Paul Mazzocchi

Ausschnitt aus Walter Benjamin's "Schicksal und Charakter", mit dem Wort "Befreiung" hervorgehoben

The new issue of Diacritics is on Walter Benjamin's short text "Fate and Character", edited by @tomvandeputte.bsky.social and others. I was so happy to contribute a text on "Liberation"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

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Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism
International Workshop
Friday, 13 February 2026
Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt
With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills
Please register by February 6!

New Directions in Utopian Studies With talks from Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker followed by discussion

Coming up in February, the AHRC Utopia and Failure Network hosts a discussion with Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker on "New Directions in Utopian Studies" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979739755...

Tomorrow we’ll start a two day workshop together with the post-foundational thought group at the University of Barcelona. Looking forward to “Un-Grounding Institutions”!

Here you'll find work on Jeanson as well as translations - also by @dzshaw.bsky.social !

Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of pres…

Here's an excerpt from my new book in Literary Hub. Remarkably, they chose a section on plantation profits, fetishism, and why enslaved people represented living labor not constant capital.
lithub.com/inside-the-p...

*new translation*

THE BOOK OF ABOLITIONS
by Karl Korsch

www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/the-...

Adorno-Horkheimer: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses’ (Jun./Jul. 1941). Letters towards “Walter Benjamin zum Gedächtnis” (1942).

Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

📢 IPW Lecture at the University of Vienna

We are very excited to be hosting Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz) next week with a lecture entitled “Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal”

Join us on November 17 at 6:15 PM
📍 Hörsaal 2, NIG, 2nd Floor
Moderation: Alexander Kurunczi

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...