Onni Ahvonen
@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher | Working on Caribbean Black radicalism, temporality, political imagination, and Third World Marxism
What's the best companion text to Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" that situates it historically?
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What's the best companion text to Marx's "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" that situates it historically?
That’s a wrap. What an amazing @histmat.bsky.social conference once again. See you next year!
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That’s a wrap. What an amazing @histmat.bsky.social conference once again. See you next year!
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Tomorrow!
Looking forward to presenting at HM this year!
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Tomorrow!
Edouard Glissant, preface to his 1961 play "Monsieur Toussaint":
"For those whose history has been reduced by others to darkness and despair, the recuperation of the near or distant past is imperative.
"For those whose history has been reduced by others to darkness and despair, the recuperation of the near or distant past is imperative.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Edouard Glissant, preface to his 1961 play "Monsieur Toussaint":
"For those whose history has been reduced by others to darkness and despair, the recuperation of the near or distant past is imperative.
"For those whose history has been reduced by others to darkness and despair, the recuperation of the near or distant past is imperative.
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‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
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In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
Looking forward to presenting at HM this year!
October 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Looking forward to presenting at HM this year!
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Thanks for all the follows this week!
Just a reminder to let me know about any new online collections or archives connected to radical, labour or anti-colonial history, from anywhere around the world!
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Just a reminder to let me know about any new online collections or archives connected to radical, labour or anti-colonial history, from anywhere around the world!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Thanks for all the follows this week!
Just a reminder to let me know about any new online collections or archives connected to radical, labour or anti-colonial history, from anywhere around the world!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Just a reminder to let me know about any new online collections or archives connected to radical, labour or anti-colonial history, from anywhere around the world!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
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I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for
@bostonreview.bsky.social.
@bostonreview.bsky.social.
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for
@bostonreview.bsky.social.
@bostonreview.bsky.social.
What are some good critical engagements with Italian autonomist marxist conceptualizations of work & (de)alienation?
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
What are some good critical engagements with Italian autonomist marxist conceptualizations of work & (de)alienation?
Kirjoitimme lyhyen tekstin siitä miten Israelilaiset yliopistot ovat kytköksissä valtion väkivaltakoneistoon, kansanmurhaan ja asuttajakolonialismiin. Akateeminen boikotti on tässä tilanteessa vähintä mitä Helsingin yliopisto ja muut yliopistot voivat tehdä.
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Näin israelilaiset yliopistot osallistuvat palestiinalaisten sortoon
Helsingin yliopisto jatkaa tutkimusyhteistyötä israelilaisten yliopistojen kanssa, vaikka niillä on suoria kytköksiä Israelin valtion asutuskolonialismiin ja käynnissä olevaan kansanmurhaan.
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October 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Kirjoitimme lyhyen tekstin siitä miten Israelilaiset yliopistot ovat kytköksissä valtion väkivaltakoneistoon, kansanmurhaan ja asuttajakolonialismiin. Akateeminen boikotti on tässä tilanteessa vähintä mitä Helsingin yliopisto ja muut yliopistot voivat tehdä.
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Fresh off a weekend filled with Marxist theory, starting this week by re-reading Stuart Hall’s classic essay ”Rethinking the ’Base and Superstructure’ Metaphor” (1977). Remains a vital read today.
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Fresh off a weekend filled with Marxist theory, starting this week by re-reading Stuart Hall’s classic essay ”Rethinking the ’Base and Superstructure’ Metaphor” (1977). Remains a vital read today.
My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!
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Our next #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
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'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our next #IdentitiesEvent!
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Glad to see my short article on temporality in Fanon's political thought published today in the Review of African Political Economy.
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‘I am not a prisoner of history’: Frantz Fanon, temporal defiance, and the critique of colonial time
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d2970367e85">Reflecting on the revolutionary life and legacy of Frantz Fanon a century since his
birth...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Glad to see my short article on temporality in Fanon's political thought published today in the Review of African Political Economy.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
My favorite companion text so far has been Stuart Hall’s ”Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates” (1985). Definitely worth a read.
Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?
October 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
My favorite companion text so far has been Stuart Hall’s ”Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates” (1985). Definitely worth a read.
Very much looking forward to this!
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Very much looking forward to this!
Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?
"Reaffirming a relation to the environment was a way of becoming-other than colonial subjects.”
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Insurgent Geologies - Kathryn Yusoff et al. - Planetary Vernaculars
Thomas Sankara’s infamous speech of anticolonial environmentalism in 1983, which locates the polis of insurgent struggles in the forest, came from an intellectual history of seeing independence as a g...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"Reaffirming a relation to the environment was a way of becoming-other than colonial subjects.”
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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The board and membership of the Helsinki University Association of Researchers and Teachers (HUART) has successfully voted for the academic boycott of Israel! This is the first Finnish academic union to commit to the BDS campaign.
September 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The board and membership of the Helsinki University Association of Researchers and Teachers (HUART) has successfully voted for the academic boycott of Israel! This is the first Finnish academic union to commit to the BDS campaign.
If you work at University of Helsinki and belong to the HYT/HUART union please take part in the upcoming vote on the academic boycott of Israel. It takes place on September 2nd at 5pm!
August 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If you work at University of Helsinki and belong to the HYT/HUART union please take part in the upcoming vote on the academic boycott of Israel. It takes place on September 2nd at 5pm!
When movements call for the boycott of entities clearly complicit in genocide & settler-colonialism, we should do just that: boycott. Participation coupled with symbolic gestures of support is not solidarity. It undermines the cause & legitimates colonial violence.
August 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
When movements call for the boycott of entities clearly complicit in genocide & settler-colonialism, we should do just that: boycott. Participation coupled with symbolic gestures of support is not solidarity. It undermines the cause & legitimates colonial violence.
Looking forward to this one
August 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Looking forward to this one
Does anyone have access to the current issue of Polity Journal? There's a few articles in there engaging with Cedric Robinson's work that I'd really like to read.
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Polity | Vol 57, No 3
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August 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Does anyone have access to the current issue of Polity Journal? There's a few articles in there engaging with Cedric Robinson's work that I'd really like to read.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
Best article/text on Marx's "method"?
July 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Best article/text on Marx's "method"?