Join us at our workshop on Minor Democracies and their infrastructures. Bring along your curiosity. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Deadline for applications is April 11!

writing about Judith Butler and Marxism ( in my case more about anarcho-communism) was not easy, but the editors of this volume, Elliot C Mason and Valentina Moro, kept encouraging me so I kept writing. I am glad they kept pressing. Dedicated to the late Marxist theorist Marina Vishmidt.

@alexsharpe.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @ruthfletcher.bsky.social @wetpaint63.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social @elenaloizidou.bsky.social @florarenz.bsky.social @marthe.bsky.social @jonathanherring.bsky.social @ @jenhendry.bsky.social @fdelond.bsky.social

Looking for something thought provoking, free to do next Friday? Join us at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

“A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/princet...

Read this essay by Giroux if you can. It convincingly explains the nexus between neoliberalism, authoritarianism and fascism and the machinery of cruelty that characterises US politics now. www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...

Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us to our Annual Law Lecture,Birkbeck Law School Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams 📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law 🗓️16th May 2025 ⏰18:00-21:00 📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Adriana Zaharijević explains how Serbian students claim political agency from the claws of a corrupt political regime. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

an excellent essay on facticity @alexei Penzin www.e-flux.com/notes/652418...

In need of optimism? Join us at this joint seminar between the @BirkbeckLaw the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER 👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari). 🗓️26th of February. ⏰12-2 📍: BCB, room 207 👇🏼 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Reading this profoundly depressed me. Kathrine Franke is a great educator and Human Rights Activist, to have to leave Columbia because of her support of the Palestinian cause is just terrible.

not to be missed - though I feel I will have to because I am teaching 🥲@law_humanities @Law_Cult_Huma @JStonePeters to register To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I have been reading and meaning to write a blog piece about Luigi Mangione’s act but work admin got in the way. This piece analyses his act via the philosophy of violence. @ctiticallegalthinking. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...

As I read a lot I decided to start a book impressions diary on instagram. It is still embryonic but you can follow me @ my_friends_the_books on instagram.

Ever wonder why the first-person singular makes its way into more and more writing these days? Spoiler alert: it’s alienation, baby. #writing #autobiography #Marxism #history peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...

"anarchist negativity and the intoxicating anarchist dream do not simply represent different aspects of the same entity. They are not different but complementary elements, but rather clearly antagonistic aspects" freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...

Join @BirkbeckLaw for a lunch seminar with @JoanneConaghan and @Yvette Russel discussing their book Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial. 📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207

this is an excellent review essay by @alexsharpe.bsky.social of Butler’s Who’s afraid of Gender, i. conversation with critical legal theory.

@mavislwanczyk1.bsky.social congratulations! you are a very generous person.

great articulation of the issues facing our times by Sally Rooney. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

A majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it with their audiences, a study published Tuesday by the UN’s scientific and cultural arm found, underscoring concerns that some of the biggest online figures can uncritically spread misleading claims.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

I love this.

The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial

The chaos and half-measures at COP are presented as a stressful negotation, but why would it be? Is there anyone left with faith that this corrupt junket delivers real change? Most of the $300bn will never leave rich nations' banks, trading rules will be twisted to suit corporates. Lethal spectacle.

Very nice exposition of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and its limits by @elenaloizidou.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2024/11/22/t...

I wrote this on the master slave dialectic. criticallegalthinking.com/2024/11/22/t...

ICC arrest warrants for war crimes. Court concluded Netanyahu and former def min Yoav Gallant bore “criminal responsibility” for causing mass starvation. (Shouldn't bombing loads of kids been included too?) Hamas leader Mohammed Deif found responsible for torture, rape and hostage taking.

📔📔New Academic Journal Alert.‼️I’m pleased to announce I will launch ‘Gender, Law & Justice’with Bristol University Press in 2024.This is a feminist & interdisciplinary journal. It will focus on social justice & transformation. So please spread the word. More details shortly 👀this space.

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

How is it is possible that this violence is still going on. Weeping for this death, and every death as a result of this and every war. x.com/franceskalbs...

One may criticize…senescence as a key to understand the reactionary wave by pinpointing that many young people are among those who vote for Trump for Meloni and for Javier Milei…my definition of senility is not limited to the chronological age. F. Berardi www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/...

I had similar thoughts the other day. There is also an element of fatigue, or the realisation ( that I raised in my book Anarchism an Art of living) that we have parallel worlds and a possibility to build from there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

clarity of thinking. x.com/umyaznemo/st...

I read this morning (a) that Elon Musk has been given a newly established Department of Efficiency and @ruha9.bsky.social’s AI and Eugenics. And I am highly concerned about the shape of the future. 🫣

‘The best moment of the Harris campaign was the very beginning, when she got a chance to embody the collective sigh of relief at Joe Biden’s decision to bow out, and to offer something new.’ www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. The election of Donald Trump just made that more difficult, but options exist.

Breaking news: Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member responsible for a sprawling leak of classified information, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison in a case that shook the U.S. national security community.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...