🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live! CFP deadline 29.05.26 Conference 08-09.10.26 conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp

Happy Friday, here's my second favourite (erm, hymnal) poem Berkeley wrote about tar-water. Absolutely stunning opening line IMO

Just to be clear. I don’t think you should study literature or philosophy or history so you can be better at making line go up. I think you should study these things so there is some furniture in your brain.

It‘s here! The annual CfA for the annual conference by the Danish society for Marxist Studies. Go go go go!

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Glad to share that our special issue of German History, co-edited with @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is now available in First View. It focuses on colonial railway infrastructure in the German Empire. If you would like access, just let us know. doi.org/10.1093/gerh...

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.

‘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

This selection of essays and interviews reflects the wide range of scholarship published on the blog in 2025.

What am I doing this evening? I’m glad you asked. Living room staging of a Berta Lask play! In case anyone wants to copy the idea, you can find it in Sam Dolbear‘s translation here: www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer

End of year Marxist Aesthetics volume!

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 …

Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!

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

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...

BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

Do you or anyone you know work on African philosophy? A job (!) has come up in my department. Happy to talk about it if you are curious. It’s a lovely place to work with a pretty special BA in Global and Comparative Philosophy. Please share widely!

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!

Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social

The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.

New issue of RP is out! As always, it’s a mix of different formats and there are some really great pieces in this edition. Find it out all open access here. Below a quick overview and my special recommendation for Gillian Rose nerds! 1/3

Deadline for submission is next week! See the full call here: eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...

Jamila Mascat, a friend and a great Hegelian thinker, is organizing this on the 9th of May in Amsterdam. Venez nombreux! www.spui25.nl/programma/th...

Some great pieces in the new RP! I recently joined the editorial collective and look forward to working on the next issue. Long live independent open access journals and philosophy that is more than merely academic!

Just some random (Marxist (Obviously)) thoughts about the whole tariffs thing: A lot of people seem to be approaching this as if capitalism is generally a harmonious happy system in which (pace Ricardo) if trade is just left alone then everyone benefits because the ‘economic’ logic bears out.

No hygge and no deadline extensions!

❗🚨KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨❗ All the rumors are true! Our first keynote speaker for this year's conference is none other than M.E.O’Brien😍 O'Brien writes and speaks on capitalism, gender freedom and family abolition!🔥

Kingston University plans to abolish the CRMEP. Don’t let them. Please read this open letter from current students and support their efforts whichever way you can! www.e-flux.com/notes/658933... 1/3

Sad to learn that Anson Rabinbach has passed away. His work In the Shadow of Catastrophe and contributions on fascism and anti-fascism (such as his essay on The Brown Book, below) have left an indelible mark on me over the years.

Intention for 2025 in stamps.

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

More Danish Marxism: On Sunday, December 22, 1974, an action began in the department store Magasin, where a so-called Santa Claus army handed out free gifts from the store's goods to visitors. (1/2)

  I still can’t believe we made it: The recent Oxford Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition presents such solid scholarship from the 30 contributors. (Somewhat) color-synchronized with Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century.   #philsky #artsky #feminism

Clearing my desk at the end of the semester. Not metaphorically.

Happening today! Join us for Hegel and Colonialism with @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social @franzknappik.bsky.social Karen Ng and Jamila Mascat, hosted by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social Can post- and neo-Hegelian critical theory “save Hegel from himself”? 🗓️ 16 Dec | 7 PM UK Register now: bit.ly/3BpXxL7

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

New crossover nightmare genre: it’s a philosophy class but also a competitive cooking show. For anyone wondering, lecturing on Hegel’s concept of freedom while making fried chicken is hard.

Short time lurker, first time poster: an introduction seems appropriate. Hi! I’m a Danish philosopher and intellectual historian living in Rotterdam. I work mostly on German philosophy, critical theory, and the historiography of philosophy. Danish Marxism adjacent. Scrupulous note taker.