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camilavergara.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy. Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
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Grotesque, depraved, ilegal. Trump wants to take over Gaza and turn it into an Atlantic City of the Middle East: a place for gambling, lust, gluttony & luxury. From a graveyard of children to an oligarchs’ paradise.

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UCLA spent $12.3 million to suppress pro-Palestine protests, resulting in over 200 arrests and withheld degrees. All this to silence students standing against genocide.

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The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...

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@che-utulsa.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/cent...

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University of Tulsa is launching a new Center for Heterodox Economics directed by the great Clara Mattei. They have an awesome speaker lineup for its inauguration this Thursday 👇

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One of our editors, @camilavergara.bsky.social, delivered a public lecture last week, which is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/b59Yf8Ws7qU?... - 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War and the Destruction of Nature' #republicanism #oligarchy #politicaltheory #TheoriaJournal

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The journal Theoria has joined this space. Give us a follow for news on new issues and online roundtables and seminars. 👇

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Tomorrow at 2:15 Berlin time - you can still register and join!

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The ‘wise few’ veto the deliberated decision of the ‘many’ to condemn the bombing of universities in Gaza. Historians who condone the destruction of archives & universities are a disgrace to the field. The elitist veto must not stand. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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SAVE THE DATE: 20 January, 2:15-5 pm CET I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin. Register here 👇 tinyurl.com/yp69y46p

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Eugene V. Debs on Jesus, the working-class revolutionist. 1914. jacobin.com/2021/12/debs...

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This is terrifying. We are truly going back to the 1930s.

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Panel discussion on the 50th anniversary of Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture ‘The Pretence of Knowledge,’ warning against the hubris of the economic establishment. Mark Pennington, Kristian Niemietz & Sean Irving Institute of Economic Affairs 11/12 @ 6 pm iea.org.uk/events/panel...

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Racial Capitalism @ the International Summer School in Critical Theory. June 30-July 4. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Featuring: Tommie Shelby, Inés Valdez, Robert Gooding-Williams, Manuela Bojadžijev, Rahel Jaeggi, Robin Celikates, Christian Schmidt. 👇 criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/summer_sc...

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In 2022 I contributed to an “Enquête on Populism” in Slagmark, alongside Cas Mudde, Chantal Mouffe, Jan-Werner Muller & Anton Jäger, which has now been made available open access: tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/art... Since it is in Danish, here is an English translation 1/2

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I will be speaking alongside Wendy Brown in this great conference. Please consider applying and join the discussion on theorizing liberation in crisis. 👇

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At last the International Criminal Court has approved the arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence secretary Yoav Gallant. These warrants are insufficient since there are many more war criminals in the Israeli government, but at least it is a start.

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Students with TU Darmstadt held a rally today to protest the cancelation of my lecture, and they invited me to give speech and a presentation online. I spoke about the new IHRA definition of antisemitism that prohibits criticism of Israel as an apartheid state. 🧵

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Another cancelation in Germany: James Bridle was awarded the Schelling architectural theory prize but it has now been rescinded due to Bridle signing a letter in support of BDS. taz.de/James-Bridle...

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