new issue! lots of good stuff in here... I was very pleased Danny agreed to write about Peter Weiss. I also asked Esther Leslie to review a book on Disney for this issue that we decided to give the title 'The Mickey Mouse Industrial Complex'

Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 2d ago

RP2.21 is out now! - Rebecca Comay on The 18th Brumaire - Grégoire Chamayou on data centres - Danny Hayward on Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance - Werner Bonefeld on Adorno, plus a newly translated Adorno lecture with intro by Jake Orbison And more… www.radicalphilosophy.com

"Aging philosophers, ailing writers, wasted figures, thwarted mourners, fraying kinships, barren mothers, frozen landscapes, tattered genres, failed revolutions, shrunken stages." Rebecca Comay writes great lists (from this great essay On Persistence) www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...

On Persistence - Notes - e-flux

Rebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness.

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It’s weird how - when the press goes looking for racism in Britain in the 2020s - the only places it can ever be found are in left wing politics, public services, unionised professions and academia. Isn’t that remarkable, given what you can see and hear every day.

ANTIGONE IN AUTUMN A piece on Antigone, 1970s West German cinema, state repression, right-wing media, Brecht, Straub-Huillet, the law, Seamus Heaney, sisters, solidarity, injustice, Mahmoud Darwish, resistance, birds, and the recent Filton case in the UK hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/antigone-i...

Antigone in autumn

Antigone and 1970s West German cinema

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Spoke to Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker (and lived to tell the tale). www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

How the Dangerous Rise in Anti-Immigration Politics Went Mainstream

Violent unrest after a stabbing in Northern Ireland showed the extent to which the far right has taken hold in the U.K., as well as in Europe and the U.S.

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Milngavie Columbo is an entertaining and eviscerating short film. It satirises the cultural and economic damage big business and political leaders are visiting on Glasgow. Get to the Govan Project Space whilst it’s on!

'​Psycho-Politics: Authoritarianism and the Return of the Repressed' looking forward to this event in Amsterdam next week - I'll be giving a paper on histories of anticommunist theories of 'left authoritarianism' alongside Alenka Zupančič www.spui25.nl/programma/ps...

​Psycho-Politics: Authoritarianism and the Return of the Repressed​

To what extent can psychoanalysis and critical social psychology help us understand the current political conjuncture, where rising fascisms around the world increasingly appear as a kind of “return o...

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many months after I read her new book and went to a launch where I asked her a question it was brought to my attention that Chris Kraus copied and pasted a tweet I wrote about her in 2018 into the novel but deleted part of the thing I quoted her as saying (!)

So at this wonderful event yesterday, we learned from Nigel Fabb (one of the organisers of The Linguistics of Writing) that he bought a 'The Linguistics of Writing Venue' sign from the AA after the event (see image below) & sent it to Derrida & Derrida wrote back & said he had put it in his garden

hannah proctor@hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...

If you’re in Glasgow next week, this is at Strathclyde on 4 June, organized by @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social and Fearghus Roulston www.eventbrite.com/e/writingre-...

Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On

A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today

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Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Here, from a lovely tribute by Luke Roberts, is a J.H. Prynne opinion I wholeheartedly share www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...

I can't decide if the bizarre 😐 reaction of Starmer to this is a) the result of being told for years that people viscerally hating him showed that he was actually doing everything right and is actually very clever so even now when that's so very obviously been disastrous he's still 😐 or b)

it’s Holly Bruce MSP for Glasgow Southside!!!!!!!!

POLITICAL PATHOLOGIES: PSYCHIC LIFE BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND RESTRAINT University of Strathclyde, June 25-26 I'm organizing a two day conference on psychopolitical things at the end of June in Glasgow - come along! More details and list of speakers here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/political-...

Political pathologies: Psychic life between resistance and restraint

A two day conference exploring political approaches to psychic life.

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WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...

Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On

A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today

eventbrite.co.uk

Depressing news This piece by Hailey Maxwell on the People's Palace is great - "The managed decline and privatisation of cultural and civic heritage is entangled with the wilful disintegration of communal ways of living more generally." www.thedrouth.org/on-peoples-p...

Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The People's Palace is an important working-class history museum which tells the story of how ordinary people banded together and challenged bosses, landlords and governments to make Glasgow and Scotland a better place to live and work. It's shocking it will now remain closed. From Go Radio on X.

I tried to explain that while I do get why people on the left are drawn to self help books and techniques and while I know that probably I should just stfu I just find it all makes me want to scream / turn into Adorno tribunemag.co.uk/2025/02/comr...

Comrades Help Yourselves

Leftists seeking to change the world are increasingly also trying to change themselves via self-help frameworks for emotional and romantic improvement. But is this variety of literature more symptom t...

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Robert Glück 🍟🌭🍝🍦🍕🕳️

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki

Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

RP2.20 is out now! - Fanon-Tosquelles dossier - Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine - Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California - Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries - Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more... www.radicalphilosophy.com

RP2.20 is out now! - Fanon-Tosquelles dossier - Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine - Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California - Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries - Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more... www.radicalphilosophy.com

Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026)

Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.

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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

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love to have the most awful and embarrassing MP imaginable

lovely metaphor from Eric Hobsbawm describing how Francis Fukuyama revised his pronouncements about the 'end of history' between 1989 and 1992 - "the notorious thesis from which he now appears to retreat like an octopus amid clouds of his own ink" 🐙

Co-wrote an essay on ‘Innocence’ for this Special Issue

Tom Vandeputte@tomvandeputte.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Long in the making, out now: the latest issue of Diacritics, dedicated entirely to Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" (1919) – his dense reflection on fate, escape and liberation, written in a world in the grip of war, failed revolutions and erupting fascism

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m

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Earlier this week I went to Paris to see the Jacques-Louis David exhibition at the Louvre but the Louvre workers were on strike (solidarity!) so no David but I remembered I once wrote something on Charlotte Corday that talks a bit about The Death of Marat hhnnccnnll.substack.com/p/charlotte-...

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