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Middle aged punk from a Quaker family.
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This is a really important article about my previous place of work, the suppression of Palestine solidarity movement at Roskilde University, and the firing of one of my colleagues last year.
Danish university leadership asked researchers to hand over
Researchers at RUC have been asked to hand over the names of students who staged actions in support of Gaza and have been reprimanded for reading poems in support of Gaza. An expert sees it as a threa
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October 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
looking for reviews or articles that engage with Immanent Externalities, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, and Free Gifts.
October 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
ill take it as some sort of recognition of impact that Kellner’s new handbook on research in critical theory has a bunch of authors from stuff I’ve edited….
October 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The call for papers deadline has been extended until the of October. So you now have several weeks to plan a good panel with your colleagues and submit
Urging everyone doing interesting work to present and attend the HMNY conference. It will be good and you should do your best to be there: radicalassembly.org.
Radical Assembly
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radicalassembly.org
October 3, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The chapter on materialism in this book is soo good
October 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Didn’t realize or more likely forgot she was exactly ten years older than me.
Trish Keenan would have been 58 today. Everyone go listen to some Broadcast.
September 28, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Urging everyone doing interesting work to present and attend the HMNY conference. It will be good and you should do your best to be there: radicalassembly.org.
Radical Assembly
cargo.site
radicalassembly.org
September 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Finally getting around to reading this book. Not sure about the subsumption framework but nonetheless it feels like a book that should be central to a debate that needs to happen today

newbooksnetwork.com/subsumption-...
Andres Saenz de Sicilia, "Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society" (Brill, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
September 26, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Freedom Train
YouTube video by JAMES CARR - Topic
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September 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
So dumb
WSJ: The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in US history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge US infrastructure projects — such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet.”

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September 24, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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🚨New Paper🚨

From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School
Jacob Blumenfeld

In: Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South–North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present (2026)

PDF: philpapers.org/rec/BLUFST
September 14, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old.

This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare.

slate.com/technology/2...
We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.
His doctors agree that this care is right for him.
slate.com
September 9, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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An article I really enjoyed writing is now out with Capital&Class
September 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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"Almost a decade after the mainstream #MeToo movement, it’s clear that audiences’ nostalgia for artists who made art that meant something to them at a formative age overrides the inconvenience of violence against women."
Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme kicked a woman and his ex-wife alleged domestic abuse. Why the cosy makeover?
Like Johnny Depp and Chris Brown before him, Homme has got past his chequered history to retain an adoring fanbase. Almost a decade post-#MeToo, audiences no longer seem to care
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM