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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 20h

First panel of the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social tenth annual conference on “Marx and History” with contributions from @magnusz.bsky.social @lottelist.bsky.social anf myself, chaired by @brunoleipold.com and with great comments and questions from the highly engaged audience

People in a seminar room looking at a person posing a question. In front is a computer screen showing a powerpoint presentation with an image of Marx.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 20h

Our next research seminar is with Daniel James (TU Dresden). The title of his paper is “Racism and Racialised Oppression”. Thursday 16 Oct 4pm.
PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: For this week only, we meet in CKK.1.14. Registration for externals: forms.office.com/e/WBSQABK5yj
danieljamesphilosophy.com

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 2d

2/ Our central claim: Across his system, Hegel builds an account of colonialism as racial domination, linking world history, freedom, property, and statehood. It’s grounded in the four-stages theory and what he calls the absolute right of the Idea, vindicating colonialism in the name of liberty.

A colour lithograph published as a supplement to The Graphic for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (24 July 1886), showing the British Empire in pink and centred on Greenwich. Britannia sits enthroned above the globe, framed by banners reading Freedom, Fraternity, and Federation. Around the border, allegorical figures represent the empire’s peoples: Indigenous hunters and labourers at the margins, traders, soldiers, and settlers nearer the imperial core. Insets list trade, population, and area statistics, fusing allegory with empirical data. Animals and crops – elephants and tigers for India, kangaroos and sheep for Australia – mark each region by its resources and stage of economic life (Driver 2010).

Crane’s composition depicts a hierarchy of civilisation. Britannia embodies imperial authority, while her subjects appear as differentiated types of labour and culture. The blend of commercial data and moral imagery turns empire into a story of progress, where freedom, property, and self-government are equated with discipline and productivity. The bent “Asian porter” and Atlas labelled Human Labour expose the burden that sustains this freedom (Driver 2010).

The map’s spatial order mirrors the stadial logic of Scottish four-stages anthropology that also shapes Hegel’s philosophy of world history. Hunters, pastoralists, agriculturalists, and commercial peoples occupy successive ranks in a teleology culminating in Europe as bearer of universal freedom. The banners of Freedom and Federation vindicate colonial domination, echoing Hegel’s historical theodicy in which the “absolute right of the Idea” is realised through European expansion (Driver 2010).

Reference

Felix Driver, “In Search of the Imperial Map: Walter Crane and the Image of Empire,” History Workshop Journal 69 (2010): 146–157.

A black-and-white engraving depicting Hegel lecturing at the University of Berlin. He stands before rows of students, gesturing with one hand while holding a manuscript in the other. His face is animated, suggesting the intensity of oral exposition. The students below him sit closely packed, taking notes or gazing upward toward the lectern, where the philosopher appears framed by a dark wooden pulpit and a high window that lets in a diffuse light.

The scene evokes, amongst others, Hegel’s lectures on the Philosophy of History in the winter term of 1822–1823, when he proclaimed that Europe represents the culmination of world history. In these lectures, Hegel argued that the principle of freedom had been fully realised in modern Christian Europe and that what lay outside it was “intrinsically overcome.” “For Europeans,” he declared, “the world is round” – the globe itself already encompassed by Europe’s spiritual and political dominion.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 2d

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 8d

From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 10d

Thanks so much Hannah!

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 10d

Very humbled to be shortlisted alongside such an impressive group of scholars

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 11d

Only read a couple of pieces by him, but they were excellent!

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 11d

I will when it's written! Currently in a very draft unfinished state 😬

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 11d

Looking forward to presenting some new research and the world's most fun Marxism conference

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 11d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 14d

We'll be launching Tom Parr's new book next week Thursday for our first LSE political theory seminar of the year. Register below!

LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 25d

On Thursday 2 October, we'll be kicking off our 2025-26 LSE poltiical theory seminar with a book launch of Tom Parr's "Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation". The event will be followed by a reception at the George IV pub. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering...

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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 15d

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians.

But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 16d

Cool of Corey Robin to list Citizen Marx as one of the three books he recommends on the Ezra Klein Show
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 17d

According to the new Princeton Capital translators it should actually be "eateries (Gärkuche) of the future"...which doesnt have quite the same ring to it

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 17d

Though I personally think we should be a bit more open about writing some recipes (or better guides) for the future

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 17d

Quite impressed by this Reddit comment

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 19d

This is really nicely done.

Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social · 21d

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

Republican Revivals | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Republican Revivals

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Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social · 21d

Now on FirstView: Republican revivals? Anton Jäger reflects on the history of republicanism in his review essay of Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence and Bruno Leipold’s @brunoleipold.com Citizen Marx

Republican Revivals | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Republican Revivals

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