John Pocock's own copy of Quentin Skinner's "Liberty before Liberalism"

Kathy Klien, US artist known for her intricate flower mandalas created with petals #womensart

The 12 most popular posts on LSE Review of Books in 2025 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

My review of Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com made it into the top 12 of the LSE Review of Books for 2025. Still an amazing book for those doing frantic last-minute Christmas shopping today! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Ein wunderschöner und berührender Essay zum Hören von @janaxpetersen.bsky.social über verwundete und verwiesene Körper @jgovrin.bsky.social, crip time im Kapitalismus und vieles mehr. Unbedingte Hörempfehlung und volle Solidarität!

Essay #2: The Body in Political Imagination: Representing, Choreographing, Contesting the Body Politic by @viktoriahue.bsky.social krisis.eu/article/view... (9/10)

New Special Issue! Krisis Vol 45 No. 1: Radical Aesthetics We are delighted to present the latest edition of Krisis. This special issue, which focuses on the theme of Radical Aesthetics, has been edited by our guest editors @viktoriahue.bsky.social and Tanay Gandhi. >>> krisis.eu (1/10)

CFP: “Speech and Politics” with Miranda Fricker. Sciences Po. 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory (2026) CFP: "Speech and Politics" with Miranda Fricker Sciences Po's 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory Submission deadline: January 31, 2026 Conference date(s): May 27, 2026 - May…

Alle unsere Körper sind verletzlich, doch Politik macht manche verwundbarer als andere, sagt die Philosophin Jule Govrin. Sie betrachtet soziale Ungleichheit anhand von Körpern. In ihrem Vortrag geht es um Fürsorge und Forderungen an die Politik. www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/sozi...

How did Marx develop his revolutionary ideas? My latest book review looks at @brunoleipold.com's extraordinarily stimulating new book "Citizen Marx: Republicanism & the formation of Karl Marx's social & political thought". My book of the year. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2025/12/brun...

Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter known for her observations of parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

“For Fanon, anticolonial violence was never a celebration of bloodshed…It was a diagnostic category, a way of naming the fact that colonial domination had already made violence the organising principle of everyday life.” hate that we have to keep clarifying this to dolts roape.net/2025/12/21/f...

Wrote a thing on racial capitalism in the French journal Marronnages. Some commentators - Malcolm Ferdinand, Diamond Ashiagbor - commented. Then I wrote a comment on their comment. marronnages.org/index.php/re...

Heute vor 40 Jahren, am Abend des 21. Dezember 1985, wurde Ramazan Avcı von einer Gruppe be-waffneter Neonazis in Hamburg-Eilbeck überfallen. Sein Bruder und ein Freund konnten dem Angriff entkommen. #AnDiesemTag 🧵

#OtD 20 Dec 1915 revolutionary Basque journalist and author, Cecilia García de Guilarte, was born in Tolosa. She reported extensively on the Spanish Civil War for the revolutionary CNT union newspaper. Learn more about the civil war in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

"Look what They took from You" politics, based on an imagined fantasy of the past, is really unhealthy for a country.

In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism. Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...

Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

2025’s final lecture focused on the early period of Islamic political thought (from its beginnings to al-Farabi). It was, in fact,an online guest lecture at Istanbul University. This gave me the opportunity to read some relatively recent publications on the socio-economic context. 3 wonderful reads:

Really looking forward to reading this speacial issue of @krisisjournal.bsky.social on radical aesthetics 💖

Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Cornel West, Susan Buck-Morss, Seyla Benhabib, Bruno Bosteels, and more will be joining us for Hegel 13/13 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social in the new year 2026! Mark your calendars: hegel1313.law.columbia.edu

Mein Lehrkonzept zum forschenden Lernen ist online. Ein Jahr haben wir gemeinsam zu Foucault geforscht und die Studierenden haben ihre Ergebnisse im Rahmen eines Symposiums vorgestellt. Es war eine spannendes Projekt! #forschendeslernen #forschen #foucault #disciplineandpunish #studium

Ableismus ähnelt strukturell Rassismus, Sexismus oder Antisemitismus, erhält aber weit weniger Aufmerksamkeit. Dr. @reginaschidel.bsky.social schließt diese Lücke und analysiert Ableismus philosophisch und sozialtheoretisch – mit Perspektiven zu seiner Überwindung: shrk.vg/BehinderungU...

