‘Money to Burn‘ and ‘The Devil Book‘ by Asta Olivia Nordenhof. Bad investments, the insurance fraud fire on Scandinavian Star, bargains with the devil.
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‘Money to Burn‘ and ‘The Devil Book‘ by Asta Olivia Nordenhof. Bad investments, the insurance fraud fire on Scandinavian Star, bargains with the devil.
It‘s here! The annual CfA for the annual conference by the Danish society for Marxist Studies. Go go go go!
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Glad to share that our special issue of German History, co-edited with @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is now available in First View. It focuses on colonial railway infrastructure in the German Empire. If you would like access, just let us know.
doi.org/10.1093/gerh...
New volume of RP published and free to peruse for all! Come for the dossier on Fanon, Tosquellles, and the political intricacies of postwar French psychiatry. Stay for Abushama’s analysis of the actually existing state of Palestine and MacFarlane‘s portrait of Lefebvre and the California ideology.
‘Blind Imperial Arrogance’
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‘Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.’ (Said, 2003) was the epigraph to my syllabus on empire. Might have to replace it with the title of the piece it is taken from…
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This selection of essays and interviews reflects the wide range of scholarship published on the blog in 2025.
Front cover of Berta Lask’s play ‘Thomas Müntzer Dramatic depiction of the German Peasants’ War of 1525 For the Proletariat of 1925’ in translation by Sam Dolbear.
What am I doing this evening? I’m glad you asked. Living room staging of a Berta Lask play! In case anyone wants to copy the idea, you can find it in Sam Dolbear‘s translation here:
www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer
End of year Marxist Aesthetics volume!
Just published…
Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!
Excellent piece. The danish Marxist hat-trick for the forum has finally been achieved!
Julia Roberts as philosophy professor: ‘Adorno writes in his Minima Moralia’
‘There is no right life in the wrong one.’
Watched ‘after the hunt’. Was worth it for these.
Map of Cuba from Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1825-6).
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant!
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
Ok but which is it?!?
Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
Do you or anyone you know work on African philosophy? A job (!) has come up in my department. Happy to talk about it if you are curious. It’s a lovely place to work with a pretty special BA in Global and Comparative Philosophy. Please share widely!
It seems to me that ‘silent’ is pretty good for wordless but that the ‘fragend‘ gets lost. Pleading or questioning?
Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!
Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas."
@mflohr.bsky.social
The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.
@magnusz.bsky.social informs me that the name of the cultural minister in the period was in fact Eichhörn!
I’m stealing this reference for a piece on silence in the philosophical canon.
And 40 years after Peter Osborne published his now (in)famous review of Rose’s Hegel contra Sociology in RP, R. L. Scott has written a really interesting piece on what her phenomenology of necessary illusion brings to critical theory today. Enjoy your August reading!
Check out: an interview with Sophie Lewis; Anselmetti on Ghassan Kanafani; Z. el Nabolsy’s obituary for Paulin Hountondji; articles by F.T.C. Manning on real abstraction and E. Baglioni on reproductive subsumption; a commentary by F. Renz on the UK supreme court and what it means to be a woman!
New issue of RP is out! As always, it’s a mix of different formats and there are some really great pieces in this edition.
Find it out all open access here. Below a quick overview and my special recommendation for Gillian Rose nerds!
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Woah, that’s a lot of Schmitt. I nominate @lottelist.bsky.social to read and review.
@lottelist.bsky.social, @magnusz.bsky.social, and I just need two to three more years in our politics of German Idealism reading group then we will be ready to review your work properly within the context of ‘the zeitgeist’.
Johann Gottlieb? More like Johann Hottlieb.