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Elena Loizidou

@elenaloizidou.bsky.social
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Professor of Law and Political theory. Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities, School of Law Birkbeck University, London. follow me on https:// instagram.com/my_friends_the_books

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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Join us at our workshop on Minor Democracies and their infrastructures. Bring along your curiosity. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Centre for the Studies of Law and the Humanities workshop: Minor Democracies and their infrastructures
Minor Democracies and their infrastructures
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Deadline for applications is April 11!
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
writing about Judith Butler and Marxism ( in my case more about anarcho-communism) was not easy, but the editors of this volume, Elliot C Mason and Valentina Moro, kept encouraging me so I kept writing. I am glad they kept pressing. Dedicated to the late Marxist theorist Marina Vishmidt.
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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Looking for something thought provoking, free to do next Friday? Join us at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism
Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/princet...
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Princeton University implicated in Gaza and Sudan wars, report says
A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Read this essay by Giroux if you can. It convincingly explains the nexus between neoliberalism, authoritarianism and fascism and the machinery of cruelty that characterises US politics now. www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...
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Trump’s Reign of Cruelty
Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and dismantle the foundations of democracy. It does not merely...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism
Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join us to our Annual Law Lecture,Birkbeck Law School Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams 📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law 🗓️16th May 2025 ⏰18:00-21:00 📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS
This is the Law School's Annual Law Lecture which this year is being delivered by the distinguished legal scholar Prof. Patricia Williams
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Adriana Zaharijević explains how Serbian students claim political agency from the claws of a corrupt political regime. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević
An authoritarian regime has been rocked by an anti-corruption movement generating society-wide anger and indignation, says philosopher Adriana Zaharijević
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
an excellent essay on facticity @alexei Penzin www.e-flux.com/notes/652418...
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Facticity, Today - Notes - e-flux
Alexei Penzin explicates the history and renewed relevance of the philosophical concept of facticity.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In need of optimism? Join us at this joint seminar between the @BirkbeckLaw the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER 👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari). 🗓️26th of February. ⏰12-2 📍: BCB, room 207 👇🏼 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities and Law School Staff Seminar
FUNGORUM MORE: THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER Speaker: Professor Federico Zappino (University of Sassari)
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Reading this profoundly depressed me. Kathrine Franke is a great educator and Human Rights Activist, to have to leave Columbia because of her support of the Palestinian cause is just terrible.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
not to be missed - though I feel I will have to because I am teaching 🥲@law_humanities @Law_Cult_Huma @JStonePeters to register To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I have been reading and meaning to write a blog piece about Luigi Mangione’s act but work admin got in the way. This piece analyses his act via the philosophy of violence. @ctiticallegalthinking. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...
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The Vigilante and the ‘Great Criminal’: On Law, Violence, and Assassination
In December 2024, two events occurred which can help us to understand the relation between violence and law in line with the critique outlined
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
As I read a lot I decided to start a book impressions diary on instagram. It is still embryonic but you can follow me @ my_friends_the_books on instagram.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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Judith Butler: Trump & Harris | Israel & Palestine | Sex & Gender
YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt
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Carrie Lou Hamilton @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ever wonder why the first-person singular makes its way into more and more writing these days? Spoiler alert: it’s alienation, baby. #writing #autobiography #Marxism #history peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...
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Why writers write so much about themselves
And why that’s not such a good thing
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Freedom Press @freedompress.org.uk · 02/12/2024
"anarchist negativity and the intoxicating anarchist dream do not simply represent different aspects of the same entity. They are not different but complementary elements, but rather clearly antagonistic aspects" freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...
