Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social

School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory

School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: the...

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+++Save the Date+++ Lingerings. The Politics of Resentment, Residuals, and Repair. With Wendy Brown, Andreas Folkers and Eva von Redecker 13. Oktober 2026, 17 Uhr 2og:dondorf @afolkers.bsky.social www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/p...

Lingerings. The Politics of Resentment, Residuals, and Repair. With Wendy Brown, Andreas Folkers and Eva von Redecker - Institut für Sozialforschung

The past is now. Alongside, and often in alliance with, a veritable storm of disruptive technologies, ostensibly outdated forms of authoritarian politics and subjectivities are on the rise. The emergi...

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📕 James C. Scott, Les Armes des faibles. Formes quotidiennes de la résistance paysanne • Traduit de l’anglais par Olivier Ruchet avec la collaboration de Christophe Jaquet. Disponible en librairie et sur notre site internet :

Les Armes des faibles - James C. Scott

L'absence de conflit ouvert ou de révolte n'est pas nécessairement nl'expression de la soumission des dominés à leur condition ni de leur acquiescement à l'ordre...

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CFP: Reclaiming Radical Imagination Utopia and Speculation in Architectural Practice, Theory, and Pedagogy; Thematic call for VAS - Visionary Architecture Studies Journal, an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal. vas-journal.org/index.php/VA...

CFP: Gramsci: FASCISM, INTERREGNUM, DEMOCRACY. DECEMBER 16-17, 2026 Paris Deadline for abstracts: August 15. www.marshallpierce.info/gramsci-100-...

Toward Alternative World Making: A Dialogue on Ending Imperialism and Dismantling the Coloniality of Power | August 22-24, 2026 | International Online Conference | New Submission Deadline: July 9, 2026 | More information here: thepluriversitylahore.com/events/9Jixl...

Spend four Mondays with me getting deep into Octavia Butler's last novel Fledgling. I'm teaching a class online all about its puzzles and rewards: literary-arts.org/event/octavi...

Octavia Butler: Fledgling

Octavia Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, is a powerful, disturbing book about humanity and Otherness that is also a vampire coming-of-age story. Delve guide Nisi Shawl, a friend of Butler’s during her...

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In this introduction to the Special Issue on #Utopia and #Failure, @davinacooper.bsky.social, Mathias Thaler and I outline the research questions that drove the projects, introduce the papers, and explain the broader work of the AHRC network. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Ruth Houghton@ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Special Issue introduction on Utopia and Failure written with Mathias Thaler and @davinacooper.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

✍️ La plèbe, principe de liberté Martin Breaugh retrace l'histoire des soulèvements populaires qui, de la Rome antique à la Commune de Paris, ont fait de la plèbe une expérience politique et un désir de liberté.

La plèbe, principe de liberté - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: "On the Idea of a Critical History of Political Thought" by Christopher Holman "intervenes in recent methodological debates in the #HistoryOfPoliticalThought" by advocating an approach that uses "historical and philosophical techniques" doi.org/10.1111/hith...

ON THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT: TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION AND THINKING IN CONSTELLATIONS

This article intervenes in recent methodological debates in the history of political thought, particularly those involving the question of whether its practice should be considered primarily as a his...

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Paolo Virno and Jun Fujita Hirose · Paolo Virno: Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, technical activity and reification (2006)

Interview paolo virno Reading Gilbert Simondon Transindividuality, technical activity and reification Jun fujita hirose At the end of the 1980s, the thought of Gilbert Simondon – a French philosopher ...

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Livestream for the exciting panel on oligarchic and plebeian republicanisms in Latin America, featuring Hilda Sabato, Valeria Coronel, Jonas Wolff, Alberto Vergara Paniagua, @federicorossi.bsky.social and @camilavergara.bsky.social at LASA 2026 conference in Paris, this Wednesday

Latin American Studies Association@lasabluesky.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sesión Presidencial Republics Under Oligarchic and Popular Pressures Miércoles 27 de mayo 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. (CET) Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scène A 🔴Transmisión en vivo www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w_Z... #AmericaLatina #LASA2026

mark your calendars: CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION Berlin, June 4-5, 2026 w/ great speakers incl. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Maeve Cooke, Alex Demirović, Verónica Gago, Stephan Lessenich & Isabella Weber more info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri...

You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...

Episode 16: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 1) | Critical Theory Working Group

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CFP: "Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene" Space and Culture journal networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

🎧Écoutez un extrait lu de Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience plébéienne Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique. Disponible en librairie.

Martin Breaugh - L’Expérience plébéienne. Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique

Martin Breaugh propose réflexion approfondie sur l’accès du grand nombre à l’action politique. Il découvre une autre intelligence de la démocratie comprise comme une expérience d’émancipation nouant e

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Un riche volume autour de l’œuvre philosophique et éditoriale de Miguel Abensour. Vient de paraître chez Sens et Tonka.

CFP: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis. November 12–14, 2026. Embassy Suites Portland Downtown. Portland, Oregon, USA utopian-studies.org/conference20...

📆 Soirée Peuple & plèbe à la Librairie Publico (Paris) mercredi 15 avril 2026, autour du livre de Martin Breaugh, L'Expérience plébéienne, Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique. 📕En savoir plus sur le livre : https://www.klincksieck.com/livre/9782252048795/lexperience-plebeienne

My chapter on 19th century plebeian internationalism is out now in The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis 🎉 📕 Many thanks to the editors @julfaure.bsky.social, Matthew Humphreys, and David Laycock! If you'd like to read it, feel free to get in touch. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

The Voices of Democracy: A Festival for Ten-Minute Monologues, UC Irvine (Deadline: April 20th, 11:59 p.m. PST) Guidelines and Submissions: forms.gle/mSXFWriVLQYM...

Découvrez les titres disponibles de la collection Critique de la politique, fondée par Miguel Abensour et dirigée par Michèle cohen-Halimi: www.klincksieck.com/les-livres/c...

New podcast episode on "Utopia as a method" frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...

Utopia as a Method - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method.

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✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The new issue of Diacritics is on Walter Benjamin's short text "Fate and Character", edited by @tomvandeputte.bsky.social and others. I was so happy to contribute a text on "Liberation" muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!

Coming up in February, the AHRC Utopia and Failure Network hosts a discussion with Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker on "New Directions in Utopian Studies" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979739755...

New Directions in Utopian Studies

With talks from Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker followed by discussion

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