RIP ⚘️

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

Thrilled to see this volume out and happy to be part of it! My contribution looks at the Haitian Revolution — huge thanks to the editors for their amazing work and the inspiring, collaborative process behind it. Can’t wait to read the other chapters by brilliant colleagues from across the world.

Für Kurzentschlossene: Am 11.02. findet der Launch des neuen Centre for Advanced Studies "RefLex. Reflexive Globalisation and the Law. Colonial Legacies and their Implications in the 21st Century" statt, das an der juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt Uni... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30459

Excited to serve as a strategic interlocutor at HU Berlin's new RefLex Centre for Advanced Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social. For its launch, I have contributed to a @verfassungsblog.de debate on "Reflexive Globalisation and the Law", asking how we might engage reflexively with colonial slave law.

Today's mood. @pgexplaining.bsky.social

“It’s not you – it’s your passport!” Super excited for Esma Baycan-Herzog’s visit to the Political Theory research unit @humboldtuni.bsky.social and her public lecture on Migration, Epistemic Injustice and Differentiated Rights. All welcome to join!

Jeder 2. Taco-Shop hatte in den letzten Monaten ein Zohran-Plakat im Fenster. Dieser Sieg ist das Ergebnis einer working class, migrantischen, trans-inklusiven Allianz. Er zeigt, was alles möglich ist, wenn sich Gegengemeinschaften zusammen tun.

#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Heute erscheint mein Buch zur "Politischen Theorie nach Machiavelli" bei Matthes&Seitz Berlin! Es zeigt Machiavelli als Republikaner sowie als frühen Radikaldemokraten und Klassentheoretiker, es folgt Spuren bei Gramsci, Althusser, Pocock, Lefort, Skinner, Abensour, McCormick.

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free. buff.ly/5UCPGq4

In Germany, many people associate Sunday evenings with a popular detective series: Tatort [eng: crime scene] This Sunday, August 31 at 8PM @medico2.bsky.social turns the spotlight on a real and unresolved crime scene far from Germany’s cities: Shark Island in Namibia @forensicarchi.bsky.social

Jeanette Ehrmann’s piece is 🔥

Der Theorieblog hat einen ganz schönen Schwerpunkt zu Fanon gemacht, mit einigen guten Beiträgen von bspw. (my girl and comrade) Jeanette Ehrmann, Ina Kerner und Nicki K. Weber. Ich durfte auch einen Beitrag zu Fanon und Antifaschismus beisteuern: www.theorieblog.de/index.php/20...

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".

"This is the fourth instalment in ‘Siyah'... To mark 230 years since the Haitian Revolution began and 200 years since the culmination of the Greek War of Independence, the following article will summate Haiti’s support for Greek independence against the Ottoman Empire." afropean.com/siyah-haiti-...

The corpus of Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran's father, is vast and rich, but his book "Citizen & Subject" was totally formative for me and many others in its analysis of the long-term legacies of colonialism in Africa (& beyond). Doubly interesting to read now. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sprachräume der Anteilnahme. Workshop und Gespräch mit Esther Dischereit und Tunay Önder 16.00 Uhr Workshop: Linke Kapelle, HfG Offenbach 19.00 Uhr Gespräch: KJK Sandgasse 26, Offenbach

Haitian immigrant rights' activist Guerline Jozef responds to Trump's travel ban and targeting of Haitian immigrants.

hier seht ihr das sind die gedichte die aufmerksamkeit verdienen

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

The perfect working day according to "St" C.L.R. James: "while in France, I look up in the archives. I look up, I look up, I look up in the archives, I spend three or four months looking up in the archives, every morning, walk up the Seine, the bank of the Seine, go to the archives. In France ...

Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and US Banks underdeveloped Haiti. A fantastic online debate organised by our Caribbean Labour Solidarity comrades! haitisupportgroup.org/neocoloniali...

Veronika Zablotsky hält eine #IPWLecture zu "Starting-Up" the Nation: Global Diaspora in Post-Soviet Armenia - save the date! 6.5. 18h. Organisiert von @viktoriahue.bsky.social (Politische Theorie) und Rebekka Pflug (Osteuropastudien). Details: politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/politische-t...

Symposium on Arendt's "Civil Disobedience" at Humboldt University Berin on February 7, with @gambettiz.bsky.social, Bethania Assy, and Christian Volk. www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/en/research-...

📢Rare opportunity to dive deeply into the work of Joy James, one of the most powerful Black radical political thinkers working today. The workshop is June 3–6, 2025 online and in Philadelphia, and applications are due Feb. 1. More info at decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/2018-worksho...

Am 21.01.2025 (12-13 Uhr) spricht Esma Baycan-Herzog (Genf) an der HU Berlin in der „Politics Lecture Series“ über Migration, epistemische Ungerechtigkeit und Rechtsdifferenzierung. Titel: „It’s not You, It’s Your Passport!“. Mehr Infos hier: 👇

IM DUNKELN SEHN befragt in einem erweiterten mediengesellschaftlichen Rahmen die künstlerisch und filmisch formulierte Kritik an den Ermittlungen von rechtsextremen Gewalttaten in Deutschland seit den 1960er-Jahren und an der tatenlosen Kultur der Gleichgültigkeit.