Bei der sehr wahrscheinlichen Wahl des BdV-Wunschkandidaten Sven Oole am 26. März werde der BdV „die Kontrolle über eines der wichtigsten geschichtspolitischen Projekte der Bundesrepublik übernehmen“. (2/4)

Bei der "Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung" droht eine „Machtübernahme“ durch den #BdV, warnt Andreas Kilb in der FAZ - mit unabsehbaren Folgen nicht nur für die deutsche #Erinnerungskultur, sondern auch für das deutsch-polnische Verhältnis. #SFVV #Polen (1/4)

🎺🎺 Our conference on "Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds. Object History and Decolonisation Dynamics in a Comparative European Perspective" at the @dhi-paris.fr starts tomorrow: www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindet... Join us for the keynote with Hans Peter Hahn at 6 pm 👇

Yes! Find the zoom-links on our website:

Join us tomorrow at 18h for a keynote by Hans Peter Hahn: "Careers of Objects Between Cultures and Nations. Material Culture in a World of Power Asymmetries" He will talk about the temporality of objects in the context of their coloniality.

uff. Zum Glück gibt's bei LFI noch ein paar vernünftige Leute

Ok what was that godly remix of Cure's A Forest that just came up on NTS Radio 1 (Prosumer)

They're just out of the picture

Wie gestalteten türkische #Migrantinnen politische Räume in #WestBerlin (1961–1989)? Elisabeth Kimmerle @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social über ihr Buch "Frauen in Bewegung" im nächsten Divan historique. 23.03. | 18:30 | Goethe-Institut #Paris & Zoom | #Podiumsdiskussion www.dhi-paris.fr/de/...

I don't think Habermas is the worst offender, but this is very true: "And some academics lean into that confusion because it protects them. When your writing is wrapped in layers of jargon and abstraction, it becomes harder for anybody to challenge what you’re actually saying."

Die von uns geförderte Sonderausstellung "Fremde Freunde" in Eisenhüttenstadt läuft noch bis zum 7. Juni. Mittlerweile ist auch der Ausstellungskatalog erschienen. U.a. mit Kommentaren von @katharinawarda.bsky.social und @poutrusicke.bsky.social

🇧🇪 🇨🇩 A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba. ➡️ u.afp.com/SLmU

„[D]er steigende Energieverbrauch [muss] auf die Dauer eine globale Erwärmung zur Folge haben“ - Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus, 1973 (!). Nicht, dass es ganz lost geht.

Excellent 🧵 and the the environmentalisms of the 1960s-1970s. The neo-Malthusian thinking that Ehrlich represented is all over UNESCO activities (esp re urban heritage preservation) during this period

All of those countries that have Bern taking medical assistance from Cuba should be falling over themselves to break the blockade.

#CfP Raul Hilberg, a Historian and his Century 📌 Int. #Tagung in #Paris | 6.–8.12.2026 | organisiert von @dhi-paris.fr, @ehess.fr u.a. 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 15.04.2026 🔗 dhi-paris.fr/de/aktu...

Keep it closed, build and live with beauty

Since Hormuz is briefly on your radars now; this by a friend, Nooshin Samimi, from the hellsite: “Daughter of a geologist here: the spectacular colors of the Hormuz Formation (seen in Hormuz, Qeshm, and Hengam islands) are a unique sequence of evaporites, exposed as active salt glaciers.”

Analytische Weiterbildung in vielen Fragen dank @adamtooze.bsky.social, der einmal mehr politischer Aufklärung praktiziert wie kaum sonst wer derzeit: globale Landwirtschaft als Sphäre mit Jahreszeiten, Lieferketten und die Unterschiede von Öl und Gas und „Enthauptungspolitik“ als neues Paradigma

Neoliberal Körperpanzer not for war but for work

I do think it’s worthwhile to analyse this, precisely with the methods he abhors (psychoanalysis), because they are trying to establish that kind of technocratic-fascist subjectivity, it’s their ideological project alongside the material one

I think Morozov theorised this well here - "a more muscular hybrid: investment portfolios that function as philosophical arguments, market positions that operationalize convictions" www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...

Wer ist denn jetzt aber Banksy?

„Geschichte Namibias“ - eine grandiose Präsentation des Landes, mit dem Deutschland bis heute in einzigartiger Weise verflochten ist. Aus deutsch-namibischer Perspektive von Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social Engagiert & persönlich, aber angenehm analytisch distanziert @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social

“The friendship group were like angels to us. The barge was a time in our lives when we were living in hell. ... one day I will go back to Portland ... as a tourist. The group saved our lives. Being with them was the only time we felt like we were living.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#GraphicNovel über die antifranquistischen Kämpfer #ElQuico (1915-1960), Caracremada und Facerías, die nach der republikanischen Niederlage 1939 das #Franco -Regime mit allen Mitteln weiter angriffen: Enteignungen,Strafaktionen, Gefängnisausbrüche #comics #BD #BandesDessinées #FrancescSabatéLlopart

The French and Germans seem to have been particularly susceptible to this. Literary cultures with well-read intellectuals assume the current threat was shaped by a means they can access with their inherited tools. But this isn’t theology nor a new kind of “enlightenment,” it’s a revenue model.

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Le dessin du jour, par Julien Couty

Ffffffuuuuu…

Civilisation has been in a moral and artistic nosedive ever since they made it possible to play as Bowser in Mariokart, and win races for evil

Wenn der Kapitalismus ausnahmsweise mal für was gut ist

Wir fordern Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram #Weimer auf, seine Entscheidung, den Erweiterungsbau der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social zu streichen, rückgängig zu machen. Die Sicherung unseres Kulturerbes darf nicht auf eine Wahl zwischen analog und digital reduziert werden. www.vdb-online.org/stellungnahm...

All this. Yes.

In ihrem Nachwort zu der aktuellen deutschen Ausgabe von Eric Williams‘ „Kapitalismus und Sklaverei“ bringen @bafikush.bsky.social und @rarnsburg.bsky.social die, wie Stuart Hall es mit Althusser genannt hätte, Artikulation dieser beiden gut auf den Punkt:

Nicht gut

Looking forward to co-presenting an invited talk with @sadiecouture.bsky.social at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. We'll discuss how we built and sustained our Library of Congress academic/federal collaborative research project, now in its 12th year.

Also has anyone here played Skyjo? It’s a really cool game, I only recently discovered it and play the hell out of it with my 6yo who is astonishingly good at it

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing. x.com/SStapczynski...

Someone said recently we need some harmless hot takes, so here’s mine: cozy game isn’t a genre, everyone has their own personal cozy game(s) and they can be from all genres.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Also imagine if people were like “China threatens the existence of Chinese people worldwide because it wraps itself in Chineseness to justify its atrocities” (which it regularly does!). It’s an obviously bigoted argument in the first place.

Abrakadabra me say Open Sesame!

fascism is the aestheticization of politics; one response is the politicization of art - AND YET, art is not a political pamphlet or policy platform, a feature film definitionally cannot have coherent politics, certainly not a politics of immediatist presentation of the right values, hope this helps

"the only thing in the world worth starting: the end of the world, goddamn it" #eschatologie #barocktheorie

The Fanonian-Tosquellian "end-of-the-world" as a counter to what Benjamin decribes in the baroque Trauerspiel as the lack of eschatology and the tendendcy to amass the secular, "emptying the heavens"

berliner kindheit um neunzehnhundertneunzig

Jahrzehntelang so ein Performance-Art-Projekt durchzuziehen ist schon krass. Respekt an Banksy.