Livestream for the exciting panel on oligarchic and plebeian republicanisms in Latin America, featuring Hilda Sabato, Valeria Coronel, Jonas Wolff, Alberto Vergara Paniagua, @federicorossi.bsky.social and @camilavergara.bsky.social at LASA 2026 conference in Paris, this Wednesday

Really looking forward to this workshop at the University of Vienna this week! @univie.ac.at

#OtD 22 May 1948 Tantura, a Palestinian village, was attacked at night by Zionist paramilitaries. The next day, up to 250 were massacred, some buried in mass graves. Learn more in our podcast on workers' struggles in Palestine during the British Mandate: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-...

Listen to the @freefreeforum.bsky.social Podcast on Social Ecology with @eleanorfinley.bsky.social and learn about alternative forms of organization and of relating to nature. youtu.be/HbG6NFflZ5k?...

Horrifying news from Essex. Please sign and share in support of these brilliant and committed scholars who have lost their jobs.

I am presenting today a new paper: 'Commons Intelligence: AI, Democracy, and the Possibility of Trans-Human Solidarity,' co-authored with Peter Bloom, at the conference 'Emerging Technologies in Conflict and Peace' in University of Nicosia, Cyrus. www.unic.ac.cy/digits/inter...

🇨🇾 NEXT WEEK! Join FEPS in Nicosia for #CallToEurope to discuss progressive strategies for peace and cooperation in the Mediterranean on 30 May 2026! Register below: bit.ly/CallToEurope...

"Culture without politics, that is, without a historical or national context, becomes featherbrained folklore and folkish barbarism." – Hannah Arendt to Erich Cohn-Bendit, January 1940, a few months before her internment in the concentration camp Gurs.

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Essex who are facing compulsory redundancies. This is an attack on critical scholarship. @camilavergara.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social Join the call for transparency and a stop to these devastating cuts: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

Really helpful and smart essay and volume on how to chart social change across borders in a global perspective. From @benwritesthings.bsky.social and Christian Jacobs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

🎙️ @olivermarchart.bsky.social on Emancipations with Daniel Tutt: Ernesto Laclau and the Making of Post-Marxism 👉 Watch the full conversation on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHg...

"Beiträge zur kritischen Theorie" ist eine Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für kritische Bildung. Bd.1: „Subjekt und Befreiung. Beiträge zur kritischen Theorie": www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/subjekt... Bd 2: „Halbbildung. Kritische Theorie der Pädagogik“: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/halbbil...

Finally home after a perilous quest 🎨 Sarah Graham

#Merz @andreasaudretsch.de

From the Archive: Tariq Modood and Fauzia Ahmad, 'British Muslim Perspectives on Multiculturalism' - explores aspects of what it means to be a ‘moderate’ Muslim in Britain. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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A double Marx day celebration (yesterday)! Highly recommend reading Jan's book that I was lucky enough to read in draft

Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-ciampolo-the-barrator-tormented-by-the-devils-a00006

Today Peter Verovšek @pjv.bsky.social will present his new and timely book "Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist" in Münster @ifpolms.bsky.social (4-6pm) All are welcome!

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

The Apple Orchard. Kevin Kia

Grad hat so ein Minister (kann mir die Namen dieser Politikerdarsteller einfach nicht merken) im Radio gesagt, „Autofahren müsse bezahlbar bleiben“. Nicht Wohnen oder Essen oder seinen Kindern kulturelle Teilhabe ermöglichen, nein: Autofahren.

FREE – Forum for( @freefreeforum.bsky.social )Real Economic Emancipation "Why Your Vote Doesn't Change Anything | Camila( @camilavergara.bsky.social )Vergara & Eleanor( @eleanorfinley.bsky.social )Finley" Clara Mattei www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mkw...

Völlig normal auch bevor man als Touristin an einen Ort fährt zu gucken wieviel Stimmen die AfD. na ja na ja haha, die Leute sind bestimmt trotzdem nett, auch wenn jeder zweite.

#openaccess ‘Cornelius Castoriadis and Marxism’ Tony Burns Critique, Journal of Socialist Theory Volume 53, 2025 - Issue 2-3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zum Tag der Arbeit empfehlen wir: das Buch "Arbeit als literarisches Verfahren der Produktion von Geschlecht. Queerer Materialismus bei Thomas Brasch, Gisela Elsner, Elfriede Jelinek, Ronald M. Schernikau und im Pop" von Franzika Haug. Leseprobe: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/arbeit-...

Today learnt that the supposed Oscar Wilde quote about socialism taking too many evenings was just made up by Michael Walzer in 1968 quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/03/e...

Das wird ein spannendes Buch! Kann man schon vorbestellen, erscheint aber erst im August. (Mein eigener Beitrag ist der Versuch einer Verteidigung des Liberalismus gegen seine postliberalen Verächter, soweit diese sich argumentativ überhaupt fassen lassen) Hier: www.suhrkamp.de/buch/postlib...

My new article is now online and Open Access! 🥳🥳🥳 In it I trace the history of German thinking about slavery and abolition with a special focus on how German debates about abolition were entwined with Enlightenment ideas about sympathy. In doing so, I hope to... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Die Einführung in den Postfundamentalismus von @saragebh.bsky.social und @sergejseitz.bsky.social ist eine, wie Richard Rorty sie liebte, „ambitious, swooshy Geistesgeschichte“ – nur im Zeitraffer. Die Rekonstruktion von 32 Autor:innen auf 130 Seiten. Ich habe ein bisschen was darüber geschrieben.

Blue Landscape (2024) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Completely changed my mind about ChatGPT as someone showed me it recommended one of my books. Such wise judgement.

"Goodnight moon" #synthart

Women are overrepresented in low-paid work, care work, and unpaid labor. Their time, their bodies, and their emotional energy are resources for capital. Feminism cannot succeed without confronting the economic system that structures these inequalities.

Simone de Beauvoir stirbt heute vor 40 Jahren in Paris. #AnDiesemTag

My republican defence of the idea of wage slavery is now in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

Vaporeon that looks at gay people

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

"At Crans-Montana, when a win-win framework had been reached, Turkey was ready to sign the abolition of guarantees, had the Greek Cypriot side accepted. The Turkish government has not changed, but circumstances do – and not always in favour of small Cyprus." share.google/psPFmsGROmrX...

“Anti-imperialism without feminism can easily collapse into support for authoritarianism, but feminism without anti-imperialism becomes cheerleading for empire. The record of Iranian history is very clear. There can be no freedom or democracy under the boot of empire.” —Manijeh Moradian

Audre Lorde for the poets out there: "At the beginning my readings were more showcase—I read work I’d completed & was comfortable with. Now I use the intensity of the reading to find out how the audience feels. A poem isn't finished until I feel the flavor of the audience reaction rising up to me."

"The nation-state is not a neutral scale of governance. It is a [...] form of political belonging organized through the distinction between members and non-members." In this new F&L Blog article, @vapunkt.bsky.social critically examines the left-wing case for the nation-state: tinyurl.com/55paa367

The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge review – a medieval horror story