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Robert Vinten

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Researcher at Ifilnova in Lisbon. Author of Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences and editor of Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion.🇵🇸

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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 7h
More pictures from the Gramsci colloquium in Coimbra last Friday - organised by the International Gramsci Society, Portugal, the Institute de Estudos Filosóficos at the University of Coimbra, and the Centro de Estudos Sociais.
Rita Ciotta NevesCarlos HortmannVanda DiasMiguel Cardina and Leonor Rosas
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 7h
Some of my pictures from the excellent Gramsci colloquium in Coimbra last Friday - with António Pedro Pita, Marcela Uchôa, Jonas Van Vossole...
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New entry on Engels in the Stanford Encyclopedia plato.stanford.edu/entries/enge...
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Friedrich Engels (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Gramsci colloquium in Coimbra was excellent! I gave a little talk about Gramsci and Wittgenstein on science and scientism. Other people spoke about common sense, the reception of Gramsci in South America, anthropology, hegemony, subalternity...
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tomorrow up at the university in Coimbra
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Israel is deliberately concentrating more than two million people in a depleted area covering less than 30 per cent of the Strip...' #GazaGenocide‌ euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7...
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Israel turns Gaza into largest ghetto in modern history, killing residents one after another as three-year genocide continues
Israel is deliberately concentrating more than two million people in a depleted area covering less than 30% of the Gaza Strip
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The International Gramsci Society - Portugal - has shared publicity for the Gramsci conference in Coimbra next Friday www.instagram.com/p/Dd_ArDWCE4...
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here is the schedule for the Gramsci conference in Coimbra on October 9th
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the relationship between #Zionism and #imperialism is unclear to you, this may help.
Countries that walked out of the UN Gen Assembly over Netanyahu are almost entirely in the Global South.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Superb cover of Rubin and Cherise by Bonnie Prince Billy and band youtu.be/Y6F9XWjlgfA?...
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Rubin & Cherise - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Feb 21, 2016 - Louisville, KY
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who is interested in knowing where Gramsci lived when he lived in Vienna: I have a little post on my philosophy blog about that robvintenphilosophy.blogspot.com/2026/09/wher...
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Where did Gramsci live when he was in Vienna?
When I was in Vienna in August of 2026 I wanted to visit places where Gramsci had lived while he was in Vienna (between December 1923 and Ma...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/09/2026
‘It is Macklemore, not Ed Sheeran, who has been barred from performing. Yet somehow the story is about Sheeran’s freedom to be apolitical.’ New on the blog from Lorna Finlayson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Danish String Quartet's performance of Schnittke's String Quartet no.3 in their Prism series is great! I will have to check out their other Prism albums. youtu.be/fj1SP7Ya1do?...
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String Quartet No. 3: 1. Andante - Schnittke // Danish String Quartet & DR Pigekoret (LIVE)
YouTube video by DR Koncerthuset
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am very pleased to be one of the speakers at the inaugural conference of the International Gramsci Society in Portugal - one hundred years after Gramsci wrote 'Some Aspects of the Southern Question'. In Coimbra - 9th October.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you LitHub for listing On Un/Certainty as a most anticipated books of 2026 and saying nice things about me 🥳… you can pre-order here! @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/321...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Government response has been woefully inadequate. It’s not enough to condemn this behaviour as thuggish while serious questions remain about whether similar tactics would have been policed differently in other circumstances.
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is the latest example of far-right anti-migrant vigilantism that has left many migrants and people of colour feeling less safe and less welcome in our communities.
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The scenes of black-clad anti-migrant groups marching through Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend are deeply concerning. A far-right group has sought to intimidate our communities and inflame tensions through vigilante-style tactics.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Very tired of hearing Labour politicians saying that racist protesters have 'legitimate concerns'. It is very obviously legitimising language - legitimising that racism. Politicians want to suggest that people are right to be worried about people coming to seek asylum in the UK... Scapegoating.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'But #Israel’s real problem is that the public, including students, sees reality too clearly.' #GazaGenocide‌ electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...
