Next week at École Normale Supérieure I will participate in the #DerridaToday conference derridatoday.com.au/conference/

#UN Convenes 193 Countries in #Geneva for First #GlobalAIGovernanceDialogue With AI advancing at "runaway speed", U.N. Secretary-General #AntonioGuterres cautioned that "an experiment is being run on our own societies, without a plan and without consent". saganote.com/un-ai-govern...

Three #Swissmuseums have officially returned 18 cultural artefacts, known as the #BeninBronzes, to #Nigeria. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

"Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons." Available in EN, ES, IT and AR.

On June 28, 1914, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. This single event triggered World War I. More than a century later, his legacy remains deeply divisive and is actively contested across the Balkan region. www.academia.edu/27596654/Rem...

Portolan, which refers to ancient sea navigation charts, provides a space for theoretical analyses of contemporary political events, perspectives, and projects in a conjuncture characterized by global turmoil and new challenges. portolan-journal.org

German state election draws Bauhaus into AfD culture war reut.rs/449xQJD

Greetings from Salerno, Italy 👋

The new volume from IRGAC and kollektiv orangotango brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies irgac.org/publications...

Thousands of #anti-G7 protesters are expected to gather in Geneva on Sunday.The demonstration is being organised by the #No-G7coalition, which brings together more than 60 unions, associations and left-wing groups. The alliance says it is protesting against “fascism and imperialism”.

Coucou de Genève

Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says “democracy has been undermined” by Keiko Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that “reforms must be implemented quickly to restore a presidential system with checks and balances.”

As Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of a few tech oligarchs raises serious questions about the health of Western democracy, says historian @quinnslobodian.com.

Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.

The environmental toll of the AI boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people.

#HenriLefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political The book emphasizes political elements of Lefebvre's work such as his understanding of nationalism, ideology and anti-fascism www.bloomsbury.com/uk/henri-lef...

Jean Ziegler, figure de la gauche suisse et critique du capitalisme, est mort à 92 ans

The band #MassiveAttack projected images of the audience generated through facial recognition software as an unnerving reality check and a warning against Palantir. novaramedia.com/2026/06/01/m...

Looking forward to presenting my paper “The time of revolution: how to live the crisis?” at Negri oltre Negri II in Italy #AntonioNegri

#InterplanetaryMusic from We Travel the Spaceways by #SunRa & His Myth Science Arkestra sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/interp...

Following the #EventanditsMediationconference in Miskolc, Hungary last year, my paper “Event and its Compossibility with Truths and Subject in Badiou’s Thought” will be published in a volume titled Post-Kantian European Philosophy from Mohr Siebeck.

#FridaKahlo’s status as a #Surrealist has been debated for years, but Kahlo herself said, “I never knew I was a Surrealist ’til #AndréBreton came to Mexico and told me I was.” #Breton invited her to exhibit in Paris, describing her work as “a ribbon around a bomb.”

#DanielaKlette, an alleged former member of Red Army Faction (RAF), was sentenced in Germany to 13 years in prison. She frames her actions and life as an unwavering struggle against capitalism, imperialism, and the state, viewing her political legacy as one of resistance.

CfP: Conference "Switzerland as an Incubator of Political Ideas for the Future of Central and Eastern Europe Between 1848 and 1918" more:

On June 14, Swiss voters will head to the polls to decide on the “No to ten million” initiative The right wing Swiss People’s Party launched the “No to ten million” immigration initiative,aims to force the government to ensure that the permanent resident population does not exceed ten million.

Il manque juste les cagoules blanches et pointues sur la photo et on est en Alabama en 1957 juste avant un lynchage raciste. Tout va bien dans ce pays

Call for Abstracts: artifices — technology, thought, art The 6th #EreignisConference (8 – 9 Aug 2026, Gdynia & Online) Submit your abstract by 1 June 2026. Get the Early Bird price for artifices, the 2026 Ereignis Conference on AI and artificiality. 50% off for members who register before 15 May.

Safaa Odah and Jimmy "Spire" Sseetongo are this year's winners of the #PrixinternationaldedessindepresseinGeneva. The Palestinian is being honoured for her humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip, the Ugandan for his cartoons critical of the government. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

#EreignisSeminar: #MiaYu on Speculative energies Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2026 at 16:00 CET Location: seminar.ereignis.no Access: Participation is free for members of the #EreignisCenter. You can upgrade your registration to become a member on your Profile page.

