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Paul Mazzocchi

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Long suffering adjunct faculty in Toronto. Political theory. Puppies. Pizza. Pasketball. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of… utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/…

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Viktoria Huegel @viktoriahue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🗓️ Another great CAPPE event coming up. Links below 👇
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Critical Theory Working Group @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/3_p... 👇🧵
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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
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School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory
School of the South: The Colonial Roots of FrenchTheory, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: the...
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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
+++Save the Date+++ Lingerings. The Politics of Resentment, Residuals, and Repair. With Wendy Brown, Andreas Folkers and Eva von Redecker 13. Oktober 2026, 17 Uhr 2og:dondorf @afolkers.bsky.social www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/p...
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Lingerings. The Politics of Resentment, Residuals, and Repair. With Wendy Brown, Andreas Folkers and Eva von Redecker - Institut für Sozialforschung
The past is now. Alongside, and often in alliance with, a veritable storm of disruptive technologies, ostensibly outdated forms of authoritarian politics and subjectivities are on the rise. The emergi...
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Éditions Klincksieck @klincksieck.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📕 James C. Scott, Les Armes des faibles. Formes quotidiennes de la résistance paysanne • Traduit de l’anglais par Olivier Ruchet avec la collaboration de Christophe Jaquet. Disponible en librairie et sur notre site internet :
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Les Armes des faibles - James C. Scott
L'absence de conflit ouvert ou de révolte n'est pas nécessairement nl'expression de la soumission des dominés à leur condition ni de leur acquiescement à l'ordre...
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 27/07/2026
CFP: Reclaiming Radical Imagination Utopia and Speculation in Architectural Practice, Theory, and Pedagogy; Thematic call for VAS - Visionary Architecture Studies Journal, an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal. vas-journal.org/index.php/VA...
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Reclaiming Radical Imagination | VAS - Visionary Architecture Studies
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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
CFP: Gramsci: FASCISM, INTERREGNUM, DEMOCRACY. DECEMBER 16-17, 2026 Paris Deadline for abstracts: August 15. www.marshallpierce.info/gramsci-100-...
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Gramsci 100 CFP — MARSHALL PIERCE
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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Toward Alternative World Making: A Dialogue on Ending Imperialism and Dismantling the Coloniality of Power | August 22-24, 2026 | International Online Conference | New Submission Deadline: July 9, 2026 | More information here: thepluriversitylahore.com/events/9Jixl...
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Spend four Mondays with me getting deep into Octavia Butler's last novel Fledgling. I'm teaching a class online all about its puzzles and rewards: literary-arts.org/event/octavi...
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Octavia Butler: Fledgling
Octavia Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, is a powerful, disturbing book about humanity and Otherness that is also a vampire coming-of-age story. Delve guide Nisi Shawl, a friend of Butler’s during her...
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In this introduction to the Special Issue on #Utopia and #Failure, @davinacooper.bsky.social, Mathias Thaler and I outline the research questions that drove the projects, introduce the papers, and explain the broader work of the AHRC network. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Éditions Klincksieck @klincksieck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
✍️ La plèbe, principe de liberté Martin Breaugh retrace l'histoire des soulèvements populaires qui, de la Rome antique à la Commune de Paris, ont fait de la plèbe une expérience politique et un désir de liberté.
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La plèbe, principe de liberté - Nonfiction.fr le portail des livres et des idées
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History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#ArticleSnapshot📸: "On the Idea of a Critical History of Political Thought" by Christopher Holman "intervenes in recent methodological debates in the #HistoryOfPoliticalThought" by advocating an approach that uses "historical and philosophical techniques" doi.org/10.1111/hith...
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ON THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT: TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION AND THINKING IN CONSTELLATIONS
This article intervenes in recent methodological debates in the history of political thought, particularly those involving the question of whether its practice should be considered primarily as a his...
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/pa...
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Paolo Virno and Jun Fujita Hirose · Paolo Virno: Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, technical activity and reification (2006)
Interview paolo virno Reading Gilbert Simondon Transindividuality, technical activity and reification Jun fujita hirose At the end of the 1980s, the thought of Gilbert Simondon – a French philosopher ...
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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Livestream for the exciting panel on oligarchic and plebeian republicanisms in Latin America, featuring Hilda Sabato, Valeria Coronel, Jonas Wolff, Alberto Vergara Paniagua, @federicorossi.bsky.social and @camilavergara.bsky.social at LASA 2026 conference in Paris, this Wednesday
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
mark your calendars: CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION Berlin, June 4-5, 2026 w/ great speakers incl. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Maeve Cooke, Alex Demirović, Verónica Gago, Stephan Lessenich & Isabella Weber more info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/cri...
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CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION

