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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 1d

“When it all unwinds…” open.spotify.com/track/4MqFHx...

I Fall Apart

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 1d

Beccaria was way ahead of us, back in 1764, when he worried about the brutalizing effects of state violence: How it could transform our ways of thinking and feeling. He was only 25 years old at the time—a Gen Z by our standards today. I just posted an essay here: open.substack.com/pub/bernardh...

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 2d

+ This finding points to a significant threshold in the development of abstract thinking, self-awareness, and symbolic expression during the Neolithic period.”

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 2d

“The T-shaped stele with a human face motif uncovered at Karahantepe (c. 10,000 BCE) combines monumental form with human representation, making it one of the earliest known examples in human history. +

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 2d

A first in history at Karahantepe: T-shaped stele with a human face discovered. arkeonews.com/karahanteped...

Karahantepe’de tarihte bir ilk: İnsan yüzlü T biçimli dikilitaş bulundu - Arkeonews

Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Karahantepe kazılarında ilk kez insan yüzü betimli bir T biçimli dikilitaş bulunduğunu açıkladı.

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 2d

28. Tisini's book on the conceptions of matter in Islamic thought is far better executed than Bloch's "Aristotelian Left." Yet the former remains almost entirely forgotten, while the latter is well read and widely translated. More translations of Tisini's works from Arabic are much needed.

Tayeb Tisini, Die Materieauffassung in der islamisch-arabischen Philosophie des Mittelalters, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1972.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 6d

To Make a Better World: Review of Stéphanie Roza’s Utopia ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/09/t...

To Make a Better World: Review of Stéphanie Roza’s Utopia

Paul Kincaid Under Review:Utopia: From the Novel to Revolution. Stéphanie Roza, translated by David Broder. Verso, July 2025. Utopia (1516) by Thomas More has a good claim to being one of the most …

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Helmer Stoel @helmerstoel.bsky.social · 6d

Verschijnt deze winter!

Een Inleiding in Het Kapitaal van Karl Marx
door Michael Heinrich

Nog altijd de beste korte inleiding in Het Kapitaal.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 7d

“Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.” press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Utopianism for a Dying Planet

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 8d

“In the midst of noise there is a song that speaks with silence; you whisper to yourself: ‘Everything is easier than it seems, let your steps carry you.’” open.spotify.com/track/0juI2z...

Canter

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Gürkan Ergin @ivanhoe76.bsky.social · 8d

Casina by Plautus. An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation tinyurl.com/29eazxh3 #freeaccess

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 8d

+ According to Bloch, music is not merely an emotional experience but also a means of evoking in the collective consciousness the as-yet unrealized potential for freedom.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 8d

When Ernest Bloch’s understanding of music is considered within the framework of his philosophy of the not-yet (Noch-Nicht), it assumes a function that renders social utopias and future-oriented hopes visible through aesthetic experience. +

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 8d

“labor strikes occurred for various reasons since ancient times, with the first documented case being that of the workers of Set Maat (now Deir el-Medina, Egypt) during the reign of Ramesses III.” www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/02/s...

Secessio Plebis, the Roman Antecedent of the General Strike in Which the People Abandoned the City

Although the right to strike wasn't regulated until the 20th century, labor strikes occurred for various reasons since ancient times, with the first documented case being that of the workers of Set Ma...

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 9d

From the perspective of contemporary feminist theory, she provides an early example of women’s processes of subjectification, creating a discursive space that challenges gender-based social norms and reinforces the epistemological status of women’s knowledge.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 9d

and thereby enacting an epistemic resistance against the monolithic voice of patriarchal discourse.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 9d

Christine de Pizan, through her literary practice developed in response to the intellectual and social marginalization of women in Medieval Europe, can be understood, within the framework of Foucault’s discourse theory, as making visible marginalized forms of knowledge

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 9d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 9d

+ This makes utopia more than a fantasy it’s part of real social change. Today, especially in discussions about ecological crises, gender politics, or alternative economies, utopia feels less like a dream and more like a political necessity and a way to imagine what’s possible in society.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 9d

I see Thomas More’s Utopia as a critique of early modern society, presenting a very closed, regulated idea of an ideal community. Bloch’s Das Prinzip Hoffnung, on the other hand, takes utopia out of that static frame, linking it to historical process, social action, and the “not-yet.” +

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Aldo Houterman @aldohouterman.bsky.social · 10d

Great, see also: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Marx’s repulsion and Serres’s turbulence: a Lucretian philosophy of movement

This article demonstrates the importance of making explicit different conceptions of movement for the philosophy of sport. In addition to the mechanistic and the Aristotelian approaches, this artic...

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 10d

I greatly appreciate your valuable contribution.

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 10d

In this sense, although Democritus’ materialism provided Marx with a methodological point of departure, Marx’s distinctive contribution lies in surpassing this mechanical determinism by placing social practice and historical contingency at the very center of dialectical materialism. (4/4)

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 10d

Thus, while the “laws of motion” of the capitalist mode of production may appear analogous to natural laws, they cannot be reduced to blind mechanism; they must be understood as dynamics shaped by class struggle, labor processes, and historical agency. (3/4)

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Deniz Prometheus @antikcagdeniz.bsky.social · 10d

Yet Marx does not remain within the limits of such mechanical causality; rather, he elaborates a dialectical model of historical development grounded in the contradictions internal to the relations of production and in the tensions that these contradictions continuously reproduce. (2/4)

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