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

'Night Haunts', Westway, 2020 by Gail Brodholt, London based printmaker #WomensArt

A beautiful explanation of the concept of appropriation in Marxist Theory. From "Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society" by Bertell Ollman

This entire weekend

Ein Buch, das aktueller nicht sein könnte: Menschen mit »Behinderungen« werden oft nicht als vollwertige Personen anerkannt. Regina Schidel schließt mit ihrem Buch eine Lücke, indem sie Ableismus aus philosophischer und sozialtheoretischer Perspektive analysiert. 17.12.!

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The future used to be something promised; today it is a postponed burden. Instead of thinking long-term, people focus on managing the present. As the idea of the future erodes, politics narrows. Politics is only possible when tomorrow is imagined as different.

They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it

Snow days are one of the happiest days for panda babies🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼🐼

Happy to share that I have recieved the Laura Bassi Scholarship for an upcoming manuscript! :)

Die Ausgabe Nr. 252 der "vorgänge" ist da: #Demokratisierung. - Hier geht es zu den frei verfügbaren Aufsätzen: www.humanistische-union.de/publikatione... - Hier könnt ihr das Heft kaufen: www.humanistische-union.de/service/shop... #Volksentscheid #Bürgerrat #Bürgerkammer #Wirtschaftsdemokratie

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

“Politics and the Economy” Lisa Herzog cup.org/4rpVlrW

Recent PhDs, graduate students (and their supervisors): the Society for French Historical Studies will be awarding a number of grants. The deadline for these is January 1, 2026! Make sure to apply if you are eligible: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/awards-new-o...

CfP: Ich organisiere am Theoriekongress Passau (Okt 2026) ein Panel zu Demokratie nach der offenen Zukunft. Was passiert, wenn der Zukunftshorizont als Legitimationsquelle wegfällt? Einreichungen aus Politischer Theorie, Rechts- & Wirtschaftswissenschaft willkommen: www.uni-passau.de/backsliding-...

We're thrilled that @brunoleipold.com's book Citizen Marx has won the Deutscher Memorial Prize! This book, the first to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, is recognized as the best and most innovative writing in or about the Marxist tradition: buff.ly/LVwru3x

Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt

Rahel Jaeggi verteidigt in ihrem preisgekrönten Buch das Begriffspaar Fortschritt und Regression als unverzichtbares sozialphilosophisches Werkzeug für die Kritik unserer Zeit. »Theoretisch überaus elegant.« (Oliver Weber, Süddeutsche Zeitung) Jetzt in der stw!

Consider applying to this panel at the „Second International Conference on Political Theory“ on the revolutionary idea of democracy! Deadline: Dec 15. Submit your abstract here: www.uni-passau.de/backsliding-...

Written your first book in political theory and wondering if it might be worth a prize? Well why not give it a try... @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

Eine Bundesregierung ist eine Regierung, die Regierung eines Bundes ist.

Inklusive eines Panels von Marlon Barbehön und mir zu den Bildungsvoraussetzungen der Demokratie und zur Frage, was die Demokratie(theorie) in Zeiten der Krise von Bildung erwarten darf:

Am Montag diskutiere ich mit Sophie Leudolt und Juliane Rebentisch über Hannah Arendt in der Inaugurationssendung von Sophie Leudolts neuem „Philosophiecafe“ auf Ö1. Tolle Sache. Ab Dienstag dann auch als Podcast verfügbar! oe1.orf.at/programm/202...