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Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"

I knew I'd heard of Alex Davies Jones before novaramedia.com/2025/06/12/p...

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

was a real thrill to interview @reproutopia.bsky.social about their new book 'Enemy Feminisms', along with Victoria Browne and @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social, in the new issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

the Spring 2025 issue of Variant is online! feat poetry by Mira Mattar, Danny Hayward on Marina Vishmidt, Hussein Mitha on Palestine and the arts in Scotland, Joey Simons on the Glasgow Housing Struggles Archive, Shona Macnaughton on feminist healthcare... variant.org.uk

one for the Gillian Rose heads!

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

For the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social Victoria Browne, Rahul Rao and I interviewed Sophie Lewis about their new book Enemy Feminisms and they gave some very interesting and thoughtful answers to our questions www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

RP2.19 out now! Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose FTC Manning on real abstraction Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani Interview with Sophie Lewis Paulin Hountondji obit www.radicalphilosophy.com

What a kicker!

I wrote this essay on psychoanalytic interpretations of the 1968 student uprisings at Columbia university @parapraxismag.bsky.social - students who opposed the university's complicity in the US war in Vietnam insisted society was 'crazy' rather than them www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/a-c...

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

I was gripped by the Mike Kelley at Tate Modern earlier this year — and this by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social on Kelley’s Kandors, memory, melancholic objects, False Memory Syndrome, Sylvia Plath, Ruth Leys &c is great

Currently reading—Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social. Absolutely exceptional. Grab a copy yourself: bookshop.org/a/23377/9781...

I wrote something about Mike Kelley's Kandors - and about Superman as a symptom - after seeing them glowing at the Tate Modern earlier this year hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/superman-a...

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

Enjoy :) We don't get enough good news. And this is really good www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

I can’t compete with this

find it funny that the only profession/field that people in my family have been involved in over multiple generations is what I guess you'd call show business (music hall variety acts > Butlins singers > tap dance instructors > understudies in touring musical theatre shows)

"Gaza is not the subject of the next paper. Its writers and artists are not bait for a new grant or fellowship. Its murdered children are not the subject of the next ethnographic study, or the next anthology or the next art installation or digital humanities project."

‘Twentieth-century fascism appears to have little in common with today’s leading far-right movements.’ @trillingual.bsky.social analyses the origins and discontents of the far-right populist groups gaining ground across the world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#OtD 28 May 1871 the Paris commune, widely considered the most significant early working-class uprising for socialism, was crushed after a massacre of thousands of people to regain the city. Learn more in this compilation of writings by participants: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

'Airless Spaces is an exercise in paying attention... Alongside the litany of institutional failure and neglect, Firestone also observes how social reproduction and hospitalisation interact' Helen Charman reviews AIRLESS SPACES @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/shulamith-fi...

I have an essay in this issue on three psychoanalytic responses to the 1968 Columbia University uprisings - from horrified conservatives who said campuses had become "enclaves for the rule of the id" to sympathetic liberals inspired by student activists to become more radical

4th anniversary of Kenmure Street today. Much discourse since has sought to absorb the day into a cosy "People Make Glasgow" celebration of spontaneous local spirit. Important to remember it was a victory made possible by people doing the long hidden work of anti-raids training and network building.

it's Kenmure Street day! Solidarity forever!

“The present condition of the world, if accepted as it is, if approached with anything short of determined impatience to change it utterly, renders every value meaningless” - John Berger I’m so obsessed with this book 🔥

In 1925, Berta Lask wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred years to address the contemporary political situation. Sam Dolbear has translated it - happy May Day 🌈🌈🌈 www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer

the full season of WANDA & BEYOND: THE WORLD OF BARBARA LODEN is now live on the BFI Southbank site, booking begins May 9th and book/season launch on June 3rd. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

I wrote about "fag/hag" and "Fag Hag" - two recent books about friendship & comradeship pinned to different decades, for @hnnhcrvlh.bsky.social at @radical-philosophy.bsky.social journal. It's Miesseroff on the one hand, and Lane-McKinley & Fox on the other: www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/u...

I'm obsessed with this fact

Dossier of four pieces on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt 💜🐚🦔🦇 1. Ray Brassier, ‘Crystal drills’ www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/crys...

new issue of Radical Philosophy....

re-listening to this radio show we made ten years ago - it's about Asja Lacis, Walter Benjamin in Moscow, theatre, puppets, toys, dreams, guillotines, revolutionary childhood etc etc - still one of the favourite things I've ever been involved in making soundcloud.com/radio-lacis-1

'HOW'S YOUR MOOD, COMRADES? Psychoanalysis, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union' long essay for @parapraxismag.bsky.social feat Gorbachev’s dreams, Annie Ernaux’s Soviet lover, Lacanians in Tbilisi, Ukrainian mystics etc etc www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/how...

On the @lrb.co.uk blog: @harrystopes.bsky.social on the four activists in Berlin who are set to be deported for Palestine activism. There has been no proof they have committed a crime. But yet Germany ‘descends into lawlessness in the name of its Staatsräson.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

not sure whether to resist or indulge my strong desire to write about the John Wick movies

Ray Brassier on hope and despair (saw someone else sharing this recently and just went to find it the book Bad Feelings)

In the philosopher Paul Preciado’s new book, he reflects on his own privileged experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in a series of metaphors that range from the bizarre to the frankly obscene artreview.com/paul-preciad...

I read all 500 and something pages of the new Preciado book and wrote this review. I did not enjoy it. Sometimes things are actually not that much like other things. artreview.com/paul-preciad...

Kingston University plans to abolish the CRMEP. Don’t let them. Please read this open letter from current students and support their efforts whichever way you can! www.e-flux.com/notes/658933... 1/3

Hannah Proctor on how (despite the ubiquity of the experience of extreme political adversity on the left) there is a surprising lack of literature on the psychological and emotional consequences of political defeat:

Great episode of @poltheoryother.bsky.social with @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social: 'The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat'. open.spotify.com/episode/3akn...

The center right and far right have underperformed relative to expectations, the left significantly overperformed. This is an extremely difficult moment for many reasons, but these results are better than I had dared to hope a week and certainly to months ago.

Germany, Exit poll Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: Seat projection CDU/CSU-EPP: 187 (-10) AfD-ESN: 131 (+48) SPD-S&D: 108 (-98) GRÜNE-G/EFA: 79 (-39) LINKE-LEFT: 59 (+20) FDP-RE: 33 (-58) BSW-NI: 33 (+33) ➤ europeelects.eu/germany

The rep from the AfD is already on tv saying they are happy to leave governance to the other parties and they will keep creating policy from the backbenches in opposition. Given the willingness of the mainstream parties to dance to their tune, they are right to expect control without responsibility.