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Louis Hartnoll

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Postdoctoral researcher in the History of Art department, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board. uva.academia.edu/LouisHartnoll

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The plenaries for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London are now announced – see the below poster designed by the wonderful @davidmabb.bsky.social. The programme for the conference will be circulated shortly, we are just making the final tweaks and adjustments.
Poster for the 2026 Historical Materialism annual conference, showing the list of plenary speakers:

Thursday, 5 Nov, 19-21:00. On Revolutionary Feminisms with Ankica Čakardić, Layal Ftouni, Emma Heaney, Sophie Lewis.

Friday, 6 Nov, 18:30 - 20:00, Deutscher Prize Lecture: On The Political Terrain of Class Struggle by Bruno Leipold.

Saturday, 7 Nov, 19-21:00. On Fascism and Anti-Fascism with Rob Knox, Robyn Marasco, Alberto Toscano.

Sunday, 8 Nov, 17-19:00. On Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism with Charmaine Chua, Adam Hanieh, Ashok Kumar,
Costas Lapavitsas, Sharzhad Mojab.
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law”
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next month, Andreas Selg and I will be speaking about our forthcoming book, Antifascist Passages, at a conference in Stockholm dedicated to Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance. Join!
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Conference: The Theater of Divided Worlds - Bonniers Konsthall
— Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance and the Challenge of Critical Universality in the Twenty-First Century. An international conference organized by The Institute for Research on Migration, E...
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THE PROGRAMME IS HERE 💥 The programme for the 11th conference is now ready and we are happy to share it with friend & foes of Danish Marxism alike! We look forward to seeing you all for two smashing days in Copenhagen with great presentations, keynotes, and socialising in just over a week 🥰
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Coming next year 👀 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/860268...
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Warnings by Günther Anders: 9783948200305 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Buy Warnings by Günther Anders from Penguin Random House
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
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What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism
Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfolded,...
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Marxism-NL @marxism-nl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join us at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social between 7-9th October for an exciting conference connecting Marxists in the Netherlands! The schedule is now live and you can register to attend conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/ We have sessions about social reproduction, ecology, value theory and more!
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Pulling the Emergency Brake: MarxismNL Conference 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Pulling the Emergency Brake: MarxismNL Conference 2026
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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The fruit of my postdoc academic labor (!) + that of my co-editors and 38 brilliant contributing authors... The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social open access 💕 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205417...
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The Aesthetics of Machine Vision
The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspect...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Now online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.
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An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School - Historical Materialism
Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative insti...
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our group is organizing its inaugural conference! This year in Utrecht, with two amazing Hegel scholars and Hegel-inspired thinkers María del Rosario Acosta López and Christoph Menke. I am beyond happy and look forward to that Venez nombreux·ses!! hegelvermittlung.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/t...
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The Logics, Politics and Aesthetics of Mediation
Conference, Utrecht University 11-12 December 2026
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leftarthistories @leftarthistories.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Heute startet die Aktionswoche gegen Faschismus. Dienstag und Mittwoch sind wir mit zwei Veranstaltungen am kunstgeschichtlichen Institut in Bochum vertreten. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
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Marxism-NL @marxism-nl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Remember to submit your abstracts for the inaugural Dutch Marxism Conference by 29th May!!
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Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
And we’re back. Join us for our first seminar of summer term: Diary of a Vandalized Car Dominique Routhier (@routhier.bsky.social) Friday 24 April, 5.30pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, South wing, UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT All welcome. No booking required. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Diary of a Vandalized Car
Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Dominique Routhier (Roskilde University). His talk traces the “decline and fall” of American civilization through the decomposition of its most emblematic f...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online! Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!
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Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Now online: Nadja Rakowitz and Frank Engster, 'Hans-Georg Backhaus (1929-2026)'.
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Hans-Georg Backhaus (1929-2026) - Historical Materialism
From Hans-Georg Backhaus we did not only learn how to read Marx, but also how to keep one’s backbone when the wind blows from the opposite direction.
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Don't mind me, just doing art historical research out here.
Detail of a page from a Victor Burgin article in Studio International from 1976. The image shows a bored woman, resting her cheek against her own clenched fist. At the bottom, in large, bold writing it reads: 'Class consciousness / think about it'
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...
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Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference
Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
the doomsday clock moves closer to midnight
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
From a 1978 cover of Kunstwerk, a Dutch quarterly art history publication produced in Nijmegen.
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Now online: a special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. With contributions from Kaan Kangal, Roberto Fineschi, Jean Quétier, Michael Schauerte and Thanasis Giouras, as well as a translation of the entry on 'MEGA' from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism.
