Equator

It’s not too late to sign up for tomorrow’s event, featuring Claudio Lomnitz, @marcelaturati.bsky.social, and Thelma Gómez Durán at 12pm ET. The speakers will discuss their recent writing in Equator and @bostonreview.bsky.social about forced labor in Mexico. Register here: tinyurl.com/ayxfz4wc

TOMORROW: Join us and @equatormag.bsky.social for an online event with Claudio Lomnitz, @marcelaturati.bsky.social, and Thelma Gómez Durán at 12pm ET. The speakers will discuss their recent writing in Equator and BR about forced labor in Mexico. Register here: tinyurl.com/ayxfz4wc

Läs. Om den liberala ångesten visavi Israel och de patetiska försöken att få det att låta som om Netanyahu är problemet. Och så media på det: ".... Anglophone newspapers flew in their marquee pundits to produce the familiar chin-stroking election-eve dispatches." www.equator.org/articles/isr...

Brazil’s election had three winners, says Miguel Lago: Lula, civil society and Jair Bolsonaro, from his jail cell. “Lula’s Final Chapter”: a symposium from @equatormag.bsky.social and @alameda.institute, with Rodrigo Nunes, Anna Raposo de Mello and Juliano Fiori. www.equator.org/articles/bra...

"Netanyahu is a convenient scapegoat most of all for Israeli centrists and liberals, those enlightened opposition voters who would like to believe that they bear no personal responsibility for their country’s policies." www.equator.org/articles/isr...

I really think everyone should read Arundhati Roy’s essay on AI in The Equator. www.equator.org/articles/aru...

“Colonisation always comes bearing shiny gifts. But AI is colonisation of a kind few of us can even imagine. It’s capitalism’s final destination.” www.equator.org/articles/aru...

'The genius of this current movement was its joyfulness and its core demand: we want to study in order to build a desirable life.' Exceptional analysis of current wave of protests in France www.equator.org/articles/fra...

Let's not forget where France’s student movement started. For @equatormag.bsky.social, I interviewed five people who live, study and work in Saint-Denis about the origins of the movement and where it's heading. My first attempt at an oral history - I hope you like it. www.equator.org/articles/we-...

“For once they’re talking about us, they’re not talking about Paris.” – Olympe, 16 Voices from the high-school blockades in Saint-Denis, where France’s student uprising began. www.equator.org/articles/we-...

Anthropologist and CNRS tenured researcher Chowra Makaremi @chowmak.bsky.social and philosopher and cofounder of @diagrammes.bsky.social Michel Feher @michelfeher.bsky.social on France’s politics of revolt and the spectre of fascism

Our Top 5: —Bottling brains (@equatormag.bsky.social) —Decades of doubt (@texasmonthly.bsky.social ) —Cost of careers (@propublica.org) —Mexican meals (@orionmagazine.bsky.social ) —Frustrated fish (@biographic.bsky.social) longreads.com/2026/10/23/t...

On 17 October, French protesters chanted: “We are the children of the Algerians you didn’t drown in the Seine.” Our own Gavin Jacobson in conversation with Chowra Makaremi and Michel Feher on the revolt, the crackdown and the spectre of fascism: www.equator.org/articles/fra...

Gavin Jacobson of Equator in conversation with political philosopher Michel Feher and anthropologist Chowra Makaremi about the events in France. Essential reading for those who want to understand the meaning of October 17 — then (1961) and now (2026). www.equator.org/articles/fra...

Arundhati Roy on AI. Sublime, as ever. 'Those of us who have already lived our lives in a different kind of world know what we are losing. But what of the generation that is about to come of age? Will it have its own language, its own thoughts, its own grief?' www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Brazil’s election will have consequences far beyond its borders. Join Alameda and Equator for a discussion with leading Brazilian public intellectuals on the stakes for democracy, sovereignty and the future of the region. Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and...

