Pavlos Roufos
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
In part 4 of my chapter-by-chapter summary of Cecilia Rikap's The Rulers, we look into how Big Tech uses knowledge predation to subordinate other organizations to their business model. Rikap focuses more specifically on the subjugation of universities to Big Tech. 1/6
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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What developed capitalist states often deride as *rampant corruption* in the more peripheral economies is merely a historical gap; the latter have simply not yet legitimised such practices as *lobbying*. Brilliant investigation at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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The article benefited from being part of an excellent workshop organised by Grace Ballor and Mattia Ravano, to whom I am very grateful for the invitation, and really good reviewers, who helped me identify links with the social inclusion/citizenship literature that unlocked the Labour section.
My new article 'Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97' is now available in @conteurohistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Three Waves of Social Markets: The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, 1972–97 - Volume 35
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Die Bundesregierung wird Gastgeber des Follow-ups von Trumps „Gipfel gegen Linksextremismus“ – und treibt damit den autoritären Staatsumbau auch hier voran. taz.de/!6197518/
On 28 September in @greshamcollege.bsky.social www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/que...
Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?
Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire in the Shoah, that is, queerness among Jews persecuted by the Na...
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« La guerre d’Espagne déclenchée en 1936 a permis d’observer le processus d’assassinat d’une démocratie et reste éclairante aujourd’hui ». Dans la foulée de leur livre paru aux éditions Tallandier, une tribune de Mercedes Yusta, Francois Godicheau et Pierre Salmon www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« La guerre d’Espagne déclenchée en 1936 a permis d’observer le processus d’assassinat d’une démocratie, et reste éclairante aujourd’hui »
TRIBUNE. Quatre-vingt-dix ans après la guerre entre républicains et nationalistes, les historiens François Godicheau, Pierre Salmon et Mercedes Yusta estiment, dans une tribune au « Monde », qu’elle f...
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"They started kicking everybody, including women & elderly people, to throw them inside the...boats, even a 2-month-old baby." A year after Frontex boss Hans Leijtens said abuses like these kept him "awake at night", plus ça change... For @lemonde.fr w/ @grillmeier.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2b4dpkh5
Frontex continuing mission in Greece despite serious violations of migrants' rights
How long will Frontex tolerate the growing violations of migrants' rights in Greece? A Le Monde investigation documents the many warnings issued by the Fundamental Rights Office of the European agency...
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: Confused about the oil market's behavior while the Strait of Hormuz is closed? This is my long piece breaking down what's happening, with the help of @roryjohnston.bsky.social's excellent Odd Lots interview last month. www.crisesnotes.com/the-oil-mark...
The Oil Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor
I had so many thoughts about the run up to- and beginning of- the Trump-Iran war. My biggest thoughts were focused on how the ideas that I developed about the stock market as a “conventional wisdom pr...
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This feels like a live version of Percival Everett's The Trees
🇵🇪 Lima será muchísimo más horrible en esos días. Realmente vamos a reunir a lo peor de lo peor. Qué vergüenza. Qué rabia.
Am 21. Juli 1922 trat unter Reichsjustizminister Gustav Radbruch das Gesetz zum Schutze der Republik in Kraft, das nach der Ermordung Walter Rathenaus in Berlin die Demokratie gegen republikfeindliche Bestrebungen verteidigen sollte. 🧵
Thank god for this research because I was on the fence on this
Every time I see a screenshot of a tweet from a blue-check account, it's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago???
To Vima reports that for the first time, Intellexa founder Tal Dilian has stated in a court filing that he personally sold Predator #spyware to 🇬🇷Greek state authorities, while maintaining the sale was lawful. www.tovima.com/society/dili...
Dilian's Court Filing Admits Selling Predator to Greece - tovima.com
Intellexa founder, Tal Dilian's lawyer claims in Israeli lawsuit that his sale of the spyware to Greek state authorities was entirely legal
tovima.com
Federico García Lorca at home (1933?). Behind is poster of his traveling univ theatre group, La Barraca which took Spanish plays of the Golden Age to provincial towns+poor villages sponsored by Republican government. He's dressed in La Barraca’s overalls. Culture for the People
upcoming forum on "neoliberalism, the market, and nature" in modern intellectual history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Flying the Coop: A Forum on Neoliberalism, the Market, and Nature | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Flying the Coop: A Forum on Neoliberalism, the Market, and Nature
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Ο Χάμζα Αμπού Χοουίντι πέρασε δυο φορές από τις φυλακές της Χαμάς κι υπέστη βασανιστήρια. Το έγκλημά του ήταν πως πήρε μέρος σε διαδηλώσεις. Γράφει η @katoiko.bsky.social #insidestory_gr insidestory.gr/article/eima...
«Είμαι εναντίον της Χαμάς και εναντίον της ισραηλινής κατοχής»
Στις 7 Οκτωβρίου 2023 βρισκόταν στη Σάμο, στο κέντρο υποδοχής προσφύγων. Μια ανάρτηση κατά της Χαμάς τον έβαλε σε περιπέτειες. Από τη Γερμανία όπου ζει σήμερα, ο Παλαιστίνιος ακτιβιστής μας μιλάει για...
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Marianne Cohn (17. September 1922 -8. Juli 1944) verließ zu Beginn der Machtübergabe an die Nazis das deutsche Reich und lebte in Frankreich, wo sie sich als Kinderfürsorgerin bei der zionistischen Jugendorganisation und im jüdischen Widerstand engagierte
“What is more, on the Rue Lauriston, I met up with my old ethics teacher…” If Modiano’s La Place de l’Etoile was one sentence.
I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...
Overview
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I have been reading this long piece over the last few days and I have to say Andrew Tate strikes me as one of the worst human beings I have heard of. And that is a tough competition. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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"They thought they lost the Cold War. The enemy was no longer socialism. It was the gay rights, women's & environmental movement. The push for civil rights & affirmative action. This notion that the enemy had changed from red to green was recurrent in the early 90s & thereafter." @quinnslobodian.com
