robin celikates

“The least we can do here is to break the silence … You are not alone, we are not alone, we will not be alone.”

listen to Emin Alper’s acceptance speech at Berlinale on the meaning of solidarity

Wer keine politischen Gefangenen kennt oder nie jemanden durch eine Hinrichtung verloren hat, kann leicht sagen „Ich bin unpolitisch“. In Wirklichkeit ist es intellektuelle Faulheit und Ignoranz.

Danke, Emin Alper, für diese schöne Rede und die Solidarität mit allen (!) Unterdrückten.

Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist ...

The second, final installment of my interview w/ historian Peter Linebaugh on @thedigradio.bsky.social: Luddites' machine-breaking revolt, the centrality of capital punishment in consolidation of capitalist state, remaking struggle against enclosure for 21st century. thedigradio.com/podcast/brea...

„Antifaschistische Kämpfe müssen sich auch gegen staatliche Motoren der Faschisierung richten, statt sich nur auf die Rolle von rechtsextremen Akteuren zu konzentrieren.“ Vanessa E. Thompson über die Wichtigkeit, Antifaschismus abolitionistisch zu denken

Faschismus ist kein Ausnahmezustand, sondern Teil der Geschichte des Kapitalismus. Schwarze radikale und antikoloniale Theoretiker*innen zeigen, dass koloniale Gewalt, Rassismus und Imperialismus die Grundlagen faschistischer – und kapitalistischer – Herrschaft bilden.

“States claiming to uphold human rights, justice & the rule of law should invest their time & energy in holding to account perpetrators of egregious human rights violations, rather than targeting those investigating & exposing international crimes in an objective way.”

👀 @aussenminister.diplo.de

ATELIER DE THÉORIE POLITIQUE - PARIS 19/02/2026 - 12h30-14h30 - salle Q-801, American University of Paris, 6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris. Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin), « Across the Color Line: Theorizing Racism in Europe » Séance animée par Julian Culp.

if you’re in Paris:

I will give a talk tomorrow at 12:30 in the Atelier de théorie politique Paris on critical theory and state racism in the current conjuncture

« Across the Color Line: Theorizing Racism in Europe »

American University of Paris

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“Berlinale has not met the demands to issue a statement that affirms the Palestinian right to life, dignity & freedom; condemns the ongoing Israeli genocide; and commits to uphold the right of artists to speak in support of Palestinian human rights. This is the least it can – and should – do.”

Close Attention - Dissent Magazine An interview with Frederick Wiseman.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

ĐINH VAN, Đia, 1972 (Plate showing a horse)

Happy New Year of the Horse to all who celebrate 🎊

do you find that surprising?

“climate is one of the threats but also migration … we are reading from the same paper … this is a common ground for a bright future”

Wadephul didn’t only applaud, he’s reading from the same fascist ‘paper’

their bright future is so dark for the rest of us

this afternoon!

Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

thanks to
@quinnslobodian.com @leaypi.bsky.social @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social
for deciding not to participate in this “symposium” featuring an openly fascist speaker

what a shame Krastev et al stick with Yarvin

www.schloss-elmau.de/kultur/sympo...

Wenn der Außenminister im „Bericht aus Berlin“ sagt, dass die Rede von Rubio verbindend gewesen sei und insbesondere den kulturellen Aspekt betont habe, dann meint er damit White Supremacy.

Was für schreckliche Zeiten uns bevorstehen.

“The bases of authoritarianism have been hiding in plain sight: the jail, the prison, the police stop, the police union. Even as Trump’s administration embraces authoritarianism from above, in recent months it has also been steadily strengthening these sources of authoritarianism from below.“

Agnès Callamard, Generalsekretärin von Amnesty International:

„Während die entsprechenden Staaten eine UN-Expertin attackieren, bleiben sie angesichts der Vorwürfe von Völkermord, Apartheid und rechtswidriger Besatzung durch Israel untätig. Das ist nicht anders als Feigheit zu nennen.“

Rubios Rede ist nur im Ton charmanter als die von Vance vor einem Jahr. Ihr ausdrückliches Programm ist ein neuer Imperialismus im Zeichen von white supremacy. Mehr hier von Stephan Detjen 🎧👇🏾

@meinel.bsky.social über das Verfassungsgericht auf dem Weg auf die dunkle Seite der Macht

@melindacooper.bsky.social

“Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.”

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the…

Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...

That was a whole lot of sinister fascist demagoguery from Rubio: Europe is suffering from civilisational decline, threatened by alien invaders, intwined destiny, strength through unity, rejection of shame, proud history, ein Volk, ein Reich….

an exemplary response in a comparable scenario:

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i think the record on this is pretty clear, no?

sure, but this step is not yet completed in Europe and in any case it needs to be fought

Lieber Milo Rau, Es freut mich außerordentlich, dass Ihre Veranstaltung wegen begründeter Absagen durch ExpertInnen nun in Bedrängnis kommt. Vielleicht klappt es ja durch gemeinsame Solidarität, Ihre VA auf den letzten Metern zu kippen. Niemand bei politischem Verstand und Kenntnis der Lage würde an einer VA teilnehmen, die zentralen Akteuren der Faschisierung (AfD, Vorfeld, R21, NIUS, usw) sowohl Bühne als auch Fördermittel aus der Kulturstiftung des Bundes zukommen lässt. Stimmen aus Wissenschaft und kritischer Zivilgesellschaft mit Leuten wie Ahrens, Rödder oder Cotar auf eine Ebene zu stellen, schließt eigentlich jede Ernsthaftigkeit Ihres Format aus. Ich würde nicht mal für Geld (was Sie nicht angeboten haben) an dieser populistischen Staatstheater-und Bundgeförderten Faschisierungsscheisse teilnehmen wollen. Anderen Projekten, die diese Entwicklungen bekämpfen, wichtiges Theater und Forschung dabei machen, fehlt das Geld. Verantwortungsloser als Sie und das Thalia da agieren geht es eigentlich nicht. herzlichen Gruss Dr. Simon Strick PS: Falls Sie Interesse haben, ich hab neulich einen Vortrag über Faschisierung und deutsche Völkermordleugnung gehalten: Zentrales Beispiel war Poschardt bei ihren Wiener Kongressen.

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Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026 The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.

Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

🚨🚨 Die Vereinigung französischer Jurist*innen hat Anzeige erstattet wegen der Verbreitung von Falschnachrichten in Bezug auf das manipulierte Video von Francesca Albanese.

Hier die englischsprachige Aussendung👇🏼