Yes! It is brilliant

Historians: you cannot learn from the past, this is not what history is about Also Historians: NO WTF ARE YOU DOING THIS IS LITERALLY WHY SHIT HIT THE FAN THE LAST TIME

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

«Es gibt im Umgang mit rassistisch konnotiertem Kulturerbe durchaus Fälle, wo es Zielkonflikte gibt, die kompliziert sind und interessant zu diskutieren. Diese mediokren Dekoelemente gehören definitiv nicht dazu.» Simon Teuscher in der @woz.ch zu der Kampagne gegen @boscha.bsky.social

Every accusation a confession

my team in zurich is holding a 2-day conference (at uni zurich!) on the history of science of 20th century agriculture, focusing on third-world connections between Africa and Asia. come one come all -- private papers circulated on day 2, email/msg me or anyone on the team 🗃️ #HistSci

All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.

Medienethisch fragwürdig: «keine sachliche Kritik, sondern persönliche Delegitimierung», kontern sachverständige Historiker:innen.

Immanentize the Eschaton now

NEW ON CTWG: INTRODUCING RACKET THEORY by J.E. Morain & yours truly to our collection of texts on 'racket theory.' This essay covers the history of the Frankfurt School's racket theory project as well as some of the core theoretical problems & themes ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Ra...

Sensation: AI-generierter Rilke zeichnet live aus dem Kulturstaatsministerium und dichtet auf Chinesisch

Extension of application deadline for MIASA Individual Fellowships at the Univ. of Ghana for the Academic Year 2026/27 New deadline: 29 Sept 2025 miasa.ug.edu.gh/fellowship-p... @actunifreiburg.bsky.social @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de @goetheuni.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr

Sensation: AI-generierter Rilke zeichnet live aus dem Kulturstaatsministerium und dichtet auf Chinesisch

+ OUT NOW + Hightech in China, Krieg in der Ukraine, Hegemonieverlust in den USA. Was das alles miteinander zu tun hat, erklärt unsere Neuerscheinung »Der Rest und der Westen«. Statt #Imperialismus als Konkurrenz nationaler Großmächte oder als Expansionsstrategie »des Westens« /1

The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative: www.zambiabelonging.com

"If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain" is an instant hall-of-famer.

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Ok so I’m confused, apparently this never happened, at least not at the UN (the speech is still 🔥🔥🔥)

Guck mal, @rheinze.bsky.social: „Nun ist der Grundtatbestand des Menschseins, der es von allen Tieren unterscheidet, daß das Verhältnis des Einzelnen zum Kollektiv nicht in eine vollendete Form gebracht werden kann. Daher hat der Mensch Geschichte.“ Karl Jaspers, Das Kollektiv und der Einzelne, 1956

How can one miss someone so much

This makes me so happy for my queer, trans and nonbinary friends in Kenya

Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.

Man kann sich das alles nicht ausdenken. Hannah Arendt hätte sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen gewehrt, in diesen "Ruhmestempel" der "großen Deutschen", der einzig der nationalen Selbstvergewisserung und Überhöhung dient, aufgenommen zu werden. Kleines Zitat von ihr: "Der Souveränitätsbegriff 1/

JUNGE (@judithbeyer.bsky.social gesehen?)(und mit Strauß auch noch)

The EU spending €12m on a hydroelectric power station to power bitcoin mining in a Congolese nature reserve run by a Belgian aristocrat could not be more bizarre. Great work by @oli4vb.bsky.social: www.ftm.eu/articles/bit...

Still thinking a lot about Ginzburg

if you want one of these hmu, my prices are unbeatable

I think this covers it? my brain is well and truly cooked

Still thinking a lot about Ginzburg

Okay, folks — it's Rapture time Tag yourself as one of the Signs That Herald the Return of Jesus to Earth (I'm "THE UNPRECEDENTED TURN TO DRUGS")

They chased the National Guard out of Los Angeles

Ok but read Ginzburg to find out what happens when people just go off the Latin mass and some pictures in the church window

definitely! it's not even clear yet what his reinstatement means. and scores of regular people who lost jobs for posting are still fired, too the best on the ground re LA is coming from LA Taco btw (but the daily reports are 😩) bsky.app/profile/lata...

Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter*in am Fritz-Hüser-Institut. TVöD 13, 100%, unbefristet. Schwerpunkte: Forschung und Literaturvermittlung. Ich freue mich auf Bewerbungen von Literaturwissenschaftler:innen bis zum 17.10.2025. Bei Fragen gerne dm, da ich nicht vor Ort bin.

This is Mastodon for me tbh

Ok but read Ginzburg to find out what happens when people just go off the Latin mass and some pictures in the church window

This is cool but also it has the precise opposite effect of women singing covers of „Creep“

They should have released a trailer for Andor season 3, that would have been an epic troll tbh

Nimm das Buch, das dir am nächsten ist. Schlage S. 52 auf und zitiere den 5. Satz. « La critique de la vie quotidienne était ainsi celle des autres classes et se traduisait essentiellement par le mépris du travail productif ;

Jameson: that’s not how allegories work

If only someone had introduced me to Benjamin and his notion of criticism then (then again there is a reason why he didn’t get his habilitation…)

Goddmit Tolkien discourse on this app reminds me why despite it being my favourite subject when I started out I was just glad when I was finished with my German Lit Masters. There is such a thing as overinterpreting stuff

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

🚨New article!🚨 Katherina Kinzel and I critically assess Alfred Sohn-Rethel's notion of real abstraction. Although we appreciate his materialist impulse, we argue that he ultimately ends up Kantianizing Marx rather than Marxianizing Kant. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"A bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus."