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Paul Mazzocchi

@abensourreader.bsky.social

Long suffering adjunct faculty in Toronto. Political theory. Puppies. Pizza. Pasketball. https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of-Emancipation https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442650046

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

05.08.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️

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

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

02.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7

CfP: @hannavoelkle.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue on the β€˜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

28.07.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lectures de Miguel Abensour | Collection Cahiers Philosophiques DΓ©couvrez 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...

25.06.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reification: Contemporary Perspectives Saulius Jurga, Konstantinos Kavoulakos (eds) A key philosophical theme across traditions including German Idealism, Marxism, critical theory, phenomenology, and existentialism, β€œreification” (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...

13.07.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

11.06.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

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

03.06.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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."

03.06.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join Γ‰tienne 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/

22.05.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œdialectics” book (that would become Dialectic of Enlightenment) re: problems of positivism & politics!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

21.05.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
The poster of the conference

The poster of the conference

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

18.05.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

19.05.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

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...

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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 β€˜from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle
Register here
πŸ‘‡
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...

13.05.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

09.05.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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[LES CARNETS DE L'IMEC]
"Miguel Abensour, penseur-Γ©diteur", par Michele Cohen-Alimi.
Γ€ lire dans Les Carnets de l'Imec :
imec-archives.com/matieres-pre...
#imecarchives #archives #recherche #miguelabensour

17.02.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

πŸ“† Save the Date: - Online Event! - One week from today Jacob Blumenfeld will talk to Alex DemiroviΔ‡ 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...

07.05.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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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...

23.04.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

23.04.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Law & Revolution: Prefiguration or Abolition? This event explores the complex and contested role of law in revolutionary politics, asking whether law can prefigure the future we seek - or whether it must be abolished to make it possible. Drawing ...

Call of Papers: Law & Revolution in Florence

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

09.04.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

04.04.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

03.04.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

200% tariffs!

03.04.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

for not fully embracing more revolutionary aspects of Marxism. It’s not so much about "cheating" but about differing perspectives and priorities in adapting Marxist thought to specific historical and cultural circumstances." Seems Danish Marxism may have taken over AI to avoid your tariffs.

03.04.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

To keep in step with existing tariff policies I ran this question through ChatGPT. Here's what it said (seriously): "Danish Marxists might be criticized for either focusing too heavily on state welfare systems and democratic socialism (which some see as a "soft" version of Marxism) or, conversely,

03.04.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What's the specific tariff policy on Danish Marxism?

03.04.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Critical Theory of Social Domination

Guess this means I need to finish it: www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

31.03.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Cathie is. Bud was too. I played a few times in a pickup basketball game he organized while I was in high school. Two very, very kind people. A Vancouver connection of some sort I'm guessing? Also passed along the story to my Mom (she got back from spending a week with Cathie a month or so ago).

23.03.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great story, Bruce. Cathie is one of my Mom's closest friends so I've heard chunks of this over the years. But it's pretty visceral to read and hear in her own words. Also, sort of strange finding out via the Star (after knowing him for 30+ years) that Bud's actual name was Raymond.

23.03.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

CFP: Feminist Utopias at Work: Reorganise, Redefine, Abolish. University of Strasbourg, France, Thu 6 and Fri 7 Nov 2025. Submission deadline: 1 June 2025https://we-coop.eu/en/2025-symposium/

18.03.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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