Ioan Trifu

Raymond Aron - Théorie de l'action politique

Entre violence et justice, cours au Collège de France (1973)

À paraître en mars chez Calmann-Lévy

Nicolas Guilhot - Conspiracy

The History of a Political Obsession

À paraître en juin aux Harvard UP

Judith N. Shklar - The Liberalism of Fear

À paraître en juin aux Harvard UP

From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced Trump’s agenda. The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.?"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

A screenshot showing 24 Japanese magazine cover thumbnails on archive.org They're Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine's 1987 issues.

Awesome news! @ozidual.bsky.social edited the full run of the 1987 Famimaga (Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine) magazines that I scanned a while back which means they're so much easier to flip through and read now! Check them out: archive.org/details/@ozi...

星新一賞、AI作品が上位独占　文学とは何かを問う - 日本経済新聞 文学とは何か。辞書を引くと「言語によって人間の外界および内界を表現する芸術作品」（広辞苑第六版）とある。人工知能（AI）にもたずねてみた。「人間の感情、思想、社会のあり方を描写し、普遍的な人間像を追究する言葉の芸術」と教えてくれた。先月、日経「星新一賞」の受賞作品の発表があった。13回目となる今回、一般部門においてグランプリや優秀賞など受賞4作品のうち3作品が創作過程でAIを活用していた。最終

Three out of four winners of the Nikkei Shin'ichi Hoshi Prize for science fiction used AI. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

We are living under the One-Third Reich.

Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.

Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.It may not be Big Brother (yet), but

Open Access link:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Another paper from the TCS SI on "Planetary Property" is online. In their electrifying piece, Alain Pottage and @bernardkeenan.bsky.social read Carl Schmitt through the lens of electricity.

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Photograph of Keanu Heydari.

I was delighted to present my paper, “Licensing Dissent: Iranian Student Activism, Police Surveillance, and the Grammar of ‘Liberty’ in Postwar Paris, 1946–1979,” today at the @sfhs.bsky.social Annual Conference in Philadelphia!

Multiclub ownership: destroying football one league at a time.

Un long entretien pour Les clés du Moyen-Orient, sur la situation en Iran et aussi la difficulté de travailler sur ce sujet: "La grande difficulté pour analyser la situation est de faire de la sociologie politique fiable : les chiffres deviennent rapidement obsolètes dans ce contexte mouvant"

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.

US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower

A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
x.com/SStapczynski...

Paul Virilio. Sylvère Lotringer. Pure War.

Transpolitics is the beginning of the disappearance of politics in the dwindling of the last commodity: duration. Democracy, consultation, the basis of politics, requires time. Duration is the proper of man; he is inscribed within it. For me, transpolitics is the beginning of the end. That's where my understanding of it radically differs from Jean Baudrillard's: for him it's positive. For me, it's totally negative. I fight against the disappearance of politics. I'm not saying that we should revert to ancient democracy, stop the clock and all that. I'm saying that there's work to be done, the epistemo-technical work we were talking about before, in order to reestablish politics, at a time when technology no longer portions out matter and geographical space (as was the case in ancient democratic society, but when technology portions out time and I would say: "The depletion of time."

“Transpolitics is the beginning of the disappearance of politics in the dwindling of the last commodity: duration.

Democracy, consultation, the basis of politics, requires time.“

Maybe people will wake up to the fact that the AI push has been about paying workers even less and taking away job security.

Less "prompt engineering" and more labor organizing.

“The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi To start: a confession. Academics often speak of imposter syndrome—the sense that we lack real expertise on the topics about which are talking or writing. Although it’s largely a psychological illu…

Today in ARB: @irapley.bsky.social reviews “The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits @uchicagopress.bsky.social & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi (JPIC) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ryukyu-i...

Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations This page is an attempt to provide a list of English translations of works in George Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections of his work. Some preliminary notes and explanat…

There are a lot of other research resources here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/ including ones on Sartre, Binswanger, Axelos, Boko Haram, Ebola, Lefebvre, etc. and this popular page on Georges Bataille - progressivegeographies.com/resources/ge...

A Guide to Mao's China by Gavin Healy | Paperback | Cornell University Press A Guide to Mao's China explores how personnel within China's state tourism bureaucracy during the Mao era struggled to balance inbound foreign tourism as a form of political, historical, and cultural....

Gavin Healy, A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests - @cornellupress.bsky.social, June 2026
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

声優の山寺宏一さんら、声のAI無断複製に危惧　権利侵害の訴えに壁 - 日本経済新聞 特定の人物に酷似した声を生成する人工知能（AI）の技術が汎用化し、声優らが危惧を強めている。AIに無断学習させたとみられる音声の売買が広がる一方、声は著作物に当たらず権利侵害を訴える手立てが乏しい。複製された声が投資詐欺の広告などに悪用されるケースも目立つ。専門家は権利保護に向けた議論の必要性を強調する。月1000円、人気キャラクターの声ずらり「あなたの好きな声を――」。インターネット上には

声優ら、声のAI無断複製に危惧　権利侵害訴える手立て乏しく
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...

「人間の演技に追いつく日は来てしまうのではないかと感じ始めた」

こう話すのは日本を代表する声優の一人、山寺宏一さんです。

インターネット上には1000円程度の定額課金で、人気キャラなどの音声データを販売するサイトが複数存在。

声優にとって声は訓練や経験を重ねて磨きをかけた「商品」ですが、販売や使用を止めるのは難しい現実があります。

2026年２月 #注目された記事

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

Keiichi Homma - Les relations économiques entre la France et le Japon de 1950 à nos jours

À paraître en juin aux PU de Bordeaux

Hervé Joly - Se déplacer malgré tout

Transports et mobilités dans la France occupée (1940-1944)

À paraître en juin chez Droz

Timothy Mitchell in conversation with Noah Kulwin | The Verso Book Clu On March 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the VBC Reading Group will be joined by Timothy Mitchell, acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy, to discuss his latest book, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Ea...

Join us for the next Verso Book Club Reading Group on March 22nd with Timothy Mitchell and Noah Kulwin to discuss The Alibi of Capital!

I've not shared many research resources from my Indo-European thought project, but there are a few other resources, including some textual comparison for texts by Georges Dumézil, and audio and video recordings of him, here
progressivegeographies.com/resources/in...