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Dossier: Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx - Historical Materialism
A special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. Featured articles: Kaan Kangal, Introduction to Dossier ‘Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx’ Historical-Critical Dictionary of Mar...
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki
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Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excited to announce an online book launch event for my first book 7th of April 1pm EDT sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-con...
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"Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination" with Chris O'Kane
Join us for a discussion of "Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination" with Chris O'Kane, Samuel Fisher, and Rob Knox
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Dr. Judith-Frederike Popp @judithpopp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This looks awesome!
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Got stuck into this today. There's lots of bangers here
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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Um 1960 (!) hat Carl Schmitt dieses – von ihm nicht veröffentlichte – antisemitische Schmähgedicht gegen Theodor W. Adorno geschrieben (aus: Reinhard Mehring, Alternative Kritiker der „totalen" Weltgesellschaft)
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Frontispice to a 1974 exhibition publication for ‘Kunst im 3. Reich’ showing a quote from Max Horkheimer which reads: ‘Wer vom Faschismus spricht, darf vom Kapitalismus nicht schweigen.’
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Finally
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Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Preliminary proofs are in......
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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“The Most Unsettling Reality is Our Own”: Instability of Form After the Global Turn - new article in the special issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on Marxist Aesthetics tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...
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View of “The Most Unsettling Reality is Our Own”
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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The last thing I wrote & published in 2025 was about how Pat Parker’s unpublished novel draft, “Assassination" situates a most pressing critique of counterrevolutionary art. To think about this novel, I looked to Bollas, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe and others tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...
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Artist/Executioner: Antidotes to Counter-Revolutions | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the whole issue is amazing, but the introduction by @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social @routhier.bsky.social and Tobias Dias cannot be missed! tidsskrift.dk/nja/issue/vi...
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Vol. 34 No. 70 (2025): Special issue: Marxist Aesthetics | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
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Ernst Blocchiamo Tutto @ephemeralparty.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
So happy to be a part of this…
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
*Neurath spotted* tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/...
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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Not sure what to read on January 1st? We got you comrades
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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 …
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Vol. 34 No. 70 (2025): Special issue: Marxist Aesthetics | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Now online: 'Peter Watkins (1935–2025)' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas.
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Peter Watkins (1935–2025) - Historical Materialism
In an interview given in 2011, Peter Watkins remarked ‘I don’t think I’ve made a particularly radical film in forty years, not really’,[1] a remark that might surprise those who regarded him as one of...
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Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Will be speaking at this virtually tomorrow: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/... Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
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Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A reminder that this is happening on Wednesday...
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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Watched ‘after the hunt’. Was worth it for these.
Julia Roberts as philosophy professor: ‘Adorno writes in his Minima Moralia’‘There is no right life in the wrong one.’
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Just one week left before the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference with Nadia Bou Ali, Jessica Feely, Tarik Kochi, Chris O’Kane, Will Spendlove, Adrian Wilding, and Rosie Woodhouse at the University of Warwick. To register, please visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/....
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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
Map of Cuba from Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1825-6).
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Our first plenary, 'Marxism, Literature, and Political Commitment' with Terry Eagleton, Angela Dimitrakaki and Lea Ypi, chaired by Esther Leslie is currently being live-streamed. Join!
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Marxism, Literature, and Political Commitment
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Back on my bs (hanging out at the Warburg Institute).
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The Marxism and Culture stream is the biggest it has ever been, and the biggest stream throughout the conference. Excellent papers and panels – on Jameson, Müntzer, the avant-garde, etc. etc. – programme should be available shortly.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
see also onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Governing through conflict on Adorno's critique of postwar sociology
Click on the article title to read more.
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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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!
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Now published: issue 33.1 of the Historical Materialism journal. Featuring articles on Black radicalism in Detroit, Marx as a dialectical writer, translations of Julius Dickmann and Fabiola Escárzaga, the question of 'alien powers', Marxist epistemology, Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What, ...
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Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December. Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.
Poster for the 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' conference, due to be held at the University of Warwick on 3 December 2025. The background for the poster is Paul Klee's Angelus Dubiosus( 1939). Listed speakers are: Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'Kane, Nadia Bou Ali, and Rosie Woodhouse.
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