Zoe Robakiewicz
@zoezofia.bsky.social
Polish living in Denmark
Marxist Art Historian,
European Colonialism, Early Modern European History, Social Art History.
Marxist Art Historian,
European Colonialism, Early Modern European History, Social Art History.
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Zoe Robakiewicz
@zoezofia.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Årg. 8 Nr. 2 (2024): Culture and History: Colonial Cultures
| Culture and History: Student Research Papers
tidsskrift.dk
The paper on colonial transformation of Greenlandic society I was presenting at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social got published🌸 in SAXO Institute's Culture and History issue on Colonial Cultures. tidsskrift.dk/culturehisto...
- article : tidsskrift.dk/culturehisto...
- article : tidsskrift.dk/culturehisto...
First @histmat.bsky.social London conference, first Marxist Octagon experience 🔻 even seen Máret Ánne Sara’s work at the Turbine Hall.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
First @histmat.bsky.social London conference, first Marxist Octagon experience 🔻 even seen Máret Ánne Sara’s work at the Turbine Hall.
Larmessin’s Les Costumes Grotesques carries something of a naïve futurism within it (eighteenth-century cyborgs). Orrr it could be read as an illustration of Capital’s domination over labour: the machine-person, absolutely alienated from the self, whose existence is wholly subsumed by labour. 🌚
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Larmessin’s Les Costumes Grotesques carries something of a naïve futurism within it (eighteenth-century cyborgs). Orrr it could be read as an illustration of Capital’s domination over labour: the machine-person, absolutely alienated from the self, whose existence is wholly subsumed by labour. 🌚
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BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
Reposted by Zoe Robakiewicz
Still Life with Seashells
Adriaen Coorte, 1698.
(MFA Boston)
Adriaen Coorte, 1698.
(MFA Boston)
September 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Still Life with Seashells
Adriaen Coorte, 1698.
(MFA Boston)
Adriaen Coorte, 1698.
(MFA Boston)
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A future powered by cobalt/AI, secured by militarized Western capital, not democratic planning. Techno-futurism is colonial at its core: extractive, financialized, wrapped in a utopian EV/AI veneer. The Global South supplies the raw materials while ex-CIA operatives & hedge funds script the future.
Ex-CIA & Green Berets now vying to control Congolese cobalt mines. Not just resource extraction; this is the militarization of supply chains for a privatized AI future. Palantir logic goes global: combat capital secures the minerals that power techno-sovereignty. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Special Forces Veterans Lead US Bid to Buy Congo Cobalt Miner
A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources Ltd., a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals be...
www.bloomberg.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A future powered by cobalt/AI, secured by militarized Western capital, not democratic planning. Techno-futurism is colonial at its core: extractive, financialized, wrapped in a utopian EV/AI veneer. The Global South supplies the raw materials while ex-CIA operatives & hedge funds script the future.
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FT letter on the Bayeaux embroidery - paging @alanbeattie.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/fbe0...
July 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Rant: went to Copenhagen Contemporary yesterday and let me say (risking sounding like an old hag) I'm ok with art lacking substance or originality at this point (in the given conditions), what I find aggravating is the haphazard and joyless form of these pieces, unfortunately done better before..
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Rant: went to Copenhagen Contemporary yesterday and let me say (risking sounding like an old hag) I'm ok with art lacking substance or originality at this point (in the given conditions), what I find aggravating is the haphazard and joyless form of these pieces, unfortunately done better before..
"On its current course, Europe is headed for neither military Keynesianism with a social dividend nor a defense strategy suitable for an aspiring superpower. "- Anton Jäger🎯.
Opinion | Europe Is Making a Big Mistake
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"On its current course, Europe is headed for neither military Keynesianism with a social dividend nor a defense strategy suitable for an aspiring superpower. "- Anton Jäger🎯.
A fantastic essay exploring the contemporary outgrowths of the hydra-like, reactionary foundations underlying the concept of art, bourgeois art history, and related discourses 🌻.
"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."
- I have a new essay out, read it here:
www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...
- I have a new essay out, read it here:
www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...
Art and Abolition: A Proposal - Journal #155
Dominique Routhier on “art” as a fictional bourgeois category that arises from capitalist relations of production.
www.e-flux.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A fantastic essay exploring the contemporary outgrowths of the hydra-like, reactionary foundations underlying the concept of art, bourgeois art history, and related discourses 🌻.
Want!
June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Want!
Going to work soon, but very glad and elated for the 10 I got for my masters thesis (Embodied Encounters: Artistic Form and Colonial Power in Seventeenth Century Ethnographic Portraits), from Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab at Københavns Universitet under supervision of Prof. Mathias Danbolt!
June 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Going to work soon, but very glad and elated for the 10 I got for my masters thesis (Embodied Encounters: Artistic Form and Colonial Power in Seventeenth Century Ethnographic Portraits), from Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab at Københavns Universitet under supervision of Prof. Mathias Danbolt!
Back in 🇩🇰 reminiscing on the short vacation in Poland reading Polish Marxist historians (a gift from my Brother - Jerzy Topolski's Theory of Historiographical Narrative) with a little rascal next to me.
June 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Back in 🇩🇰 reminiscing on the short vacation in Poland reading Polish Marxist historians (a gift from my Brother - Jerzy Topolski's Theory of Historiographical Narrative) with a little rascal next to me.
You're welcome 🤭
Denmark just passed 6 million inhabitants. With falling fertility (less drastic than elsewhere) the groath is driven by migration - the last years especially Ukranian refugees and EU labour migration from East and Southern Europe
June 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
You're welcome 🤭
Thrift shopping with my Mom in Poland, now it's pierogi and pickled sour cucumber soup at the Milk Bar.
June 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thrift shopping with my Mom in Poland, now it's pierogi and pickled sour cucumber soup at the Milk Bar.
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Snails, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
Serene and lovely. Just snails.
Serene and lovely. Just snails.
June 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Snails, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
Serene and lovely. Just snails.
Serene and lovely. Just snails.
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imagine having free will and then writing a conclusion
June 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
imagine having free will and then writing a conclusion
"Thy father was the Duke of Milan
Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"Thy father was the Duke of Milan
Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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Thy mother was a piece of virtue" - Prospero to Miranda, The Tempest.
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The correct take on the seventeenth century
Ok, it’s time to settle this
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May 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Image of Christ in Feathers, By Juan Baptista Cuiris, Pátzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, c. 1590/1600
Drawing on the long tradition of feather-working in the region. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Drawing on the long tradition of feather-working in the region. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
May 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Image of Christ in Feathers, By Juan Baptista Cuiris, Pátzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, c. 1590/1600
Drawing on the long tradition of feather-working in the region. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Drawing on the long tradition of feather-working in the region. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Somewhat ironic snack, considering I'm writing about colonial "ethnographic portraits".
May 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Somewhat ironic snack, considering I'm writing about colonial "ethnographic portraits".
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Few if any artists captured the working class, in the scars of its past and fractured global totality, the way Sebastiao Salgado did
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Few if any artists captured the working class, in the scars of its past and fractured global totality, the way Sebastiao Salgado did
Wonderful protest against funding from complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians Mærsk at KUA yesterday. The flags should be there permanently. @studerendemodbesættelsen academicsforpalestine.dk?fbclid=PAQ0x...
May 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Wonderful protest against funding from complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians Mærsk at KUA yesterday. The flags should be there permanently. @studerendemodbesættelsen academicsforpalestine.dk?fbclid=PAQ0x...