If you're at APSA, come join us for the discussion of Anna Jurkevics's excellent "Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds" (Oxford UP 2025) on Thursday. I'm honored to be a part of this conversation, and hope to see you there! academic.oup.com/book/59797

If you're at APSA, come join us for the discussion of Anna Jurkevics's excellent "Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds" (Oxford UP 2025) on Thursday. I'm honored to be a part of this conversation, and hope to see you there! academic.oup.com/book/59797

Gerade ist dieser wunderbare Sammelband über Charles Mills' Politische Philosophie erschienen, zu dem ich einen Text über männliche und weiße Ignoranz beitragen durfte. Die digitale Version erscheint Ende des Monats und ist open access! @transcript-verlag.bsky.social #philsky #feministsky

Zum jüdischen Neujahrsfest Rosch ha-Schana wurde die Neue Synagoge in der Oranienburgerstraße am 5. September 1866 eingeweiht. Antisemiten agitierten von Beginn an gegen den von Eduard Knoblauch und Friedrich August Stüler entworfenen Bau. Emil Pierre Joseph de Cauwer: Neue Synagoge, 1865.

Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Nicht vergessen: Der Call für die #Impulstagung am 22.-23.01.26 läuft noch bis zum 30.09.! #Politikwissenschaft #PoWi #Weltordnung #Krieg @dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social

CfP bis 31.10.25: "Soziale Unordnung, Transindividualität, Volk-Werden. Sozialtheorie bei Georges Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon und Gilles Deleuze" Workshop an der Uni Regensburg, 19./20.6.2026, gemeinsam mit Sebastian Dute) Der Call findet sich u.a. hier: www.heike-delitz.de

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

Oliver Eberl + ich organisieren 1 Tagung zum Werk der am 14.12.2024 verstorbenen Ingeborg Maus. Durch ihren unerschütterlichen Widerspruchsgeist avancierte sie zu einer der großen Leitfiguren aufklärerischen und kritischen Denkens der Bundesrepublik. @unimarburg.bsky.social @unikassel.bsky.social

Vincent B. und ich haben für @analysekritik.bsky.social über Fanons Werk gesprochen, u.a. über die Rezeption seines Werkes, Fanon und Feminismus, und über die Grenzen nationaler Befreiung: www.akweb.de/bewegung/mar...

„Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will große Teile des Zettelkatalogs entsorgen lassen. Ein einzigartiges Monument der Wissensgeschichte ginge verloren.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

It's a book! Es ist da!

“Theory’s” material basis: the inventor of modern liberty was a committed agent of corporate colonialism, in this case “operating behind the scenes…to reorganize commercial relations between Ireland & England” by artificially suppressing Irish wool trade to further English imperial interests

Fred Moten has a nice way of explaining that too. keywords.nyupress.org/american-cul...

If you are thinking with & about Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, please consider submitting a proposal to this upcoming conference in Paderborn/Germany in May 2026 to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Organized by Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen and Maria Robaszkiewicz, abstracts due end of August.

1/8 Moving from our recent special issues, a look into our latest regular issue: First up, Carl Wilén (Lund) analyses recent trends in the literature of the Haitian Revolution in "Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

Is the human being by nature good or evil? And what does this imply for a theory of post-revolutionary political institutions? Big questions and some tentative answers in my newly published article:

10. Calling the territories that formed the Holy Roman Empire “states” is anachronistic

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

New issue feat. @obrown.bsky.social & @arturochang.bsky.social; Todd Hall & Pat James; @elifkalay.bsky.social; @lrafanell.bsky.social; Yong-Soo Eun, Peter Marcus Kristensen, & Deepshikha Shahi; Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @internatltheory.bsky.social

„Vor allem schützt man sich vor Enttäuschungen, weil man mit ihm den ganzen hehren Versprechen der liberalen Weltordnung ja schon vorher nicht hatte glauben können.“ Philip Manow über Schmitt www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Folks interested in German colonialism, If you're looking for a sneak peak at my new book, 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa', the introduction is now free to read online for the next month. academic.oup.com/book/60083/c...

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

Congratulations @kdpham.bsky.social! 🥳

Wie ich schon schrieb: Ricarda Huch ist in der Rezeption & in der Literaturwissenschaft kriminell unterbewertet.

The current crisis of the German constitutional court nominations process is based on the far right successfully selling the nomination of a very mainstream female law professor as an attack on the Basic Law and German society so that they can effective choose an alternative.

