Sophie Cardin
@sophiecardin.bsky.social
Thinking about utopia and the history of Yiddish political thought at Oxford. Fond of poetry, pottery, philosophy, and talking politics at the dinner table. linktr.ee/shcardin
Very excited for another term of the Utopia Reading Group! Open to all Terrans living in and around Oxford interested in Ursula Le Guin's political thought and fiction
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Very excited for another term of the Utopia Reading Group! Open to all Terrans living in and around Oxford interested in Ursula Le Guin's political thought and fiction
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The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:
"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."
The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:
"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."
The Left Needs Utopian Thinking
Conservative apologists for the status quo often stigmatize their opponents as “utopian.” But socialists and feminists shouldn’t be afraid of the term, since utopian thought can play an important role...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:
"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."
The brilliant Polina Whitehouse writing in defence of utopia:
"... the Right is already doing a good job of painting pictures of alternatives; the Left needs to compete."
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For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026
Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...
Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning
Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...
Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
The Story of the Jewish Bund
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August 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
For all you horrors who have been waiting, “Here Where We Live is Our Country” has a pub date! April 7, 2026
Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...
Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning
Preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/here...
Preorders mean everything, so get one for all your friends. Haters, get some and have a book burning
it would be nice if the big annual conferences didn't fall on pesach — just a thought
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it would be nice if the big annual conferences didn't fall on pesach — just a thought
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We are accepting applications for the part-time (2-year) role as Network Coordinator until August 10. More info here: shorturl.at/NI9lu Looking forward to hearing from you!
August 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We are accepting applications for the part-time (2-year) role as Network Coordinator until August 10. More info here: shorturl.at/NI9lu Looking forward to hearing from you!
Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources
Zotero | Groups > Teaching Utopia
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Teaching utopia? I’ve started a public Zotero group for sharing syllabi, reading lists, & teaching materials on utopia: www.zotero.org/groups/60695.... Whether you’ve taught More or Morris, Bloch or Bogdanov, Le Guin or Lewinsky—your contributions are welcome! #utopia #teachingresources
Marxist theory has done wonders for my complexion
July 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Marxist theory has done wonders for my complexion
A very good review of a very bad book
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad.
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout.
Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
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July 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A very good review of a very bad book
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We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
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Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share
June 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share
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What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
The Wealth of Freedom: Radical Republican Political Economy
Abstract. What is an economy for? The republican tradition in political thought offers a compelling way of exploring this question. The economy is for the
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May 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What would an anti-oligarchic, republican economy look like? UBI? Wealth tax? Workplace democracy? Strong trade unions? Investment democracy? I explore a radical republican economics in my new book, 'The Wealth of Freedom', which is now out online. academic.oup.com/book/60075
'What, however, is art? whence does it spring? Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life;'
-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'
-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'
"To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it"
-William Morris, Hopes & Fears for Art
-William Morris, Hopes & Fears for Art
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
'What, however, is art? whence does it spring? Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man; it springs from man’s pleasure in his life;'
-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'
-William Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art'
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Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
This was such a wonderful, interesting, and well organised conference! I'm so glad I got to be part of it. Thanks to the organisers and all who presented
Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers:
@abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social
@abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This was such a wonderful, interesting, and well organised conference! I'm so glad I got to be part of it. Thanks to the organisers and all who presented
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Amid the ruins of the present, happy at least to announce that my book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, is now available for pre-order and will be out July 2025, from Verso Books 1/5 versobooks.com/products/278... @versobooks.bsky.social
Citizens of the Whole World
Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed a massive American Jewish uprising in support of Palestinian liberation. Through sit-ins in Congress or Grand Central Terminal, through petitions and mar...
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April 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Amid the ruins of the present, happy at least to announce that my book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, is now available for pre-order and will be out July 2025, from Verso Books 1/5 versobooks.com/products/278... @versobooks.bsky.social
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Talking about Yiddish grammar is so satisfying because the term for "word order" is "verter seder" (װערטער סדר) and every time I hear that I think about the little words sitting around a seder table eating a nice matzo ball soup
December 10, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Talking about Yiddish grammar is so satisfying because the term for "word order" is "verter seder" (װערטער סדר) and every time I hear that I think about the little words sitting around a seder table eating a nice matzo ball soup
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Another Passover-related Yiddish cartoon, this time by Zuni Maud from Der Groyser Kundes, April 18, 1924.
This one's a doozy, and *quite* pertinent to our present national moment, so let's break it down in stages:
This one's a doozy, and *quite* pertinent to our present national moment, so let's break it down in stages:
April 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another Passover-related Yiddish cartoon, this time by Zuni Maud from Der Groyser Kundes, April 18, 1924.
This one's a doozy, and *quite* pertinent to our present national moment, so let's break it down in stages:
This one's a doozy, and *quite* pertinent to our present national moment, so let's break it down in stages:
After five terms convening the Oxford Utopia Reading Group, I'm pleased to share that this coming term we'll be reading (one of my favorite utopias), William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890). Reading list below or as a PDF here: tinyurl.com/utopiaTT25 1/5
April 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
After five terms convening the Oxford Utopia Reading Group, I'm pleased to share that this coming term we'll be reading (one of my favorite utopias), William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890). Reading list below or as a PDF here: tinyurl.com/utopiaTT25 1/5
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In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:
Academic Target Tracker - Google My Maps
A simple tracker for targeted international graduate students and faculty in American universities during the second Trump administration.
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April 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:
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Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait!
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait!
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social
'Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man' -Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art' (1885)
April 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
'Art is man’s embodied expression of interest in the life of man' -Morris, 'The Worker’s Share of Art' (1885)
a reader with good taste either downsized, retired, or died — I dedicate this thrift haul to them, with love
April 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
a reader with good taste either downsized, retired, or died — I dedicate this thrift haul to them, with love
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Marx and Engels Collected Insults: a thread. Feel free to contribute:
1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon
1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon
November 15, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Marx and Engels Collected Insults: a thread. Feel free to contribute:
1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon
1: "He is nothing but a social contradiction in action". Marx on Proudhon
Very excited for this! Eve was the teacher who introduced me to political theory ♥️
This will be wonderfully selected (for everyone) and translated (for English readers).
March 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Very excited for this! Eve was the teacher who introduced me to political theory ♥️