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Dr Liam Farrell
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Critical social theorist. Lecturer in Political Theory at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Writing on republicanism, populism, memory, equality, coloniality, time and climate politics.
Book reviews editor for Journal of Political Power
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🚨 New article alert:

"Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse"

with G. Hussey

Available to read freely here:

www.academia.edu/124053718/Sp...
October 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
🚨 New publication alert 🚨

I am very happy to share this new Cultural Studies article (co-authored w/ G. Hussey):

'Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time'

doi.org/10.1080/0950...
October 29, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Sharing. Because this will be awesome
jlfeldman.bsky.social j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 14
Please share this call for abstracts!

The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt & Black Political Thought

A conference at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities, Bard College – March 27-28, 2025

Feat. a keynote by Prof. Neil Roberts & a talk by Prof. Ainsley LeSure
bit.ly/HACSpring25
Call for abstracts In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s. Black revolutionaries working under conditions of extreme repression to transform the societies they inhabited also found they had to rework and reinvent revolutionary theory and praxis. Retelling the history of the Black liberation struggle and working alongside the decolonial movements of their day, thinkers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Kwame Ture—to name a few people whose work can be found in Arendt’s library—as well as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Cedric Robinson, June Jordan, Angela Davis and many others—breathed new life into the concept of revolution. Like Arendt, these thinkers confronted a legacy of loss and disappointment. They also sought to reclaim from the history of revolutions past meaningful insights that might inspire and renew contemporary revolutionary movements. Arendt was often harshly critical of such movements, particularly those claiming the mantle of Black power. Nevertheless, in a testament to the power of Arendt’s ideas, a number of political thinkers working in the revolutionary tradition of Black political thought have found her a valuable thinking partner. This conference aims to bring together scholars engaged with—and in the spirit of—Hannah Arendt’s work in theorizing Black revolutionary politics, to address such questions as: How has the concern for beginning and durability animated Black political thought? What encounters between Arendt and Black political thinkers have been hitherto overlooked or misunderstood? How might concepts from within Black political thought illuminate the phenomena, events, and texts central to the Arendtian “archive” (e.g. the council system, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, or the work of Franz Kafka), and how might Arendt’s concepts illuminate revolutionary phenomena and events in the “archive” of Black political thought? How have the critical interventions of Black political thinkers challenged or enhanced our understanding of Arendt’s theory of revolution and vice versa? Where, if anywhere, do we find the revolutionary spirit today? Please submit abstracts to this Google Form (bit.ly/HACSpring25) by December 1st, 2024. We encourage submissions from early-career scholars. Acceptances will be communicated by January 6th, 2025. Conference participants will be expected to pre-circulate papers by March 14th, 2025. We encourage prospective participants to seek external financial support for travel and lodging, as HAC has very limited funds to provide such support. Please reach out to jfeldman@bard.edu with any questions you may have.
November 14, 2024 at 2:58 PM
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
🚨 New article alert:

"Spicebags, slippery masks and ‘Free Staters’: anti-republican anti-populism in contemporary Irish political discourse"

with G. Hussey

Available to read freely here:

www.academia.edu/124053718/Sp...
October 29, 2024 at 7:59 PM
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
🚨 New publication alert 🚨

I am very happy to share this new Cultural Studies article (co-authored w/ G. Hussey):

'Dangerous memories and entangled temporalities: Irish republicanism and the postcolonial politics of time'

doi.org/10.1080/0950...
October 29, 2024 at 7:57 PM
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
This is quite the review essay. I am really curious about why so many people who should know better are trying to recuperate or venerate liberalism these days. Moyn is but one of a cohort in this regard. 🤢
bonniehonig.bsky.social Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · Jan 18
Everyone should read this
January 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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#philsky #politicaltheory #socialtheory
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social Dr Liam Farrell @liamfarrellphd.bsky.social · Jan 16
Would anyone like to put together a panel for the ASPP conference in Swansea in July?

I was thinking of doing something on:

Critical republicanism
Recognition & power
Analytic-continental divide
Politics of Pol theory
Decol NPT

www.associationforsocialandpoliticalphilosophy.org/annual-confe...
January 16, 2024 at 12:39 PM
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
Would anyone like to put together a panel for the ASPP conference in Swansea in July?

I was thinking of doing something on:

Critical republicanism
Recognition & power
Analytic-continental divide
Politics of Pol theory
Decol NPT

www.associationforsocialandpoliticalphilosophy.org/annual-confe...
January 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Spotted in a CPH bookshop. Accurate, funny and increasingly pertinent.
December 28, 2023 at 10:22 PM
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Some cool posters from an exhibition on the Danish Chile solidarity campaign against Pinochet. Spotted at Farum Kulturhus and library this week.
December 30, 2023 at 10:58 PM
liamfarrellphd.bsky.social
Spotted in a CPH bookshop. Accurate, funny and increasingly pertinent.
December 28, 2023 at 10:22 PM