Keanu Heydari

Grace approaches through the architecture of comprehension, a patience learned in method.

Dreams of integration and legacies of colonialism in French sports films Jonathan Ervine The way in which contemporary French sports films depict social justice issues is evolving. Not as many are based on the exploits of stereotypically macho males; an increasing amoun…

I recently wrote a blog article about legacies of colonialism in contemporary French sports films. I discussed some of the themes which feature in my upcoming book French Sports Films: Visions of Masculinity. Read it here:
cinemasocialjustice.org/2025/10/28/d...

The Politics of Sartre’s Grabuge — Keanu Heydari This article examines the “Politics of grabuge” passage in Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1961 Rome Lecture as a key demonstration of his late theory of subjectivity. It argues that Sartre’s recollection of the...

Sartre’s Rome Lecture turns the rejected title Le Grabuge into a study of how names shape history. My essay shows how that choice defined Les Temps modernes’ moral stance—transforming scandal into responsibility and theory into lived ethics.

Promotional image for The Revised Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. The left side lists new features in teal bullet points: “New Freud material, including 56 lectures, drafts, letters, forewords, and more,” “Expanded bibliography,” and “Entirely revised 24th volume.” The right side shows a close-up of a book cover with the title Sigmund Freud in large teal letters. The design is minimalist with a white background.

A little birdie managed to send me a beautifully formatted PDF file containing the 8,000+ pages of The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols.). The physical volumes cost $1,950, whereas the ebook costs $1,755.

“Do you have any other advice?” asked the boy.

“Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated,” said the horse.

😭😭😭

I cried so much.

Mainline Presbyterians have not needed to emphasize a particularly distinct identity because our way of organizing the church grows directly from our Reformed theology, where shared discernment and ordered governance express our faith in God’s sovereignty.

You’re braver than me. I did very much appreciate the Terry Eagleton book from the 80s about the novel, though. I haven’t read it myself but I am told Tom Keymer’s monograph is really good, too.

You’re reading the Richardson novel?

My kingdom for mean woke students!

more Catholic Social Teaching, I guess

I had the privilege of digitizing the cassettes during my 2023 visit to the IISH. It’s deeply meaningful to see these testimonies preserved and shared. Explore the collection here ⬇️
hdl.handle.net/10622/COLL00...

The collection includes 44 cassettes recorded by Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari with former Iranian political and student activists (in Persian). These recordings capture the voices of a generation that challenged authoritarianism and reimagined Iran’s future from exile.

This archive preserves oral histories of Iranian student activism abroad in the 1960s–70s—a crucial chapter in the global struggle for democracy and human rights.

The exterior of a modernist gray building with tall vertical windows and a broad staircase leading to glass doors. The facade bears the sign “Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis,” identifying the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

A small brown archival storage box with a white label reading “COLL00061 – Confederation of Iranian Students (National Union) Collection.” The box rests on a green desk near a wall outlet in a workspace for archival processing.

A vertical stack of eight labeled audio cassette tapes on a green table. The top four are Glatigny brand with patterned labels marked “FRX 18” and “CHRX II,” numbered 01 through 04. Below them are four Maxell UR cassettes with blue and green labels, numbered 05 through 08.

A portable cassette digitizer labeled “Super USB Cassette Capture” sits on a desk, connected by USB cable to an open laptop. The laptop screen displays the audio editing software Audacity with a waveform visible, indicating the digitization of cassette recordings.

Delighted to share that the Confederation of Iranian Students (National Union) Audio Collection is now available through the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam.

The measure isn't legally binding. The resolution calls on the French government to “denounce” the 1968 Franco-Algerian Agreement. It's symbolically very important, but afaik nothing has changed yet.

Pour la première fois, un texte porté par le RN a été approuvé par l’Assemblée nationale Les députés ont adopté, à une voix près, une proposition de résolution visant à « dénoncer » l’accord franco-algérien de 1968, qui offre aux Algériens des clauses spécifiques en matière de circulation...

For the first time, the National Assembly passed a far-right RN proposal (by one vote) to revoke the 1968 Franco-Algerian migration accord. The result exposed massive absenteeism on the left and signaled the collapse of the old republican front against the far right.

Survivors fleeing Sudan’s el-Fasher recount terror, bodies in streets Aid organisations fear that far fewer people than hoped have been able to leave the besieged Darfur city.

People who have fled the western city of el-Fasher in wartorn #Sudan are recounting horrific violence at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as aid workers say they fear only a fraction of the besieged city’s residents have managed to escape. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press

New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)

read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

Memory - EP by Liam Maher on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 6 Songs

I now have an album on Apple Music! music.apple.com/us/album/mem...

Little do you all know that the Last Judgment occurred invisibly in 1757.

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln Abstract This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

a fresco of the crucifixion of jesus; water and blood flowing from his side

Of Zion it shall be said, "Everyone was born in her,
and the Most High himself shall sustain her."…
The singers and the dancers will say,
"All my fresh springs are in you."
🕯️

Speaker Johnson says no 'path' for a 3rd Trump term The House speaker said he doesn't "see a way to amend the Constitution" to allow for Trump to seek a third term in office.

“It's been a great run, but I think the president knows, and he and I have talked about, the constrictions of the Constitution, as much as so many of the American people lament that,” Johnson said during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Could not agree more.

Other theobros. I couldn’t ever debate with arminians because I found their entire epistemology quite silly. I’m less certain about things these days, but I can tell you that God does not look through the “corridors of time” or whatever.

I read this in college and am reading it again for a class. Very much in the Reformed™ canon but I'm already noticing how this book has influenced me. It's probably culpable for forming me into the universal reconciliationist I am today

The Marrow controversy was one of my favorite things to debate when I was a Reformed theobro. Loved this book.

Born There, Sent Today A Homily on Matthew 21:28–32 & Psalm 87:1–7

This homily reflects on Jesus’ story of the two sons and Psalm 87. Both reveal a God who keeps widening the circle of belonging. True faith shows in simple acts of love; the quiet work of those already held by grace.

Il y a 2 problèmes avec le papier de F. Fukuyama : l'usage de la catégorie "populisme" ; une sous-estimation de l'ancienneté, des capacités d'organisation et de la puissance financière off-line des mouvements dont il parle. Cela fait plus de trente ans que la droite chrétienne vampirise le GOP 🤷‍♂️