Darren Byler
Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
- Reposted by Darren Byler“Autonomy from men is autonomy from capital that uses men’s power to discipline us.” —Silvia Federici Happy International Women’s Day! www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
- Reposted by Darren BylerNEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Darren BylerBlack Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
- Chilling essay from Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar:
- “In the illegal settlements, we find Israelis who [.] are [.] often young families priced out of Tel Aviv real estate. Similarly, affordability meant that the so-called “Gaza Envelope” was again leading in home purchases in Israel only months after October 7th.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
- “In the illegal settlements, we find Israelis who [.] are [.] often young families priced out of Tel Aviv real estate. Similarly, affordability meant that the so-called “Gaza Envelope” was again leading in home purchases in Israel only months after October 7th.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
- Reposted by Darren BylerSome strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."
- “With that kind of access, even a small team can search the entire government for employees whose job titles contain suggestions of wrongthink, or who might resist takeovers or wield bureaucratic tools to slow the pace of change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
- Reposted by Darren Byler“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh
- Disturbing genealogy of libertarian white supremacy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Also this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Darren Byler⭐ New essay on AES Online! ⭐ "Snapshots of Post-Assad Syria" by Charlotte Al-Khalili @sussexuni.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #AnthroSky Read it here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
- Reposted by Darren Byler*️⃣ *️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣ *️⃣ Featuring articles by Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Gil Hizi, Carole McGranahan, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, & Laura A. Meek, w/eds' note by @llwynn.bsky.social, Susanna Trnka, & @kopyor.bsky.social! Find it here!: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...
- Reposted by Darren BylerThe termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.
- Reposted by Darren BylerToday, at a hearing in the South Bangkok Criminal Court regarding the unlawful detention of 43 Uyghur men for 11–12 years, I testified as an expert witness. My statement in English is below. The Thai and Uyghur versions will be posted soon.
- Reposted by Darren BylerFor the record this story was originally reported by @capitol.press, who is out with another profile of another Venezuelan refugee with no criminal record who has been sent to Guantanamo for having tattoos:
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Darren BylerICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
- Reposted by Darren BylerGetting Andrea Long Chu to stick a fork in Pamela Paul is the critic version of a Mortal Kombat fatality. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by Darren BylerBangladesh: "At least five hospitals run with US funding have suspended operations in the Rohingya camps" "...waste management and landfill activities, managed by a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation, have also been suspended a day after the USAID letter was issued..."
- The Rohingya community is being devastated by the suspension of USAID. www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-inf...
- Reposted by Darren BylerUpdate from WIRED head @katie-drummond.bsky.social. We're hosting a webinar for subscribers w/ our reporters and editors next Thursday, Feb 13 @ 1pm ET.
- The Rohingya community is being devastated by the suspension of USAID. www.thedailystar.net/rohingya-inf...
- Reposted by Darren BylerThe Trump administration has tapped Darren Beattie to handle public diplomacy at the State Department. This is an appalling choice for many reasons. One is that Beattie has spent the last few years alternately denying and cheering on China's repression of its #Uyghur community. 1/3
- “The stock price of Geo Group, a private prison operator that sells monitoring technology to ICE, has more than doubled since Mr. Trump won [.] Cellebrite’s shares have also nearly doubled in the past six months and Palantir’s shares have risen nearly 80 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/t...
- “The Government of Thailand must immediately halt the possible transfer of 48 Uyghurs to the People’s Republic of China [.] warning the group was at real risk of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment if they are returned.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
- Reposted by Darren Byler48 Uyghurs face immediate deportation from Thailand to China where they will face persecution. If you work in HE or research, we urge you to sign the statement addressed to the Thai authorities asking for the group of detained Uyghur men to be given safe haven. forms.gle/zWw3GbTvvqiu...
- Reposted by Darren BylerThis is a horrifying prospect. The deportation of Uyghurs in Thailand to the PRC is such a flagrant breach of the principle of non-refoulement.
- More details here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/w...
- Horrific news coming from Thailand of imminent mass deportation of Uyghur migrants to China where they face long term imprisonment. www.change.org/p/the-petiti...
- More details here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/w...
- Reposted by Darren BylerWent long on our two-year investigation into the Uyghur refugee crisis and the reporting behind the story. With @nyrolaelima.bsky.social benmauk.substack.com/p/40-the-lon...
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- GEO Group on a post-election earnings call: “We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border security as well as interior enforcement, and to request additional funding from Congress to achieve these goals.” inthesetimes.com/article/depo...
- Already ~ 200,000 migrants are monitored by GeoGroup subsidiary BI incorporated’s Smartlink/Total Access system. Data will be used to accelerate raids/deportation since many people being monitored work with other undocumented people.
- Both Palentir and BI Incorporated was used under previous Trump administration for this purpose: www.ice.gov/sites/defaul...
- WTF. Appalling to see @nytimes.com publish this imperialist drivel. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...
- Reposted by Darren BylerJamal is so close to raising the funds to get his whole family out — almost 90% there. Can you help him over the finish line?