Fazit der Sache Brosius-Gersdorf: Eine durch und durch bürgerliche Juristin, deren Ansichten sich am ehesten mit Positionen der FDP decken, wurde als Linksradikale denunziert. Diese Denunziation war nicht mehr aus der Welt zu schaffen. 1/5

and if you don’t know about Günther Anders, the great critic of the nuclear bomb, read on brooklynrail.org/2024/07/fiel...

Pese a muchos usos actuales, la palabra libertario se atribuye al anarquista Joseph Déjacque. Tras usarla en un texto contra Proudhon, fundó el diario Le Libertaire, de inspiración revolucionaria y vocación explícitamente universalista, anticapitalista y socialista. Sigue

4/ Yet again proud of the student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social and scores of other college papers across the country. So many student journalists, and local journalists, doing great independent work. (From 3 years ago: fallows.substack.com/p/this-is-wh... )

For the newest issue of the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, I reviewed two books by Kristin Ross (@versobooks.bsky.social): on the critique of everyday life, the commune form, and the social paysan as revolutionary subject nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

The Kojève biographies just keep on coming

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Frantz Fanon habe ich für den @theorieblog.bsky.social "Schwarze Haut, weiße Masken" mit Sylvia Wynter gelesen. Mehr als eine Rassismustheorie gibt Fanon uns den Schlüssel zu einem anderen Genre des Menschseins angesichts der "beispiellosen Katastrophe für unsere Spezies".

Excited to get into Ethan Kleinberg's new contribution! Confronting the epistemic challenges posed by conspiracy theories, revisionism and post-truth claims, Kleinberg traces a historiography adequate to the peculiarities of our present.

19th century belief in progress inspired some incredible, quasi-religious writing – the kind that Walter Benjamin collected and that now seems so strange to all of us. Here's a passage from Eugène Pelletan, 1857: "At a moment of fatigue, we might say farewell to progress ..." 1/6

C.L.R. James was probably the greatest and also most influential historian of the Twentieth Century

📕 This looks really interesting: Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. @universitypress.cambridge.org coming out August 2025. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”

Es kommt, wie zu erwarten war. Weimer will Kolonialismus aus dem offiziellen Gedenken in Deutschland wieder verbannen. Claudia Roth hat ihm leider vorgearbeitet. Der Hinweis auf die Singularität würde bedeute, dass er auch Gedenken an DDR-Unrecht streicht www.deutschlandfunk.de/dlf-intervie...

new episode out today! we discuss Axel Honneth's critical theory of the ideal of social freedom as an aspirationally universal normative value implicitly embodied in institutions like... the market. we have some questions! listen now www.patreon.com/posts/118-ax...

I just finished a chapter for a volume on French political theorist Miguel Abensour (co-ed. Martin Breaugh and @abensourreader.bsky.social, SUNY Press) where I draw on this inspiring essay to think about birthright citizenship as an "insurgent institution". Highly recommended reading:

Einer der einflussreichsten Theoretiker der Dekolonisierung und des Postkolonialismus wäre gestern 100 Jahre alt geworden: Wir erinnern an Frantz Fanon. Anlässlich seines 100. Geburtstags sind zwei seiner Klassiker jetzt als Taschenbuch erschienen. Mehr dazu hier:

"If one wants to think, one must first recover the possibility of thinking both for oneself and with others. To become oneself a plurality of researchers and to welcome, within oneself, a community of research." – from Étienne Tassin, Pourquoi-agissons nous ?, 2018, p. 7.

Exactly. Not a single conviction during the Nuremberg Trials was for "genocide": The term was coined by Lemkin in mid forties, but the international convention on the crime of genocide only came into existence in 48, years after the trials. This doesn't negate genocide had happened.

Und hier eine „Lange Nacht“ zu Frantz Fanon, von Manuel Gogos 🎧 share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

"Kojève – the Russian-born philosopher of mastery and recognition, the French diplomat, the spy, prophet, and photographer of the end of history – has entranced and mystified intellectuals of the Left and the Right. In this towering biography, Filoni sets the discussion on entirely new ground."

"Classicism and Other Phobias shows how the concept of “classicism” lacks the capacity to affirm the aesthetic value of Black life and asks whether a different kind of classicism—one of insurgence, fugitivity, and emancipation—is possible."