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- Reposted by EquatorWrote a little intro to this excerpt from @yilingliu95.bsky.social's new book, reflecting on Chinese hip-hop's strange decade and the tendency for "cultural freeze frames" in English writing on non-western contemporary culture.
- An excerpt from Yi-Ling Liu ’s "The Wall Dancers”, about how the internet made — and then unmade — Chinese hip-hop: “Kafe once aspired to be like Kendrick Lamar, who was commercially popular but also spoke truth to power. That would no longer be possible.“
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- “In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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- Imran Khan has gone from batting and bowling to serving as Prime Minister and being imprisoned. No Pakistani can match his fame. Yet for two years, as @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social reports, he has been erased from public life. www.equator.org/articles/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzA9...
- Nobody is better placed than @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social to write about Imran Khan: the cricket legend, polarizing politician, and now, Pakistan’s most famous prisoner . www.equator.org/articles/the...
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- After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man. www.equator.org/articles/the...
- Nikhil Pal Singh bids good-bye to all that: “Trump builds on long-term institutional arrangements while turning these against an equally fundamental premise of the postwar period, that Homo liberalis would thrive in the protected space of US imperium. That is over. ” www.equator.org/articles/hom...
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- We recently published two pieces about Trump’s Second Coming. Nikhil Pal Singh charted the contours of an emerging US “homeland empire”; and Aziz Rana looked back, in a personal register, on a year of resistance and complicity: www.equator.org/articles/hom... www.equator.org/articles/day...
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- New @equatormag.bsky.social: Aziz Rana’s political diary of 2025, a year of state violence and moral complicity in the United States: ”We are all participants in a political conversation whose rules make naming a depravity into a violation of etiquette.” www.equator.org/articles/day...
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- Nikhil Pal Singh on Trump’s new Homeland Empire: “From Caracas to Minneapolis, legal authority and institutional power are being redirected toward an overriding end: governing populations as subjects rather than citizens.” equator.org/articles/hom...
- Nikhil Pal Singh on Trump’s new Homeland Empire: “From Caracas to Minneapolis, legal authority and institutional power are being redirected toward an overriding end: governing populations as subjects rather than citizens.” www.equator.org/articles/hom...
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