Adriana Zaharijević on transactional authoritarianism in Serbia: a system that transforms citizens into clients& public goods into private resources.It discourages political thinking and renders institutions increasingly hollow. However, the Serbian student movement is resisting youtu.be/_7vfeHSGB9o
Also check out our other Dispatches from India, Mexico, Argentina, and Turkey
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New Dispatch! With Adriana Zahatijevic on Transactional Authoritarianism in Serbia.
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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
In this Emergency Call, we spoke with an anonymous grassroots organization that supports activist groups and individuals facing intense pressure and serious danger in today’s militarist and authoritarian Russia
youtu.be/B-0geG3uvxs
Open Letter by over 1000 scholars in support of Francesca Albanese and her commitment to international law, universal human rights and legal accountability
In the absence of accountability, justice becomes unattainable.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/open-letter-...
@dominikherold.bsky.social Buch "Radikale Demokratie und die Macht des Affektiven" ist nun in unserer Reihe "Philosophie und Kritik" erschienen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
These calls are a truly amazing resource and deserve more attention!
@eoaproject.bsky.social just published a new "Emergency Call" with an activist in Russia, reporting on their struggle against authoritarianism on the ground. Check out our website for a collection of calls with activists all around the world. emergencies-of-authoritarianism.org/emergency-ca...
HEUTE 23.02.2026 | 19:00–21:15 Uhr
"Innere Sicherheit neu denken: Demokratische Polizeikritik zwischen Reform und Überwindung"
Mit @danielloick.bsky.social und Marie-Theres Piening diskutieren wir die Rolle der Polizei in der demokratischen Gesellschaft.
#Sicherheit #Demokratie #Polizeikritik
The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe truthout.org/articles/the...
Schwarze Menschen fürchten um ihre Sicherheit in Deutschland, nicht erst seit der 21-jährige Lorenz A. getötet wurde. Denn Politiker*innen ignorieren den strukturellen Rassismus bei der Polizei. Mehr dazu heute in der taz und auf taz.de.
Glad to be included in this list<3
9. Daniel Loick, "The Abuse of Property" big thanks to @cominsitu.bsky.social for putting this on my radar, as it turns out to be invaluable research for my current book - packs a lot into a very short space on the philosophical, political and social critiques of property. Highly recommended 🏚️👻
Does owning property make you more fascist? Or does not owning property? I wrote a short piece for @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social trying to figure it out. Read on for the absolutely correct answer!
www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2026/02/13/f...
This is what fascism looks like.
Federal "officers used racial slurs and sorted everyone in the crowd into groups “based on perceived immigration status,” the lawsuit says. Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy director of policing at the ACLU, said people were treated “less than human.”
Amna Akbar on despair and hope, coloniality and commune in Minneapolis
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
‘I saw Black & brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents … bodies, that is how they refer to us. “We’re bringing in a body.” You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are being called a body.’
Aliya Rahman, on being detained by ICE
🔥 Jan 2027
Jesus fucking Christ
More on ICE's purchase & conversion of [surplus] mega-warehouses into detention centers.
Back in the day, critics of the lack of programming inside argued that prisons weren't rehabilitating people, but simply warehousing them.
Wenn ich die Filmaufnahmen sehe, die der Artikel verlinkt, fallen mir Worte ein wie: Friedlicher Widerstand, zivilgesellschaftl. Engagement, kreativer Protest, Mut. @spiegel.de sieht dasselbe wie ich und macht daraus "grenzenlosen Hass".
Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism
“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
"es sind tödliche Schüsse gefallen" - die Schönheit der deutschen Sprache liegt in ihren Passivkonstruktionen
Daniel Loick (@danielloick.bsky.social): „Auch das bestehende Völkerrecht (ist) Ergebnis einer von imperialen Zentren bestimmten Weltordnung. Linke sollten herrschende Vorstellungswelten nicht einfach verteidigen, sondern erweitern.“
Text: @raulzelik.bsky.social 👇🏼
www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1197...
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
Morgen!
