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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would recommend this little volume by Simone Weil. Its title might suggest something provocative about political parties, but in fact it is more radical than that.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In the 1920s the Deborin school in Soviet philosophy used to call Spinoza as “Marx without a beard.” It’s from Kline’s Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy, which is worth reading.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I find Jameson’s reading of Deleuze in this piece particularly insightful, mostly because he refuses to turn the disagreement into a loyalty test.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two books on Marx and human nature, worth reading together (ofc these names read each other, less warmly).

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Forgacs puts the pre-prison journalism next to the notebooks, which lets you see the Gramscian concepts forming. I feel there’s a glossary, which you need more than you’d expect.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A text by Gilles Deleuze that only seems to grow more important with each passing day. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This piece goes after capitalism on different ground than most philosophy does. The wrong isn’t unfairness and it isn’t harm. It’s one person’s will running another’s.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hall’s essay on ideology has been still useful to me in a way few things are.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

More than forty years on, I still think Anderson’s critique has aged remarkably well.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Traverso turns the left’s history of defeat into something more than nostalgia: a critical memory from which new struggles might still begin. An essential read.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I keep coming back to the Gulbenkian Commission report, Open the Social Sciences, edited by Wallerstein in 1996. I think it still explains the shape of the academy better than most things written since.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This book is essential if you want to understand postmodernism both as an artistic style and as the cultural expression of a new phase of capitalism.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’d recommend Nick Srnicek’s Platform Capitalism. It’s clear and cuts through the “sharing economy” gloss, delineating how platforms turn data, network effects, and monopoly power into business models. One of the solid entry points into digital capitalism.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This piece, I feel, is a game-changer. It decodes the ‘perceptual physics’ of Marx’s Capital III to show how surplus-value vanishes into surface forms. From digital ‘mining’ to to financial sharks, it reveals the hidden portals to a world beyond capital.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Strongly recommend Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Its singular force is lodged in recasting underdevelopment as a coeval historical relation.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This piece deserves far more attention than it gets. It is usually remembered for “real abstraction,” but its more neglected argument concerns the separation of conception from execution, and the way workers’ knowledge is transferred to management, machinery, and systems of control.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The Limits to Capital would be one of my picks. It is one of the most ambitious attempts to extend Marx’s analysis of capital into crisis, finance, rent, geography, and uneven development.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This piece discusses artificial intelligence and robotic labor through Marx’s critique of political economy. Will robots simply become machines that replace human workers, or will they come to occupy a new form of labor power within capitalist production? Highly recommended.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The book is intellectually ambitious, interdisciplinary, and full of surprising connections. It offers a refreshing alternative to more technical or futuristic books on AI.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I highly recommend Marshall Sahlins’ The Western Illusion of Human Nature. It is a powerful anthropological critique of the Western idea that humans are naturally selfish, competitive, and antisocial.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I highly recommend this piece because it brilliantly connects Hegel, Marx, and Vygotsky to create a unified « philosophy of praxis » that finally links individual psychology with social theory.

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Happy to share that my new article, “Three Modalities of Algorithmic Forgetting: Over-capture, Curated, and Preemptive,” has been published in Memory Studies. @memorystudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – @edinburghup.bsky.social, April 2026 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nonviol...

Cover of book - abstract sculpture in a wood (tree in background, white flowers in foreground)

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Butterflies Katz ⓥ @butterflieskatz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#Mural on building #StreetArt #art Nice way to beautify buildings.

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ~Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting)

[Bloomsbury bookshop by H. W. Fincham (ca. 1926)]

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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Re-imagining Economy & Society - a Glasgow friend Kim Scott is involved with this, and asked me to share the flyer - events in Glasgow & Edinburgh between 22 and 25 April.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966) "Spring Garden Road, Halifax", 2022. Oil on Canvas, 10" × 8". Private Collection. One for all my old friends in London today.