Interesting event coming up tomorrow from @alameda.institute and @equatormag.bsky.social on the Brazilian elections - Brazilian intellectuals discuss what's at stake www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and...

A eleição brasileira terá consequências que vão muito além de suas fronteiras. Junte-se ao Alameda e à Equator para uma conversa com importantes intelectuais públicos brasileiros sobre o que está em jogo para a democracia, a soberania e o futuro da região. // @equatormag.bsky.social

“The oligarchs do seem to believe in their extinction narrative—at least enough to have built themselves bunkers at the far ends of the Earth stocked with water, food and ammunition. But extinction is not what they are selling the rest of us.”—Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru...

After the theatrical release- it will stream via The Guardian’s website. Highly, highly recommend it. Also recommend @equatormag.bsky.social which is publishing absolutely phenomenal work. 💚

Abridged in English: www.equator.org/articles/we-... Full original in Spanish: quintoelab.org/esclavosenla... Helpful context at Boston Review: www.bostonreview.net/articles/sla... Shattered, "None of the survivors we interviewed ever received psychological treatment. Nor did their families."

On Cyclopes and Appetites: Arundhati Roy's clearsighted journey into being eaten alive. Thank you @equatormag.bsky.social

‘The merger between corporations and countries is well on its way. The science of AI may be new. But the way it is being foisted on us is as old as colonialism itself’ - Arundhati Roy’s profound and rationally frightening argument for saying No to AI. A great read. www.equator.org/articles/aru...

‘I believe that disrupting and vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence.’ - Arundhati Roy @abeba.blacksky.app @astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @gilduran.com www.equator.org/articles/aru...

This piece by Arundhati Roy is as grim as it's excellent "The merger between corporations and countries is well on its way. The science of AI may be new. But the way it is being foisted on us is as old as colonialism itself" www.equator.org/articles/aru...

“Cyclopes… casts its jaundiced gaze on ordinary humans and sees only what miners see in a mineral-rich forest, or what dam builders see in mighty, flowing rivers.” Brilliant piece on AI by Arundhati Roy in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aru...

“A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us.” Arundhati Roy on our AI-led future in @equatormag.bsky.social: www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Join us and our friends at @equatormag.bsky.social for an online event with Claudio Lomnitz, Marcela Turati, and Thelma Gómez Durán on October 28 at 12pm ET. The speakers will discuss their recent writing in Equator and BR about forced labor in Mexico. Register here: tinyurl.com/ayxfz4wc

in all the breadth of this absolutely breathtaking essay, I am struck most by the observation that India knows what is is to be colonised by a company. www.equator.org/articles/aru...

“Just as Leo XIII upheld the dignity of the worker in the age of the steam engine, so Leo XIV means to uphold the dignity of the person in the age of the algorithm: the danger is not that machines will become human, but that humans will reduce themselves to machines.” www.equator.org/articles/to-...

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

What would Arundhati say……

This Monday 10/19, author Arundhati Roy will deliver a reading from her newly published essay "Apocalypse Now and Then" at the People's AI Assembly. Join us, @moreperfectunion.bsky.social, and our lineup of incredible speakers: bit.ly/ai-assembly

Excellent essay, well worth a read: 'While there is so much debate about what AI can and cannot do for humans, there is too little talk about what it’s doing to humans.'

"The question is: is that all it is? Are we just living through an uncomfortable moment of transition in the evolution of human “progress”? Or is this indeed a catastrophic rupture?" Arundhati Roy writes on AI for @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/aru...

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination - an extraordinarily important longread from Arundhati Roy

Must-read from Arundhati Roy. “The trail of delectable crumbs on the shining sand is luring us deeper and deeper into the ocean [whose water has pulled back in advance of the tsunami]…” www.equator.org/articles/aru...

The billionaires warning that AI could end humanity are the same ones lobbying to write its rules. In a major new essay, Arundhati Roy argues that artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination www.equator.org/articles/aru...