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POD EP10: Esther & Sebastian discuss Bloch’s 1932 fragment Nonsychronism & the Obligation to its Dialectics, a text that “takes its place inappropriately” (Benjamin)—on revolutions past, reaction present, & utopias future!
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A single page brochure advertising a small workshop on Adorno titled “Adorno & communism?” tackling new translations of his work. The schedule is: Feb 23: Adorno and Horkheimer's "On the Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party" James Crane. Emory University Mar 9: Adornos Philosophical Terminology, Lecture 42 (Jake Orbison, UC Berkeley) Mar 17: Adornos Contra Paulum (James Crane, Emory University) Apr6: Adorno's "Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory" Chris O'Kane) All sessions at 5 pm pst. RSVP via the QR code for Zoom link and reading

Episode 10: Working Through the Past with Ernst Bloch | Critical Theory Working Group Get more from Critical Theory Working Group on Patreon

Excited about having had this conversation with comrade Sebastian on working through the past with Ernst Bloch's reflecting on various issues: delay and simultaneity, time out of joint, and floating timelines colliding in the Now Time! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social
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Frontispice to a 1974 exhibition publication for ‘Kunst im 3. Reich’ showing a quote from Max Horkheimer which reads: ‘Wer vom Faschismus spricht, darf vom Kapitalismus nicht schweigen.’

IL discourse as Taylor Swift songs

this law is good this law is bad this law is alive back from the dead oh oh oh

Genozid in Palästina: Neue Weltordnung der Rechtlosigkeit Die Hind Rajab Foundation über den Charakter israelischer Kriegsverbrechen, den Kreislauf der Straffreiheit und die Diplomatie der Gewalt. Ein Gespräch mit Jake Romm • Foto: IMAGO/Anadolu Agency

I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be

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history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as ‘what if we can use international law as a tool’

And then there's this video, of officers talking with each other about what they just witnessed.

"We didn't have a chance," one officer said. "[Trump] was still giving his speech, and I just had to leave, because he's basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down."

A typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96: POEM AT DAWN" reads, "Empire is its own undoing." The author, Diane di Prima, is credited below the poem. The text appears on a plain white background.

Sadly thinking about Costaguana Nostromo and needing to read Fredric Jameson on Joseph Conrad...

How Should We View the Middle East’s Legacy of Slavery?

“Journalists who declare themselves exempt from the influence of historiography are often the captives of some defunct historian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

3. Klasse als moralische Verletzung

über die moralische Verletzung durch die Klasse und deren Bezug zur Anerkennungstheorie und zu marxistischen Klassentheorien

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 73 (2):246-263

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7. Class as Moral Injury

on the subjective experience of class as a form of constant vulnerability to harm, humiliation, and indignity

In: Hänel & Schuppert, Understanding Social Struggles (transcript) pp. 49-64.
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1. I screamed into the endless void.

Critiques and critics: never more necessary than now!

Join us @qmul in London’s East End on Friday 23rd January afternoon for the launch of our new centre

as we think/practice the mobilisation of critique anew

This will be a somewhat didactic post, but as much as possible, it really is the time to make sure you’ve a robust account of racism, sexism, ableism, and so on. Study the history thoughtfully and abandon easy notions, especially with the return of race science. It’s returning for a reason.

More than a glance at the ocean: international law, seabed mining, and the monetary nature of capitalism Abstract. The article draws on Rosa Luxemburg to examine current legal developments concerning seabed mining. Building on the macro-monetary reading of cap

New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu

Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars?
This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests.

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Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object (2025) This chapter focuses on assessing the significance of Hegel's infuence on two key pillars of Adorno's thought: first, his critique of constitutive subjectivity; and second, his priority of the...

New paper, “Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object,” now out in the OUP Handbook of Adorno www.academia.edu/143573230/Ad...

don’t remember if i posted here or not but here’s a snippet from Adorno’s letter to Horkheimer in the middle of their worst fight (1935) where A goes “By the way I LOVED Dämmerung if you even still care…” lol

#spiceupmarxsky

Happy to share that my first article in the academic context has been published also representing the Critical Theory Working Group! @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social !!!

@cclas2025.bsky.social

what a gem!!

“A calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.” Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International on the UN Security Council resolution on Gaza.

The Cabinet of the Progressive International condemns the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a colonial governance structure in Gaza — a calculated attempt to erase the horizon of Palestinian liberation.

‘Dangerous nostalgia’: did Spain’s ‘pact of forgetting’ after Franco leave new generation open to far right? Events to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator’s death are intended to remind Spaniards, particularly the young, of the dangers of fascism

'More than 21% of those surveyed felt the Franco era was “good” or “very good”.'
Not so good for those lying in unmarked shallow graves.
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Moving on to chapter 2 on temporalities and geographies of gender in my chapter-by-chapter summary of Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. 1/7

Hello all, this is a new blog post at the CTWG. It is a written adaptation of my Hessen presentation from Spring. There, I give a condensed summary of the Hessen-Grossmann thesis while situating it within a broader genealogy of Marxist science historiography. Hope y’all find this fruitful.

Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID) Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

heyyyy guys haha you should do an edition of Dialectic of Nihilism :) with a new intro by one of my friends, preferably :)