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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering whether academics have written on 'asylum hotels', I can point you in the direction of Martina Tazzioli's work on refugee carcerality & value extraction in the UK, Greece & Italy. See esp. section on financialised asylum accommodation in the UK.

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 2d

I went to China in early September and kept accidentally seeing and reading things that all seemed to relate to the Second World War in some way - I tried to write about it

'World anti-fascist war: A postcard from China, 1945/2025'

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 2d

this essay by Akshi Singh for @Parapraxis_Mag is so good!

On anti-colonial political violence, the violence of colonialism, psychoanalysis, political and psychic repression...

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Unconscious Terrorists — Parapraxis

Psychoanalysis on trial Akshi Singh

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 22d

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Ouf

House Arab

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wael Al-Dahdouh speaking to journalists around the world: "Where are you?"

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Aug 11

I knew I'd heard of Alex Davies Jones before

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 10

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · Aug 8

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)

www.radicalphilosophy.com

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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · Aug 8

was a real thrill to interview @reproutopia.bsky.social about their new book 'Enemy Feminisms', along with Victoria Browne and @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social, in the new issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social

www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have an essay in the issue called 'Generation, conjuncture' which is a fragmentary and slightly faltering attempt to think through the relation between those two concepts and to confront the problem of nostalgia / generational envy

variant.org.uk/article/gene...

variant

Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Aug 7

the Spring 2025 issue of Variant is online!

feat poetry by Mira Mattar, Danny Hayward on Marina Vishmidt, Hussein Mitha on Palestine and the arts in Scotland, Joey Simons on the Glasgow Housing Struggles Archive, Shona Macnaughton on feminist healthcare...

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variant

Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.

variant.org.uk

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Aug 6

one for the Gillian Rose heads!

Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · Aug 6

And 40 years after Peter Osborne published his now (in)famous review of Rose’s Hegel contra Sociology in RP, R. L. Scott has written a really interesting piece on what her phenomenology of necessary illusion brings to critical theory today. Enjoy your August reading!

Robert Lucas Scott · Phenomenology of necessary illusion: Gillian Rose on personification and the failure to think the absolute (2025)

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Aug 5

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Aug 5

For the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social Victoria Browne, Rahul Rao and I interviewed Sophie Lewis about their new book Enemy Feminisms and they gave some very interesting and thoughtful answers to our questions

www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/sm...

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Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · Aug 5

RP2.19 out now!
Flora Renz on For Women Scotland & the UK Supreme Court
Elena Baglioni on reproductive subsumption
Robert Lucas Scott on Gillian Rose
FTC Manning on real abstraction
Francesco Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani
Interview with Sophie Lewis
Paulin Hountondji obit
www.radicalphilosophy.com

Cover image of RP issue 219 featuring a photograph of a small pink children's bike in front of a church in an otherwise empty square

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · Jul 29

What a kicker!

'Just as Liebert was inspired by young student radicals, in a 1993 interview, Edward Said recalled missing the Columbia uprisings of spring 1968 but on returning to campus in the autumn he dis- covered that many of his students had been active in the university “revolution,” and in this context he got involved in activism against the American war in Vietnam; at the same moment, “for the first time in my life,” he recalled, “I got involved in Palestinian politics.”'

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Jul 29

I wrote this essay on psychoanalytic interpretations of the 1968 student uprisings at Columbia university @parapraxismag.bsky.social - students who opposed the university's complicity in the US war in Vietnam insisted society was 'crazy' rather than them

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/a-c...

A Common Craziness — Parapraxis

Diagnosing Youth Revolt at the Columbia 1968 Uprisings hannah proctor

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Jul 28

haha yep hi :)

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Jul 22

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Jul 22

I was gripped by the Mike Kelley at Tate Modern earlier this year — and this by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social on Kelley’s Kandors, memory, melancholic objects, False Memory Syndrome, Sylvia Plath, Ruth Leys &c is great

h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wrote something about Mike Kelley's Kandors - and about Superman as a symptom - after seeing them glowing at the Tate Modern earlier this year

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Superman as symptom

On Mike Kelley's Kandors

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Jul 22

thanks Felicity!

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · Jul 22

Currently reading—Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social.

Absolutely exceptional. Grab a copy yourself: bookshop.org/a/23377/9781...

Two copies of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor alongside text that says 'Book Love, bookshop.org/shop/unftrpod'

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h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Jul 12

I wrote something about Mike Kelley's Kandors - and about Superman as a symptom - after seeing them glowing at the Tate Modern earlier this year

hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/superman-a...

Superman as symptom

On Mike Kelley's Kandors

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 11

‘Like Trudi Warner, Rev. Parfitt has been arrested for holding a sign. Can that be understood by any but the most authoritarian of rubrics as an act of terrorism?’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action and freedom of conscience, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

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