The Working Class Is Off To Paradise (For #May1st) dissent.art/the-working-...

“I hate the indifferent,” Antonio Gramsci wrote. “I believe that living means taking sides.” He died on this day in 1937 at the age of forty-six. In 2022, historian Alan Wald reviewed a biography and revisited his legacy:

Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice #AntonioNegri #InterviewinVenice Revolutionary, philosopher, political prisoner and one-time exile, Antonio Negri.

Global #leftist leaders gather in #Spain-Barcelona (April 17-18) As the world faces critical turmoil, the #GlobalProgressiveMobilisation (GPM) offers a necessary alternative to conservative and far-right forces globalprogressivemobilisation.org/en

It is too early to draw conclusions about the consequences of Hungary’s election for the EU and the U.S., but a loss for one European far-right party is not necessarily a win for the European and global left.

Several hundred people demonstrated in #Zurich against the war in Iran.Protesters demanded “an end to the imperialist war of aggression” and self-determination for the Iranian people. The rally was organised by the #Movementfor #Socialism and the #LabourParty. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-...

Greetings from #Saas-Fee

This coming Wednesday, 1 April, we welcome Prof #Gábor #Reichert and Dr #Gábor Attila #Csúr (both of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) for an online seminar titled “’Ponderously negative sentences and depressing logic in claustrophobic prose‘? seminar.ereignis.no

This summer will be a working one – I’ll be at 3 conferences: - Derrida Today in Paris (derridatoday.com.au/conference/) - Negri oltre Negri in Salerno (effimera.org/negri-oltre-...) - artifices at Ereignis (www.ereignis.no/events/confe...) #Derrida #Negri #Ereignis

The drawing was created by #Vincent #L’Epée for the satirical French-speaking #Swiss magazine #Vigousse. “Trump drives the world before him and keeps it in suspense with his unpredictable behaviour. Time and again, he manages to create even more chaos while praising himself to the skies,”…

⚡️BREAKING: Amnesty International welcomes the recognition of chattel enslavement of Africans as a crime against humanity at the U.N General Assembly, following a resolution tabled by #Ghana on behalf of the African continent and people of African descent.

From the Clair-Obscur exhibition (Paris) “A contemporary is someone who, in taking a look at his era, surveys the shadows instead of the lights. All times are dark for those who experience their contemporaneity. Thus, a contemporary is someone who knows how to see this darkness”….-Giorgio #Agamben

#GENEVA – #UN experts* today condemned the ongoing military assaults on Iran and Lebanon by the United States and Israel as flagrant violations of international law. “Any loss of life in an illegal war is a violation of the right to life,” the experts said. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“An exhibition where art confronts death” The #PinaultCollection's new exhibition, #’Clair-obscur,' in Paris drawing on the ideas of the Italian philosopher #GiorgioAgamben, features some 100 works by 27 artists that explore the theme of disappearance. www.pinaultcollection.com/en/boursedec...

Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s. Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Around 3,000 people responded to the call of the collective #GrèveféministeVaud (Feminist Strike Vaud) in Lausanne on Saturday. They demonstrated "against imperialist wars" on the occasion of #InternationalWomen'sDay on Sunday. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez reiterated Spain's opposition to the war in Iran, condemning the war for causing suffering among civilians while “lining the pockets” of a select few and for other leaders “to use the smoke screen of war to conceal their failures” – an apparent jab at Trump.

www.ereignis.no/events/seminar Upcoming seminars Wednesday 4 March, 2026 #David #Roden (Independent Scholar) : Driving the Posthuman Desiring Machine: The Stuff of Xenopoetics and Necroconceptuality

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Rather than blaming non-voters for what Trump is doing, liberals should be attacking "Vote Blue No Matter Who" Dems that have spent decades voting for politicians that support funding the police, ICE, and the military industrial complex. Trump wouldn't be able to do any of this without them.

#WikiLeaks exposed diplomacy; #Snowden exposed the surveillance state; #Epsteinfiles expose a system that is not sustained solely by states, armies and treaties but also by networks of influence, blackmail, the exchange of secrets and the careful management of dirt under elegantly decorated tables.