AI, Visual Culture, and Digital Media. Thinking about political imaginations for dark times.https://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3mty7bgqvfc2p📢 New Open-Access article in AI & Society co-authored with Eran Fisher. How does language mediate visual meaning in AI image generation? is the question at the center of "Promptable Imagination: Language and the New Epistemic Order of AI Image Generation" 📖 Read the full article: rdcu.be/fCbg426 Aug 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mty7bgqvfc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3mohxk5mdkc2ohttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263276426145534717 Jun 2026 09:06 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohxk5mdkc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3mcyyzedd6s25New article out! 🌍"Resisting climate imaginaries: future compass memes as combinatory mechanisms for imagining otherwise" co-authored with Tommaso Trillò and Blake Hallinan These aren't predictions, they are invitations for imagining otherwise. Link in comments 👇22 Jan 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcyyzedd6s25https://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3m7pa2fpi3k2wMy brilliant friend Tal Zalmanovich wrote a brilliant book: Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990. This fantastic book offers important lessons about how solidarity can cross borders to fight against oppression and make a difference in the world.11 Dec 2025 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pa2fpi3k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3m4auhx7loc2vImportant article by Irit Katz https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/humanitarianism/6782998/gaza-stripped-displacement-destruction-and-necro-humanitarianism28 Oct 2025 11:49 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4auhx7loc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3m2bpn5swj224A short on the history of Lyd and the excellent film Lyd by Rami Younis and Sarah Friedland, a film that remaind us that there is another way, there always was. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPRchQzkViY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==03 Oct 2025 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2bpn5swj224https://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3lrlpgqlohk23And in the middle of yet another catastrophe, a new publication, co-authored with Louise Bethlehem: Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in theshadow of catastrophe https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2513386#d1e14014 Jun 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrlpgqlohk23https://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3lra7urhzuk2xImportant to remember, "Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism" https://jacobin.com/2024/01/shaul-magid-interview-zionism-anti-zionism-judaism-history?fbclid=IwY2xjawK0qXhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFnMlZPZDNHMEgyWmxTbEFPAR62MJNt7ggC0sCJ9-IUdKopjjBJB9uTzRSAlcy9vSoQ7tkUKVr0HCZhmzfeKg_aem_FU89U0_48kQ7-X3duIbo5w10 Jun 2025 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lra7urhzuk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3lqrcs5dfu227Take a moment to read Irit Katz's piece on Gaza. https://theconversation.com/lethal-humanitarianism-why-violence-at-gaza-aid-centres-should-not-come-as-a-surprise-25790804 Jun 2025 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrcs5dfu227https://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3llyovmkb322rHappy to share my new paper "Natality as world-building in Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind's In Vitro (2019)" #politicalimagination #HannahArendt #environmentalcatastrophe #Palestine #Art [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Apr 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3llyovmkb322rhttps://bsky.app/profile/normamusih.bsky.social/post/3lhy55lofws2uThe political imaginaiton of Trump's plan for Gaza is not new. It resonates with the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948, the Nakba, and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States. We need to train a New Political Imaginaiton. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Feb 2025 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:rqvbcdmgfxt3bb6rahbtcnro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhy55lofws2u