Stephen Shapiro
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
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Restorative Justice works
5 years ago 2 white men toppled a statue of Frederick Douglass near a #rochester, NY point on the Underground Railroad.
When the statue was recreated, the men asked to be allowed to physically carry it to the site and screw it back in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAo...
5 years ago 2 white men toppled a statue of Frederick Douglass near a #rochester, NY point on the Underground Railroad.
When the statue was recreated, the men asked to be allowed to physically carry it to the site and screw it back in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAo...
Vandalized Frederick Douglass statue replaced in Rochester
YouTube video by WXXINews
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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I'm confused. Is a bad thing that the loons who broke from the Tory Party now have Breakaway Looons of their own? (In that they may act as a nutter magnet for money and support.) Or does it normalise Nige and his Merry Bunch of Pranksters?
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I'm confused. Is a bad thing that the loons who broke from the Tory Party now have Breakaway Looons of their own? (In that they may act as a nutter magnet for money and support.) Or does it normalise Nige and his Merry Bunch of Pranksters?
February 14, 2026 at 11:36 AM
February 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM
February 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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February 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
February 14, 2026 at 9:17 AM
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 AM
counterposition, lebwohl Amerika
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
counterposition, lebwohl Amerika
confront loser bullies
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
confront loser bullies
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"the time of monsters" is a wrong translation that betrays Gramsci by treating the present as a product, thing, or terratology, rather than a process manifesting deeper structural disfunction (a symptom) of centrist liberal capitalism
@philipoltermann.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
@philipoltermann.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
"the time of monsters" is a wrong translation that betrays Gramsci by treating the present as a product, thing, or terratology, rather than a process manifesting deeper structural disfunction (a symptom) of centrist liberal capitalism
@philipoltermann.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
@philipoltermann.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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the attempt to create Ku-damm in the East failed and Berlin is desperate to try something new, anything new
www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/lum...
www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/lum...
February 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM
the attempt to create Ku-damm in the East failed and Berlin is desperate to try something new, anything new
www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/lum...
www.berliner-zeitung.de/panorama/lum...
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Reposted by Stephen Shapiro
Why Europeans no longer want to step foot in the US.
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/muench...
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/muench...
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Why Europeans no longer want to step foot in the US.
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/muench...
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/muench...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Reposted by Stephen Shapiro
ban the AfD
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
February 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
ban the AfD
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
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Makes me think we need an Ormond or Arthur Mervyn reading group
bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Ok—I have been doing my #LastMan200, and I’m up to chapter 5! I have the edition with the Solnit intro, and reading up to this point, I’m a little confused by her disappointment with the female characters. They seem kind of fine to me! Certainly less out of place/time than riding a horse, haha
Finally got my copy of The Last Man (pictured here with another piece of pandemic art by Ruth Cuthand) and am getting caught up!! #LastMan200
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Makes me think we need an Ormond or Arthur Mervyn reading group
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Scottish Labour leader says he doesn't regret for showing Scottish voters that he's all talk and no action
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Scottish Labour leader says he doesn't regret for showing Scottish voters that he's all talk and no action