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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d

#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 6d

Heute erscheint mein Buch zur "Politischen Theorie nach Machiavelli" bei Matthes&Seitz Berlin! Es zeigt Machiavelli als Republikaner sowie als frühen Radikaldemokraten und Klassentheoretiker, es folgt Spuren bei Gramsci, Althusser, Pocock, Lefort, Skinner, Abensour, McCormick.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free.
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Cover of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. The cover features a photo of a small concrete building painted with red polka dots, set in an arid landscape under a clear blue sky. The house is part of an art installation by Álvaro Enciso, "La Casa de los Puntos Rojos." The image is placed against a black background with minimalist white and pale blue text. Small red dots accent the corners of the design.

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Julia Manek @juliama.bsky.social · Aug 29

In Germany, many people associate Sunday evenings with a popular detective series: Tatort [eng: crime scene]

This Sunday, August 31 at 8PM @medico2.bsky.social turns the spotlight on a real and unresolved crime scene far from Germany’s cities: Shark Island in Namibia @forensicarchi.bsky.social

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottlieb.bsky.social · Aug 7

Jeanette Ehrmann’s piece is 🔥

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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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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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · Jul 31

... system of knowledge…

PROUD FLESH:

That’s why they’re only interested in just a few pages of Black Skin, White Masks (1952).

SYLVIA WYNTER:

But they don’t want to go to the fundamental issue. Once he has said ontogeny-and-sociogeny, every discipline you’re practicing ceases to exist.

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · Jul 31

PROUD FLESH:

Isn’t it such a tragedy, what has been done to Fanon’s name? In the 1980s especially, when Fanon is revisited in academia in the West, it’s a real moment of… ignorant exploitation.

SYLVIA WYNTER:

An ignorant exploitation – to take what he had said into the terms of this Western...

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · Jul 31

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Frantz Fanon habe ich für den @theorieblog.bsky.social "Schwarze Haut, weiße Masken" mit Sylvia Wynter gelesen. Mehr als eine Rassismustheorie gibt Fanon uns den Schlüssel zu einem anderen Genre des Menschseins angesichts der "beispiellosen Katastrophe für unsere Spezies".

Fanon Schwerpunkt: Soziogenese und das Genre des Menschseins. Sylvia Wynter als Leserin Frantz Fanons

PROUD FLESH: Isn’t it such a tragedy, what has been done to Fanon’s name? In the 1980s especially, when Fanon is revisited in academia in the West, it’s a real moment of… ignorant exploitati…

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Jul 23

"This is the fourth instalment in ‘Siyah'... To mark 230 years since the Haitian Revolution began and 200 years since the culmination of the Greek War of Independence, the following article will summate Haiti’s support for Greek independence against the Ottoman Empire."
afropean.com/siyah-haiti-...

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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · Jun 25

The corpus of Mahmood Mamdani, Zohran's father, is vast and rich, but his book "Citizen & Subject" was totally formative for me and many others in its analysis of the long-term legacies of colonialism in Africa (& beyond). Doubly interesting to read now.

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Citizen and Subject

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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Sprachräume der Anteilnahme. Workshop und Gespräch mit Esther Dischereit und Tunay Önder
16.00 Uhr Workshop: Linke Kapelle, HfG Offenbach
19.00 Uhr Gespräch: KJK Sandgasse 26, Offenbach

Plakat der Veranstaltung mit dem Ankündigungstext: Angesichts der rechten Gewalt, der physischen wie der sprachlichen, verschlägt es einem förmlich die Sprache. Wie trotzdem darauf antworten, wie darüber sprechen? Welche Worte ihr entgegnen? Wie an die Opfer erinnern?
Neben politischen Initiativen und kritischen Medien haben sich in der Öffentlichkeit vor allem Schriftsteller:innen und Autor:innen diesen Fragen gewidmet und das Wort ergriffen. Statt Motive und Taten in den Fokus zu stellen, entwickeln sie Text- und Sprachformen, die Menschlichkeit würdigen, kollektive Erinnerung ermöglichen sowie die Anwesenheit der Abwesenden spürbar machen wollen. In ihren Klagen über die Opfer bekommt auch die Anklage der Verbrechen eine öffentliche Stimme. Dialogische, lyrische, fiktive, dokumentarische Texte in Antwort auf rechte Gewaltverbrechen trennen ästhetische Verfahren nicht von politischen. Sie spannen Räume des gemeinsamen Nachdenkens, des Sprechens und Zuhörens, der Zuneigung und Solidarität auf. Sie machen Sprachräume zu Orten der Anteilnahme und der Kritik an der mangelhaften Aufklärung. Und sie fordern die Gewalt in der Sprache heraus, suchen nach Wegen, den verbalen Angriffen und Verhärtungen Worte der Zuneigung entgegenzusetzen.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jun 11

Haitian immigrant rights' activist Guerline Jozef responds to Trump's travel ban and targeting of Haitian immigrants.

