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Ksenia Arapko
@marxologist.bsky.social
history & intellectual history | legal history & theory | political & economic thought | 19–20th c. philosophy & theory | marx

studying Mandarin (臺灣), formulating a PhD project
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The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
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Prof. Isabel Feichtner: "Land, Sea, Moon: From territoriality to becoming terrestrial"
YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin
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November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.
cil.nus.edu.sg
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The ISS will be deorbited in 2031, handing over space station operations to private companies.

How befitting for NASA to have paid SpaceX almost $1 billion to develop a vehicle that will strike the final death blow, dumping the ISS back into Earth.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
After a Quarter-Century of Hosting Humans, the International Space Station Is Approaching Its End. What Comes Next?
Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place
www.scientificamerican.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. It reminds me of the weekend I rented all nine hours of The Human Condition from the video store and watched it over three nights.
youtu.be/624BjiOiVt4?...
The Human Condition Trilogy (1959) Director: Masaki Kobayashi
YouTube video by avids | network
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November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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One need not be a CCP apologist to be able to see that this is an incredible achievement for humanity as a whole and that increased belligerence towards China is at least partly motivated by hatred toward a state that can achieve things other than AI bubbles www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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#BOOKGIVEAWAY Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social
then reshare & reply to this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book.

T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/

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November 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Just began working on organizing the blog & converting to shareable PDFs, & it’s going to be a big project! For life reasons, it’s going to be harder for me to keep going now, so any support would be crazy appreciated! & thanks for reading & sharing Substudies!

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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow.

Will be streamed on Youtube

8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST
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November 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Here it is! Contra Paulum (1944), Adorno’s draft for a critique he planned to write with Horkheimer of Paul Tillich’s ‘43 program for religious socialism. Conceived as a defense of revolutionary socialism from the materialist POV of their work on Dialectic of Enlightenment!
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October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out!
It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland.
🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert is now available online, as a database
heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/ffl_...
La bibliothèque de M. Foucault et de D. Defert
Enter a concise description of the Heurist database / website here, which will be used eg. in lists of websites and in search engine discovery. Remember to indicate the institution and/or project, t...
heurist.huma-num.fr
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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A US tech bro corp in the US has decided the night sky should go away. They've made that decision for everyone on Earth.

Naturally they've named the first searing orbital array (many times brighter than the moon) after Eärendil, the light bearer, from Tolkien's work
www.space.com/space-explor...
Company's plan to launch 4,000 space mirrors alarms scientists
Reflect Orbital says their light-on-demand idea has generated significant interest from commercial and government customers.
www.space.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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New book: In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis, by Samezō Kuruma
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October 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Trump confirmed the US is preparing land strikes amid expanding regime change operations against Venezuela. Available in EN and ES.
Trump Approves Lethal Covert CIA Operations in Venezuela as Another Strike in the Caribbean Kills Six
Trump confirmed the US is preparing land strikes amid expanding regime change operations against Venezuela.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.
Israel continues deadly Gaza truce breaches as US seeks to strengthen deal
About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.
bit.ly
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Israel accused of 80 Gaza ceasefire violations killing 97 people
<article data-history-node-id="430403" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-accused-80-gaza-ceasefire-violations-killing-97-people" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-accused-80-gaza-ceasefire-violations-killing-97-people" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel accused of 80 Gaza ceasefire violations killing 97 people</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="175" data-start="24">A Palestinian government office says Israeli forces have carried out 80 ceasefire violations since October 10, killing 97 people and wounding 230 more.</p> <p data-end="339" data-start="177">In a statement on Telegram, it condemned what it called “flagrant and clear violations of the ceasefire decision and the rules of international humanitarian law”.</p> <p data-end="427" data-start="341">It said the attacks were recorded “across all governorates of Gaza without exception”.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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fantastic book, now in English

divided.online/all-books/bo...
October 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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working on a translation of Julius Schaxel’s “Das biologische Individuum” (1930) on the natural-historical emergence of ‘the individual’ & the possibility of thinking its concept—by distinguishing it from individuality & dissolving the individual back into its constituent relations & movements!
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM