Jasper Friedrich
@jasperfriedrich.bsky.social
Postdoc in Political Theory, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Working on critical theory, political emotions, reconciliation, and politics of mental health
Website: https://jasperfriedrich.github.io/
Working on critical theory, political emotions, reconciliation, and politics of mental health
Website: https://jasperfriedrich.github.io/
I have a new article on depression and critique out in Constellation - in case anyone needed more depression on their timelines! I discuss to what extent, and how, feelings of depression can be politicized and channeled into resistance.
Depression, Critique, and Critical Theory as Political Therapy
Critical theorists, especially in the Frankfurt School tradition, claim that normative thought and critique arise from experiences of suffering and oppression. It seems intuitive that oppression some...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have a new article on depression and critique out in Constellation - in case anyone needed more depression on their timelines! I discuss to what extent, and how, feelings of depression can be politicized and channeled into resistance.
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The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
February 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...
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Now inviting submissions for the upcoming issue of the Oxford Political Review! The theme? Home — broadly construed 🏡
Call for Submissions – Issue 15: Home | Oxford Political Review | Oxford Political Review
December 8, 2024 | We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 15th issue, under the theme of ‘Home’.
oxfordpoliticalreview.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Now inviting submissions for the upcoming issue of the Oxford Political Review! The theme? Home — broadly construed 🏡
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The Call for Applications to our annual Critical Theory Summer School just went online. This year, we'll discuss racial capitalism with Tommie Shelby, Inés Valdez, Robert Gooding-Williams and Manuela Bojadžijev, among others.
More info / application form:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
More info / application form:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
December 3, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The Call for Applications to our annual Critical Theory Summer School just went online. This year, we'll discuss racial capitalism with Tommie Shelby, Inés Valdez, Robert Gooding-Williams and Manuela Bojadžijev, among others.
More info / application form:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
More info / application form:
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
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Incredible article by Emily Dyson on Fanon and anti-psychiatry, which fits quite well with my own arguments on the difference in Empire of Normality.
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From critical theory to critical therapy: Towards a permanent psycho-political revolution between subjective and objective disalienation - Emily M Dyson, 2024
Critical theory has historically assumed an undialectical either/or between reformist therapy and revolutionary politics. Frantz Fanon’s dialectical, psycho-soc...
journals.sagepub.com
September 29, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Incredible article by Emily Dyson on Fanon and anti-psychiatry, which fits quite well with my own arguments on the difference in Empire of Normality.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Very happy to see my article on anger, critique, and resistance published in Hypatia. It argues for a less moralized understanding of anger highlighting that emancipatory anger is a political achievement.
The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
The Bellwether of Oppression: Anger, Critique, and Resistance
doi.org
September 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Very happy to see my article on anger, critique, and resistance published in Hypatia. It argues for a less moralized understanding of anger highlighting that emancipatory anger is a political achievement.