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Judith Beyer
@judithbeyer.bsky.social
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Legal/Political Anthropology, Lacan, Arendt
Rethinking Community in Myanmar https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/rethinking-community-in-myanmar
Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, UK, D, Breizh
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Protest is a French word🙏🏼
When some French Senators aimed at discrediting the tradition and contemporary clinic of #psychoanalysis through a #liberticide amendment, the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne immediately organized a 4,5hr debate, a petition & letters.
The proposed amendment is now withdrawn!
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Weekend reading in preparation for my #activistlawyer meeting next week 💫
Book cover: pride and prejudices. Queer lives and the law. By Krio Yoshida
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The US has skipped the step of trying to ridicule an entire profession of migration lawyers by calling them “activists” (as happened in the #UK) and immediately began looking for “deportation judges”.
This is an official ad of the Dept of Justice.
Picture of Justitia. You [red letters] be the judge Help write the next chapter of America. Apply today to become a deportation judge and you may be entitled to these benefits. $159.951 to $207.500
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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@bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team why are you lying? This is censorship.
Reinstall @sarahkendzior.bsky.social immediately.
#SarahKendzior
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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#Konstanz heute -💙
Ich mag den Herbst und den Nebel am See/rhein …
Seerhein bei Sonnenuntergang und keinem Wellengang
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Sarah Kendzior on X: I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my Substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems like a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe …
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Received my review copy of @anthroprofhage.bsky.social s “Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being” ( @dukepress.bsky.social ) today!
Can’t wait to read it and write about it … like Bourdieu‘s, Ghassan’s work is never boring 😊 #anthropology #sociology #theory
Cover of „Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being” by Ghassan Hage
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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C’mon, do something, Robert - meme
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Gesehen heute auf der #Kunstnacht in #Konstanz und #Kreuzlingen - im Museum Rosenegg als Teil der Ausstellung „Hüben und Drüben“
#Grenze #Menschlichkeit
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The King‘s two bodies.
Trump standing behind his desk, showing no sign of emotional reaction, while next to him a man lays on the floor, his legs being lifted by people, trying to help him regain consciousness. By Andrew Harnik / Getty Images
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Ick dir och.
#Berlin
Berlin garbage can in orange with German language pun „Eimer liebt dich“
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The Pope.
Writing like an anthropologist.
🤩
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Wochenendlektüre.
#OmriBoehm #Philosophie #politischeTheorie
Buchcover Omri Boehm. Israel — eine Utopie
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#ContraAI 🤖 we know this already, but here’s the same warning substantiated in a new study by BBC and the EBU with more data: do not rely on #AI for anything, including the news. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors.
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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🧵 Was ich gern früher über #Deutschland gewusst hätte” (What I Wish I Had Known About #Germany Earlier) by #AiWeiwei (NOT published by Die Zeit)

A society governed by regulations, yet lacking individual moral judgment, is more dangerous than one with none at all.

hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...
Artist Ai Weiwei (photo by Gao Yuan, courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio)
October 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Another email from another Journal - this one with the most eloquent title:
“Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities”

