Aleco Kastanos
@alecokas.bsky.social
Philosophy at Birkbeck, sometimes still do Machine Learning | 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇿🇦 l Views my own
Manually updating my reference style because apparently that justifies not going for a run
October 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Manually updating my reference style because apparently that justifies not going for a run
Each year it’s the same. University staff in the UK are asked to do more with less
Following job cuts and course closures, the UK’s universities are facing collapse — strike action is urgently needed to reverse years of decline, and improve staff working conditions.
In Defence of Universities
Following job cuts and course closures, the UK’s universities are facing collapse — strike action is urgently needed to reverse years of decline, and improve staff working conditions.
tribunemag.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Each year it’s the same. University staff in the UK are asked to do more with less
Reposted by Aleco Kastanos
Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social is delighted to announce the 2025 Edgington Lectures, which will be delivered by Dr. Stacie Friend on 14 and 15 May 2025. Dr Friend’s two-part lecture series is entitled 'Fiction and Reality'.
Register for both the lectures and the graduate workshop
Register for both the lectures and the graduate workshop
The 6th Biennial Dorothy Edgington Lectures and Graduate Workshop
Join us for this year's Edgington Lectures, given by Dr. Stacie Friend (University of Edinburgh), and accompanying graduate workshops
www.bbk.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social is delighted to announce the 2025 Edgington Lectures, which will be delivered by Dr. Stacie Friend on 14 and 15 May 2025. Dr Friend’s two-part lecture series is entitled 'Fiction and Reality'.
Register for both the lectures and the graduate workshop
Register for both the lectures and the graduate workshop
Dr Richard Elliott (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social) discussing “The Last Metaphysician: Heidegger on Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Overcoming of Metaphysics”. The room was at capacity!
March 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dr Richard Elliott (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social) discussing “The Last Metaphysician: Heidegger on Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Overcoming of Metaphysics”. The room was at capacity!
Can’t recommend this book enough, a clear and comprehensive exposition of economic power
@sorenmau.bsky.social 👏
@sorenmau.bsky.social 👏
February 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Can’t recommend this book enough, a clear and comprehensive exposition of economic power
@sorenmau.bsky.social 👏
@sorenmau.bsky.social 👏
I've compiled some thoughts on Ifeanyi Menkiti's classic 'Person and Community in Traditional African Thought'.
Is there a Western conception of personhood? What's the status of non-human animals? Whose virtue?
open.substack.com/pub/colourme...
Is there a Western conception of personhood? What's the status of non-human animals? Whose virtue?
open.substack.com/pub/colourme...
On 'Person and Community in Traditional African Thought'
Discussing Menkiti, Marx, non-human animals, and some Rousseau. How do we relate to our community and ourselves?
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I've compiled some thoughts on Ifeanyi Menkiti's classic 'Person and Community in Traditional African Thought'.
Is there a Western conception of personhood? What's the status of non-human animals? Whose virtue?
open.substack.com/pub/colourme...
Is there a Western conception of personhood? What's the status of non-human animals? Whose virtue?
open.substack.com/pub/colourme...
One of my favourites from last year. Well worth attending if you can!
Modern corporations are not merely economic entities, but political entities without democratic accountability.
Review of @graceblakeley.bsky.social book Vulture Capitalism by Hans Despain
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Review of @graceblakeley.bsky.social book Vulture Capitalism by Hans Despain
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Vulture Capitalism – review
Grace Blakeley’s Vulture Capitalism critiques the alliance of corporations, finance, and states underpinning the capitalist system and examines how it drives inequality, stifles democrac…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of my favourites from last year. Well worth attending if you can!
"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself."
Happy New Year from Antonio Gramsci
viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...
Happy New Year from Antonio Gramsci
viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...
I Hate New Year's Day - Viewpoint Magazine
That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...
viewpointmag.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:43 PM
"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself."
Happy New Year from Antonio Gramsci
viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...
Happy New Year from Antonio Gramsci
viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...
Birkbeck is hosting the 'Fanon's Philosophical Legacy' international conference in June. The PhilEvents page is live with a Call For Papers:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
philevents.org/event/show/1...
Fanon's Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100
2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, ...
philevents.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Birkbeck is hosting the 'Fanon's Philosophical Legacy' international conference in June. The PhilEvents page is live with a Call For Papers:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...