new Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on poltical myth! With Hegel, Cassirer, Adorno, Jesi, Benjamin, all our friends are there. communispress.com/myth-fascism...

Myth, Fascism, and the Dialectic

On myth’s modern return under the cruel mask of fascism, and the reversion to the ritual of human sacrifice.

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I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink

Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase

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This is the link to a recently published article. My preliminary attempt to take stock of and reflect on existing scholarship on a set of interrelated, important, and often complicated issues in the field of late imperial Chinese legal history and governance. openyls.law.yale.edu/entities/pub...

🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live! CFP deadline 29.05.26 Conference 08-09.10.26 conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp

NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

I see nonsense pop up on these at least once a day. It’s as useful as a “30 days to Hercules through Tai Chi” ad.

Futurism@futurism.com · 4mo ago

This is catastrophic.

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

“As B’Tselem showed in its 2025 report Our Genocide, the dehumanisation of Palestinians is a long-term process. The debate is not about facts. It is about recognising Israel for what it is: a state that systematically kills Palestinians with impunity & erodes international law & basic moral norms.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak

Now available for download globally: The Code of Hammurabi (from modern day Iraq) and the long history of the rule of law www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Code of Hammurabi

The impact of the wide-ranging laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylon from 4,000 years ago.

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🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference

Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

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Delighted that the third volume of our trilogy with Ivan Sablin exploring the origins of modern forms of government has seen the light of the world: From Empire to Federation in Eurasia Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management. Editing this trilogy was great fun! 😁

My amazing colleagues Lena Foljanty and Zülâl Muslu have launched a new blog on global legal history, "Areas, norms, time entangled" (ant-e). I have had the honour of coordinating the first colloquy with posts about the Balkans, Thailand, and Ethiopia. Have fun reading! ante-blog.univie.ac.at

Anyway, I was on @oxfordcsls.bsky.social's Talking About Methods podcast this month ranting about exactly this, if anyone's interested: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

Making and Unmaking Archival Methods - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Cris van Eijk about making and unmaking archives.

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The U.S. military says it carried out strikes on three boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing at least 11 people and again providing no evidence of alleged drug smuggling. This brings the total number of strikes on boats in waters near Latin America to 42, resulting in at least 145 deaths.

We are sailing to Cuba 🇨🇺. Join us: buff.ly/nxJTwSK

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

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“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?”..“It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Good article on the misery that the US is inflicting on everyday people in Cuba. What Trump is doing is just an intensification of six decades of US economic warfare. apnews.com/article/cuba...

CfP: Women’s Contributions to Political Economy During the 19th Century  Vol. 5 Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Editors: Karen Green (University of Melbourne) & Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) By the beginning of the nineteenth century, political thought…

So happy to see this published! A huge congrats to the editors of the volume and the other contributors. It’s open access: volumul Open Access aici: www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

Published as part of a special issue on Austro-Marxism, with several excellent contributions and including a translation of Otto Bauer 'Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis' from 1904.

Una Blagojevic@unablagojevic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thanks to @histmat.bsky.social for publishing my article “Afterlives of Austro-Marxism in Yugoslavia: Rethinking the Multinational Federal Political Community in Crisis” brill.com/view/journal...

Published in the January 2026 issue! "The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta" Rebecca Reich doi.org/10.1111/russ... Image reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library, NPR.B.995.

Hicham Safieddine traces the colonial history of money in Palestine, showing how imperial and Zionist financial systems erased native sovereignty through currency design, banking control, and asset expropriation. From Britain’s monetary partition of Greater Syria to Israel’s shekelization of the

【本日発売】歴史家であり外交官でもあったE.H.カーの有名な講演『歴史とは何か』。このウィットに富んだ講演録を十分に理解するには、当時のイギリスの歴史学に影響を与えた知識人たちへの理解が欠かせません。新訳の訳者がカーの周辺にいた学者たちの生涯と思想を生き生きと描き、20世紀の学問状況を浮び上がらせる知的列伝。 近藤和彦『『歴史とは何か』の人びと　E．H．カーと20世紀知識人群像』☞ iwnm.jp/025681

New book officially out 🚨 If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought

Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

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Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Complete Notebooks

The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.   Throughout his career, French writer and ...

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Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy progressivegeographies.com/2026/01/11/c...

Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy

Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was&nbsp…

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The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.