- Reposted by Darren BylerFor my first piece of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I spoke with Anita Say Chan on the history of eugenicists corrupting data to be discriminatory–which continues today in Big Tech. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Darren BylerIn July 2024, research published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated 186,000 deaths in Gaza, Dr Abu-Sittah estimates 300,000 two days ago. They are not just numbers, but people, families, infants.
- Reposted by Darren BylerReally horrific conditions in this facility where Israel holds Palestinians in detention. This is about retaliatory vengeance, not 'security.'
- Reposted by Darren BylerI found this article ont YES BUT helpful. It's usually is said as if the person to whom it's said is naively uninformed, as in X says, "it's great the prisoner was released"; Y, "yeah, but not all prisoners were released." Lots of yeah but here these days. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...
- Reposted by Darren Byler"Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism" by Mingwei Huang is an ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Read the intro for free now: ow.ly/i8kV50T6rlH
- Reposted by Darren BylerFor years the U.S. has struggled to convince countries to shun Huawei and other China tech. Now it believes it has a way to do it, offer Nvidia chips in exchange. That's the basis of a new A.I. diplomacy emerging as a last gasp policy from the Biden Admin. Nvidia, caught in the middle, is not happy.
- Reposted by Darren BylerFor anyone wanting to know more about Xinjiang/the Uyghur region I have made a starter pack of campaigners, academics and journalists who research and write about the region. It's still very incomplete - I'd be grateful for more suggestions! go.bsky.app/PWzGYxxat://did:plc:anssft5emdfb2sjnjyeqnprh/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lcdms6yavp2x
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- Reposted by Darren BylerDear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
- Reposted by Darren BylerI really recommend taking some time to read the report itself www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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- “The two big private prison operators, GEO Group and CoreCivic have rallied 85% and 59% respectively since the beginning of November […] they're rallying particularly hard this time because Trump ran on an agenda of mass deportations.” finance.yahoo.com/news/jim-cra...
- Reposted by Darren Byler“Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family. The official death toll in Gaza is now over 44,000, although experts believe that is a vast undercount of the true figure.”
- Reposted by Darren BylerNEW: A year-long BBC Eye investigation has uncovered that tomato paste produced using forced labour in Xinjiang, western China, is likely being sold in major UK and German supermarkets. Watch the documentary here: youtu.be/dtv_1eafJn4?...
- Reposted by Darren BylerOver the past decade, we have published hundreds of essays. Rather than letting this material rest in our archives, we have decided to draw from it to offer a series of ‘modules’ on key topics. Here's the first one, on internationalist activism and solidarity. 1/
- Reposted by Darren Byler‘Northern frontier culture’ has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. In this piece, an anonymous scholar discusses how this discourse ends up marginalising and deterritorialising one group: ethnic Mongols from the region.
- Reposted by Darren BylerIncredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
- Reposted by Darren BylerWith lots of new people joining Bluesky, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the projects falling under the umbrella of the Global China Lab, a new non-profit we established this year with the aim of advancing open knowledge about China. 1/
- Reposted by Darren Byler432 of 571 courses removed from the Gen Ed list. The implications (not only the censorship, but also the logistics of crowding of students into the remaining courses on the list and the opportunities for admins to eliminate positions and hire politically docile adjuncts) are mind-boggling.
- Reposted by Darren BylerIsraeli authorities are labelling any residential area in any neighboring Arab country a 'terror target,' because they got away with it in Palestine for so long. Then comes a bombing rampage where they get to define military goals, & label civilians they kill as terrorists, post facto.
- Reposted by Darren Bylerto counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add. go.bsky.app/wtGV1Qat://did:plc:t5kwnyqf6dqkhw6vi2quqnxz/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavsna63u22u
- Reposted by Darren BylerGood piece by two of the best Hong Kong based journalists on the upcoming sentencing of the big group of activists/political prisoners (including some central figures in 2010s democracy struggles) who have gone through an incredibly protracted legal process www.reuters.com/world/china/...
- Graduating seniors across North America/the globe: join us and check out this largely funded one year interdisciplinary MA program in Vancouver - develop deep expertise on a regional / global challenge such as authoritarian statecraft or ongoing settler colonialism. events.sfu.ca/event/41886-...
- At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments. The accounts focused on U.S. lawmakers. ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, was used to generate many of the posts www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...
- Reposted by Darren Byler"I’m less interested in conducting a postmortem of this election and tweaking the Democrats’ tactics than trying to understand how to build a movement—not in reaction to Trump, but toward workers’ power, a just economy, reproductive justice, queer and trans liberation, and ending racism..." YUP
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- Reposted by Darren BylerHuckabee: "There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.” cnn.com/2017/01/03/p...
- Reposted by Darren BylerThings are going to get a lot worse for a lot of people very quickly.
- Reposted by Darren BylerSeeing most of Tech delightedly rush forward to assume its place as surveillance and enforcement system and openly ideological army for an authoritarian throne is going to be a lot for people who didn’t see it coming, and even a bunch who did.
- Reposted by Darren BylerAlberto Toscano on evil and technological rationality. www.makhzin.org/issues/count...
