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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · 3d

Very excited for another term of the Utopia Reading Group! Open to all Terrans living in and around Oxford interested in Ursula Le Guin's political thought and fiction

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · 22d

jacobin.com/2025/09/utop...

The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:

"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."

The Left Needs Utopian Thinking

Conservative apologists for the status quo often stigmatize their opponents as “utopian.” But socialists and feminists shouldn’t be afraid of the term, since utopian thought can play an important role...

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · Aug 10

For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026

Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...

Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning

Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

The Story of the Jewish Bund

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Aug 3

it would be nice if the big annual conferences didn't fall on pesach — just a thought

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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are accepting applications for the part-time (2-year) role as Network Coordinator until August 10. More info here: shorturl.at/NI9lu Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Jul 18

That's wonderful! I'll be waiting eagerly!

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Jul 18

Please share with colleagues working on:

🧠 Political Theory
📚 Literary Studies
✍️ Creative Writing
🏛️ History of Ideas
🌍 Critical Theory
🌱 Radical Pedagogy
👾 Speculative Fiction
💥 Activist Scholarship
🌈 Queer Theory
🪐 Feminist SF / Afrofuturism
📖 Utopian Literature
🎓 Higher Ed / Curriculum Design

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Jul 18

Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources

Zotero | Groups > Teaching Utopia

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

www.zotero.org

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Jul 2

Marxist theory has done wonders for my complexion

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Jul 2

A very good review of a very bad book

Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · Jul 1

I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.

But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.

Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...

Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · Jun 30

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press

Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

www.commonnotions.org

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Samuel de Brouwer @sdebrouw.bsky.social · Jun 27

Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share

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Stuart White @stuartgwhite.bsky.social · May 29

What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075

The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy

Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · May 31

'What, however, is art? whence does it spring? Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life;'

-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · May 31

"To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it"

-William Morris, Hopes & Fears for Art

Morris' 1890 design Pink and Rose. Intersecting blooming flower design with each bloom leaning towards the curve of an offset stem.

It's pretty awesome.

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · May 14

Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · May 10

This was such a wonderful, interesting, and well organised conference! I'm so glad I got to be part of it. Thanks to the organisers and all who presented

Women in the History of Political Thought @whpt.bsky.social · May 9

Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers:

@abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · Apr 27

Amid the ruins of the present, happy at least to announce that my book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, is now available for pre-order and will be out July 2025, from Verso Books 1/5 versobooks.com/products/278... @versobooks.bsky.social

Citizens of the Whole World

Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and mar...

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Apr 22

great to see this! I absolutely loved reading everything for everyone with the oxford utopia reading group

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Dec 10

Talking about Yiddish grammar is so satisfying because the term for "word order" is "verter seder" (װערטער סדר) and every time I hear that I think about the little words sitting around a seder table eating a nice matzo ball soup

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anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social · Apr 10

Another Passover-related Yiddish cartoon, this time by Zuni Maud from Der Groyser Kundes, April 18, 1924.

This one's a doozy, and *quite* pertinent to our present national moment, so let's break it down in stages:

A Yiddish cartoon depicting Uncle Sam in a yarmulke with a Jewish prayer book in his hands standing before a heap of burning documents. His wife, Aunt Sam, is bringing more documents to put into the fire.

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Apr 8

Anyone is welcome and no prior knowledge is expected or required.

View the reading list here: tinyurl.com/utopiaTT25

Send a blank email to [email protected] to subscribe to the Utopia Reading Group mailing list.

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Apr 8

There will also be opportunities to visit local sites decorated by Morris & Co. and to view some of Morris’s illuminated manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library archives. 4/5

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Apr 8

These topics include child liberation, prison abolition, work, revolution, art, and love. Each session will conclude with a reading of one of Morris’s Chants for Socialists. 3/5

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Sophie Cardin @sophiecardin.bsky.social · Apr 8

We’ll meet Friday afternoons to discuss a few chapters of News From Nowhere. Weekly discussions will be supplemented with short readings by Morris, his contemporaries, and present-day political theorists on topics drawn from the novel. 2/5

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