Paul Mazzocchi

alright going to try this again as well because i promised a comrade—does anyone have a PDF scan or institutional access to Bände 8-9 of the Korsch Gesamtausgabe? Would love to read letters he exchanges with Horkheimer in the late 30s about the Spanish Civil War, counterrevolution, & positivism!

the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!

Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).

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.

cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

New paper on the concept and politics of freedom of assembly, co-written with @mflohr.bsky.social and published in Politics and Society!

◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️

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

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

CfP: @hannavoelkle.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue on the ‘theories and politics of time’ in femina politica. Journal for feminist political science.
We want to examine the theoretical foundations of time, politics, and gender.

Gendersky, Polisky
@barbarabudrich.bsky.social

Lectures de Miguel Abensour | Collection Cahiers Philosophiques Découvrez l'ouvrage Lectures de Miguel Abensour | Collection Cahiers Philosophiques

Great to see that the new issue of Cahiers Philosophiques is dedicated to the work of Miguel Abensour www.vrin.fr/livre/978271...

Reification: Contemporary Perspectives Saulius Jurga, Konstantinos Kavoulakos (eds) A key philosophical theme across traditions including German Idealism, Marxism, critical theory, phenomenology, and existentialism, “reification” (from the...

Not self-promotion and I suspect you've already come across these...but just in case:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
www.academia.edu/79011135/Rei...

I'm happy to announce that on June 26th, at Douglas College, @lethejerome.bsky.social will be giving the talk, "Uncommon Ground: Camus and Sartre on Colonialism." Free and open to the public.

Seems like it could be the case. In which case, the book on reification was reified!

Per another comment, on page 7 of Adventures, Merleau-Ponty says HCC "was for a while the Bible of what was called Western communism." Then the chapter on HCC is called "'Western' Marxism." On page 59, he says that the adversaries of Lenin called themselves (in Korsch's words) "Western Marxism."

Join Étienne Balibar for the grand finale of Marx 13/13 in person in Paris at the @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Global Paris Center, 4 rue de Chevreuse, this coming Tuesday, May 27th, at 4:30 PM Paris time. Info here: globalcenters.columbia.edu/events/marx-... and marx1313.law.columbia.edu/13-13/

Horkheimer's Letters with Korsch (1938-1939) Their plans for the "dialectic": on problems in politics & positivism.

Translated a few letters from Korsch to Horkheimer in 38/39, & one from Horkheimer in reply, on their planned collaboration on the “dialectics” book (that would become Dialectic of Enlightenment) re: problems of positivism & politics!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

The poster of the conference

This week at the University of Kassel:
‘ #Adorno and #Marx ’
11th annual mmeeting of
the Association for
Adorno Studies
@philiphogh.bsky.social
www.adornostudies.org/wp-content/u...

Save the date:
Fanon Today: Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives
International Symposium
Berlin, July 22-23, 2025
organized by @vethompson.bsky.social, @raulzelik.bsky.social & me

The Utopia and Failure Network will host their final workshop in London in September. Places are limited, and registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fail-again...

Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle
Register here
👇
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...

C.L.R. James Research Fellowship - AAIHS Application Deadline–November 1, 2025 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the 2026 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support research towards the complet...

CLR James Research Fellowship to promote research in Black intellectual history. Deadline 1 Nov. www.aaihs.org/aaihs-awards...

[LES CARNETS DE L'IMEC]
"Miguel Abensour, penseur-éditeur", par Michele Cohen-Alimi.
À lire dans Les Carnets de l'Imec :
imec-archives.com/matieres-pre...
#imecarchives #archives #recherche #miguelabensour

The Politics of Critical Theory: A Conversation with Alex Demirović and Jacob Blumenfeld - KTB Webinar in English 19:00 Berlin (California: 10am / New York: 1pm) ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/register/7YJaqR8WQRKhCkpgx6xOug#/registration

📆 Save the Date: - Online Event! - One week from today Jacob Blumenfeld will talk to Alex Demirović about the history of Critical Theory, the role of critical intellectuals in society and his experiences in the New Left and beyond. Zoom link on our website:

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...

The Politics of Critical Theory: A Conversation with Alex Demirović

Wednesday, May 14, 19:00 CEST, Webinar/Zoom

Register now!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...

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Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but maybe a useful piece in the genealogy:
www.academia.edu/61316752/Mar...

Call of Papers: Law & Revolution in Florence

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The website of our research project on global authoritarianism has launched: emergencies-of-authoritarianism.org. And you should all follow us on social media!

Finishing the copyedits of an edited volume on "Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire," which I co-edited with Gaard Kets. With contributions by Martin Breaugh, Ruth Kinna, Dario Azzellini, and many more. If all goes well, this should be rolling off the press by August this year.

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