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John-Erik Hansson
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Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
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A @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social, nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir Kathy Ferguson et Sarah Albientz, autour de l'ouvrage Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture. Pour plus de détails sur l'événement:
echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event...
Affiche de l'événement "Présentation de l'ouvrage Letterpress Revolution: the Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" avec Kathy Ferguson (Université de Hawai'i) et Sarah Albientz (Université de Haute-Alsace) qui se tiendra le 15 septembre à Université Paris Cité (Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 317)
September 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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And another joy of working with the @freedompress.bsky.social archives is to stumble upon this letter from 1987 which hits way too hard.
Manuscript letter from 1987 that reads "Dear Anarchists, A simple plea to the educated and academically-incorporated. Please use your middle-class advantages to fight fascist dictatorship. One word could equall a million riots or you may prefer one riot could equall a million words." Under the text is a drawing of a clenched fist.
July 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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One of the joys of going through @freedompress.bsky.social archives is of cross-checking things with the newspaper/magazine itself, and stumbling on Donald Rooum's Wildcat comics.
Wildcat strip by Donald Rooum. In the first box, the Free-Range Egghead character, on the left, says "there's no guarantee of reaching anarchy, but we can certainly work towards anarchy". A robot on the right replies "I have a formula for reaching a totally free and equal society in three simple steps...". the Revolting Wildcat character stands between the two speakers, listening to them in turn. In the second box, the robot continues and says "step one: the working class rises against the capitalist class. Step two: the working class seizes power. Step three:". He is cut off by Revolting Wildcat who asks: "Excuse me. What does 'the working class' mean??". In box 3, the robot, now looking evil and holding a knife, replies: "In the context of Step one, 'the working class' means all those who must work in order to live. In the context of Step two, the working class means me".
July 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A snippet from today's archival digs at @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. I'm getting increasingly lost in the documents, but this illustrated envelope, dated 30 nov. 1944 and addressed to Marie Louise Berneri and Vernon Richards, is a real standout.
Envelope with a pencil illustration representing a hand in shackles emerging from the sea, holding a flower. The text below the illustration reads: "the future is brighter".
July 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Happy International Workers' Day everyone. Today is a day to celebrate and continue the struggle, and that is especially important with creeping fascism worldwide.
Syndicalist demonstration in Sweden, with protesters holding a banner that reads "All your means of production are belong to us".
May 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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This is giving me a strong feeling of déjà vu.
Excerpt from an article by Marx in 1853, published in the New York Daily Tribune. The excerpt reads: "In the year 1828, when Russia was permitted to overrun Turkey with war, and to terminate that war by the Treaty of Adrianople, which surrendered to her the whole of the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, from Anapa in the North to Poti in the South, (except Circassia) and delivered into her possession the islands at the mouth of the Danube, virtually separated Moldavia and Wallachia from Turkey, and placed them under Russian supremacy—at that epoch Lord Aberdeen happened to be Minister of Foreign Affairs in Great Britain. In 1853 we find the very same Aberdeen as the chief of the "composite ministry" in the same country. This simple fact goes far to explain the overbearing attitude assumed by Russia in her present conflict with Turkey and with Europe."
February 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Continuer la boucle morbide de la concurrence entre laboratoires pour essayer d'obtenir des financements déjà inadéquats, c'est non.

La recherche mérite mieux que le "darwinisme" promu par Antoine Petit et les ministres qui ont eu le portefeuille de l'ESR.

rogueesr.fr/comprendre-l...
Badge rond, avec du texte. A centre, "CNRS", autour "KeyLabs? Non merci!"
January 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Engels had a surprising amount of nasty things to say about the Swiss.
Excerpt from a text by Engels: "The mass of the Swiss population follow either pastoral or agricultural pursuits; pastoral, in the high mountains, agricultural wherever the nature of the ground admits of it. The pastoral tribes, for tribes you may call them, rank among the least civilized populations of Europe. If they do not cut off heads and ears like the Turks and Montenegrians, they perform acts of hardly less barbarity by their judicial assemblies; and what cruelty and beastly ferocity they are capable of, the Swiss mercenaries at Naples and elsewhere have proved. The agricultural population is quite as stationary as the pastoral; they have nothing in common with the agricultural population of the American Far West, whose very aliment is change, and who clear every twelvemonth an amount of land far larger than all Switzerland. The Swiss peasant tills the patch of ground his father and grandfather tilled before him; he tills it in the same slovenly way as they did; he earns about as much asthey did; he lives about as they did, and consequently he thinks very nearly in the same way as they did."
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Thought of the day:
Still from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" with Indiana Jones's face above a piece of text that says: "Nazis, I hate these guys."
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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It's a cold but bright day today in Neuville: I'm joining CY Advanced Studies and the AGORA lab for 6 months as a fellow in residence. Really happy to have some time here to work on anarchism and history!
Picture of the entrance to the CY Advanced Studies building Picture of my office at CY Advanced Studies
January 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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My teaching assistant, Eli, is "helping" me grade papers today.
An orange cat called Eli sits next to the keyboard and in front of the monitor, diminishing the productivity of its human companion.
January 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
Cover art for Blind Guardian's 1998 album "Nightfall in Middle Earth"
November 25, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Et un peu de politique française pour changer. Le groupe supérieur-recherche de la CNT vient de publier un communiqué au sujet de notre "super" ministre de l'ESR...
November 10, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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Teaching E. P. Thompson's "Moral Economy" article again today. Re-(re-)read the article. Was reminded of this gem... "Derry down, indeed"!
September 26, 2024 at 6:12 AM
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Le remplaçant de Galaxie est arrivé.

Mais parfois je me demande ce qui se passe dans la tête des communicant·es du ministère.

"Odyssée des personnels de l'enseignement supérieur", c'est peut-être vrai dans les faits, mais ça ne vend pas du rêve!
September 20, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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"I feel very blue today, please make me laugh"
"You must trust the State"
*uncontrollable laughter*

(photo credit: my brother!)
August 26, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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Bref: ¡No pasarán! (visuels @p4bl0.net )
June 18, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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Quelques arguments politiques à mettre en avant si vous connaissez des gens tenté·es par le RN...
June 12, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Mood.

Mais la lutte continue. A bientôt dans la rue. Et, comme disaient les Bérurier Noir, "empêchez-les!"
June 10, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Looking at this gem from 1953 to prepare my talk William Godwin's anarchist reception in post-war France for the
@saesfrance.bsky.social annual conference, (with my heartfelt thanks to @olebirklaursen.bsky.social who set me on the path to finding this issue)!
May 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Well, I guess the word's out here before I even had time to post it myself!

But @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social is right! I'm really happy to have been awarded a 6 months research fellowship at CY Advanced studies (CY Cergy Paris Université) in the AGORA research unit! cyagora.cyu.fr
May 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Really happy to see this article on Godwin's British anarchist reception, co-authored with the most excellent @msadams.bsky.social come out in Modern Intellectual History, and it is Open Access!

doi.org/10.1017/S147...
March 13, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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I think this image from Jeph Jacques's Questionable Contentis extremely appropriate.
March 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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January 30, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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"Do you really have to grade these papers?"

Thanks for the help, Eli.
November 20, 2023 at 11:54 PM