Dr Andrea Di Carlo, PhD Philosophy
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Foucault lover, kittens and Pomeranians enthusiast, and very left-wing. BTW, I love linguistics, especially historical linguistics.
If you're interested in early modern history and its entanglement with politics and academic policies, check out these featured posts co-authored with @brendandooley.bsky.social
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Academic Politics… Seventeenth-Century Style
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September 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you're interested in early modern history and its entanglement with politics and academic policies, check out these featured posts co-authored with @brendandooley.bsky.social
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Si potrebbero boicottare gli USA e Israele senza rimetterci...
Mi dispiace avervi fatto sprecare un "coglioni."
Però, pensandoci, a questi si può dire comunque.
#USA #IsraeliCrimes
Però, pensandoci, a questi si può dire comunque.
#USA #IsraeliCrimes
August 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Si potrebbero boicottare gli USA e Israele senza rimetterci...
Ireland could soon ban all trade with illegal settlements, but is being bullied by Washington to give up. Sign the petition — and show Ireland the world is behind this! action.eko.org/a/ireland-pa...
Ireland: Pass the Occupied Territories Bill
Right now, Ireland has a historic chance to confront Apartheid — and the world is watching. The Irish parliament is close to passing a law banning trade with Israel's illegal settlements. If it goes
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August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Ireland could soon ban all trade with illegal settlements, but is being bullied by Washington to give up. Sign the petition — and show Ireland the world is behind this! action.eko.org/a/ireland-pa...
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Make private jets and luxury flights pay for climate justice
While many of us worry about our carbon footprints, billionaires are jetting around the world in private planes. And even worse, they're doing it tax free: aviation fuel isn’t taxed like the gas in yo
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June 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Over the past few years, René Girard has become a strange reference point on the American right, especially for Peter Thiel. But, as our essay of the week argues, Thiel twists Girard's humanism into a pretext for dismantling liberal norms.
By Paul Leslie
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By Paul Leslie
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May 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Over the past few years, René Girard has become a strange reference point on the American right, especially for Peter Thiel. But, as our essay of the week argues, Thiel twists Girard's humanism into a pretext for dismantling liberal norms.
By Paul Leslie
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By Paul Leslie
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Wir müssen ihm sehr, sehr dankbar sein.
Thomas Müntzer: »Das Deutschland nitczur mordgrube werde«
Thomas Müntzer war ein Prediger der radikalen Neuordnung aller Verhältnisse. Für Martin Luther war der Priester deshalb ein »Werkzeug des Satans« und ein »Zerstörer aller Ordnung«. Die des Adels rich...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wir müssen ihm sehr, sehr dankbar sein.
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Today, we recommend reading Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.”
One great short story to read today: Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves”
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staf…
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May 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today, we recommend reading Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.”
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Foucault News now on Bluesky
I have now set up Foucault News on Bluesky. New posts on my main WordPress blog will now be automatically posted to Bluesky. Please go here to subscribe @foucault-news.bsky.social I have added a follow button to the sidebar on my Wordpress site as well. You can also…
I have now set up Foucault News on Bluesky. New posts on my main WordPress blog will now be automatically posted to Bluesky. Please go here to subscribe @foucault-news.bsky.social I have added a follow button to the sidebar on my Wordpress site as well. You can also…
Foucault News now on Bluesky
I have now set up Foucault News on Bluesky. New posts on my main WordPress blog will now be automatically posted to Bluesky. Please go here to subscribe @foucault-news.bsky.social I have added a follow button to the sidebar on my Wordpress site as well. You can also follow the blog via Facebook, X (Twitter), Feedly (rss) or email subscription (subscribe via the sidebar on the Wordpress blog). With an additional thank you to all current and past subscribers.
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April 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Foucault News now on Bluesky
I have now set up Foucault News on Bluesky. New posts on my main WordPress blog will now be automatically posted to Bluesky. Please go here to subscribe @foucault-news.bsky.social I have added a follow button to the sidebar on my Wordpress site as well. You can also…
I have now set up Foucault News on Bluesky. New posts on my main WordPress blog will now be automatically posted to Bluesky. Please go here to subscribe @foucault-news.bsky.social I have added a follow button to the sidebar on my Wordpress site as well. You can also…
Worth the while!
