires weeks to restart and reach full capacity. Iran has stated clearly that it is leveraging the choke point at Hormuz to exert pressure and deter future aggression. Neither side has shown any sign of relenting.” 🛠️⬇️ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ⬇️🛠️

Siklus Ektraksi is my interpretation of jajanan (🇮🇩 street food) which I prepared for 30. A dessert canapé with 5 elements tied to 5 concepts: a bisected Rocher atop an indigo burasak medallion, a gula jawa-chilli-ginger compôte, melinjo crumble, and a lime-pandan-coconut velouté

yesterday I was invited to do a lecture-performance where I talked about friction (shoutout Anna Tsing), thalassocracy and metabolic rift, be part of a panel, and showcase my own food art piece called Siklus Ekstraksi (Circles of Extraction) for the Singapore Biennale 2025

POD EP 15: THEORETICAL PLAYERS’ BALL. J.E. & Anatarah talk play, games, and more via Johan Huizinga’s “Homo Ludens,” a touchstone for game studies, & take the work to task by posing the problem of games as ideology! Listen here! patreon.com/posts/15357068…

Regular Season Champions, you’ll never sing that! 📣😶‍🌫️

i know the best vegetarian kolo mee in town

@IsraelMFA These figures are from the Likud run health ministry and cannot be relied upon.

@omyhangu me rn

@threenipples good

I graduated from Buddhist philosophy in 2021 and Indian philosophy in 2022

Girl bossing genocide

This Reuters piece is deeply problematic and showcases how deeply entrenched proxy thinking remains in western reporting on Hizbullah. The claim that Iran had to "reboot" Hizbullah after the 2024 war is no more convincing than the claim that Iran needed Hizbullah to enter the war in order to defend it. Aside from the highly improbable scenario of IRGC officials briefing Reuters in order to claim credit for Hizbullah’s resurgence, the article’s assumptions are derived from the same proxy model that can’t comprehend the relationship except in linear and hierarchical terms, and which therefore reduce Hizbullah to an appendage of Iran’s rather than an autonomous actor with its own strategic culture and military doctrine. The main drive behind this framing is the unwillingness to acknowledge that, despite Israel’s decapitation campaign and months of attritional warfare between September 2024 and March 2026, Hizbullah was not destroyed. Once it became clear that the resistance didn’t merely survive this relentless campaign, but was able to regenerate itself under exceptionally harsh conditions, this had to be explained away as the handiwork of its Iranian “sponsor” rather than as evidence of its own adaptive learning and reversion to earlier forms of hybrid warfare that long predated the current war. Even basic wartime adjustments following intelligence and communications penetration, such as reverting to handwritten notes, human couriers and other low-signature forms of communication , are now portrayed as evidence of Iranian direction rather than standard organizational learning.   Yet what is being described today as a turn to smaller cells, lighter command links, mobile combat and surprise attacks is simply a reversion to what Nasrallah himself called “the Imad Mughniyeh school of warfare” that shaped the 2006 war, in which dispersed forces organised into small cells combined guerrilla-style mobility and tactical surprise with the military capabilities of regular armies. The unique hybrid model pioneered by Hizbullah’s former commander was studied in US military manuals precisely because it disrupted the conventional distinction between regular and irregular war on which US military doctrine rested. A movement that helped pioneer this model and which has historically trained and assisted other resistance movements in Palestine, Iraq, Yemen and beyond, does not need to be taught how to return to its own doctrine, let alone to be reinvented and commandeered by Iran.

rip taiwan and korea

if you're wearing your best hairy raya outfit it should be mandatory for people to offer their seats on a crowded mrt train to you

@pukimarx sorry sis I thought getah is for nasi bungkus only....

@threenipples pancut dalam getah 😔🫶🏽

gema takbir di seluruh alam, bulan syawal menitip salam; juadah raya dihidang malam, jangan lupa pancut dalam selamat hairy raya to my all my malay brethren in temasek!!

@pukimarx My running joke, the thing that binds SG Malays is pancut dalam. No matter if you're gay, straight, upper class, working class, English speaking, religious or atheist, everyone PD cos for a community subject to moral campaigns, sex education (esp in Malay) is fuckin disgraceful

It’s a Belgian thing, René Magritte would understand. 🍏 #FIFAWORLDCUP

@wayfaring_tim opium farming is not about growing opium, it's about laundering the profits of the regional opium monopoly un the opium addiction of teochew debt bonded labourers. essentially in the regional opium trade the only asset is the living body of the bonded to produce limitless gambier

@threenipples damn

here's a block of the Buginese coconut rice dumpling burasak I'm using for a food art project. btw more ppl shld know abt the unholy alliance btw the Bugis thalassocracy n Teochew kangchus (river lords) in 18th c. SG tt systematised debt bondage, plantation system n opium farming