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Three-quarters of US college students say Israel is committing genocide
Brandeis researchers backed by the American Jewish Committee try to explain away their own devastating finding.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Islamophobia that Bari Weiss used in a CBS News headline tying Abdul El-Sayed to 9/11 was helped along by rank bigots on the right wing of the Democratic Party. Latest for @theintercept.com
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CBS News Spins El-Sayed’s 9/11 Tweets Into a Manufactured Anti-Muslim Scandal
Centrists opened the door for anti-Muslim attacks on El-Sayed. CBS News kicked it wide open by linking the candidate to 9/11.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yesterday we walked up Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg. Stefan Zweig used to live up the hill, close to the Capuchin monastery and the Square where the walk begins, at the bottom of the hill, is named after him - as is the path up the hill. We also visited the Stefan Zweig museum earlier in the week.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Three poems by Georg Trakl seen around Salzburg this past week
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The papers from the recent Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg have been published online - including my paper on Wittgenstein and Gramsci on Science and Scientism symposium.alws.at#/article/b1c...
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International Wittgenstein Symposium Application
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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Join the British Wittgenstein Society for a discussion of 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' with editors Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt, joined by Maria Balaska and @csandis.bsky.social. 🗓️ 2 September ⏰ 6pm-8pm GMT 💻 Online (Zoom) Register here: bit.ly/4wktkDq
Banner for the book 'I Think of You Constantly with Love' featuring letters between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards. It's edited by Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There is a tentative schedule up on the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society webpage for the Symposium this year. I am speaking at 3:15pm on Tuesday 11th August about Wittgenstein and Gramsci - on Science and Scientism iws.alws.at#/schedule
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fruit gathered on yesterday afternoon's walk, which went into a pie with some apples in the evening.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The latest reveal from tomorrow’s asylum bill - a refugee tax. Asylum support is only available to people who would otherwise be destitute. So this targets those with the least, lumbering refugees with £10k of debt just when they’re trying to get on with their lives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Refugees will be told to repay £10,000 under new asylum rules
Ministers will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
When I arrived at Torres Novas bus station yesterday afternoon I was greeted by this banner: Pacote Laboral Caiu! (The government's Labour package - a bill to get rid of many workers' rights - failed to go through). Vitoria da Luta dos Trabalhadores (victory of workers' struggle).
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the greatest band in the world was the Pixies. This performance of Tame at the Brixton Academy in London is astonishing. I wish I made it along to a Pixies gig in those years. I have only seen them perform after they reunited (still v. good) youtu.be/4i6jtsCpImo?...
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Pixies - Tame (live upgrade)
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'Severe heat kills more people in the US each year than all other #extremeweather events combined, with deaths surging by more than 50% over the past two decades.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds
Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bn
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/06/2026
The environmental toll of the AI boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people.
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“New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new inves...
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Neil Young Matmos Pavement Stereolab War The Fall Sonic Youth Pixies Iggy Pop The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The degree to which the #police function is adjusted to meet the changing needs of capital's priorities is more striking today than ever before. Now, the security state has invented the 'anti-AI extremist.' #AI theintercept.com/2026/06/01/a...
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Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
European governments are coming after our rights. Here in Portugal the government has introduced a big bill to get rid of a whole load of labour rights. On 3rd June there will be a general strike in opposition to the government's labour package.
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Speaking about Wittgenstein and Gramsci at Ljubljana city library. I argued that they both have very similar things to say about science/scientism
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am going to be speaking about commonalities between Gramsci and Wittgenstein at the Slovenian Philosophical Society conference on Wednesday. Looks as though it will be a very good conference - about Wittgenstein
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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A party with more than 400 MPs which then finds that the only possible leader is not yet an MP is really in a dire state isn't it?
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Currently reading - it centres Gramsci's understanding of language and compares Gramsci to Saussure, Wittgenstein, and others. Fascinating!
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
At the huge march to commemorate 52 years since the Portuguese revolution in Lisbon yesterday. 25 de Abril Sempre! Fascismo nunca mais!
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Robert Vinten @robvinten.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On the barbarity of the Israeli regime www.instagram.com/reel/DW6YVNu...
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palestinedeepdive on Instagram: "NEW: Israel’s Death Penalty Law Is Zionism’s Logical Conclusion�Welcome to the world’s first Palestinian chat show! Palestinian jou…"
NEW: Israel’s Death Penalty Law Is Zionism’s Logical Conclusion�Welcome to the world’s first Palestinian chat show! Palestinian journalists from Gaza @ahmed_alnaouq and @halahanina are joined by Palestinian activist @luj.abd and the legendary anti-establishment punk-rap artist @bobbyvylan.Watch the full show now on YouTube: The Israeli Army is a Machine of Death.
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