@danielpalacios.bsky.social
Postdoc at UNED | Researching Monuments through a Materialist Lens
I can’t believe Asad Haider has passed away. His book Mistaken Identity from 2018 on how identity politics is a neoliberal construction to neutralize anti racism and progressive movements was so cynically maligned by some real humanities grifters.. We needed his voice. RIP. What a loss
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Emancipatory politics, in my view, begins with a decision. Not some kind of decision about who your friends and enemies are, but a decision about people's capacity. Are people equal, and are people capable of governing themselves? These are not questions subject to proof. But once we've made a decision about emancipatory politics, we have to see that as antagonism in the whole history of political thought. Marx was not the first to say that everyone should rule; he was a careful student of the history of politics, and even if he came more and more to restrict his scientific analysis to the specificity of the capitalist mode of production, he understood that the question of emancipation appears across time and across worlds. If you can't take that position, if you're unwilling to make a decision on emancipation and instead resort to the laws of historical necessity and their liberal supplement, then you've ended up far away from Marx himself, no matter how fervently you might claim to be a Marxist.
RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
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Nos ha dejado Asad Haider, una mente brillante, militante socialista y uno de los fundadores y editores de la revista Viewpoint Magazine
Rest in Power 💔
#OtD 5 Dec 1891 pioneering Russian constructivist artist and revolutionary Alexander Rodchenko was born in a working class family in St Petersburg stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1049...
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Ayer publicamos un tema interesantísimo en @es.theconversation.com de @danielpalacios.bsky.social sobre la resignificación del Valle de los Caídos. Bastante apasionante la discusión. theconversation.com/tiene-fundam...
03.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0¡Muchas gracias @ramonfacal.bsky.social!
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@danielpalacios.bsky.social un bien argumentado artículo sobre la imposbilidad de resignificar el Valle de los Caídos
theconversation.com/tiene-fundam...
“Es imposible la resignificación mientras este lugar siga sacralizado”, subrayaba ayer Miguel Ángel Muga, presidente del Foro por la Memoria de la Comunidad de Madrid.
'Exhumar en guerra. La investigación judicial y forense republicana de las muertes en la retaguardia (1936-1939)', de Miriam Saqqa Carazo @miriamsaqaacarazo.bsky.social, Oriol Dueñas Iturbe y Queralt Solé Barjau. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/OTnr7hk
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Why iconoclasm isn't vandalism—it's about class struggle. Join us to discuss heritage, monuments, and memory at the launch of our upcoming book "Redefining Monuments" this Thursday at @soasuni.bsky.social during #HMLondon2025 @histmat.bsky.social !
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#OtD 29 Oct 1956 Israeli armed forces massacred 48 Palestinian citizens of Israel in the village of Kafr Qasem, inc women (one of whom was pregnant) and children. At 4:30pm, they brought in a 5pm curfew, and killed people as they came home from work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1164...
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Join us, comrades!
Online registration for the HM London Conference ends on Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
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És per això que és important continuar mobilitzades!
‼️ Perquè ens neguem a normalitzar el genocidi, l'ocupació, el colonialisme i l'apartheid a Palestina, però també als seus culpables.
📍Aquest dissabte 4-O: 12h a Jardinets de Gràcia.
I si assalten la Flotilla, al carrer! ✊
#PalestinaLliure 🇵🇸
Hoy a las 19:00etan gaur
Daniel Palacios González & José María Durán Medraño «¿Quién tiene derecho al monumento?»
Presentación de libro | Liburu aurkezpena
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Presentación del libro ¿Quién tiene derecho al monumento? @katakrak-lib.bsky.social
Con sus autores, Daniel Palacios González y José María Durán Medraño.
Martes 30SEPT 19hs, @ateneomaliciosa.net
https://acortar.link/wvYFYw
The interview also gives a shout-out to the new monument at the @claptoncfc.co.uk's ground, honouring the International Brigades. In a time of historical amnesia, this community-funded project is a tangible commitment to keeping antifascist praxis alive.
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/04/24/n...
I just had a fascinating conversation with Suzana Sudar for Radar magazine, #Serbia. We delved deep into how societies choose to remember—or forget—their past, drawing from Making Monuments from Mass Graves, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social.
radar.nova.rs/kultura-rada...
I'm currently facing a similar situation with those specific dates, but I'm juggling a one-week turnaround
29.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0¡Nuestro nuevo libro ya está aquí, de la mano de @katakrak54.bsky.social! 📖 Frente a la conservación de monumentos fascistas y coloniales por "no borrar la historia", nos preguntamos: ¿quién tiene derecho al monumento? 🏛️🔨con un estupendo prólogo de @vijayprashad.bsky.social
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#OtD 15 Jul 1976 Eva Schulze-Knabe, German artist, communist and resistance fighter, died aged 69. She was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis in 1933/34 but survived the war, then jailed for life in 1942 but freed from prison in 1945 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8685...
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De lectura obligada tras la entrevista:
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"Lo que se llama 'geografía crítica' nos da la oportunidad de pensar desde el materialismo histórico sobre cómo está producido el mundo y, por lo tanto, cómo deshacerlo, cómo convertirlo en otra cosa." - En la estupenda entrevista a Ruth Wilson Gilmore en @zonaestrategia.bsky.social
11.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Life is what happens to you while you're busy writing postdocs that are going to be rejected
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"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."
- I have a new essay out, read it here:
www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...
I strongly recommend the following reading on this topic:
igorzabel.org/en/publicati...
#OtD 22 Jun 1941 Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment, the first Yugoslav partisan unit, was founded following the Nazi occupation. Today is commemorated in Croatia as "Anti-Fascist Struggle Day" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9493...
22.06.2025 18:25 — 👍 58 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0📢 Excited to share that our paper, "Rethinking the legal definitions of cultural heritage from gender and decolonial perspectives," is in the latest volume of Huarte de San Juan, Geografía e Historia. shorturl.at/wkHeY
Many thanks to the journal team, the reviewers and @danielpalacios.bsky.social .
Muy afortunado de haber podido editarlo! Gracias por vuestro trabajo!
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