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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 2d

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

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The Marxist Restless Analyst

Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 5d

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 26d

"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/

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digital cultures and arts @digitalculturesandarts.ch · Sep 9

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.

Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.

Program & Registration:

International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»

Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...

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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · Sep 5

In Deutschland wird so viel vererbt wie noch nie. Warum es eine progressive Einkommenssteuer gibt, während Vermögen und Erbschaften beinahe unangetastet bleiben, erklärt Martyna Linartas im Gespräch.

»Wir leben in einer Erbengesellschaft, keiner Leistungsgesellschaft« – Interview mit Martyna Berenika Linartas

JACOBIN Podcast · Episode

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Simon Schleusener @sschleusener.bsky.social · Sep 5

Und der Mensch verschwindet wie am Meeresufer...

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Niels Werber @nielswerber.bsky.social · Sep 1

Das Plakat habe ich aufgehängt, aber der Campus Hölderlin ist ganz schön einsam gerade. Daher nochmals hier:

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Simon Schleusener @sschleusener.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ich freue mich darauf, im kommenden Wintersemester Heike Paul an der @fau.de‬ zu vertreten. Schon mein zweiter Gig in Franken (aber meine erste Professurvertretung...).

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Deleuze’s Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent

A newly translated edition of seminars on painting by Gilles Deleuze are chaotic and magnificent.

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · Aug 7

Aesthetic responses to the climate crisis are politically paralyzing and historically inaccurate. Our podcast of the week calls for a “climate counter-aesthetics” that foregrounds planning and collective action.

With @annakornbluh.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social

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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · Aug 3

A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Anna Kornbluh (@annakornbluh.bsky.social) about why we need Climate Counteraesthetics.

Full episode here:

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#FutureHistories #Podcast

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · Jul 31

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The prison abolitionist who dares to envision a world without ‘unfreedoms’ | Aeon Videos

The systems that make people unfree are deeply intertwined. This prison abolitionist dares to envision real alternatives

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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · Jul 30

+++SAVE THE DATE+++

Adorno-Vorlesungen 2025
Katharina Pistor – In guter Verfassung? Zur Neuordnung des Geldwesens
22. bis 24. Oktober 2025, jeweils um 18.30 Uhr
Campus Bockenheim, Goethe-Universität

22.10. Das Wesen des Geldes
23.10. Geldverfassung der Gegenwart
24.10. Neuordnung des Geldwesens

Plakat der Adorno-Vorlesungen. Gleiche Info wie im Post.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jul 20

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Frantz Fanon machen wir am Dienstag und Mittwoch eine Konferenz in Berlin

all welcome, mehr Info hier:

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und vor einer ganzen Weile hatte mich Alex Demirovic in seinen tollen Podcast zu Fanon eingeladen:

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tl;dr #15: Frantz Fanon - Die Verdammten dieser Erde - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

In wenigen Monaten, schon todkrank, schrieb Frantz Fanon 1961 «Die Verdammten dieser Erde». Der aus der damaligen französischen Kolonie Martinique stammende Fanon hat mit diesem Buch, eine Art Manifes...

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · Jul 20

Fanon 100 heute!

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Jul 14

Revised and resubmitted my review of this book today: www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/05/the-...

The Concept Worker Doesn't Wear a Hardhat: Spinoza, Marx, Nesbitt and Common Notions

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Simon Schleusener @sschleusener.bsky.social · Jul 14

Out now: the Palgrave edition of "The Great Disruptor," including my chapter on "Trump and Beyond: Populist Shock Politics and the Crisis of Democracy."
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The Great Disruptor

The book examines Donald Trump’s populist politics of emotion from a culture and media studies perspective, highlighting the strategies of provocation.

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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy 50th! I read JAWS as the end of the narrative arc of the whaling industry, one which began with Moby Dick and ends with the shark as figure of deindustrialization.

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · Jun 21

Excellent and important new book review at ‪@fabula-lht.bsky.social‬ (in French) of Michel Foucault's "Nietzsche," the recent book of Foucault's lectures, conferences, and manuscripts on Nietzsche published by @editionsduseuil.bsky.social‬. The shadows of Nietzsche: www.fabula.org/revue/docume...

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Jun 3

Reposted for Franck Fischbach's birthday, the introduction to his Marx with Spinoza.
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Two Great Tastes Part Two: The Introduction to Fischbach's La Production des Hommes

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Philosophie Magazin @philosophiemagazin.bsky.social · May 19

In seinem Buch "Spätfaschismus" entwirft Alberto Toscano ein gleichnamiges Konzept, um damit das aktuelle System in den USA zu beschreiben. Doch kann man die USA tatsächlich als faschistisch bezeichnen? Eine Lesenotiz von Friedrich Weißbach.
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Sind die USA faschistisch?

In seinem kürzlich ins Deutsche übersetzten Buch Spätfaschismus entwirft der italienische Kulturkritiker Alberto Toscano ein gleichnamiges Konzept, um damit das aktuelle System in den USA zu beschreiben. Doch kann man die USA tatsächlich als faschistisch bezeichnen? Eine Lesenotiz von Friedrich Weißbach.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · May 5

Reposted for Marx's birthday
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Losing Strategies: Spinoza and Marx - Notes - e-flux

Jason Read shows how Spinoza and Marx illuminate the passivity of laboring subject.

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Mittelweg 36 @mittelweg36.bsky.social · Apr 29

Was macht die Anziehungskraft faschistischer Bewegungen aus? In der neuen Podcast-Folge sprechen @mortenpaul.bsky.social und Hannah Schmidt-Ott über die Faschismustheorien von Deleuze/Guattari, Bataille, Benjamin und fragen, was sie uns über die Gegenwart verraten

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Simon Schleusener @sschleusener.bsky.social · Apr 28

The conservation of german death

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