🏆️ Grace Yee Shuen Cheng, PhD student in @kingsdllc.bsky.social, has won the Paragraph Prize for Best Article for her analysis of Proust and his use of “texture”, which acts as a layer between the observer and reality. 🔗 Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/kGKei26
PhD student wins prize for best journal article | King's College London
Grace Yee Shuen Cheng, PhD student in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, has won this year’s Paragraph Prize for Best Article.
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My ‘Ten theses on the politics of psychedelics’: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to new colleagues at UCC and the other interlocutors who helped shape this work.
Ten theses on the politics of psychedelics
This article liberates discussion of the politics of psychedelics from its present impasse. Across ten theses, it asserts that psychedelics are interr…
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Delighted that our special number of @HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
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If Jason Arday were a white middle-class academic, he would not have been hounded by the British press in the way he was. My thoughts are with his loved ones. May he rest in peace.
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
L’écrivain belge Raoul Vaneigem, insurgé lyrique contre la société marchande, est mort
Le philosophe, un des leaders du mouvement situationniste, prônait une liberté d’expression radicale. Son « Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations » avait contribué à l’éclosion du mouvement de Mai 1968. Il s’est éteint mardi 28 juillet à 92 ans.
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Is it just me or is it a tipping point that Palestine Liberation activists have jail sentences for extended terms ‘unless they renounce their political views’?!?
Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry - Minor Compositions, 2026 (print and open access) www.minorcompositions.info?p=1661
For more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Police has been repeatedly found by independent investigations to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. The brass neck is staggering. As Commissioner, Mark Rowley’s job is to serve the public, not to make political attacks. Shame on him.
Proud to stand among 50,000 people in London today to say: NOT IN OUR NAME.
If this illegal war is being launched from our bases, then the UK is directly involved. 70% of the public oppose these attacks. The Prime Minister needs to grow a spine: stop the bombers landing and kick US troops out of UK bases.
🪶 Professor Emily Butterworth from @kingsdllc.bsky.social explores the Latin etymology of 'dissidence' to show how women challenged the world around them in sixteenth century France before the word 'dissidence' became a known term. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ #WomensHistoryMonth
Latin etymologies reveal different possibilities for women's resistance and rebellion | King's College London
Professor Emily Butterworth, Professor of Early Modern French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, shows how women challenged social structures in sixteenth century France…
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What if we stopped listening, watching, paying attention to the m’as-tu vu? Neurosis that demands and sucks in our attention? Refuse the address! Without our morbid fascination, who knows, it may evaporate.
The smears won’t work this time. I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist.
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Scholars’ letter: ‘We support Palestine Action in their campaign against proscription’
6 August 2025 As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine …
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Thanks for a great first day everyone!
Reginald Nagaiya is a PhD student at Western Sydney University, working on sovereignty and democracy in Arendt, Negri and Mouffe. Thanks for your great paper, “Rethinking the relation between Sovereignty and Democracy in Hannah Arendt, Antonio Negri and Chantal Mouffe”, and a spirited discussion!
Martina Barnaba is a postdoctoral researcher at La Sapienza, working on #Hegel and #feminism. Bianca Monteleone is a PhD student at La Sapienza working on #Wollstonecraft and #Hume. Thanks for your excellent joint paper 'Feminine Virtues and Moral Imagination in Wollstonecraft and #deBeauvoir'.
Erik Brownrigg is a PhD student at York University, Toronto. He currently works on metaphysics, social theory, and utopianism in literature and philosophy. Thanks for your brilliant paper, 'The Ethics of Flight: Nietzsche, Bachelard, and the Poetics of Care', at King's College London. #philsky
Dr Giovanni Menegalle is a Teaching Fellow in French Studies and International Politics at the University of London in Paris. He specialises in cybernetics, phenomenology and modern French thought. Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Transindividual in Ruyer and Simondon' at King's College London.
What Patrick ffrench calls, after Bataille, ‘the cut’