Berlin, June 4-5, 2026

with
JAY BERNSTEIN, DEBADITYA BHATTACHARYA, MANUELA BOJADZIJEV,
MARIO CANDEIAS, ROBIN CELIKATES, DIPESH CHAKRABARTY, MAEVE COOKE, RODRIGO CORDERO, ALEX DEMIROVIC, SILKE VAN DYK, VERÓNICA GAGO, RAHEL JAEGGI, JAN-PHILIPP KRUSE, STEPHAN LESSENICH, FRANK NULLMEIER, ISETTE SCHUHMACHER, PHILIPP STAAB, JOSEPH TAINTER, ADAM TOOZE, ISABELLA WEBER, MARKUS WISSEN, JOSEPH VOGL
JUNE 4-5, 2026
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
AUDITORIUM IM
GRIMM ZENTRUM
HU BERLIN
Organised by
Centre for Social Critique
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
You asked, we listened! J.E. & I tackle “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” in 2 pts: EP16 on the motive & method of the project; EP 17 on how far the book falls short of its own mission re: the Frankfurt School. Tried to keep it civil-ish but as you can see lol www.patreon.com/posts/156140...
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Episode 16: Who Paid The Riddler of Western Marxism? (Part 1) | Critical Theory Working Group
Get more from Critical Theory Working Group on Patreon
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/04/2026
CFP: "Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene" Space and Culture journal networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Call for Abstracts: "Islands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the Anthropocene" | H-Net
Scientific Journal: Space and Culture Call for AbstractsIslands as Chronotopes: Geographies of Isolation, Imagination, and Interconnection from Antiquity to the AnthropoceneEditorsNikoleta Zampaki, Ad...
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Éditions Klincksieck @klincksieck.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🎧Écoutez un extrait lu de Martin Breaugh, L’Expérience plébéienne Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique. Disponible en librairie.
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Martin Breaugh - L’Expérience plébéienne. Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique
Martin Breaugh propose réflexion approfondie sur l’accès du grand nombre à l’action politique. Il découvre une autre intelligence de la démocratie comprise comme une expérience d’émancipation nouant e
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Un riche volume autour de l’œuvre philosophique et éditoriale de Miguel Abensour. Vient de paraître chez Sens et Tonka.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 10/04/2026
CFP: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies: Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis. November 12–14, 2026. Embassy Suites Portland Downtown. Portland, Oregon, USA utopian-studies.org/conference20...
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2026 Society for Utopian Studies Conference
Conference Organizers: Sangita Gopal (Local Chair, University of Oregon) Edward K. Chan (Program Co-Chair, Waseda University, Tokyo) Patricia Ventura (Program Co-Chair, Spelman College) Donald Zarate (Graduate Assistant, University of California, Riverside)
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Éditions Klincksieck @klincksieck.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
📆 Soirée Peuple & plèbe à la Librairie Publico (Paris) mercredi 15 avril 2026, autour du livre de Martin Breaugh, L'Expérience plébéienne, Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique. 📕En savoir plus sur le livre : www.klincksieck.com/livre/978225204…
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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My chapter on 19th century plebeian internationalism is out now in The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis 🎉 📕 Many thanks to the editors @julfaure.bsky.social, Matthew Humphreys, and David Laycock! If you'd like to read it, feel free to get in touch. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Voices of Democracy: A Festival for Ten-Minute Monologues, UC Irvine (Deadline: April 20th, 11:59 p.m. PST) Guidelines and Submissions: forms.gle/mSXFWriVLQYM...
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Éditions Klincksieck @klincksieck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Découvrez les titres disponibles de la collection Critique de la politique, fondée par Miguel Abensour et dirigée par Michèle cohen-Halimi: www.klincksieck.com/les-livres/c...
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New podcast episode on "Utopia as a method" frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...
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Utopia as a Method - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method.
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Ida Danewid @idanewid.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson
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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The new issue of Diacritics is on Walter Benjamin's short text "Fate and Character", edited by @tomvandeputte.bsky.social and others. I was so happy to contribute a text on "Liberation" muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198
Ausschnitt aus Walter Benjamin's "Schicksal und Charakter", mit dem Wort "Befreiung" hervorgehoben
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IfS Frankfurt @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!
Flyer mit allen Infos aus dem Post.
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Coming up in February, the AHRC Utopia and Failure Network hosts a discussion with Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker on "New Directions in Utopian Studies" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979739755...
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New Directions in Utopian Studies
With talks from Lisa Garforth and Neil Walker followed by discussion
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Oliver Marchart @olivermarchart.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tomorrow we’ll start a two day workshop together with the post-foundational thought group at the University of Barcelona. Looking forward to “Un-Grounding Institutions”!
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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Here you'll find work on Jeanson as well as translations - also by @dzshaw.bsky.social !
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David McNally @redprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Here's an excerpt from my new book in Literary Hub. Remarkably, they chose a section on plantation profits, fetishism, and why enslaved people represented living labor not constant capital. lithub.com/inside-the-p...
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Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery
The “primary purpose” of New World slaves, Sidney Mintz wrote, was to serve as manual laborers engaged…in the production of market commodities…Slaves were not primarily a source of pres…
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Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
*new translation* THE BOOK OF ABOLITIONS by Karl Korsch www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/the-...
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Adorno-Horkheimer: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses’ (Jun./Jul. 1941).
Letters towards “Walter Benjamin zum Gedächtnis” (1942).
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PREDEF|Politische Theorie Wien @poltheoriewien.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
📢 IPW Lecture at the University of Vienna We are very excited to be hosting Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz) next week with a lecture entitled “Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal” Join us on November 17 at 6:15 PM 📍 Hörsaal 2, NIG, 2nd Floor Moderation: Alexander Kurunczi
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
alright going to try this again as well because i promised a comrade—does anyone have a PDF scan or institutional access to Bände 8-9 of the Korsch Gesamtausgabe? Would love to read letters he exchanges with Horkheimer in the late 30s about the Spanish Civil War, counterrevolution, & positivism!
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!
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History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).
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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If you are thinking with & about Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, please consider submitting a proposal to this upcoming conference in Paderborn/Germany in May 2026 to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Organized by Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen and Maria Robaszkiewicz, abstracts due end of August.
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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery
cover of the forthcoming anthology Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500–1765
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Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen @bpoppmadsen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New paper on the concept and politics of freedom of assembly, co-written with @mflohr.bsky.social and published in Politics and Society!
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Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️ KORSCH/SCHMITT - including 7 new translations, and 2 interpretative essays endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/kor...
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Great to see that the new issue of Cahiers Philosophiques is dedicated to the work of Miguel Abensour www.vrin.fr/livre/978271...
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Lectures de Miguel Abensour | Collection Cahiers Philosophiques
Découvrez l'ouvrage Lectures de Miguel Abensour | Collection Cahiers Philosophiques
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