Alex Dubilet
dubilet.bsky.social
Alex Dubilet
@dubilet.bsky.social
in Berlin for the year
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DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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As part of the Nazi "coordination" of all public offices, the regime issued the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” on April 7, 1933. This law excluded all racial and political “enemies” of the regime from the civil service. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
April 7, 1933. On this date, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service excluding Jews from civil service.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Cool cool cool
February 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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we live under the most authoritarian government in the world
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Two very cool untranslated things are now going to be translated. (Though a lot of the material in Resistance to Christianity is also in Vaneigem's The Movement of the Free Spirit book).
January 23, 2024 at 10:35 AM
An article I finished a couple years back finally appeared in Cultural Critique:

"A Political Theology of Interpellation: On Subjection, Individuation, and Becoming Nothing"

muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Feel free to DM me if you would like a PDF.
January 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
If any of this echoes with your interests and you know of spaces where my work may be of interest, please let me know. I welcome all schemes, invitations, proposals, and suggestions. I would love to present my work anywhere in Europe while I am here.
European friends and colleagues: I am in Berlin on sabbatical this academic year & working on a book dealing with political theology & questions of insurrection, mysticism, heresy, gnosis, and Christianity, engaging Foucault, Schürmann, Robinson, Wynter, Federici, Taubes, Moten+Harney, etc.
January 19, 2024 at 11:22 AM
European friends and colleagues: I am in Berlin on sabbatical this academic year & working on a book dealing with political theology & questions of insurrection, mysticism, heresy, gnosis, and Christianity, engaging Foucault, Schürmann, Robinson, Wynter, Federici, Taubes, Moten+Harney, etc.
January 19, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Of course, after hours of search, they found nothing.
November 15, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Habermas really Habermased himself
November 15, 2023 at 12:20 AM
Some nuanced reflections on the cafe scene in Battle of Algiers (which I discuss at length when teaching the film), decolonization, and the current moment: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Café and the Colony | Timothy DeMay
One of the basic truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict is that there are no acts within it that can accord with universal human rights: the conflict itself is the trespass. Let me be clearer: the co...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 27, 2023 at 9:24 AM
A really powerful essay by Saree Makdisi yesterday in N+1 "No Human Being Can Exist" - Really worth your time. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
No Human Being Can Exist | Saree Makdisi
What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 20...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 27, 2023 at 9:22 AM
even Wittgenstein had "many difficulties with the crew"
October 4, 2023 at 3:04 PM
If Berlin is the city of techno, why is Dolly Parton's Jolene now blaring through all north Kreuzberg?
If Berlin is the city of techno, why is there Cher blaring through all of north Kreuzberg?
October 2, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Fascinating discussion with Annie Bourneuf about the discovery by RH Quaytman that beneath the watercolor of Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) lies a 19th-century engraving of Luther which itself acts as a reproduction of Cranach the Elder's 1521 portrait.

jhiblog.org/2023/09/04/b...
Behind the Angel of History: An Interview with Annie Bourneuf - JHI Blog
By Benjamin Beese and Matthew Johnson
jhiblog.org
September 25, 2023 at 6:56 PM
finally, a supportive social media environment
September 22, 2023 at 12:41 PM
September 20, 2023 at 9:29 PM
If Berlin is the city of techno, why is there Cher blaring through all of north Kreuzberg?
September 12, 2023 at 7:38 PM
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ACLA-curious blue skiers, join Jerry Passannante and me in Montreal in March, if you’re willing… 🥴

www.acla.org/will-psychoa...
The Will before Psychoanalysis | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
August 29, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Doubly thanks (first for the invite and then for the pressure to actually register) to @gadberry.bsky.social, I am now here.
August 30, 2023 at 11:48 AM