Chris O’Kane
@budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social
Middle aged punk from a Quaker family.
Aspiring Danish Marxist
Working on finishing a book on A Critical Theory of Capitalist Social Domination while I train to be a clinical social worker.
Full Communism Now
Aspiring Danish Marxist
Working on finishing a book on A Critical Theory of Capitalist Social Domination while I train to be a clinical social worker.
Full Communism Now
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The part in my book where French officers decided their programs worked despite all evidence to the contrary and it was actually just their subordinates' fault if thing didn't turn out right really only started to make sense to me when I began working more closely with the university administration
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The part in my book where French officers decided their programs worked despite all evidence to the contrary and it was actually just their subordinates' fault if thing didn't turn out right really only started to make sense to me when I began working more closely with the university administration
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The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
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"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"By excavating the urban struggles of 1970s Italy with a spatialized understanding of Operaismo’s signature theoretical contribution––class composition––the book provides both an important contribution to radical urban history and a window into how current urban struggles might be theorized." ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
Maybe none of us have reached adulthood
Maybe the term 'adulthood' is, in fact, not incredibly useful if we keep redefining it to mean a shorter & shorter section of our lifespans (without even getting into the problems with assuming changes in the brain map onto social roles...) www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #histchild #skystorians
Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s
Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe none of us have reached adulthood
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out today!
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
What is it to be Black in America? It is to be constantly given unsolicited advice on how to run your life by people of all stripes, cultures, races, and opi...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
out today!
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer
by Idris Robinson
mitpress.mit.edu/978163590243...
"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
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what a review! www.cambridge.org/core/service...
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
what a review! www.cambridge.org/core/service...
Since there seems to be no established system for determining when someone can start publishing notes on a topic, I have decided I can.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Since there seems to be no established system for determining when someone can start publishing notes on a topic, I have decided I can.
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dear reader, it wasn't Taylorism.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
dear reader, it wasn't Taylorism.
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Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
New German Critique: Forthcoming Issues
Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Excited that my paper ‘Staatsräson as State Racism’ is part of this forthc. issue on ‘German Memory Politics at a Crossroads’
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for including me along fantastic colleagues @danielloick.bsky.social, @vethompson.bsky.social & others!
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
happy birthday, great uncle!
#ResistanceRoots
Staughton Lynd was born on this day in 1929 in Philadelphia. A prominent activist, historian and lawyer known for his lifelong commitment to social justice causes, he was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and labor and prison reform. /1
Staughton Lynd was born on this day in 1929 in Philadelphia. A prominent activist, historian and lawyer known for his lifelong commitment to social justice causes, he was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and labor and prison reform. /1
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
happy birthday, great uncle!
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academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
academics at a demo va academics at the faculty meeting
Is there anywhere Rose engages with for lack of a better term the NLR's approach to Marxism in the mid-70s onwards or what Anderson called Marxism as Critical Theory?
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Is there anywhere Rose engages with for lack of a better term the NLR's approach to Marxism in the mid-70s onwards or what Anderson called Marxism as Critical Theory?
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Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI
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Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025
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The Contested Domain - Pluto Press
The essential writings of one of the most influential Marxist-feminists of our time
www.plutobooks.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
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We live in the future. It's here.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We live in the future. It's here.
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A.J.A. Woods - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
À paraître en avril chez Verso
Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
À paraître en avril chez Verso
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A.J.A. Woods - The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
À paraître en avril chez Verso
Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West
À paraître en avril chez Verso
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Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.
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www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
Congrats to Lise Vogel and @kmunro-econ.bsky.social .
Can't wait to read it.
Congrats to Lise Vogel and @kmunro-econ.bsky.social .
Can't wait to read it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Congrats to Lise Vogel and @kmunro-econ.bsky.social .
Can't wait to read it.
Congrats to Lise Vogel and @kmunro-econ.bsky.social .
Can't wait to read it.
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