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Long suffering adjunct faculty in Toronto. Political theory. Puppies. Pizza. Pasketball. https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of-Emancipation https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442650046
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Join Étienne Balibar for the grand finale of Marx 13/13 in person in Paris at the @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Global Paris Center, 4 rue de Chevreuse, this coming Tuesday, May 27th, at 4:30 PM Paris time. Info here: globalcenters.columbia.edu/events/marx-... and marx1313.law.columbia.edu/13-13/

Translated a few letters from Korsch to Horkheimer in 38/39, & one from Horkheimer in reply, on their planned collaboration on the “dialectics” book (that would become Dialectic of Enlightenment) re: problems of positivism & politics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

This week at the University of Kassel: ‘ #Adorno and #Marx ’ 11th annual mmeeting of the Association for Adorno Studies @philiphogh.bsky.social www.adornostudies.org/wp-content/u...

Save the date: Fanon Today: Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives International Symposium Berlin, July 22-23, 2025 organized by @vethompson.bsky.social, @raulzelik.bsky.social & me

The Utopia and Failure Network will host their final workshop in London in September. Places are limited, and registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fail-again...

Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle Register here 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...

CLR James Research Fellowship to promote research in Black intellectual history. Deadline 1 Nov. www.aaihs.org/aaihs-awards...

[LES CARNETS DE L'IMEC] "Miguel Abensour, penseur-éditeur", par Michele Cohen-Alimi. À lire dans Les Carnets de l'Imec : imec-archives.com/matieres-pre... #imecarchives #archives #recherche #miguelabensour

📆 Save the Date: - Online Event! - One week from today Jacob Blumenfeld will talk to Alex Demirović about the history of Critical Theory, the role of critical intellectuals in society and his experiences in the New Left and beyond. Zoom link on our website: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...

The Politics of Critical Theory: A Conversation with Alex Demirović Wednesday, May 14, 19:00 CEST, Webinar/Zoom Register now! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-po...

Call of Papers: Law & Revolution in Florence www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The website of our research project on global authoritarianism has launched: emergencies-of-authoritarianism.org. And you should all follow us on social media!

Finishing the copyedits of an edited volume on "Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire," which I co-edited with Gaard Kets. With contributions by Martin Breaugh, Ruth Kinna, Dario Azzellini, and many more. If all goes well, this should be rolling off the press by August this year.

Guess this means I need to finish it: www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

CFP: Feminist Utopias at Work: Reorganise, Redefine, Abolish. University of Strasbourg, France, Thu 6 and Fri 7 Nov 2025. Submission deadline: 1 June 2025https://we-coop.eu/en/2025-symposium/

CFP: National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference,Thursday, November 13th - Sunday, November 16th, San Juan, Puerto Rico. "Feminist Utopias – World-building through Writing and Publishing." Declare interest by 21 Mar. www.nwsa.org/annual-confe...

We're hiring a Fellow in Political Theory! @lsegovernment.bsky.social : jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Questions à Jacques Rancière. Autour Les voyages de l’art (2023) et Au loin la liberté (2024), UCLouvain, 11 mars 2025, 14h00-17h00

CfA Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025: Global Critical Theory 14-18 July 2025 w/ Gurminder K. Bhambra, Rocío Zambrana, Malte Ibsen, and myself more info and how to apply: cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/event...

Political theory/philosophy job! Here is the third postdoc (36 months) on our Gerda Henkel Foundation project on anti-oligarchy. This one will be based at TU München, and supervised by my co-PI Manon Westphal. www.hfp.tum.de/hfp/aktuelle...

Our current Calls for Applications: 2 PD Fellowships in Political Theory / Philosophy Justitia Center for Advanced Studies 2 PD Fellowships in Philosophy / Social Sciences Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme 2 PD Fellowships in Humanities / Social Sciences The Future of Democracy

Thrilled to be hosting Prof. Kristin Ross for the Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture this year. "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form" Wed, 12 March 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm at London School of Economics www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

posted the translation of that late 1939 discussion between Adorno & Horkheimer on utopia & experience in critical theory (from their earliest sessions for sketching what would become DoE) on the substack! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

We're excited to see you all tomorrow in New York City for #APAEastern25! Here's a preview of some of the great books you'll find at our table in the exhibit hall. Not attending in person? Visit our virtual booth for the same discount on all #philosophy titles. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/2p9j44np

Franck Fischbach’s Marx with Spinoza is available for preorder in paperback. 30% with discount code PAPER30 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-marx-wi...

My latest book, Genealogies of Antifascism, is one of the books that you can get at 50% off. leftwingbooks.net/products/gen...

A Boston colleague (not on Bluesky) asked me to post this ad for a 2-year postdoc at Tufts on the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons. Please forward widely! humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral...

Only a few days left to save 50% with code HOLIDAY24! #holidaysale #ReadUP

📣 Upcoming Webinar 🗓️ Monday, 16th December 🕚 11am PT | 2pm ET | 7pm UK | 8pm CET [1] Join Franz Knappik, Jamila Mascat, Karen Ng, and me (Daniel James) for an online discussion of "Hegel and Colonialism", moderated by Andrés Saenz de Sicilia. More info: www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/hegel...

Next two days: Negation and/of Violence workshop in Vienna. politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/political....

The Abensour Reader paperback was released today...and it just so happens to coincide with @sunypress.bsky.social having a 50% off holiday sale. sunypress.edu

Just a heads up that we’ve extended the deadline by 1 week, to December 8th. Looking forward to reading your abstracts!

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize is open to submissions from writers aged 18 to 30. The deadline is 3 March 2025. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...