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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

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The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 13d

Governing through conflict on Adorno's critique of postwar sociology

Click on the article title to read more.

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 14d

Jaerisch is still in Berlin. The Portuguese translator of the SC essay, Yasmin Afshar (also written on this work), introduced me to her a few years back. Other than Horkheimer and Eisler, as well as the sociological studies, one of the few people he co-authored anything with?

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 14d

Yes! Adorno imagined these as part of the same line of inquiry. He (and Jaerisch) opens the 'Social Conflict' essay explicitly linking it to the 'Laughter' lecture/essay. Completed a draft translation of the SC essay some time ago, but haven't managed to finish it. Should really pull my finger out.

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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 16d

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 17d

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context

by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 21d

Now published: issue 33.1 of the Historical Materialism journal. Featuring articles on Black radicalism in Detroit, Marx as a dialectical writer, translations of Julius Dickmann and Fabiola Escárzaga, the question of 'alien powers', Marxist epistemology, Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What, ...

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 21d

Oh god, I found it.

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 21d

You have a link that I can open, be mortified at, and then close again?

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 27d

For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December.

Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.

Poster for the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference, due to be held at the University of Warwick on 3 December 2025. The background for the poster is Paul Klee's Angelus Dubiosus( 1939). Listed speakers are: Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'Kane, Nadia Bou Ali, and Rosie Woodhouse.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 29d

video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Sep 5

Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon.

Join us this year (and every year) in November!

Twenty-Second Annual Conference Registration - Historical Materialism

Online registration is now open. Please register and pay the correct conference fee as soon as possible, as it helps us to plan ahead and ensure the smooth running of the conference. You can select ...

www.historicalmaterialism.org

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Magnus Møller Ziegler @magnusz.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · Aug 28

@magnusz.bsky.social informs me that the name of the cultural minister in the period was in fact Eichhörn!

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excellent micrological-Marxological detail there.

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Note the squirrel in the upper-left.

Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now online: 'Young Marx and the Wood-Theft Debates in Prussian Rhineland in the Early Nineteenth Century' by Kaan Kangal – and featuring this nineteenth-century caricature of Marx as Prometheus bound to a printing machine, published in the Rheinische Zeitung.

Essay: brill.com/view/journal...

A nineteenth-century black and white caricature of Karl Marx, showing him bound to a printing machine and pecked by an imperial eagle. Crushed beneath the printing machine, six female figures, each representing a different German city (such as Trier, Dusseldorf, and Aachen), wail in despair. The eagle has its foot tied, the string leading to the upper-left corner, where it is held by a squirrel.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 26

Coming soon in paperback!

The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

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Kat Hunfeld @kathunfeld.bsky.social · Aug 14

There is still time to sign up for what I am sure will be a fantastic event!

Kat Hunfeld @kathunfeld.bsky.social · Aug 8

Very excited for this book talk with @alybatt.bsky.social , Andreas Malm and myself hosted by @histmat.bsky.social - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-gifts...

'Free Gifts:' A Book Talk with Alyssa Battistoni

Join us for a discussion of 'Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature,' with author Alyssa Battistoni, Andreas Malm & Kat Hunfeld.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · Aug 2

Babe, wake up…

Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social · Aug 2

◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️

KORSCH/SCHMITT - including 7 new translations, and 2 interpretative essays

endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/kor...

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Nassima Sahraoui @nassimasahraoui.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are delightet to announce the call for the third issue of NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES on this highly topical theme: "Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis"

Guest editors: Ana Miranda Mora and Anna Migliorini.

Deadline: 31 January 2026 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Jul 12

Forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series: *Artistic Labour of the Body* by Rose-Anne Gush (@rsenne.bsky.social).

Artistic Labour of the Body

"Artistic Labour of the Body" published on 27 Nov 2025 by Brill.

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · Jun 24

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."

- I have a new essay out, read it here:

www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

Art and Abolition: A Proposal - Journal #155

Dominique Routhier on “art” as a fictional bourgeois category that arises from capitalist relations of production.

www.e-flux.com

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LCH @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · Jun 24

'Discussions about wealth and expropriation quickly become about everything else. How to discuss class warfare in a way that doesn’t become the fodder for some neoliberal or parochial moral?' Eunsong Kim (@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social) in the latest e-flux.

No Aesthetic Autonomy Without Labor Autonomy - Journal #155

Eunsong Kim probes how contemporary art conceals its exploitation of labor.

www.e-flux.com

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Internationale Günther Anders Gesellschaft @igag.bsky.social · Jun 23

CfP: Internationale Tagung zu Günther Anders (19.-20.2.26), organisiert von @buber-rosenzweig.bsky.social, @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, der IGAG und der Günther-Anders-Forschungsstelle.
Beiträge können bis zum 20.7.26 eingereicht werden. Infos:
www.guenther-anders-gesellschaft.org/s/Anders2026...

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Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social · Jun 20

⏰ Call for Papers zur Tagung »Kritische Theorie der Endzeit. Günther Anders als Denker der Gegenwart« am Institut für Sozialforschung (19./20.02.2026).

Wir freuen uns auf Einsendungen bis zum 20.07.!

Eine Langfassung des Calls gibt es hier👇 www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/cf....

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Esther Rose Leslie @afoggyplace.bsky.social · Jun 17

All gathered neatly.
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MayDay Radio | Dissonant Waves

MayDay Radio is a volunteer-run experiment in oral histories and sound production; it is a place to share equipment and skills; it is a platform to create new oral histories and activate existing arch...

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