E.P. Balduz

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

Oxford has been around since 1096.

Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

How L.A.'s Playbook Can Guide Chicago's Fight Against ICE ~ L.A. TACO With ICE terrorizing Chicago, independent media outlets The Triibe, Unraveled Press and The Chicago Reader joined forces to report on ICE’s activities in the city and suburbs. We spoke with them about...

Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com
L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

we just wrapped recording for a pod ep on the undivided Kanafani—militant & novelist—in the writing & reception of the big 3 novels in translation: Men in The Sun (62), All That’s Left to You (66), & Returning to Haifa (69). can’t wait to share, & more on Kanafani coming soon!

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

Shame on the UC

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Looking forward to follow-up on Rabea Eghbariah's Towards Nakba as Legal Concept. Deleuze gave an advise on his posthumous Abecedaire in G the Gauche: It was to look at/for Jurisprudence as the Left's objective turf to be fought for. Eghbariah's Nakba case shows us the importance of this advise!!

A picture depicting the progressive theft of Palestinian land

Thanks to everyone who came out for the discussion of Sections I-II of “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—see you this Saturday, 9/13, @ noon EST for our discussion of section III & the conclusion with J.E. Morain. See you there!

A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court judges have voted to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro of plotting to overturn the 2022 election. https://cnn.it/3VIY1Cn

video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...

Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938) On dialectics and dialogue

happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

My hand holding a green and orange paperback entitled “Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine” by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

Finally got my hands on a copy of @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh’s latest

Thanks to everyone who came out for the second study of Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”! Next up: two meetings on “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—Sections I & II presented by Esther Planas Balduz & Morgan Lily this Saturday, 9/6, @ noon EST. See you there!

The left gets a new publication
ctwgwebsite.github.io

Origins of Mechanical Explanation: Boris Hessen on Newton's Principia, by Anatarah bin AlKaf | crittheoryworkgroup Get more from crittheoryworkgroup on Patreon

NEW RECORDING: Origins of Mechanical Explanation: Boris Hessen on Newton's Principia, with Anatarah bin AlKaf (
@damashummus.bsky.social
)! The Hessen-Grossmann theses as a historical materialist account of the genesis of 'mechanical reason' in modernity!

www.patreon.com/posts/136644...

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

it is at the very heart of these sort of people conquering colonising and settling. the possession intent at the back of the concept of unclaimed land

NEW FROM THE CTWG: VARIATIONS
A series of theoretical fragments and aphorisms from the group as a whole
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Va...

is a prepucio!

me and who

In which I blabber about Hessen and science historiography! The material covered here will be the basis of a much more detailed blog soon!

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages!

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

The war without end in Gaza Israel’s latest plan to occupy Gaza City reveals that the assault on Gaza is more than just a war over territory. It is a war to extend, suspend, and dictate the tempo of killing and destruction - to ...

“Time is the most valuable strategic resource—the medium through which genocide is administered and normalized. It is the time of horror that Palestinians are forced to endure” Abdaljawad Omar mondoweiss.net/2025/08/the-...

Volume 48, Issue 5 — Fordham International Law Journal

As we watch the increasing weaponization of economic tools, this new collection of (often prescient) articles on "Economic Sanctions and the Law" in the Fordham International Law Journal has become only more relevant: www.fordhamilj.org/volume-48-is...

Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges The applications are in the hands of two deputy prosecutors in Karim Khan's absence, but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions

Important investigative report
- applications for apartheid arrest warrants for Ben Gvir & Smotrich were ready for submission when Karim Khan stepped aside
- months later, ICC sources say his deputies have not filed the applications due to threat of US sanctions
www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arr...

we’ve been quiet because we’ve been working on this for a minute—see you in just over a week for the first session on Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”!

ANNOUNCING

CTWG Fall 25: Views from Palestine
Saturdays @ noon EST, 8/23-9/27

Palestinian Critical Theory past & present:
- Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (1967)
- Eghbariah’s Nakba as a Legal Concept (2024)
- Resisting Erasure by Hanieh, Knox, & Ziadah (2025)

schedule & sign up 🔗 ⬇️

This looks great, meeting online through August and September

Episode 2: Politics of Early Critical Theory | crittheoryworkgroup Get more from crittheoryworkgroup on Patreon

NEW: EP2: Politics of Early Critical Theory.

Join your hosts J.E. Morain & yours truly for an intro to the rogue's gallery of far left dissidents (communists, socialists, anarchists, etc) at the core of the 'Frankfurt School' from the early 1920s-late 40's!

www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...

Notes on The Devil & Daniel Webster: Horkheimer’s Letter to William Dieterle on the script for “All That Money Can Buy” (1941), on the results of an intensive intra-ISR discussion on the town & country dialectic & the responsibilities of anti-fascist film-making!

link below