Robert Heinze

Trying something out for a presentation on Postcolonial Studies and African History

Group of cyclists on a roundabout. Billboards, buses and highrise buildings in the background

Still enjoying #CritcalMass #Nairobi. Pollution is heavy but the ride is fun and super organized.

One of the best albums

From: @blogamf
https://indieweb.social/@blogamf/115476347616600845

This is btw a great little essay about the historical power of „fake news“, which is often quoted in texts about how Bloch came up with his famous book on the healing touch of medieval and early modern kings, and I am definitely thinking of using in teaching about the problems with AI

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French book design remains undefeated

"One of liberalism's poisonous legacies is the projection of the social as a space made from above, without its own power or consistency."

Verónica Gago in "Neoliberalism from Below" (p.4)

(Incidentally, I think this nails the difference between Giddens' notion of "civil society" and Gramsci's […]

Reading Lorena Herzog in @Ztschr_Prokla on AWS during Corona on the Metro for no particular reason

Colleagues have invited me to a discussion of subalternity in a journal forum and goddamn they made me become a Gramscian again.

Mostly because I discovered there is some great new literature out there on his concept of subaltern groups, which it suddenly dawned on me is really useful for my […]

Tried today to make sense of #informality today and how and why I still want to use terms like #informaleconomy and #informaltransport. Problem is the distinction formal/informal is largely predicated on position a short and geographically limited form of capitalist regulation, #fordism, as norm […]

Reading #Baudrillard s Symbolic Exchange and Death and it‘s eerie how well this fits as an analysis of the current conjuncture. Baudrillard remains the most Marxist of the Postmodernists, and his Freudomarxism and parallelism of value theory and semiotics leading him to diagnose the degradation […]

Didn‘t write a single word today but feel good because the citavi project is bursting of pdfs that I’ll never so much as look at again. All in a good day‘s work

From: @dbellingradt
https://hcommons.social/@dbellingradt/115328578543191636

Le Monde with a dossier on photographic archives of the war in Cameroon:

https://ehne.fr/fr/histoire-et-photos

@africanstudies

#africa #afrika #afrique #africanhistory #AfricanStudies

Schnell bewerben: Für die Tagung »Other Europes. Concepts, Histories, Narratives« sind fünf Reisestipendien an Masterstudierende zu vergeben. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 5. Oktober!

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Having watched both #Fanon biopics focusing on Blida now, Abdenour Zahzahs strikes me as a particularly focused reflection, instilling in the viewer more the situation in which Fanon found himself and inspired his particular anticolonialism. But if you don’t know too much about Fanon […]

Great reflection on the problem of „settler colonialism“ as a political and analytic term:

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos-afraid-of-settler-colonialism/

This semester, my class rooms will be screen-free. Students will have to bring print-outs of readings to class. Written assignments (with the exception of the final long paper) will be completed in class. The use of generative AI is not permitted. It's an experiment, and I'm curious to see how […]

… und digitale Ökonomien – macht das Buch besonders relevant für aktuelle Debatten in den Sozialwissenschaften. Ein Must-Read, um die aktuelle geopolitische Tektonik und die Dynamiken des zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus verstehen (und nutzen) zu können […]

…Imperialismus ist damit keine »Blockkonfrontation«, sondern eine produktive Logik kapitalistischer Herrschaft, die Konflikte hervorbringt + zugleich organisiert. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz – verfasst von 2 Experten für Globalisierung, Migration, logistische Infrastrukturen /3

… zu begreifen, bestimmen Sandro Mezzadra & Brett Neilson den Begriff komplett neu: als bewegliches Ensemble von Kriegsdynamiken, logistischer Infrastruktur, Finanzmacht und geopolitischen Verschiebungen, das sich in der Gegenwart multipolar entfaltet. /2

Cover unserer Neuerscheinung »Der Rest und der Westen. Kapital und Macht in einer multipolaren Welt« von Sandro Mezzadra und Brett Neilson

+ OUT NOW + Hightech in China, Krieg in der Ukraine, Hegemonieverlust in den USA. Was das alles miteinander zu tun hat, erklärt unsere Neuerscheinung »Der Rest und der Westen«. Statt #Imperialismus als Konkurrenz nationaler Großmächte oder als Expansionsstrategie »des Westens« /1

Längerer Artikel von mir über ein Buch und Podiumsdiskussion von und mit Carlo Ginzburg, Titel "Der Kampf geht weiter", FAZ epaper vom 11.06.2025)

Immer noch mein bester Artikel tbh

This is Mastodon for me tbh

Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär

excerpt from: Biagini, Cedric and Guillaume Carnino (ed.): Les Luddites en France, English translation: „Since Marx at least, it has been customary to portray Luddites as the first technophobes. This psychologisation ("these people are prey to an irrational fear and should therefore be reassured" - rhetoric combining progressivism and paternalism that would be taken up by all proponents of industrial progress 13) of a strong political act is a complete historical misinterpretation. In fact, the Luddite takes a resolutely technophile position, since he demands the destruction of machines in the name of his own know-how, that is, in the name of the technique of which he is the custodian.“

This is spot on #Luddism (eng. translation in alt)

Just fyi, in term of #LuddismStudies the French are of course way ahead and already have a fantastic #Luddite book series aptly named „Frankenstein“:

https://www.lechappee.org/collections/frankenstein

I used the data from the google sheet I did a while ago to make a #StarterPack for those researching in and about #Africa. Please let me know if you want on there (I was not able to add all of the accounts because not all servers allow it). Here's the Pack: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjM4/ […]

Kleiner Subskeet einer Lektüre: man entledigt sich nicht des #Eurozentrismus der Technikphilosophie, indem man lauter europäische Ethnolog*innen des 20. Jahrhunderts zitiert, die seit ca. 20 Jahren massiv wachsende #STS-Literatur aus dem globalen Süden aber ignoriert.

»Das Konzept des Westens ist im Niedergang«

Althistorikerin Josephine Quinn hält »den Westen« für eine Illusion und die Identifikation mit der Antike für zu weit hergeholt. Das Denken in Kulturen sei gefährlich, sie plädiert für Migration und offene Grenzen.

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I wrote about Samir #Amin and the necessarily transdisciplinary aspect of dependency theory between economists and historians in traverse . The editorial process was a joy and I’m looking forward to reading all the other great contributions 🤩!

https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28867#einblick