November 28, 2026. ⏱️ 13:00-14:30 Eastern US time / 19:00-20:30 Central European Time. The aim of the reading group is to approach #Badiou’s artistic configuration in Inaesthetics from a philosophical standpoint, as well as from an anti-philosophical ground. inciteseminars.com/reading-badi...

THE CONTEMPORARY FIGURE OF THE SOLDIER IN POLITICS AND POETRY • #ALAINBADIOU www.lacan.com/badsold.htm

Zohran Mamdani is launching “Opera for All,” a partnership between New York City and the Metropolitan Opera that will distribute 70,000 free tickets every year to New Yorkers who’ve never attended. And it’s not a one-off: Mamdani says the program will be permanent. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Unlike Trump, Mamdani is actually boosting the arts

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored points for a working progressive government again.

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inciteseminars.com/untimely-bla... (Un)Timely #Blanchot a 4-session seminar with #PhilippeLynes, #AlexObrigewitsch, #KimSchoof & #CarlosA.Segovia 4 Sundays, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2026 ⏰ 10:00–12:00 Eastern Time Zone • 16:00–18:00 Central European Time

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Today, September 23, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane. John Coltrane, considéré après Charlie Parker comme le saxophoniste le plus révolutionnaire et influent de l'histoire du jazz, aurait eu 100 ans ce 23 septembre.

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Join us for a weekly close reading of #Gramsci’s #PrisonNotebooks! The group has a twofold goal:first, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text;and second, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci’s work. inciteseminars.com/reading-gram...

This book presents #Badiou’s seminar on #Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. cup.columbia.edu/book/nietzsc...

On 26February1992, the Slovenian government quietly deleted1.3%of its citizenryThe criterion was that anyone born in another part of the formerYugoslavia who was a permanent resident ofSlovenia lost their citizenshipThe goal was to cleanse Slovenia of a Balkan"fifth column”and pivot closer to Europe

The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini

In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini

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I had no idea of this extraordinary episode. I reminds us of how easily people can be declared "illegal" or "immigrant" rather than native. These are not natural kinds, but administrative categories. Striking parallels with the Windrush scandal. Of interest to all, but tagging @spe07.bsky.social

The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini

In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini

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EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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"Anybody who will eat that kind of food for those kind of prices will never look at a painting of mine." meron.design/blogs/art/ro...

Why Mark Rothko Sabotaged the Four Seasons Art Murals

In 1958, Mark Rothko took $35,000 to paint murals for the Four Seasons restaurant—then returned the money to keep plutocrats from enjoying his art.

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apophasis.press “Painting as a threshold where that which we see before us drifts tremulously into the unseen. Music as sound and resonance that so scuttles our senses we cannot but be submerged in the surging sea of immediacy.”

For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. By @hahauenstein.bsky.social Read more: www.972mag.com/michael-bare...

Wonderful overview by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social of the retrospective program this year at the Locarno Film Festival: "Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist." She discusses 17 films, from established classics to authentic rarities: www.rogerebert.com/festivals/lo...

Locarno Film Festival 2026: 17 Urgent Hollywood Blacklist Films

A look at the daring retrospective program from this year's Locarno.

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“The Decline and Fall of the ‘Spectacular’ Commodity-Economy “ dissent.art/sick-planet/

Sick Planet – dissent.art

A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have gene...

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ROJA Collective 29-08-2026 Ten Lessons from Iran on Anti-Imperialism: Notes on Imperialist War, Domestic Repression, Campism, and Internationalism from Below #Portolanjournal

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Philosophies of Chaos and the Construction of the Pluriverse - Hannes Schumacher Dear friends, you're all welcome to join our next seminar on Wed 2 September, at 16:00 CEST with Hannes Schumacher @incitesem www.ereignis.no/events/seminar

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The Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts is a non-profit, community-driven organisation dedicated to advancing research, education, and outreach in philosophy and the arts. Our administration i...

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Flash floods on #Nepal-Tibetborder leave scores dead and hundreds missing.The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis.Related disasters are occurring everywhere:rising ocean levels caused by melting glaciers

For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment

The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis. The amount of fossil fuels consumed by the world population a…

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🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Threat to Quebec’s French language, identity key reason Carney ends trade talks with Trump. montrealgazette.com/news/quebec-...

Threat to Quebec’s French language, identity key reason Carney ends trade talks with Trump

Quebec entered a perilous new phase of the trade war Saturday after trade talks between Canada and the U.S. collapsed.

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People joined a demonstration against budget cuts in #Geneva on Monday evening.The #publicsector and the subsidized sector have been mobilizing since last November in response to the planned austerity measures. Trade unions have strongly criticised the proposed new cost-cutting measures.

To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...

The Media Lynched Jason Arday

The death yesterday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so d...

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« As far as I am concerned, I quite agree that philosophy depends on some non-philosophical fields. And I have called these fields the "conditions" of philosophy. » #Badiou www.lacan.com/symptom8_art...

#Shinjuku station- #Tokyo

Quincy Institute: 17 new firms registered under FARA to work for Israeli interests in 2024 and 2025. quincyinst.org/research/the...

The Eighth Front: Inside Israel’s $1 Billion Influence Campaign

The Israeli government has spent more than $1 billion in direct expenditures on public diplomacy since the Hamas–led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a dramatic escalation in such spending. This represents…

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FENCES OF SHAME ON EUROPE’S SOUTHERN BORDER #Spain-Morocco Some 60,000 migrants have entered the Spanish territory of #Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours.At least 34 migrants have died.The #Melillafence, designed to separate Europe from its impoverished neighbours, has been financed by the EU

Analyzing #politicalconservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism–intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management)… gspp.berkeley.edu/archived/fil...

Should controversial thinkers and ideas be published? In our latest issue, #PhilosophyNow published an interview with #AntonioNegri (1933-2023), one of the most influential and controversial Marxist philosophers of recent decades: philosophynow.org/issues/174/A...

When Ramsey Zeid’s parents — now aged 83 and 81, respectively — saw stories from the Nakba on display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights last month, they were left speechless. “All their lives they’ve been told, ‘No, the Nakba never happened.’ This was almost validation for them.

Exhibit at Canada’s Human Rights Museum Shatters Myths About Israel’s Founding

Pro-Israel lobby groups have pressured the museum for years not to showcase the stories of Palestinian Canadians.

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