John-Erik Hansson

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

12 funded PhDs in "Aesthetics of Democracy" at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Perfect for anyone who has absorbed my book 'The Landscape of Utopia' ;) aesthetics-of-democracy.de?lang=en

Étudiante accusée d'antisémitisme: Jean-Noël Barrot annonce un gel des évacuations de Gazaouis vers la France le temps de l'enquête Le ministre des Affaires étrangères a annoncé ce vendredi 1er août un gel des évacuations de Gazaouis vers la France le temps de l'enquête sur l'étudiante de Sciences Po Lille accusée d'antisémitisme.

Le rapport ? 😡

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Par ailleurs, les copies étant en souvent nominatives, on court le risque de donner des informations perso à une IA...

Y a *rien* qui va sur cette couverture. Quel enfer.

Photo of masked activists with their fists in the air holding a banner that reads "No to US/USSR Imperialism. Mayday! Anarchist Contingent. The banner text is in red and black paint. The A's in Mayday and Anarchist are circled. There is a black star.

"No to US/USSR imperialism. Mayday! Anarchist Contingent" (1988)

One of the most interesting aspects of writing about anarchism in the 1980s-90s is their position re: the Soviet Union as it fell. They had great hope, but also saw the dangers of capitalist transformation. 1/

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Applying for this job was one of the best decisions I've ever made!

Drop me a message if you're interested and want to learn more about our current team and how it all works.

Kircher 1664

York conference, cfp, Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment, c. 1580-1750

University of York, 26th-27th June 2026 (with corrected dates!)

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Any queries to Kevin Killeen at: yorkconference@scientificpoetry.org

F. Bayrou : "Nous sommes devenus accros à la dépense publique"

Les faits : depuis 20 ans, le taux annuel de croissance des aides publiques aux entreprises est 3,3 fois plus rapide que celui des aides sociales et 3 fois que le PIB.
Voilà ce qui aggrave les déficits

#Budget2026

What's really sad is that Omer Bartov has been saying this for months.

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Apr 2025: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
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An IWW gazebo with four faceless individuals within

Thank you to everyone who came to our stall today! And a special thanks to the organisers at Durham Gala for their hard work in making it another great day.

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Manuscript letter from 1987 that reads "Dear Anarchists, A simple plea to the educated and academically-incorporated. Please use your middle-class advantages to fight fascist dictatorship. One word could equall a million riots or you may prefer one riot could equall a million words." Under the text is a drawing of a clenched fist.

And another joy of working with the @freedompress.bsky.social archives is to stumble upon this letter from 1987 which hits way too hard.

Wildcat strip by Donald Rooum. In the first box, the Free-Range Egghead character, on the left, says "there's no guarantee of reaching anarchy, but we can certainly work towards anarchy". A robot on the right replies "I have a formula for reaching a totally free and equal society in three simple steps...". the Revolting Wildcat character stands between the two speakers, listening to them in turn. In the second box, the robot continues and says "step one: the working class rises against the capitalist class. Step two: the working class seizes power. Step three:". He is cut off by Revolting Wildcat who asks: "Excuse me. What does 'the working class' mean??". In box 3, the robot, now looking evil and holding a knife, replies: "In the context of Step one, 'the working class' means all those who must work in order to live. In the context of Step two, the working class means me".

One of the joys of going through @freedompress.bsky.social archives is of cross-checking things with the newspaper/magazine itself, and stumbling on Donald Rooum's Wildcat comics.

Cover of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory with an image of Palestinian Tartreez

Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it.
A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory.

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Thanks for the tip (and ca. 10 years ago is recent enough)!

Calling #Skystorians :
I will be teaching an intensive seminar on academic writing in English for MA history students in France. Do you have any recommendations for particularly well written articles that you have read recently?

Calling #Skystorians :
I will be teaching an intensive seminar on academic writing in English for MA history students in France. Do you have any recommendations for particularly well written articles that you have read recently?

Thanks so much, Sarah! Excited to share this post – it marks my first academic publication 🎉 The article explores anarchists and anti-imperialists during the Second World War. Would love to hear anyone's comments or feedback so please get in touch :)

There is a PhD scholarship on offer for someone to come and work on Asterix, with me, at Monash:
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Et bienvenue à tout le monde ! :)

Envelope with a pencil illustration representing a hand in shackles emerging from the sea, holding a flower. The text below the illustration reads: "the future is brighter".

A snippet from today's archival digs at @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. I'm getting increasingly lost in the documents, but this illustrated envelope, dated 30 nov. 1944 and addressed to Marie Louise Berneri and Vernon Richards, is a real standout.

*by "whole series", I mean max 10!

There's a whole series of those - email me! That said I really know very little about them, and it didn't seem to me that the letters they contained were kept (... or kept in the same place!)

Thank you <3

Ah c'est l'avantage des centres d'archives: tout est climatisé !

Mais je dis surtout que c'est une bonne question parce que je suis en train de me perdre complètement dans les archives 😅

Pour ça je suis parti voir les archives de Vernon Richards et de @freedompress.bsky.social à Amsterdam.

C'est une bonne question... ! Je suis retourné à l'histoire de l'anarchisme au 20è via la réception de W. Godwin. Je m'intéresse plus généralement à (1) la question des "intellectuel·les anarchistes" et (2) à la façon dont les anarchistes ont (ré)écrit leur histoire.