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Niklas Plaetzer
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PhD candidate in political theory. University of Chicago / Sciences Po Paris.
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Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social · Nov 11
I am very happy to share that my article on the institutional thought of Brazilian abolitionist Luiz Gama (1830-1882) is now out in Contemporary Political Theory: "Insurgent legality: Luiz Gama’s plebeian republicanism between law and prefiguration" #OpenAccess
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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robin-c.bsky.social
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN CRITICAL THEORY
2026
FORCES OF HISTORY

CfA now online!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/summer_schoo...
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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tobiasalbrecht.bsky.social
Im Rahmen der ZPTh-Debatte des @theorieblog.bsky.social habe ich Dirk Jörkes (tuda.bsky.social) Aufsatz zu den "Nietzscheanischen Argumentationsfiguren in der Demokratiekritik Arendts" kommentiert. Jörkes Replik folgt am Mittwoch:
theorieblog.bsky.social Theorieblog @theorieblog.bsky.social · 25d
Vor Kurzem ist die neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie erschienen! Das von Grit Straßenberger und Harald Bluhm herausgegebene „Jubiläumsheft zum 50. Todestag von Hannah Arendt: Nietzsche im politischen Denken von Arendt“ versammelt eine... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30090
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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laywilliams.bsky.social
This showed up in the other place. I'm amused!
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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brunoleipold.com
Truly and deeply honoured
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
x.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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theorieblog.bsky.social
Call for Papers for Early-Career Research Workshop „History of Political Thought, Cambridge Contextualism and Political Theory: Judgment, Normativity, and Crisis“ with Prof. John Dunn (Cambridge) and PD Dr. Martin Baesler (Freiburg) on Saturday, January... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30186
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: German History from the 18th Century to the Present

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158706

Berkeley, 16.06.2026-18.06.2026, German Historical Institute Washington; BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.12.2025
www.hsozkult.de
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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robin-c.bsky.social
Micha Brumliks Stimme hat schon die letzten Jahre schmerzhaft gefehlt - was für eine traurige Nachricht. Eine meiner ersten Erinnerungen an ihn: Frankfurt, Anfang der 2000er, wie er vor dem Hörsaalgebäude in Bockenheim versucht, Moishe Postone das Problem mit den Antideutschen zu erklären.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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ktbberlin.bsky.social
Check out our website for the full programme of our planning workshop, including a reading list of the text basis for our discussions: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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jasonread.bsky.social
www.unemployednegativity.com/2022/04/if-a...
If Althusser was a Spinozist...: on Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop's Althusser et Spinoza
www.unemployednegativity.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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hongmathias.bsky.social
J.-W. Müller dazu "Was Trump (für postliberale amerikanische Juristen) rechtfertigt"
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Was taugt der Begriff "demokratischer Faschismus"?

Eine Rezension:
Jan-Werner Müller · Was ist demokratisch am «demokratischen Faschismus»?
Mit ihrem Begriff des «libertären Autoritarismus» bestimmten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey die Post-Pandemie-Diskussion über neue und aggressive politische Lagerbildungen. Ihr Buch Zerstörungsl...
blnreview.de
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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tonyjballas.bsky.social
Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself

"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.

Please spread the word!

(Link below)
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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sojajunge.bsky.social
im briefwechsel zwischen adorno und kracauer wird alfred sohn-rethel immer als "so'n-rätsel" und benjamin als "der waltende" bezeichnet haha
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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marshallpierce.bsky.social
New article on Jacobin discussing Zohran, fascism, the limits of socialist municipal power: jacobin.com/2025/10/fasc...
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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transcript-verlag.bsky.social
Zu wenig Mitbestimmung: wie politische Institutionen in der Ideengeschichte der liberalen Demokratie die Partizipation der »unteren Klassen« einschränken.  

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7791-1/

#Demokratie #Liberalismus #Klasse #Rechtspopulismus
Das Buch-Cover von »Institutionenpolitik gegen die ›unteren Klassen‹« auf türkisem Hintergrund.
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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cominsitu.bsky.social
fantastic book, now in English

divided.online/all-books/bo...
October 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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stephananpalagan.bsky.social
Im Jahr 1965 schreibt Max Frisch: "Ein kleines Herrenvolk sieht sich in Gefahr: man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kommen Menschen. (...) man könnte sie in ordentlichen Lagern unterbringen, wo sie auch singen dürften, und sie würden nicht das Strassenbild überfremden (...)
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social
#CfP: Call for Panels für den Zweiten Internationalen Kongress für Politische Theorie.
Der #Theoriekongress findet vom 05.-07.10.2026 an der Universität #Passau statt.
Bis zum 6. November können Vorschläge für Panels eingereicht werden.👇

English version below.
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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stephenwest.bsky.social
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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global-ih.bsky.social
1/5 In case you missed our last highlight! Timo Pankakoski (@utu.fi / @helsinki.fi) contributed “Globalizing the political: German radical conservatives on the structural transformation of the global order” to our journal back in 2019 (currently open access). We asked him about this research today.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu #EducationalLiberty #SaveUT
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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miriamposner.com
You have to really *try* to convince a 20-year-old that it’s not worth asking what justice or freedom or social good is. They don’t come by that incuriosity naturally.
October 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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reneengel.bsky.social
Hallo Bluesky, ihr wisst, was zu tun ist: Folgt @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, bestellt dort vielleicht ein Weihnachtsgeschenk, unterstützt sie im Kampf gehen rechtsextreme Lügner.
ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · Oct 11
Die Extremisten von NIUS greifen einen der markantesten und innovativsten deutschen Kleinverlage an. @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
www.cambridge.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM