“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

seeing the recognition of Palestinian statehood dismissed as 'performative' (US State Dept) makes me wonder how the meaning of the word 'performative' has gone from words that do things (Austin, Butler) to words that do nothing

“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

landmark special issue on caste and Indian diplomacy! brill.com/view/journal...

“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

Please consider donating and help Adam and Ahmed survive chuffed.org/project/1400...

Newnham College, Cambridge. Horrifying. We have to stop this happening in other British universities

“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.” @rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

Read now - our BISA summer book round up released by BISA members 📚 🌟 Including: Barry Buzan, Carl Death, @rahulraothariel.bsky.social, @oxunipress.bsky.social, @agendapub.bsky.social, @brisunipress.bsky.social, @plutopress.bsky.social & more Link to read 👉 buff.ly/RsFs5cC

The latest in IR - our BISA summer book round up released by BISA members📚 🌟 Including: Barry Buzan, Carl Death, @rahulraothariel.bsky.social, @oxunipress.bsky.social, @agendapub.bsky.social, @brisunipress.bsky.social, @plutopress.bsky.social & more Find out more here 👉

📣 #podcast On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social in conversation with Bhakti Shringarpure about his book "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" out @plutopress.bsky.social www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

thrilling to talk to @radicalbooks.bsky.social about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues': Rhodes, Mandela, Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar, Fanon and more against the backdrop of the dystopian present + reflections on imperial settler colonial 🇮🇳, apposite on Aug 15 www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...

happy birthday Umar Khalid! watched Lalit Vachani's film 'Prisoner No 626710 is Present' and remembered why Umar is an absolute hero for many of us. Free Umar Khalid and all the political prisoners! vimeo.com/1017354554 (pw: ramU_2025913), free to watch this week

St Andrews staff & students, please sign this open letter calling on the university to sever links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and all other Israeli universities and if you're not connected to St Andrews, please publicise this anyway. thank you! www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

St Andrews staff & students, please sign this open letter calling on the university to sever links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and all other Israeli universities and if you're not connected to St Andrews, please publicise this anyway. thank you! www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

I admire Mo Salah's restraint. "Farewell". Really? Suleiman al-Obeid was killed by the IDF as he was queuing for food in Gaza. Say it, you cowards.

Observing cardinals in our yard during molt season is extra-fascinating. #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

Thank you for replugging this and for writing this @rahulraothariel.bsky.social — and for bringing us back to Fanon as Fanon

The current issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social has Francesco Anselmetti writing on the dialectic of thought and action in the writings of Ghassan Kanafani www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/brea...

was a real thrill to interview @reproutopia.bsky.social about their new book 'Enemy Feminisms', along with Victoria Browne and @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social, in the new issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

RP2.19: 'Reproductive subsumption: Notes on the making of reproductive labour in capitalism' by Elena Baglioni "...what can be gained historically by viewing the historical development of capitalism from the vantage point of social reproduction"? radicalphilosophy.com/article/repr...

please consider donating and read this on how crowdfunding appeals from Gaza like this one are cruelly and erroneously being blocked by @bsky.app anti-spam filters www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

RP2.19 out now! Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose FTC Manning on real abstraction Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani Interview with Sophie Lewis Paulin Hountondji obit www.radicalphilosophy.com

replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...

i'm impressed

Tareq Baconi: 'The discourse around aid allows politicians to avert their gaze from the political crisis, as if Palestinians had suffered a natural disaster.' Short Cuts www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A Black-crowned Night Heron trying to stay cool by sheltering in a tree beside the Harlem Meer on this sweltering morning. I don't think I've ever gotten a close-up of one quite like this. ❤️🖤🤍 #Heron #CentralPark #birding

ONLINE event today on 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' @ 18.00 (UK) hosted by @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk all welcome! events.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-lib...

If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

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it was great to speak to @slr-nlsiu.bsky.social in depth about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' – a huge pleasure to respond to such thoughtful and engaging questions. also, read the journal!

more power to brilliant @mauraf.bsky.social and Free Palestine always! | A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

Oxford friends: I'm giving 2 book talks in the-town-where-Rhodes-has-not-fallen on Monday, June 9, 2–4 pm, St Antony's College (in person) www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ps... and later in the month, courtesy Rhodes House, on June 24 (online) www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/programmes-e...

Almost without exception, India’s parties closed ranks to express support for the Narendra Modi government’s strikes against Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam attacks, writes rahulraothariel.bsky.social:

essential reading by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social | India’s complete surrender to war lust after Pahalgam: on Operation Sindoor and the unprecedented warmongering that followed www.himalmag.com/politics/pah... via @himalmag.bsky.social

Kashmiris protested en masse against the Pahalgam terror attacks, but were still collectively punished for them.

glad to have signed this letter as a political theorist but also as an immigrant

A male Eastern Bluebird paroling the field for tasty things to eat.

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

🔥Tune into the latest #EISAVoices episode. 🎤Featuring Rahul Rao (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) in conversation w/ Polly Pallister-Wilkins (@pollypw.bsky.social) on his new book: ➡️📕"The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" Out now w/ @plutopress.bsky.social.

School of IR at St Andrews is hiring 2 lectureships - subject areas of Africa and Middle East. Details below www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

enjoyed talking to @pollypw.bsky.social on the @europeanisa.bsky.social podcast Voices about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues' you can buy the book at a 20% discount using code RAO20 when you order directly from @plutopress.bsky.social voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/33-why-is-ra...

I had no idea that we have water shrews in #Mull. Neighbour's cat killed two in under an hour. #shrew #watershrew

any recommendations for good biographies (books or articles) of Elon Musk? thanks!

use discount code RAO20 for 20% off the hardback and ebook price when you order directly from www.plutobooks.com/978074535076...

one of the most moving essays I've read recently (and not only because I saw some of this unfold IRL)