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lasers @laserheilkunde.bsky.social · May 28

hier seht ihr das sind die gedichte die aufmerksamkeit verdienen

das buch "mein name ist ausländer" bzw "benim adım yabancı" von semra ertan liegt auf einem tisch

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · May 23

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of higher
education in Israel, call on you to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of
Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza.
Israeli higher education institutions play a central role in the struggle against the
judicial overhaul. It is precisely against this backdrop that their silence in the face of
the killing, starvation, and destruction in Gaza, and in the face of the complete
elimination of the educational system there, its people, and its structures, is so striking.
Since Israel violated the ceasefire on March 18, almost 3,000 people have been killed in
Gaza. The vast majority of them were civilians. Since the start of the war, at least
53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 15,000 children and at least 41
Israeli hostages. At the same time, many international bodies are warning of acute
starvation – the result of intentional and openly declared Israeli government policy – as
well as of the rendering of Gaza into an area unfit for human habitation. Israel
continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Among the war’s declared
goals, as defined in the orders for the current military operation “Gideon’s Chariots,” is
the “concentration and displacement of the population.” This is a horrifying litany of
war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing.
As academics, we recognize our own role in these crimes. It is human societies, not
governments, that commit crimes against humanity. Some do so by means of direct
violence. Others do so by sanctioning the crimes and justifying them, before and after
the fact, and by keeping quiet and silencing voices in the halls of learning. It is this
bond of silence that allows clearly evident crimes to continue unabated without
penetrating the barriers of recognition.
We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · May 16

C.L.R. James, Lectures on The Black Jacobins (1971)

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · May 16

... they are concerned about food, as they have every right to be. At twelve o'clock they shut down, everywhere is closed up till two. Archives close up, "St James" closes up, off to eat. Very fine. At two o'clock, I go back. I work. The archives close at five or six. I go home."

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · May 16

The perfect working day according to "St" C.L.R. James:
"while in France, I look up in the archives. I look up, I look up, I look up in the archives, I spend three or four months looking up in the archives, every morning, walk up the Seine, the bank of the Seine, go to the archives. In France ...

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Haiti Support Group @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social · Apr 23

Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and US Banks underdeveloped Haiti. A fantastic online debate organised by our Caribbean Labour Solidarity comrades!

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Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and US Banks underdeveloped Haïti - Haiti Support Group

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PREDEF|Politische Theorie Wien @poltheoriewien.bsky.social · Mar 20

Veronika Zablotsky hält eine #IPWLecture zu "Starting-Up" the Nation: Global Diaspora in Post-Soviet Armenia - save the date! 6.5. 18h.

Organisiert von @viktoriahue.bsky.social (Politische Theorie) und Rebekka Pflug (Osteuropastudien).

Details: politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/politische-t...

Das Bild zeigt das Plakat zur Veranstaltung mit den Hard Facts laut Homepage

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · Mar 1

A Book, Untitled

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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · Jan 24

Symposium on Arendt's "Civil Disobedience" at Humboldt University Berin on February 7, with @gambettiz.bsky.social, Bethania Assy, and Christian Volk.

www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/en/research-...

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · Jan 16

📢Rare opportunity to dive deeply into the work of Joy James, one of the most powerful Black radical political thinkers working today. The workshop is June 3–6, 2025 online and in Philadelphia, and applications are due Feb. 1.

More info at decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/2018-worksho...

Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop
June 3–6, 2025
Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA

Figure of Study: Joy James
Applications due February 1, 2025

for more information: decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com

Current Workshop

It is my distinct pleasure to announce that the figure of study for the 2025 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop is Joy James. James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is author of many books and articles on the topics of antiblackness and genocide, feminism, and abolitionism (among others).

Here is some additional information about the 2025 FDPW workshop:

Location: Villanova University, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (and online)
Date: June 3-6, 2025
Time: Approximately 9-5PM each day

The workshop will be primarily organized around three texts in particular, namely:

James, Joy. 1996. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
James, Joy. 2013. Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader. Albany: SUNY Press.
James, Joy. 2023. New Bones: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner. Brooklyn: Common Notions.

That said, given the extensiveness of James publications, we intend on in weaving some additional texts. All texts will be made available to the workshop participants electronically.

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Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte in der DVPW @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social · Jan 15

Am 21.01.2025 (12-13 Uhr) spricht Esma Baycan-Herzog (Genf) an der HU Berlin in der „Politics Lecture Series“ über Migration, epistemische Ungerechtigkeit und Rechtsdifferenzierung. Titel: „It’s not You, It’s Your Passport!“. Mehr Infos hier: 👇

Politics Lecture Series | Esma Baycan-Herzog (Geneva): "Migration, Epistemic Injustice and Differentiated Rights: It's not You, It's Your Passport!" - 21.01.2025 — Political Theory

As part of the Politics Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Social Sciences, we welcome Esma Baycan-Herzog (Geneva). Her lecture takes place on Tuesday January 21 from 12 to 1 p.m. in room 002...

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Jeanette Ehrmann @jeanjanyan.bsky.social · Nov 7

IM DUNKELN SEHN befragt in einem erweiterten mediengesellschaftlichen Rahmen die künstlerisch und filmisch formulierte Kritik an den Ermittlungen von rechtsextremen Gewalttaten in Deutschland seit den 1960er-Jahren und an der tatenlosen Kultur der Gleichgültigkeit.

IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · Oct 24

IM DUNKELN SEHN
Asamblea – mit Filmen, Gästen und Gesprächen
8. bis 10. November 2024
in Hanau, Offenbach, Frankfurt.

Programm und alle Informationen:
www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/i...

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