Serde Atalay
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verfassungsblog.de
happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
When Context Disappears
verfassungsblog.de
January 5, 2026 at 10:58 AM
happy to see my critique of the CJEU’s recent judgment in the Danish “ghetto” case live. by foregrounding housing in the analysis, I demonstrate how the CJEU obscures the co-constitutive relation of discourse and materiality in the Law on Public Housing.
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
verfassungsblog.de/when-context...
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US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.
Across the U.S., Venezuelans gathered in major cities to celebrate and cautiously muse with relatives back home about what comes next after U.S. forces swept the South American president out of the country on drug-trafficking charges.
In exile, Venezuelans greet Maduro’s fall with joy — and fear of what comes next
Venezuelans in the Miami suburb of Doral took to the streets in celebration after learning that the U.S. had struck their homeland and removed Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM
US media is full of disgusting warmongers too stupid to know they're disgusting warmongers.
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we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter
sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
sorry babe, too busy getting surprised at people getting surprised at macron’s reaction to american imperialism
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Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime
Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...
www.tandfonline.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I'm still alive! Is it possible that antivaxxers are deranged?
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A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A very colorful Swedish edition of The Dispossessed, circa 1976. Cover art by Per Åhlin.
getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.
Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
getting kind of tired of this genre of writing about the “death” and the “killing” of international law. also the article’s engagement with critical scholarship is, shall we say, odd, or even straight up misleading at times.
“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
academics writing lengthy end-of-year reflection posts that highlight how much they published + promoting their books as “the perfect holiday gift” = cringe
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“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here
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‘Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · Spellbound Gloaming: Bachelard’s Dreamwork
Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
‘Bachelard says an image can be “a giver of being”, “une donatrice d’être”. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other. There is a form of liberation in this idea.’
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Finally someone free speech enough to say, “Yes, but are you being fair to the concentration camp?”
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Finally someone free speech enough to say, “Yes, but are you being fair to the concentration camp?”
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Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.
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‘Even the individuals closest to Suleyman had agendas that historians have taken decades to unpack and understand. The danger in sidestepping this work is being blinded by the sources.’
Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Pfeifer · Turn around and run: Suleyman the Magnificent
There is murder, sex, duplicity and betrayal, all taking place at the court of one of the richest and most powerful...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
‘Even the individuals closest to Suleyman had agendas that historians have taken decades to unpack and understand. The danger in sidestepping this work is being blinded by the sources.’
Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Pfeifer on Christopher de Bellaigue’s account of Suleyman the Magnificent.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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They can now apply a Rwanda policy to nearly all asylum-seekers, what the fuck else do they want?
Pressure continues to mount to curtail asylum arrivals, as over a dozen EU states are hoping to maintain a momentum to limit rights.
Momentum builds at EU summit to roll back asylum protections
Pressure continues to mount to curtail asylum arrivals, as over a dozen EU states are hoping to maintain a momentum to limit rights.
euobserver.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
They can now apply a Rwanda policy to nearly all asylum-seekers, what the fuck else do they want?
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Episode 48: Elon Musk, Part 2
Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.
Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.
Elon Musk Part 2
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 12/18/2025 · 1h 31m
podcasts.apple.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Episode 48: Elon Musk, Part 2
Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.
Over the course of several years, the richest man in the world lost his mind. His biographer didn’t seem to notice.
question: is dispossessing “immigrants from non-western countries and their descendants” by stigmatizing them racial discrimination or not?
court of justice of the eu:
court of justice of the eu:
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
question: is dispossessing “immigrants from non-western countries and their descendants” by stigmatizing them racial discrimination or not?
court of justice of the eu:
court of justice of the eu:
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the level of delusion it takes to think that the modern right-wing would never stoop to mocking someone’s death is breathtaking
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
the level of delusion it takes to think that the modern right-wing would never stoop to mocking someone’s death is breathtaking
I’m surrounded by incompetence.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m surrounded by incompetence.