I feel seen.
Wishes for your day, too! 🙏
Accentuate your article Dear. Judith Beyer Dear. Judith Beyer, Wishes for the day..!
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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My sanity first.
Shame on @bsky.app for helping them spread their propaganda.
#WhiteHouse
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Karl Jaspers. Die Idee der Universität 1946.
Hannah Arendt wird später in Dialog mit Jaspers sowohl die Begriffe 'Welt' und 'Handeln' als zentral für Wertung, Wahrheit und Universität rehabilitieren. Ansonsten stimme ich Jaspers, der mit dem Grauen des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Rücken schreibt, zu.
"Der Staat duldet und schützt die Universität als einen aus seiner Machtwirkung ausgesparten Raum, den er gegen andere Machteinwirkungen sichert. Hier soll das hellste Bewußtsein der Zeit wirklich werden. Hier sollen Menschen leben, die keine Verantwortung haben für das gegenwärtige Tun der Tagespolitik, weil sie allein und uneingeschränkt die Verantwortung für das Werden der Wahrheit haben. Es ist ein Raum außerhalb der Welt des Handelns, aber durchdrungen von den Realitäten dieser Welt, die in ihm zum Gegenstand der Forschung werden. Hier ist Wirklichkeitsnähe nicht durch Handeln, sondern durch Erkennen. Wertung und Handeln sind suspendiert zugunsten der Reinheit der Wahrheitsidee."
October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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If I submit something here, if it then gets accepted, if I subsequently put it on my resumé - would anybody even notice?
What if we all pimped our h-index by writing for at least one predatory journal each week?
#academia
#publishing
Greetings from Advancements in Mining & Mineral Engineering (AMME). Were pleased to invite you to contribute a Review, Mini Review, Case Report, or Short Communication (500-600 words) to our upcoming Issue Volume 1, Issue 5
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Mein Weg an die @uni-konstanz.de heute 🔆
Autumn forest with beams of sunlight
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Erste Email im Postfach heute Morgen.
#netteMenschen
🤔
October 14, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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#KarlJaspers final two pages of his "The idea of the university" (1946) - more pertinent than ever!

"Nationalism, like everything else, forms a legitimate topic of research but cannot provide the basic direction of the university itself."
excerpt from Karl Jaspers THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY The University and the Nation Greek in origin, the idea of the university is part of the Western tradition. As a publicly endowed institution the university belongs to the state; as a privately endowed institution it is certainly part of a given national scene. In either case, it is the expression of a whole people. Seeking truth and the improvement of mankind, the university aims to stand for man's humanity par excellence. Humanttas is part of its very fiber, no matter how often and how deeply that term has changed its meaning. Thus, while every university is part of a nation, it has its sights set on goals above and beyond nationhood. Differences aside, in this respect, at least, it is akin to the idea of the church. The university proper must not take sides in the conflict between nations, even though as human beings its members have each their national allegiance. Members of the university, whether faculty, deans or the president himself, abuse their position if they should choose to hold political rallies in favor of either a particular party or of the country as a whole. They serve their nation and all mankind solely through the medium of intellectual creativity. The idea of the university suffers when abused for extraneous ends. Nationalism, like everything else, forms a legitimate topic of research but cannot provide the basic direction of the university itself. We have come to the end. Beginning with the attempt to define the nature of science and the intellectual life sustaining it, we were led to examine the university as an institution. The variety of issues which had to be raised could ob- (end of page) scure the one all-important issue: the ideal of the university which is the very lifeblood of higher education. This ideal cannot be reduced to a few simple statements but had to be brought out indirectly. May we grow ever more aware of its real meaning, and may it serve as a standard guiding our judgment of all aspects of university life. No one who does not feel its validity can be made to see it Since discussion is fruitless except where there is common ground, all we have done is put familiar facts in a new light. We are deeply committed to this ideal which has given meaning to our life; yet we lack the necessary strength to speak of it with the enthusiasm it deserves. We know that truth, striving all around us to be seen and recognized, will live or perish with our ability to realize the ideal of the university in its ever-changing forms. (end of page)
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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One of many beloved family traditions.
This year: #Totoro
Merci @felixgirke.bsky.social🎃 👻🎃
Candlelight „Totoro“-carved pumpkin on an autumn table with apples and plums and cranberries and new wine. Evening sky.
October 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#HannahArendt ist ‘in’: von Söder über Kretschmann bis zum Papst, von links- wie rechts, vom Globalen Norden bis Süden, ihr Name in aller Munde. Aber nicht im Rahmen öffentlicher Debatten, sondern zur Selbsterhöhung. Es hat sich nichts geändert: sie hat es damals schon gehasst. Lest sie selbst!
Sw Porträt Hannah Arendt
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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#bloomscrolling
Autumn flower bouquet from the farmer’s market. Dahlias and daisies in yellow, pink, orange and white.
Autumn flower bouquet from the farmers market. Dahlias and daisies in yellow, pink, orange and white.
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM