if you will be in Montreal on ACLA weekend we would love to see you at this event Friday Feb 27th, 6-8PM -- celebrating and discussing Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social

Reviewed in today's @faznet.bsky.social which (somewhat oddly) for a bourgeois paper comes to the defence of petty bourgeois proper www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

just doing my service to the academic community you're welcome

Does anyone know when the "humanities" started needing qualifiers to prove its value?

ooohh ! 👀👀👀

New volume of RP published and free to peruse for all! Come for the dossier on Fanon, Tosquellles, and the political intricacies of postwar French psychiatry. Stay for Abushama’s analysis of the actually existing state of Palestine and MacFarlane‘s portrait of Lefebvre and the California ideology.

Tonight!

Book discussion in Paris, February 16.

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." Bertolt Brecht, quoted on his birthday February 10,1898.

“It increasingly seems that the Americanization of TikTok was never about protecting us from a foreign adversary. It was a tactical acquisition of digital infrastructure.”

this is all fun and games until they start rounding up commies again

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What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...

«When we were the International Lettrists, we were unknown. And we were unknown at the beginning of the Situationists. We knew we were important, we thought that we were the best. If there are people as good as we were, they should be unknown now too and, let’s hope, explode later.»

"I have always been...and will always remain an extreme-left Hegelian"

Anyone book reviews editors want a review of @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social’s kingdom of football from me?

Mail day (which one shouId I read first?)

"Words forged by revolutionary criticism are like partisans’ weapons: abandoned on the battlefield, they fall into the hands of the counterrevolution...like prisoners of war, they are subjected to forced labor. Our most direct enemies are the proponents & established functionaries of false critique"

next week! At the Centre Marc Bloch

OMG this gives "actor-network theory" a whole new dimension

Everyone - "Wow, that's like the definition of fascism, right here" Informed commentators - "No this is not actually fascism, you see, because historical fascism of the 1930s and 1940s blah blah blah blah blah"

The editorial for Issue 2 is dedicated to the late Joshua Clover. A comrade and friend to many, Joshua stands as a model of theoretical rigor, ecumenicism, and commitment to the incendiary spirit of the communist project. heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

Got stuck into this today. There's lots of bangers here

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October! Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...

solidarity to those who fight fascism everywhere

"The flaming Waymo, then, is not a symbol of nebulous or even misdirected rage. It is a symbol of the way that more and more people are being rendered surplus, through organized abandonment or deliberate removal." excellent this by @sarahljaffe.bsky.social 🔥

Chris O'Kane, Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre - Brill, March 2026 brill.com/display/titl... Part of the Historical Materialism series, where books are published in paperback 12 months later with Haymarket.

Mute Compulsion / Contrainte Muette with @sorenmau.bsky.social Feb 11, Wed, 18:00 Centre Marc Bloch Berlin Friedrichstraße 191, 7th Floor socializationproject.de/event/mute-c...

reupping this cuz it was Pat Parker's birthday yesterday!

CRITIQUE OF AI Mon, February 16, 2026 16:00 - 18:00 Senatssaal, HU Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10117 With Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social, and Rainer Mülhoff moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri...

Wake up honey the most widely accepted racist definition of the working class just dropped

What if Salo was Louis XIV themed

A declaration of support for the UK prisoners on hunger strike for Palestine from prominent scholars – including several of our authors and editors.

Signed!

Anyone else getting very elaborate scam emails from something called McNally Jackson Book Club? God I hate chat-gptism

new issue of MEDIATIONS! "Transitions" globalization, commodity form, financialization, development and so many genres thereof mediationsjournal.org

Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

protip: to exclude economics journals from the search add "capitalism"

Ok this sounds cool books will be written by robots evaluated by robots and sold by robots to robots!

*new translation* THE BOOK OF ABOLITIONS by Karl Korsch www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/the-...

IAWIS in Amsterdam. Co-organized with @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social & co. Keynotes by TJ Clark, Jesse Darling & Maria Fusco, Nicoline Van Harskamp, Geert Lovink iaswis2026amsterdam.framer.website

Finally finished the full re-translation of the original 1937 version of Horkheimer’s “Traditional & Critical Theory”! Now with all sections on the dead ends of traditional theory in modern philosophy (Cartesian, empiricist, Neo-/Kantian) & science! link: jamescrane.substack.com/p/excerpt-tr...

Academics, comrades, friends: what are the exciting things - conferences, seminars, talks, etc - happening in 2026 ?

What are your favorite updates of Adorno & Horkheimer's Culture Industry thesis for digital culture? NOT critiques, people who are more or less totally on board with A&H

Email to the copy editor. Just getting in my car and driving away

This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it. Don’t miss it.

‘Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.’ (Said, 2003) was the epigraph to my syllabus on empire. Might have to replace it with the title of the piece it is taken from… 1/2

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