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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 6d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 10d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 10d

🔥!!! bootleg recordings of the Marx and History session just for me plz 🫡

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 18d

Couldn't ask for a better person to undertake this adventure with 🥰

Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 18d

A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan!

We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place.

To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · Aug 30

[1] This study by Fabian Goldmann, presented in the Jacobin article below, analysed 4,853 German headlines on Gaza and Israel (Oct 7, 2023 – Jan 19, 2025). The sourcing imbalance is staggering — and has arguably contributed to distorting how the German public understands the war.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Aug 29

Palestinian journalists, rescue workers, and eyewitnesses offer a devastating and detailed picture of Israel’s crimes.

Yet only 5 percent of German media headlines about Gaza draw on these sources, while almost half rely on Israeli ones.

Proving the German Media Bias Against Palestinians

German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.

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Christopher Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · Aug 30

Forthcoming De Gruyter Release –

"Already her correspondence shows that Du Châtelet was at the very center of the scientific movements in Germany and of the intellectual elites of France and Europe."

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · Aug 22

“A magician was expelled from his city. He froze time in it and decided that the city shall not be allowed to return to life until its youth destroyed its ancient ramparts.”

—Kanafani, “Man & Principle” (mid-1950’s)

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · Aug 16

we’ve been quiet because we’ve been working on this for a minute—see you in just over a week for the first session on Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”!

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · Aug 21

The German Democratic Republic by @historyned.bsky.social provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf

The German Democratic Republic by Ned Richardson-Little provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Publishing this month.

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 10

1/9 Reminder, we do medieval history! "Violence and Order: Past and Present", a SI edited by Warren C. Brown (Caltech‬), @rorycox.bsky.social (St Andrews‬), & Jennifer Jahner (Caltech), explores medieval "meanings of and relationships between violence and order" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A contemporary (1334) depiction of knights battling at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 9

@hernandez-sau.bsky.social (CHAM – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) reviews "Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders" (Palgrave, 2024) edited by @mboluferp.bsky.social, Laura Guinot-Ferri, & Carolina Blutrach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the book. An image on the cover is a woman looking through a looking glass.

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Aug 14

Every word of this. These outlets can't be allowed to escape their complicity in this, the stigma must stick to them just as it will stick to Israel's Channel 12. It's so important they have been named to an English-speaking audience: that is to say, outside the bubble whose discourse they dominate.

Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Aug 13

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

www.theguardian.com

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · Aug 11

Reading the intro to Les Temps modernes by Sartre: "The writer is situated in his time; every word he utters has reverberations. As does his silence. I hold Flaubert and the Goncourts responsible for the repression that followed the Commune because they didn't write a line to prevent it."

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · Aug 10

Two weeks ago: “The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.”

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · Aug 11

Comparing press coverage on Gaza (today, Dutch public news NOS and German public news Tagesschau) always yields the same depressing result - that German journalists will lend credibility to false claims by the IDF when everyone else has stopped.

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Torsten Menge @tmenge.bsky.social · Aug 9

Leute wie Döring belehren Leute über Werte der Aufklärung und moralischen Universalismus, und unterstützen gleichzeitig offen einen Völkermord.

Eine Schande für die Disziplin. Wird sich die @DGPhil_eV äußern? Oder wird so etwas von deutschen Philosoph:innen toleriert?

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Johannes Tesfai @jojote.bsky.social · Aug 8

Unser Buch ist endlich da! Lest es, wenn ihr mehr über den vergessenen Schwarzen Aktivismus der 1970er, 80er und 90er erfahren wollt.

Das Buchcover von Sichtbar werden, hinter der Schrift liegen Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder, eine Person mit Pokal, Demonstrierende mit Transparent

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · Aug 8

'Today, the opacity of the mechanisms by which sanctions work secures the impunity of those who impose them' - Jessica Whyte (2023)

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · Aug 8

Not an AI writing assistant in sight, just a guy and his hand wings

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Aug 7

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!

A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 8

the rules based international order

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 8

BREAKING: Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City in an escalation of war.

Israel announces plan to retake Gaza City in another escalation of the war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City.

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Vanessa E. Thompson @vethompson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Der Theorieblog hat einen ganz schönen Schwerpunkt zu Fanon gemacht, mit einigen guten Beiträgen von bspw. (my girl and comrade) Jeanette Ehrmann, Ina Kerner und Nicki K. Weber. Ich durfte auch einen Beitrag zu Fanon und Antifaschismus beisteuern: www.theorieblog.de/index.php/20...

Schwerpunkt: 100 Jahre Fanon

Am 20. Juli wäre Frantz Fanon 100 Jahre alt geworden. Fanon setzte sich in seinen Werken auf tiefgehende Weise mit dem Kolonialismus und seinen prägenden Nachwirkungen auseinander. Er analysierte K…

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · Aug 7

'I have always wanted not merely to survey such battlefields but to join the battle myself' - Quentin Skinner in our recent article when I asked about his use of battle metaphors & the Nietzschean indefinability of historic concepts. Find the full dialogue here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detail from a painting of Clio, muse of history

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just two more weeks until you too can get a copy in paperback! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Jun 21

It’s here!

Copies of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State by Ned Richardson-Little (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social · Aug 6

Adam Knowles reviews A Social History of Analytic Philosophy in Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social
www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/mark...

Adam Knowles · Marketplace of dull ideas (2025)

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