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Two Disciples at the Tomb, c.1906 Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Le Cartographe 🗺️🍷 @lecartographe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Antibes, vue du plateau Notre-Dame Claude Monet à Antibes (1888) Source : Collection privée, vente 2014

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In the words of Carl Sagan

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İbrahim Berkan Karataş @lesociologuex.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Oui, en partie. On ne peut pas totalement séparer l’homme de l’artiste, mais les confondre complètement empêche aussi de comprendre l’œuvre.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

After Caroline Norton's husband took her kids & earnings, she fought for: + Custody of Infants Act 1839: For the first time gave married women a right to their children + Matrimonial Causes Act 1857: Deserted wives' right to own & protect property She was born #OTD in 1808. #UK #WomensHistoryMonth

19th-century oil portrait painting of British writer and social reformer Caroline Norton, shown seated at a table draped in a vibrant floral tablecloth. She wears an elegant off-the-shoulder yellow satin gown with ruffled sleeves and gold jeweled bracelets on both wrists. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and upswept in an elegant updo. She gazes directly at the viewer with a gentle smile, her left hand resting under her chin and her right hand holding a quill pen above an open book. The dramatic background includes a classical stone column, a rich red drape on the right, and a stormy night sky with silhouetted buildings on the left. The painting is signed “G.F. Watts” in the lower right corner.

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Do you happen to be in Istanbul on 2 April, in the wake of the Historical Materialism Conference? You are kindly invited to our book launch "Versuche Lukács umzudenken", with the participation of our editor Hassan Maarfi Poor, at Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science (2 April, 12:30).

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Histoire Géo Nord @histoiregeonord.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Une nouvelle édition des Misérables en 2026.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A conversation with a friend today reminded me of a very strange corner of history: the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute, a decades-long German cultural and political controversy over whether the Latin-derived Antiqua typeface or the Gothic Fraktur script should serve as the national standard.

Cover of Killius’s „Die Antiqua-Fraktur Debatte um 1800.“

Cover of “Blackletter: Type and National Identity” edited by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw.

Cover of Michaud’s “The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany.”

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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

GalGael Trust community meal last night … just to hearten you all … and the story I told for the equinox, a liminal time, of the 2 young men, the whisky and the faerie hill … localised in Ferintosh, Harris, Argyll, Iona, Mull and McIntosh.

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Agon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

With a few new episodes, and more to come. Please consider subscribing to/following us on YouTube and Spotify channels: www.youtube.com/@crisisandcr... open.spotify.com/show/71HTMeq...

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Crisis and Critique

Crisis and Critique, is a journal of political thought and philosophy, appearing two times a year. It has an international audience and readership, authors, and editorial board. The journal has gained...

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Le Cartographe 🗺️🍷 @lecartographe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Petite pensée à tous les écoliers qui reprennent l’école après ce we ensoleillé 🎓 L’écolier de Wililam Blake 📚🇬🇧

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J'aime me lever par un matin d'été
Quand les oiseaux chantent dans tous les arbres;
Le chasseur au loin sonne du cor, Et l'alouette chante avec moi, Oh! quelle douce compagnie.
Mais aller à l'école par un matin d'été, Oh! cela chasse toute joie;
Sous un cruel regard, harassés,
Les petits passent tout le jour Dans les soupirs et le désarroi.
Ah! alors parfois je languis à mon siège, Et passe mainte heure dans l'anxiété;
Ni ne puis prendre à mon livre de plaisir, Ni trouver un refuge aux bosquets du savoir, Transpercé que je suis par l'averse glacée.
Comment l'oiseau, né pour la jole, Pourrait-il être en cage et chanter ?
Comment l'enfant que tourmente la crainte
Ne replierait-il pas ses faibles ailes
Et n'oublierait-il pas ce printemps, sa jeunesse ?
O père, ô mère, si les bourgeons sont gelés
Et les fleurs effeuillées par le vent, Si les tendres plantes sont privées De leur joie au temps du renouveau
Par le désarroi que laissent la peine et le souci, Comment l'été pourra-t-il naître dans la joie ?
Comment apparaîtront les fruits de l'été ?
Comment récolterons-nous ce que la tristesse détruit
Ou bénirons-nous la saison qui mûrit
Quand surviendront les rafales d'hiver?

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus - @jhideas.bsky.social blog www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

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The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...

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Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory

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Agon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Before the new season drops: 23 free conversations on the Crisis & Critique Podcast with Butler, Žižek, Zupančič, Malabou, Tooze, Federici, Varoufakis, Oppenheimer, Pippin & more. Take a listen and please follow our channels. www.youtube.com/@crisisandcr... open.spotify.com/show/71HTMeq...

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