New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ross Abbinnett, 'On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility' - examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🗓️Feb 11, 1916: Emma Goldman, an activist & advocate for women's rights & social justice, was arrested for lecturing on birth control. A violation of the Comstock laws, which banned "dissemination of obscene material" such as topics of contraception. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM shorturl.at/Xox1W

Quite glad with how this class went. The teens were especially amazed at how the white gaze even invades automatic soap dispensers. And some seemed to like Frantz Fanon’s writing style.

This is one of the key insights from Lorde’s call to grapple with differences: we find ways our interests and experiences align, even when we’re targeted with different forms of oppression

"Coalition building is not easy. You don't make coalitions because you like to make coalitions. You make coalitions because your ass is in the sling and none of us are going to be able to triumph alone." (Audre Lorde)

Coastal Foam, 2019 by US painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Book Review: "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What does it mean to examine political modernity from below? JEANETTE EHRMANN (@jeanjanyan.bsky.social) on the enslaved as political actors whose resistance reshapes how we think about modernity and the law. verfassungsblog.de/the-code-noi...

next week! At the Centre Marc Bloch

I’m busy working on lots of new ideas, keeping some quite spontaneous. I’ve got spring on my mind because I’m feeling a little tired of cold damp winter weather. I’m also enjoying using Schminke’s granulation watercolour paints #sketchbook #art #watercolour #watercolor #rabbits

Bis zum 9. Februar kann man noch Beiträge für die @prokla.bsky.social Ausgabe zu Kämpfen im Recht einreichen ✍️ www.prokla.de/index.php/PR...

Mini art quilt by textile artist Nancy Messier #WomensArt

📣New Editorial Out Now! Thrilled to share that our colleague @viktoriahue.bsky.social, together with Tanay Ghandi, has published an editorial in the latest issue of Krisis – Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. 👉 Read it here: krisis.eu/article/view...

"The Oak", 1944, Watercolour on cardboard, 101,9 x 76,8 cm - Andrew Wyeth, American (1917 - 2009) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

📣 Call for Abstracts! Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)! Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y... Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!

Check out this new open access volume on Law&Critique with contributions by @danielloick.bsky.social, @frieder-vogelmann.net, @bennozabel.bsky.social, me & many others: www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/law-cri...

📘Neuerscheinung! Wir freuen uns sehr bekanntzugeben, dass im Sammelband Law & Critique | Recht & Kritik ein Beitrag von @saragebh.bsky.social erschienen ist: Subversion durch Recht: Radikaldemokratie und der Entfremdungseffekt alternativer Ordnungen 📄Lesen unter: www.inlibra.com/en/document/...

The very last talk of my sabbatical period will be on “Lukács’ Social Ontology: Ontological Emergence and the Specificity of the Political". The background text is a very dense paper that Lukács wrote in 1968, in which he condenses, in 16 pages, the 1,600 pages of his Ontology.

If you‘re in Oxford on Valentine’s Day and in the mood for a not very V Day themed talk, join us!

'Dancing through it all' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt

English writer Virginia Woolf was born #OTD in 1882. Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. #literature #litsky #booksky newyorker.com/magazine/195...

Reinhart Koselleck: „Historie ist nicht dazu da, Identitäten zu stiften, sondern scheinbare, gewünschte, erdachte, gesuchte, gewollte Identitäten zu zerstören.“

Von der Ilias über Shakespeare bis zu Hollywood - set 3.000 Jahren ringt die Welt mit der Frage, was Achill und Patroklos füreinander waren. Doch es geht um weit mehr als um die Frage nach queerer Sichtbarkeit

Send your book reviews and review proposal my way! Reviews should focus on race and ethnicity, including but not limited to Black studies, Latine studies, LGTBTQI+ studies, the African Diaspora, and works by or about authors of color. www.theblackscholar.org/submission/

now in Turkish!

Reading (and reviewing) Toscano's Communism in Philosophy is taking me back to the time everyone was talking about Badiou. www.pdcnet.org/philtoday/co...

Two weeks left to submit an abstract for the upcoming Conference on Emerging Technologies in Conflict & Peace (keynote speaker: Benjamin Noys), to be held at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, May 18-19. @camilavergara.bsky.social @nicostrim.bsky.social @hadjioannou.bsky.social

Ultimately, #technology was the #nation-state's condition of possibility. Its logic, mirroring that of #hegemony, provided the #social and #political basis for #nation construction projects. #nationalism #routledge #poststructuralism #semiotics #intertextuality #nation #monograph #Laclau #discourse

UK-based Yemini artist Asmahan A. Mosleh, known for her hugely intricate mandala artworks #WomensArt

Now in #paperback, Peter R. Grant's Enchanted by Daphne tells the extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution. Learn more about this revelatory book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Biology #Ecology

#OtD 13 Jan 1948 miners in Cyprus walked out on strike against inhuman conditions. Despite violent repression from the British colonial government Greek and Turkish workers fought together and eventually won more pay, shorter hours, and better safety stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7743...

"The concept of authority originates in the Roman context, from the Latin verb augere, to augment. What is augmented by those in authority is the original, sacred foundation; one becomes an authority by merging with and furthering that traditional authority" Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman, p.50

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is an adaption of Luibov Popova Untitled Textile Design on May Morris Honeysuckle Wallpaper for Historical Materialism, edition of 100, screen print on wallpaper (2010). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2677-f...

An incredibly generous and extensive review by @louismosar.bsky.social setting out how Citizen Marx fits within the broader "radical turn" in republicanism academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

#freiburg 💜

Marx and Douglass on the Paris Commune www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/fred...

Cover design for ‘Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 23th December 2025. Cover art is from Construct 74, acrylic on wallpaper mounted on linen (2024). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2716-r...

coming soon . . . www.penguin.co.uk/books/451280...

Tomorrow we’ll start a two day workshop together with the post-foundational thought group at the University of Barcelona. Looking forward to “Un-Grounding Institutions”!

#OTD in 1955, Marian Anderson--considered one of the greatest-ever contraltos--became the first African-American to perform a lead singing role (and solo) at the Metropolitan #Opera. She sang the role of Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's 𝘜𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢 (A Masked Ball).

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

"The show understands something that contemporary audiences are acutely sensitive to in the post-MeToo era. Desire is most compelling when it is mutual, chosen, and uncoerced." Review of the queer TV Show "Heated Rivalry" www.out.com/voices/heate...

Recording available here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Erinnere auch an diesem Anlaß erneut gerne daran, dass "meine" Dokumentaion "Hannah Arendt - eine Jüdin im Pariser Exil" weiterhin in der Mediathek von @artede.bsky.social angeschaut werden kann. Seyla Benhabib ist Interviewpartnerin in zentralen Passagen des Films. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

22.1. in Aquarium Berlin: Krise und kollektive Handlungsfähigkeit. Ein Gespräch zur Politik von Gegengemeinschaften. Mit Daniel Loick, Rahel Jaeggi und Thomas Seibert, moderiert von Charlie Ebert. @ktbberlin.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/krise-...

"A deeper insight into the day’s events comes from the German philosopher Eva von Redecker. Inspired by the medical phenomena of phantom pain and phantom limbs, she recently coined the term “phantom possession” to make sense of our era’s new authoritarianism."

Latest update: “Hot for Revolution” is going to the publisher today, which means I can post a preprint v. soon. It’s about how sexual passion can feed political agency in social movements