Paper publication: My article on an ideology critique of contemporary liberal democracy got published in Thesis Eleven. The paper does two things (thread). /1

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Is this the platform where my students won't find me?

Agambenites participating in art theory conferences:

⚡️Along with Uğur Aytaç, we're convening a panel on technology, work, and the prospects of democratizing the economy as part of the 2025 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference. Check the CfP here philevents.org/event/show/1... & send us your abstracts! Thanks for sharing!

Probably totally incoherent, but after reading papers on intersectional theory all day: what a mess is that subfield. First of, four papers in and still no real description of what race, class or gender actually are.

Some more Marx posting: "We suffer not only from the development of capitalist production, but also from the incompleteness of that development. Alongside the modern evils, a whole series of inherited evils oppress us,

I feel ike the email system in academia is broken. No exaggeration, about two thirds of my emails go unanswered. Sending reminders after a week has become standard.

ATTENTION: CfA for our conference Critical Emancipations, 23-25 May 2024 at the University of Leuven, Belgium. The theme of this year: the production of difference in the transformations of capitalism. Keynotes by Nick Nesbitt and Daniel Loick. 1/2

Rough read
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@leninology.bsky.social on Hamas' breakout from Gaza and their unprecedented attack on southern Israel, the possibility of a regional war, the terrifying situation in Gaza and the increasingly eliminationist rhetoric coming out of Israel:

Big ass Lacan in the Feltrinelli bookstore.

International games hit different whe you don't live at home anymore. Lukebakioooooo

Marx on capital: "As the ceaseless striving for the general form of wealth, capital forces labour beyond the limits of natural need and thus creates the material elements for the development of the rich individuality."

Might as well make my first bluesky post this beautiful passage from The German ideology.