İbrahim Berkan Karataş

The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus by Jackson Herndon

The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus - @jhideas.bsky.social blog
www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

Sending greetings from Antwerp! :)

Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory

Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
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Before the new season drops:

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As a sequel to telegraph discontent, the Post Office authorities are now threatened with a petition from the lady telegraphists. The objection is to compulsory work after 8 p.m. Here again, we think, is & legitimate grievance; for even Schopenhauer himself would have admitted the hardship of unmarried girls having to go home unattended in the small hours of the morning.

I've fallen down a rabbit hole of looking up Schopenhauer's first mentions in British newspapers. Here in the Daily Mail (Wednesday, August 25, 1897), Schopenhauer is invoked in a labour dispute launched by female telegraphists working at the Post Office.

Book Recommendation:

This piece gives Hegel his due and redraws the map around him. It reads the master-slave dialectic alongside the Haitian Revolution and asks why Europe’s “universal” story kept that event off the page. Sharp, political, and genuinely eye-opening.

Book recommendation:

If you’re into left politics but tired of pure “resistance” aesthetics, this is a sharp, readable case for building a post-work agenda around automation, shorter working hours and universal basic income, plus a strategy for actually winning hegemony instead of just protesting.

title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human participation with synthetic data author: Abeba Birhane abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight, and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations, Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public

synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

🚨 Call for presentations: “Deep Learning and Culture” panel

🔍 We're organizing a panel on “Deep Learning and Culture” at the STS NL Conference (Uni of Twente, 17-19 April 2026).

📮 Please submit your abstract here: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n.... Deadline: 07 Jan. 2026.

See you there :)

State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier, Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt’s 1934 tract, <i>Stat...

Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier - trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, @politybooks.bsky.social, December 2025
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

i really do understand the frustration but this stance is also anti science. we have a huge multidisciplinary lit in sociology, psychology, history, anthro that deals with this. see work by eg @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, john hannigan…

www.jstor.org/stable/27366...

Carnets inédits Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public. Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture

Marc Bloch, Carnets Inédits 1917-1943 - Éditions Amsterdam, October 2025
www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...
Thanks to @johnraimo.bsky.social aimo for the link

Compassionate Curmudgeon - The American Scholar Why we must root ourselves in the real world

Lovely review of my book by fellow @uchicagopress.bsky.social author Robert Zaretsky

Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026 From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters

Deadline for HM Istanbul extended!!!

"Dear all, we are delighted by your interest in our conference. In response to requests, we are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline by 10 days. The new deadline for paper and panel submissions is 3 December 2025."
hmistanbul.org

From Structure to History: Applying Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to the Archive — Keanu Heydari This essay offers a close reading of Pierre Bourdieu’s “Social Space and Symbolic Power” (1989) and interprets its significance for historical research. It investigates how Bourdieu’s concepts of soci...

Bourdieu’s “Social Space and Symbolic Power” can help historians see how structures and institutions shape both social life and the writing of history. It calls for reflexive scholarship that recognizes its own place within systems of power and meaning.

‘Lukács Day’ has begun in Heidelberg. First stop: Keplerstr. 28, one of his residences in the city during the 1910s.

Hermes III Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common languageHermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel ...

Michel Serres, Hermes III - trans. Randolph Burks, @uminnpress.bsky.social, February 2026
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Günümüz sosyal ve beşeri bilimlerin en popüler isimlerinden Byung-Chul Han’ı sistematik ve bütüncül bir şekilde eleştiren makalem açık erişim olarak yayımlandı. Üç yıllık bir düşünsel emeğin sonucu. İstifade edeni bol olsun.

Tamamı için PDF Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility Click on the article title to read more.

Happy to announce that my latest article is now available open access.

Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility - Karataş - Constellations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Iraq, #Syria, and #Yemen.

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Highlight of my summer readings so far: Charles Stépanoff on the history and anthropology of human-animal interactions. On multi-species societies in Siberia and why Enlightenment philosophy and industrialization are to blame for the agricultural crisis today.

Cover of book, with photograph of a group of men with surveying equipment standing in front of a mountain range

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s…

Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/20/a...

Welcome to the desert of neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism isn’t just economic; it’s a mindset. It shapes how we live, feel, and relate. No solidarity, no vision. Just competition, precarity, empty promises. A desert: all surface, no substance.

Modern French Marxism "Modern French Marxism" published on 26 May 2025 by Brill.

Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025
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Books in this series published in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org 12 months later.

A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 49 volunteers.

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.93 (lookback time 7.66 billion years) with coordinates (149.70853, 2.81202).

49 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa - @universitypress.cambridge.org, July 2025
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“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”

Edward W. Said

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”

Jean Baudrillard