Onni Ahvonen
@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination
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🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
October 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Looking forward to HM next month!
October 6, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Looking forward to HM next month!
Nasser Abourahme in @parapraxismag.bsky.social
"What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
"What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
Stones Are the First Words We Speak — Parapraxis
Anti-Zionism as Praxis nasser abourahme
www.parapraxismagazine.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Nasser Abourahme in @parapraxismag.bsky.social
"What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
"What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.”
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
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Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism
Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfolded,...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
September 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
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I’m so angry I wrote an article:
In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 9:32 AM
I’m so angry I wrote an article:
In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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First of two turbulence podcast episodes with @shaabiranks.bsky.social. prepare yourselves and listen up
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...
Episode 42: Dollar Imperialism w/ Nathan Tankus
With Nathan Tankus
turbulencepod.substack.com
September 22, 2026 at 10:44 AM
First of two turbulence podcast episodes with @shaabiranks.bsky.social. prepare yourselves and listen up
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...
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“Operations designed to insist that everything is fine inevitably betray the fact that this is not the case. And indeed, everything is not fine.”
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar
On the economics of AI.
newleftreview.org
September 19, 2026 at 1:33 PM
“Operations designed to insist that everything is fine inevitably betray the fact that this is not the case. And indeed, everything is not fine.”
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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To reignite the climate movement, organisers must respond to the most pressing issues today: imperialism, the cost of living, and the genocide in Gaza.
What’s Left of the Climate Movement?
To reignite the climate movement, organisers must respond to the most pressing issues today: imperialism, the cost of living, and the genocide in Gaza.
tribunemag.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
To reignite the climate movement, organisers must respond to the most pressing issues today: imperialism, the cost of living, and the genocide in Gaza.
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“Kalshi and the entire prediction market model are positioned not only to win the right to exist but to become as much a part of the background of our daily lives as the insurance products they claim to be.”
thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
The Polymarketification of American Life
Prediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.
thebaffler.com
August 25, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“Kalshi and the entire prediction market model are positioned not only to win the right to exist but to become as much a part of the background of our daily lives as the insurance products they claim to be.”
thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
What are some interesting engagements with, or reviews of, Kathi Weeks’s book ”The Problem With Work”?
August 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM
What are some interesting engagements with, or reviews of, Kathi Weeks’s book ”The Problem With Work”?
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From "Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion," Benjamin Balthaser's review of Seymour's Disaster Nationalism: the left’s answer to the crisis of capitalism cannot be mere economism; it will need to offer a vision of real freedom and desire...
spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion – Spectre Journal
In a reading of Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today's far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insist...
spectrejournal.com
July 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
From "Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion," Benjamin Balthaser's review of Seymour's Disaster Nationalism: the left’s answer to the crisis of capitalism cannot be mere economism; it will need to offer a vision of real freedom and desire...
spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
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What an extraordinarily wide-ranging conversation between Barnaby Raine and @adamtooze.bsky.social!
I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride.
open.spotify.com/show/033MAse...
@tribunemagazine.bsky.social
I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride.
open.spotify.com/show/033MAse...
@tribunemagazine.bsky.social
postscript
Podcast · Tribune Magazine · Barnaby Raine hosts postscript, a podcast from Tribune magazine. In a series of reflective conversations, postscript explores the meaning of the left amid the slow death o...
open.spotify.com
July 23, 2026 at 7:33 PM
What an extraordinarily wide-ranging conversation between Barnaby Raine and @adamtooze.bsky.social!
I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride.
open.spotify.com/show/033MAse...
@tribunemagazine.bsky.social
I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride.
open.spotify.com/show/033MAse...
@tribunemagazine.bsky.social
What are some of the most interesting engagements/critiques/overviews of Italian autonomist Marxism, (post-)operaismo & workerism?
June 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
What are some of the most interesting engagements/critiques/overviews of Italian autonomist Marxism, (post-)operaismo & workerism?
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“American structural power had endured not despite, but because of the doomsayers.”
Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...
Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...
Histories of Decline | Tim Barker
Politics and economics in American “declinism”
phenomenalworld.org
May 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“American structural power had endured not despite, but because of the doomsayers.”
Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...
Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...
Got to spend three wonderful months in Brighton at the University of Sussex. Really grateful for all of the amazing people I got to know during my stay. Next up: Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
May 30, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Got to spend three wonderful months in Brighton at the University of Sussex. Really grateful for all of the amazing people I got to know during my stay. Next up: Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
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I have a new piece out
Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering.
Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering.
Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
www.bostonreview.net
May 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I have a new piece out
Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering.
Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering.
Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
Are there any researches working on anti-/post-colonial theory, Caribbean studies, and/or Marxist theory in Copenhagen? Thinking about applying for this Nordic travel grant our uni is offering, and would love to do some collaborative work or attend workshops in Denmark in August.
May 27, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Are there any researches working on anti-/post-colonial theory, Caribbean studies, and/or Marxist theory in Copenhagen? Thinking about applying for this Nordic travel grant our uni is offering, and would love to do some collaborative work or attend workshops in Denmark in August.
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A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, with the “Donroe Doctrine” introducing new risks.
Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇
nacla.org/the-essequib...
Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇
nacla.org/the-essequib...
The Essequibo Illusion
A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean.
nacla.org
May 21, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, with the “Donroe Doctrine” introducing new risks.
Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇
nacla.org/the-essequib...
Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇
nacla.org/the-essequib...
Can anyone recommend me texts that conceptualise the distinct yet overlapping notions of "freedom" and "liberation"? Especially interested in the discussion as it relates to decolonization, Third World socialism & Black liberation movements.
May 18, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Can anyone recommend me texts that conceptualise the distinct yet overlapping notions of "freedom" and "liberation"? Especially interested in the discussion as it relates to decolonization, Third World socialism & Black liberation movements.
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On May 1, 1974, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), with proposals to end neocolonialism and dependency, advance South-South cooperation, and guarantee economic sovereignty for all nations.
May 1, 2026 at 8:32 AM
On May 1, 1974, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), with proposals to end neocolonialism and dependency, advance South-South cooperation, and guarantee economic sovereignty for all nations.
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🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live!
CFP deadline 29.05.26
Conference 08-09.10.26
conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp
CFP deadline 29.05.26
Conference 08-09.10.26
conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp
Pulling the Emergency Break: MarxismNL Conference 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Pulling the Emergency Break: MarxismNL Conference 2026
conference.marxism-nl.org
April 11, 2026 at 6:08 AM
🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live!
CFP deadline 29.05.26
Conference 08-09.10.26
conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp
CFP deadline 29.05.26
Conference 08-09.10.26
conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp
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Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 79 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/HqmmeUG
April 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 79 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/HqmmeUG
It is commonplace to claim that Fanon was taught by Aimé Césaire at Lycée Schœlcher in Martinique. Yet in his new bio on Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that this was not the case (without providing an accurate reference). Does anyone know what to make of these competing claims?
April 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
It is commonplace to claim that Fanon was taught by Aimé Césaire at Lycée Schœlcher in Martinique. Yet in his new bio on Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that this was not the case (without providing an accurate reference). Does anyone know what to make of these competing claims?
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‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’
In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’
In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
In the Wages for Housework Archives | Emily Callaci
The feminists got headaches and worked so relentlessly that they forgot to eat. They smoked too much and made half-hearted attempts to quit. They sent each other presents — articles of clothing, a cop...
www.nplusonemag.com
April 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...