The Euronews Project finds some things get Lost in translation
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Lost in Translation…
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March 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Worth the while!
Right. So Elon can be as fascist as he wants but those opposing a genocide are anti-Semites.
Maybe start with the guy who does Nazi salutes when his hands aren't pawing through Americans' most sensitive data? www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
March 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Right. So Elon can be as fascist as he wants but those opposing a genocide are anti-Semites.
This is worrying. Academics are at risk in the so-called "land of choice and freedom".
Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is worrying. Academics are at risk in the so-called "land of choice and freedom".
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before she was known as an author, Toni Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers.
The Other Toni Morrison - Boston Review
A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before she was known as an author, Toni Morrison was a Random House trade editor who almost singlehandedly introduced black radical activists to mainstream American readers.
"The new, U.S. fascism that Jackson and Davis strive to delineate is not an unwanted return from the “other scene” of colonial violence, but originates from liberal democracy itself".
Locke was a slave owner and so were the Founding Fathers. No need to add anything else
Locke was a slave owner and so were the Founding Fathers. No need to add anything else
“Speaking in Paris at the Second International Writers Congress in 1937, Langston Hughes declared: ‘We Negroes in America do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know.’” www.bostonreview.net/articles/lon...
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The new, U.S. fascism that Jackson and Davis strive to delineate is not an unwanted return from the “other scene” of colonial violence, but originates from liberal democracy itself".
Locke was a slave owner and so were the Founding Fathers. No need to add anything else
Locke was a slave owner and so were the Founding Fathers. No need to add anything else
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Join us in April for the 2025 Irish Association for American Studies annual conference. Abstracts due February 14th.
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2025 IAAS Annual Conference, “We the People” Trinity College Dublin 24-26 April 2025, Irish Association for American Studies
IAAS Annual Conference Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 24-26 April 2025 Conference Theme: “We the People” CALL FOR...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Join us in April for the 2025 Irish Association for American Studies annual conference. Abstracts due February 14th.
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While many thought of James Baldwin as the spokesperson for cross-racial communion, after Martin Luther King’s assassination he grew increasingly direct about the impossibility of saving the United States from itself.
Baldwin’s Lonely Country - Boston Review
When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
While many thought of James Baldwin as the spokesperson for cross-racial communion, after Martin Luther King’s assassination he grew increasingly direct about the impossibility of saving the United States from itself.
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Domani, 20 Novembre 2024, medici ed infermieri rivendicheranno il loro ruolo sociale in una manifestazione che deve coinvolgerci tutti.
La salute non può essere un privilegio.
La Costituzione la garantisce ad ogni cittadino.
#SalviamoSSN, una conquista sociale irrinunciabile.
#facciamorete
La salute non può essere un privilegio.
La Costituzione la garantisce ad ogni cittadino.
#SalviamoSSN, una conquista sociale irrinunciabile.
#facciamorete
November 19, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Domani, 20 Novembre 2024, medici ed infermieri rivendicheranno il loro ruolo sociale in una manifestazione che deve coinvolgerci tutti.
La salute non può essere un privilegio.
La Costituzione la garantisce ad ogni cittadino.
#SalviamoSSN, una conquista sociale irrinunciabile.
#facciamorete
La salute non può essere un privilegio.
La Costituzione la garantisce ad ogni cittadino.
#SalviamoSSN, una conquista sociale irrinunciabile.
#facciamorete
Yes, the police will always be shifty. It's in their nature.
1. You think you’ve seen it all. You really have not. I’m a hard-bitten journalist of 39 years’ standing, but details of this story made me shout, weep and slap my head. This week’s column + 🧵
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This society lauded a police officer who lied and cheated and ruined lives. At last, a reckoning | George Monbiot
As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert callously betrayed innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 28, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Yes, the police will always be shifty. It's in their nature.
As somebody trained in linguistics, this was kind of inevitable. Vote now!
Do have your say! Would also love to hear your alternative suggestions.
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Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
For the third consecutive year, we are giving word lovers everywhere the opportunity to vote for their preferred Oxford Word of the Year.
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November 28, 2024 at 11:25 AM
As somebody trained in linguistics, this was kind of inevitable. Vote now!