The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online! Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!

Now online: Nadja Rakowitz and Frank Engster, 'Hans-Georg Backhaus (1929-2026)'.

Don't mind me, just doing art historical research out here.

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

the doomsday clock moves closer to midnight

From a 1978 cover of Kunstwerk, a Dutch quarterly art history publication produced in Nijmegen.

Now online: a special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. With contributions from Kaan Kangal, Roberto Fineschi, Jean Quétier, Michael Schauerte and Thanasis Giouras, as well as a translation of the entry on 'MEGA' from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism.

new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki

Excited to announce an online book launch event for my first book 7th of April 1pm EDT sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-con...

This looks awesome!

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

Um 1960 (!) hat Carl Schmitt dieses – von ihm nicht veröffentlichte – antisemitische Schmähgedicht gegen Theodor W. Adorno geschrieben (aus: Reinhard Mehring, Alternative Kritiker der „totalen" Weltgesellschaft)

Finally

Preliminary proofs are in......

“The Most Unsettling Reality is Our Own”: Instability of Form After the Global Turn - new article in the special issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on Marxist Aesthetics tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...

The last thing I wrote & published in 2025 was about how Pat Parker’s unpublished novel draft, “Assassination" situates a most pressing critique of counterrevolutionary art. To think about this novel, I looked to Bollas, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe and others tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...

the whole issue is amazing, but the introduction by @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social @routhier.bsky.social and Tobias Dias cannot be missed! tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/vi...

So happy to be a part of this…

*Neurath spotted* tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...

Not sure what to read on January 1st? We got you comrades

Just published… Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

Now online: 'Peter Watkins (1935–2025)' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas.

Will be speaking at this virtually tomorrow: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/... Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....

A reminder that this is happening on Wednesday...

Watched ‘after the hunt’. Was worth it for these.

Just one week left before the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference with Nadia Bou Ali, Jessica Feely, Tarik Kochi, Chris O’Kane, Will Spendlove, Adrian Wilding, and Rosie Woodhouse at the University of Warwick. To register, please visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/....

New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant! doi.org/10.1177/0191...

Our first plenary, 'Marxism, Literature, and Political Commitment' with Terry Eagleton, Angela Dimitrakaki and Lea Ypi, chaired by Esther Leslie is currently being live-streamed. Join!

Back on my bs (hanging out at the Warburg Institute).

The Marxism and Culture stream is the biggest it has ever been, and the biggest stream throughout the conference. Excellent papers and panels – on Jameson, Müntzer, the avant-garde, etc. etc. – programme should be available shortly.

see also onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

Now published: issue 33.1 of the Historical Materialism journal. Featuring articles on Black radicalism in Detroit, Marx as a dialectical writer, translations of Julius Dickmann and Fabiola Escárzaga, the question of 'alien powers', Marxist epistemology, Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What, ...

For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December. Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.

video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...

Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon. Join us this year (and every year) in November!

@magnusz.bsky.social informs me that the name of the cultural minister in the period was in fact Eichhörn!

Note the squirrel in the upper-left.

Coming soon in paperback! The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat by Patrick Eiden-Offe www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

There is still time to sign up for what I am sure will be a fantastic event!

Babe, wake up…

Forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series: *Artistic Labour of the Body* by Rose-Anne Gush (@rsenne.bsky.social).

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art." - I have a new essay out, read it here: www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

'Discussions about wealth and expropriation quickly become about everything else. How to discuss class warfare in a way that doesn’t become the fodder for some neoliberal or parochial moral?' Eunsong Kim (@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social) in the latest e-flux.

CfP: Internationale Tagung zu Günther Anders (19.-20.2.26), organisiert von @buber-rosenzweig.bsky.social, @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, der IGAG und der Günther-Anders-Forschungsstelle. Beiträge können bis zum 20.7.26 eingereicht werden. Infos: www.guenther-anders-gesellschaft.org/s/Anders2026...