Gen Eickers

I think we should *speak to* the topics as they come and go and *offer courses* on them. We often have interesting things to say. We should not *restructure the discipline* or *designate positions* to such topics. (I talked about this 2023 with decision makers in my institution. but alas ...)

Grund achtundreißig dafür, genauer auf Ostmitteleuropa zu schauen: das Klischee der kleinen, ignorierten Nationen wird zunehmend zum politischen Instrument.
Fico spricht ständig von den "großen Jungs" in Europa, gegen die nur er sein Land verteidigen könne. Bratislava werde in Brüssel ignoriert. 1

Terrible decision that will damage scientific integrity to the core

daddy war da

Liberation, not collapse The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

maybe don’t use AI to create references? …. or for any work on your papers? wild, i know

Just saw people arguing that the shooting in Sydney wasn’t antisemitic because Chabad is a Zionist movement, and killing Zionists is fine.

Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.

I’d listen to this just for the experience of it

I agree. At the same time: there is certainly academic philosophy out there that I don’t have the time to read but I could very well imagine to listen to while doing some other chore… so I’d actually like to see more of this.

Oh wow, I’m actually tempted now

🫣 Ha, I’m looking for people willing to review my scripts book!

Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls WER HAT DIE MACHT ZU HASSEN? – Erkundung eines politischen GefühlsDer Hass, dieses knirschende, zersetzende Gefühl, ist allgegenwärtig. Er brüllt von den Straßen oder flüstert in gutbürgerlicher Feind...

There’s a chapter on hate in Sara Ahmed’s book The Cultural Politics of Emotion. And there is a book by Şeyda Kurt on hate as a useful political emotion (German og but translated into English as well): www.harpercollins.de/products/has...

Mega, herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Just published: our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva, taking a close look at the legacy of Angela Davis, much of the Western left and the ongoing disengagement with dissent knowledges and liberation struggles in Europe’s East, Central and North Asia, emphasising the urgent need for epistemic reparations

Not a remotely original point, but I truly cannot understand the mindset of people who feel not just comfortable with hording huge amounts of wealth and resources, given how others live, but driven to preserving and even deepening those inequalities. I wouldn't know how to live with the shame.

There’s a new journal I am happy to be part of as section editor!

I have been critical of a lot of trans 101 style public education strategies but one little bit of progress I hoped we had made with cis people is that categorizing us “non-biological” doesn’t make sense

Es macht mich richtig betroffen, als Anglistin Hausarbeiten zu lesen, die ganz offensichtlich mit LLM verfasst wurden. Klar liest sich das oft flüssiger bzgl. der Grammatik etc., aber die Lesarten sind oberflächlich, hohl & die Stimmen der Studis überhaupt nicht mehr hörbar. 1/6

College Instructor Put on Leave Over Zero Grade for Gender Essay

The USA is becoming a Christian theocracy

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Weihnachtsfeier im Büro, mal “was anderes” tragen!

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD

Key findings:

Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅

😭

Another example of the burdens created when tech companies behave as untrustworthy social actors - people then go to great lengths to protect themselves even when it’s not necessary, at personal cost and compromising their ability to use the technology that does work

I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’

Trailblazer in trans scholarship: professor emeritus earns award for life's work - YFile Known for groundbreaking work in gender theory, Michael Gilbert/Miqqi Alicia Gilbert has been recognized for a lifetime of advancing transgender visibility, rights and inclusive education.

Trailblazer in trans scholarship: professor emeritus earns award for life's work www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/1...

Heute in Wien! trans Philosophie Workshop mit @sigmondrime.bsky.social & mir :-)

urise.univie.ac.at/mod/booking/...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Streit um Gedenken zum 9. November: „Leute im Publikum haben mich angeschrien“ Der US-Philosoph Jason Stanley sollte in der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt eine Rede halten. Sie wurde abgebrochen. Stanely ist schockiert.

1/ In case you missed it: on Sunday evening, Jason Stanley was invited to speak at the Jewish Community of Frankfurt to commemorate the November Pogrom of 1938 (referred to as 'Kristallnacht' in English). His talk was cut short after members of the audience shouted him down. German interview below:

Lorde knows!