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London, please join us for a reading group on The Commune Form by Kristin Ross on Wed, February 26 at 7 pm at the Total Refreshment Centre, Stoke Newington.

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Giving a talk for CRITIQUE, Center for Ethics and Critical Thought & Dept of Social Anthropology at University of Edinburgh on Feb 21. Thanks Dr Zeynep Oguz for the invitation. Poster below, though my lecture questions this inter-state vision of internationalism. Text: doi.org/10.1215/0038...

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Here is a detailed account of the “Racism in Turkey: Context, Questions and Stakes” conference held in Istanbul and co-organized by my brilliant PhD student Helen Mackreath and @istospoli.bsky.social. Via @k24kitap.bsky.social.

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What is the significance of Arendt’s reflections for us, scholars in “the zone of interest” that is the Western academy? As Arendt argued, "those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight..."

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📝 Read this recently published article by @aycacu.bsky.social entitled "Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide".

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Two really important pieces on CLT this week. The first from @aycacu.bsky.social on 'Responsibility Under Genocide' using Arendt to explore the question of how we live alongside the genocide in Gaza: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

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“Historians and more it is our task as scholars to assume and assert our personal responsibility under genocide as the fire continues to reign.” @aycacu.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

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"Reading Arendt’s reflections on our capacity to judge with 60 years of hindsight, what shall one say today of our own silence in the Western academy—with notable exceptions—about the genocide in Gaza?"

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Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide (especially in the academy) --> With many thanks to Critical Legal Thinking for republishing my article. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

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It is our task to assume and assert our personal responsibility under genocide as Israeli violence continues in Palestine, writes @aycacu.bsky.social in @thenewarab.bsky.social 👇

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I wrote on Hannah Arendt, Gaza, and personal responsibility under genocide (especially in the academy) Now published by @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/opinion/hann...

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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...

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Adam Slonecki, who led the policing operation at yesterday's demonstration for #Palestine in London said it involved a “most significant escalation in criminality." Escalation in criminality? That's called the freedom of assembly. #FreeTheArrestees www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Speaking soon at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on Arendt, Gaza and "Personal Responsibility Under Genocide" Panel w/ Musab Younis, Muna Dajani, Neve Gordon and Yea Lpi Jan 24, 3:30 pm RSVP: eventbrite.co.uk/e/theoretica... .. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

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London, what are you reading this month? Come join us to discuss Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 7 pm, Total Refreshment Centre, Stoke Newington, London

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The London launch event for my book 'Eros and Empire' will be happening in Whitechapel on Friday, March 14! Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from @aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...

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David Shulman: "What we are experiencing now in Israel is a profound failure of our shared humanity, a deadly apathy of the soul. Worse still is the taste for killing and inflicting pain that has infected so many, beginning at the top." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Congratulations Class of 2024! “I walk for Gaza” @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social

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La antropología de las posibilidades humanas de David Graeber (2024) – Ayça Çubukçu Many thanks to the unnamed translators for this labour of love. My article on David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities is now in Spanish. www.federacionanarquista.net/la-antropolo...

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📝 Read this new article by @aycacu.bsky.social which offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" (2021). read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

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"In the early Soviet film Battleship Potemkin, director Sergei Eisenstein wished to depict the rebels raising a red flag over the battleship. But the black-and-white film of the period rendered the color red as black..." crimethinc.com/2021/06/14/e...

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Can't wait to read: On Graeber's anthropology of human possibilities by @aycacu.bsky.social

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My article on David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities is now published by @Boundary2: read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

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London, what are you reading this weekend? Join us for a reading group to discuss Anarcho-Indigenism on Wednesday, November 27 at 7 pm at the recording studio/music venue, Total Refreshment Centre, in Stoke Newington.

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Welcome everyone! Still trying to figure out this how to use this site. I will be posting in due time.

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