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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Grace Lee Boggs, one of the great guides of my life. In her spirit, let us always keep asking ourselves, "What time is it on the clock of the world?"

If you're in Detroit, consider going to this.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Possible Form of an Interlocution" by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, which examines the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois & Max Weber in 1904 and 1905. #Sociology #LiteraryStudies buff.ly/YRlFRim

Cover of The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence by Nahum Dimitri Chandler. It features a black-and-white photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois wearing a dark suit, vest, white shirt, and bow tie, set against a gray background. The left side of the cover features a bold vertical red stripe. Below the photograph, a dark brown section contains the title in beige text. The author's name is printed at the bottom in the same beige font.

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 5d

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 6d

Claus Offe (1940-2025; www.hertie-school.org/en/news/deta...)

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Youssef Ibrahim @youssef-ibrahim.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to share that my dissertation has now been published with @velbrueckw.bsky.social: www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...

It looks at how society became a concern for the climate sciences and how climatological theories of society have evolved since the mid-19th century.

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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · 29d

If you're at APSA, come join us for the discussion of Anna Jurkevics's excellent "Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds" (Oxford UP 2025) on Thursday. I'm honored to be a part of this conversation, and hope to see you there!

academic.oup.com/book/59797

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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · 29d

If you're at APSA, come join us for the discussion of Anna Jurkevics's excellent "Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds" (Oxford UP 2025) on Thursday. I'm honored to be a part of this conversation, and hope to see you there!

academic.oup.com/book/59797

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Jana Stern @schlechteidee.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gerade ist dieser wunderbare Sammelband über Charles Mills' Politische Philosophie erschienen, zu dem ich einen Text über männliche und weiße Ignoranz beitragen durfte. Die digitale Version erscheint Ende des Monats und ist open access! @transcript-verlag.bsky.social #philsky #feministsky

Charles Mills’ politische Philosophie

Ein Vordenker der politischen Philosophie: über das Vermächtnis von Charles W. Mills.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Straßenverlauf @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · Sep 5

Zum jüdischen Neujahrsfest Rosch ha-Schana wurde die Neue Synagoge in der Oranienburgerstraße am 5. September 1866 eingeweiht.
Antisemiten agitierten von Beginn an gegen den von Eduard Knoblauch und Friedrich August Stüler entworfenen Bau.

Emil Pierre Joseph de Cauwer: Neue Synagoge, 1865.

Emil Pierre Joseph de Cauwer (1827-1873): Neue Synagoge, 1865.
Gemälde zeigt einen Straßenzug links, mittig die Synagoge, die mit Backstein im orientalisierenden Stil erbaut wurde und mit der Kuppel mit den goldenen Strängen die dreigeschossigen Häuser überragt. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Sep 3

Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Alyssa Battistoni in conversation

On Thursday, September 4, join n+1 for a conversation with contributor Alyssa Battistoni about her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, out now from Princeton University Press.

www.nplusonemag.com

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DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nicht vergessen: Der Call für die #Impulstagung am 22.-23.01.26 läuft noch bis zum 30.09.!

#Politikwissenschaft #PoWi #Weltordnung #Krieg

@dvpw-vergleich.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social

DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · Jun 25

#CfP 30.09.: 1. DVPW #Impulstagung am 22.-23.01.26 an der TU #Chemnitz:

#Weltordnung im Wandel – #Politikwissenschaft in Kriegszeiten

Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione...

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Heike Delitz @heikedelitz.bsky.social · Aug 26

CfP bis 31.10.25:
"Soziale Unordnung, Transindividualität, Volk-Werden. Sozialtheorie bei Georges Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon und Gilles Deleuze"
Workshop an der Uni Regensburg, 19./20.6.2026, gemeinsam mit Sebastian Dute)
Der Call findet sich u.a. hier: www.heike-delitz.de

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 23

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions

The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.

www.insidehighered.com

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Sonja Buckel @sonjabuckel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Oliver Eberl + ich organisieren 1 Tagung zum Werk der am 14.12.2024 verstorbenen Ingeborg Maus. Durch ihren unerschütterlichen Widerspruchsgeist avancierte sie zu einer der großen Leitfiguren aufklärerischen und kritischen Denkens der Bundesrepublik.
@unimarburg.bsky.social @unikassel.bsky.social

Das abgebildete Plakat zeigt das Programm. Es wird auch auf der Homepage der Uni Marburg zu finden sein.

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Vanessa E. Thompson @vethompson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Vincent B. und ich haben für
@analysekritik.bsky.social
über Fanons Werk gesprochen, u.a. über die Rezeption seines Werkes, Fanon und Feminismus, und über die Grenzen nationaler Befreiung: www.akweb.de/bewegung/mar...

Marxist ohne Garantie - ak analyse & kritik

Frantz Fanon, geboren 1925 auf Martinique, wurde zu einem der wichtigsten Denker und Akteur der antikolonialen Befreiung. Zum 100. Geburtstag Fanons sprachen wir mit der Abolitionistin Vanessa E. Thom...

www.akweb.de

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · Aug 18

„Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will große Teile des Zettelkatalogs entsorgen lassen. Ein einzigartiges Monument der Wissensgeschichte ginge verloren.“ www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek will den Zettelkatalog entsorgen lassen

Der Generaldirektor der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will große Teile des Zettelkatalogs entsorgen lassen. Ein einzigartiges Monument der Wissensgeschichte ginge verloren.

www.faz.net

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · Aug 16

It's a book! Es ist da!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Aug 15

“Theory’s” material basis: the inventor of modern liberty was a committed agent of corporate colonialism, in this case “operating behind the scenes…to reorganize commercial relations between Ireland & England” by artificially suppressing Irish wool trade to further English imperial interests

The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript

www.cambridge.org

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Anthony Obst @aobst.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fred Moten has a nice way of explaining that too. keywords.nyupress.org/american-cul...

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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you are thinking with & about Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, please consider submitting a proposal to this upcoming conference in Paderborn/Germany in May 2026 to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Organized by Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen and Maria Robaszkiewicz, abstracts due end of August.

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · Aug 14

1/8 Moving from our recent special issues, a look into our latest regular issue: First up, Carl Wilén (Lund) analyses recent trends in the literature of the Haitian Revolution in "Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An image of a painting: "Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot" (4 - march 24, 1802). Original illustration by Auguste Raffet, engraving by Hébert.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):

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Lotte List @lottelist.bsky.social · Aug 6

Is the human being by nature good or evil? And what does this imply for a theory of post-revolutionary political institutions? Big questions and some tentative answers in my newly published article:

Which Human Is Needed for the Revolution? On the Role of Philosophical Anthropology for a Marxist Political Theory

The article addresses a common objection against Marxism, as formulated by Carl Schmitt: that it may be able to criticize the bourgeois state, but that it remains unable to formulate a political th...

www.tandfonline.com

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · Jul 26

10. Calling the territories that formed the Holy Roman Empire “states” is anachronistic

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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