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Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory duality - Freedom News
My initial purpose was to reflect on the unavoidable, and often undervalued, negative dimension of anarchism—but I soon realised this forced me to leave aside its entire positive aspect ~ Tomás Ibáñez...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join @BirkbeckLaw for a lunch seminar with @JoanneConaghan and @Yvette Russel discussing their book Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial. 📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
this is an excellent review essay by @alexsharpe.bsky.social of Butler’s Who’s afraid of Gender, i. conversation with critical legal theory.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@mavislwanczyk1.bsky.social congratulations! you are a very generous person.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
great articulation of the issues facing our times by Sally Rooney. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/11/2024
A majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it with their audiences, a study published Tuesday by the UN’s scientific and cultural arm found, underscoring concerns that some of the biggest online figures can uncritically spread misleading claims.
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Majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it, study finds | CNN Business
A majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it with their audiences, a study published Tuesday by the UN’s scientific and cultural arm found, underscoring concerns t...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2024
The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
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The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice The hasty imposition of a deal at the UN climate conference, Cop29, in Azerbaijan, over the objections of…
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Freedom Press @freedompress.org.uk · 23/11/2024
The chaos and half-measures at COP are presented as a stressful negotation, but why would it be? Is there anyone left with faith that this corrupt junket delivers real change? Most of the $300bn will never leave rich nations' banks, trading rules will be twisted to suit corporates. Lethal spectacle.
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Cop29: carbon trading rules approved as talks overrun into the night
Deal paves the way for country-to-country carbon trading and creation of regulated global market to meet Paris targets
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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Very nice exposition of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and its limits by @elenaloizidou.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2024/11/22/t...
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The desire to escape that is not escapism
The Stage When Hegel wrote the Phenomenology of Spirit (2004) in 1807, he had one thing in mind. He wanted to provide an accurate philosophical and
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I wrote this on the master slave dialectic. criticallegalthinking.com/2024/11/22/t...
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The desire to escape that is not escapism
The Stage When Hegel wrote the Phenomenology of Spirit (2004) in 1807, he had one thing in mind. He wanted to provide an accurate philosophical and
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Jack Hewson @jackhewson.com · 21/11/2024
ICC arrest warrants for war crimes. Court concluded Netanyahu and former def min Yoav Gallant bore “criminal responsibility” for causing mass starvation. (Shouldn't bombing loads of kids been included too?) Hamas leader Mohammed Deif found responsible for torture, rape and hostage taking.
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Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
📔📔New Academic Journal Alert.‼️I’m pleased to announce I will launch ‘Gender, Law & Justice’with Bristol University Press in 2024.This is a feminist & interdisciplinary journal. It will focus on social justice & transformation. So please spread the word. More details shortly 👀this space.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How is it is possible that this violence is still going on. Weeping for this death, and every death as a result of this and every war. x.com/franceskalbs...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One may criticize…senescence as a key to understand the reactionary wave by pinpointing that many young people are among those who vote for Trump for Meloni and for Javier Milei…my definition of senility is not limited to the chronological age. F. Berardi www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I had similar thoughts the other day. There is also an element of fatigue, or the realisation ( that I raised in my book Anarchism an Art of living) that we have parallel worlds and a possibility to build from there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over | Gaby Hinsliff
There’s comfort in being surrounded by like-minded people, but challenge is important, and we may have to look for it elsewhere, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
clarity of thinking. x.com/umyaznemo/st...
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I read this morning (a) that Elon Musk has been given a newly established Department of Efficiency and @ruha9.bsky.social’s AI and Eugenics. And I am highly concerned about the shape of the future. 🫣
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
‘The best moment of the Harris campaign was the very beginning, when she got a chance to embody the collective sigh of relief at Joe Biden’s decision to bow out, and to offer something new.’ www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Exit Right - Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/11/2024
Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. The election of Donald Trump just made that more difficult, but options exist.
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Countries Weigh How to Raise Trillions for Climate Crisis at COP29
Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. Donald Trump’s victory just made that more difficult, but options exist.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/11/2024
Breaking news: Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member responsible for a sprawling leak of classified information, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison in a case that shook the U.S. national security community.
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Discord leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years for sharing U.S. secrets
The Discord leaks rocked the U.S. national security establishment, revealing the speed with which top-secret materials can spread online.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
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Elena Loizidou @elenaloizidou.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world
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