Economic Rights Are No Substitute for Egalitarian Justice jacobin.com/2026/02/char...

NEW: Imogen, Sebastian, and Sam discuss Situationism as a vindication of Hegelian Marxism and a critique of reified life through its various forms of appearance: artistic production, urban planning, and student life. www.patreon.com/posts/150114...

@crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social Detourn the detourneours situate de situationist! www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

POD EP10: Esther & Sebastian discuss Bloch’s 1932 fragment Nonsychronism & the Obligation to its Dialectics, a text that “takes its place inappropriately” (Benjamin)—on revolutions past, reaction present, & utopias future! patreon.com/posts/episod...

Excited about having had this conversation with comrade Sebastian on working through the past with Ernst Bloch's reflecting on various issues: delay and simultaneity, time out of joint, and floating timelines colliding in the Now Time! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

IL discourse as Taylor Swift songs this law is good this law is bad this law is alive back from the dead oh oh oh

I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be www.jungewelt.de/artikel/5154...

history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as ‘what if we can use international law as a tool’

And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed. "We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."

Sadly thinking about Costaguana Nostromo and needing to read Fredric Jameson on Joseph Conrad...

“Journalists who declare themselves exempt from the influence of historiography are often the captives of some defunct historian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

3. Klasse als moralische Verletzung über die moralische Verletzung durch die Klasse und deren Bezug zur Anerkennungstheorie und zu marxistischen Klassentheorien Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 73 (2):246-263 philpapers.org/rec/BLUKAM

7. Class as Moral Injury on the subjective experience of class as a form of constant vulnerability to harm, humiliation, and indignity In: Hänel & Schuppert, Understanding Social Struggles (transcript) pp. 49-64. philpapers.org/rec/BLUCAM-2

1. I screamed into the endless void.

Critiques and critics: never more necessary than now! Join us @qmul in London’s East End on Friday 23rd January afternoon for the launch of our new centre as we think/practice the mobilisation of critique anew

This will be a somewhat didactic post, but as much as possible, it really is the time to make sure you’ve a robust account of racism, sexism, ableism, and so on. Study the history thoughtfully and abandon easy notions, especially with the return of race science. It’s returning for a reason.

New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars? This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests. academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

New paper, “Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object,” now out in the OUP Handbook of Adorno www.academia.edu/143573230/Ad...

don’t remember if i posted here or not but here’s a snippet from Adorno’s letter to Horkheimer in the middle of their worst fight (1935) where A goes “By the way I LOVED Dämmerung if you even still care…” lol

Happy to share that my first article in the academic context has been published also representing the Critical Theory Working Group! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social !!!

what a gem!!

The Cabinet of the Progressive International condemns the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a colonial governance structure in Gaza — a calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.

'More than 21% of those surveyed felt the Franco era was “good” or “very good”.' Not so good for those lying in unmarked shallow graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Moving on to chapter 2 on temporalities and geographies of gender in my chapter-by-chapter summary of Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. 1/7

Hello all, this is a new blog post at the CTWG. It is a written adaptation of my Hessen presentation from Spring. There, I give a condensed summary of the Hessen-Grossmann thesis while situating it within a broader genealogy of Marxist science historiography. Hope y’all find this fruitful.

The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

heyyyy guys haha you should do an edition of Dialectic of Nihilism :) with a new intro by one of my friends, preferably :)

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

we just wrapped recording for a pod ep on the undivided Kanafani—militant & novelist—in the writing & reception of the big 3 novels in translation: Men in The Sun (62), All That’s Left to You (66), & Returning to Haifa (69). can’t wait to share, & more on Kanafani coming soon!

Shame on the UC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Looking forward to follow-up on Rabea Eghbariah's Towards Nakba as Legal Concept. Deleuze gave an advise on his posthumous Abecedaire in G the Gauche: It was to look at/for Jurisprudence as the Left's objective turf to be fought for. Eghbariah's Nakba case shows us the importance of this advise!!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the discussion of Sections I-II of “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—see you this Saturday, 9/13, @ noon EST for our discussion of section III & the conclusion with J.E. Morain. See you there!

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn

video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...

happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

Finally got my hands on a copy of @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh’s latest

Thanks to everyone who came out for the second study of Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”! Next up: two meetings on “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—Sections I & II presented by Esther Planas Balduz & Morgan Lily this Saturday, 9/6, @ noon EST. See you there!

The left gets a new publication ctwgwebsite.github.io

NEW RECORDING: Origins of Mechanical Explanation: Boris Hessen on Newton's Principia, with Anatarah bin AlKaf ( @damashummus.bsky.social )! The Hessen-Grossmann theses as a historical materialist account of the genesis of 'mechanical reason' in modernity! www.patreon.com/posts/136644...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

it is at the very heart of these sort of people conquering colonising and settling. the possession intent at the back of the concept of unclaimed land

NEW FROM THE CTWG: VARIATIONS A series of theoretical fragments and aphorisms from the group as a whole ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Va...

me and who