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@absoluteidealism.bsky.social
Cis, he/him, London (UK), politically unaffiliated. I like socialism, arts/culture, and hate cars.
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In 2009 as today, the leadership of The New School fails to live up to its founding values
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In 2009 as today, the leadership of The New School fails to live up to its founding values
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December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
RIP to Asad Haider— a great excerpt I came across earlier today from another individual below
London improvement idea: destroy the M25 and replace it with a high-speed, orbital, passenger and freight railway.
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
London improvement idea: destroy the M25 and replace it with a high-speed, orbital, passenger and freight railway.
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"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
electronicintifada.net
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
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Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights
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Should be Bluesky's tagline.
it's the americans who are most exhausting
October 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Should be Bluesky's tagline.
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The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
October 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
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As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.
Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context
by Marie Louise Krogh
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
web.sas.upenn.edu
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.
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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.
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Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
October 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
wizard frog is insane
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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
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here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu
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If this is you, check out my shop.
September 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If this is you, check out my shop.
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If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) …
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
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Mind is blown. World-renowned cake artist, Sugarking Zhou Yi, wows us with this incredible creative mastery!
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#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #cakeartist #foodsculpture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
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#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #cakeartist #foodsculpture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
September 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Mind is blown. World-renowned cake artist, Sugarking Zhou Yi, wows us with this incredible creative mastery!
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#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #cakeartist #foodsculpture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
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#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #cakeartist #foodsculpture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art
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Now online: 'The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation' by Roger D. Markwick.
The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation - Historical Materialism
There is a cruel historical irony in Israel’s ferocious genocidal war on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank: the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi Wehrmacht in 1943 ...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
September 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Now online: 'The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation' by Roger D. Markwick.
Time to rest my withered millennial knees after the London Anarchist Bookfair afterparty.
September 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Time to rest my withered millennial knees after the London Anarchist Bookfair afterparty.
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It's called Your Party because there's one for each member
September 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's called Your Party because there's one for each member