This paper draws out those structures of solidarity and global visions of Black freedom articulated around the event of the 1974 Sixth Pan African Congress in Dar es Salaam and the identification of industrial agriculture as a central pillar of Black liberation. As Quito Swan notes in his analysis of the call for 6PAC, organizers positioned technological innovation in relation to cultivation practices as a central path towards economic self-reliance. But the question of land use drew the attention of writers who lived and travelled in and around East Africa at this historical juncture.

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The Damascus Events: the 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World, By Eugene Rogan, Published in hardback by Allen Lane, 2 May 2024.

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“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: The Queer Politics of Literariness” traces the relation between the linguistic turn in literary studies and the emergence of queer theory. Showing how the advent of structuralism followed by the wide-spread dissemination of deconstruction, introduced a cultural anxiety about the separation of literary studies from its vitalizing social contexts, this talk examines the logic by which that separation got taken up by theorists of queer negativity and reframed precisely as a political response to the social order’s dominant values.

This week, Yung Au will be speaking about Data centres on the moon and other stories: thinking about the coloniality of tech infrastructures.

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This week, Sam Daws will be speaking about multilateral institutions and AI, as well as the current UN negotiations on AI governance.

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