Stephen Shapiro
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based:
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I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
well, ok, then
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
well, ok, then
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
for what it's worth, I talk about this in an old piece in
Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, Walter Göbel, Saskia Schabio, and Martin Windisch, eds. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001), 111-132.
Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, Walter Göbel, Saskia Schabio, and Martin Windisch, eds. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001), 111-132.
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
for what it's worth, I talk about this in an old piece in
Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, Walter Göbel, Saskia Schabio, and Martin Windisch, eds. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001), 111-132.
Engendering Images of Man in the Long Eighteenth Century, Walter Göbel, Saskia Schabio, and Martin Windisch, eds. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001), 111-132.
overly optimistic?
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umfr...
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umfr...
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
overly optimistic?
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umfr...
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umfr...
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
personally, I wish they'd moved to Lev Shalem, but it's an aging congregation, so they probably wanted to stick with what they know.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
personally, I wish they'd moved to Lev Shalem, but it's an aging congregation, so they probably wanted to stick with what they know.
my hometown Shul started streaming services, and because there's no Masorti community in the UK, I had my sibling send me this for my birthday
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
my hometown Shul started streaming services, and because there's no Masorti community in the UK, I had my sibling send me this for my birthday
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stanley's interrupted speech can be read in full here (use machine translation if you lack the German).
archive.is/Y0oOn
archive.is/Y0oOn
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Stanley's interrupted speech can be read in full here (use machine translation if you lack the German).
archive.is/Y0oOn
archive.is/Y0oOn
When the bourgeois German Jewish community shows its own stupidity.
Unfortunately this sort of behavior repeats exactly what my Polish Ashkenazi family (whose entire village was destroyed in deathcamp Treblinka) felt about middle-class German Jews.
Unfortunately this sort of behavior repeats exactly what my Polish Ashkenazi family (whose entire village was destroyed in deathcamp Treblinka) felt about middle-class German Jews.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When the bourgeois German Jewish community shows its own stupidity.
Unfortunately this sort of behavior repeats exactly what my Polish Ashkenazi family (whose entire village was destroyed in deathcamp Treblinka) felt about middle-class German Jews.
Unfortunately this sort of behavior repeats exactly what my Polish Ashkenazi family (whose entire village was destroyed in deathcamp Treblinka) felt about middle-class German Jews.
nazi reconsiders
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/berl...
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/berl...
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
nazi reconsiders
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/berl...
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/berl...
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Jewish pride/Jewish self-hatred
Sandra Bernhard, Without You I"m Nothing (1990)
Sandra Bernhard, Without You I"m Nothing (1990)
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Jewish pride/Jewish self-hatred
Sandra Bernhard, Without You I"m Nothing (1990)
Sandra Bernhard, Without You I"m Nothing (1990)
Cigar hand-rollers were among the most politicised unions, since they'd pay someone to read #marx and other left texts aloud to them while they worked.
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Cigar hand-rollers were among the most politicised unions, since they'd pay someone to read #marx and other left texts aloud to them while they worked.
from Robert Briffault's Europa: A Novel of the Days of Ignorance (1935).
This novel quotes Ray Lankester, one of only 8 to attend #Marx's funeral.
This novel quotes Ray Lankester, one of only 8 to attend #Marx's funeral.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
from Robert Briffault's Europa: A Novel of the Days of Ignorance (1935).
This novel quotes Ray Lankester, one of only 8 to attend #Marx's funeral.
This novel quotes Ray Lankester, one of only 8 to attend #Marx's funeral.
Louis Kugelmann to #Marx, February 4, 1868
"With the "Primitive Accumulation”section, you have delivered a conclusion that is brilliant beyond all terms. – It's a pity that you couldn't start with it, you would have found some more readers."
Jenny Marx to Johann Philipp Becker, 5 October 1867
"With the "Primitive Accumulation”section, you have delivered a conclusion that is brilliant beyond all terms. – It's a pity that you couldn't start with it, you would have found some more readers."
Jenny Marx to Johann Philipp Becker, 5 October 1867
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Louis Kugelmann to #Marx, February 4, 1868
"With the "Primitive Accumulation”section, you have delivered a conclusion that is brilliant beyond all terms. – It's a pity that you couldn't start with it, you would have found some more readers."
Jenny Marx to Johann Philipp Becker, 5 October 1867
"With the "Primitive Accumulation”section, you have delivered a conclusion that is brilliant beyond all terms. – It's a pity that you couldn't start with it, you would have found some more readers."
Jenny Marx to Johann Philipp Becker, 5 October 1867
from Julian Radlmeier's Bloodsuckers: A Marxist Vampire Comedy
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
from Julian Radlmeier's Bloodsuckers: A Marxist Vampire Comedy
Theodore Cuno describes a trip aboard the channel steamer on the return trip from The Hague with #Marx, Engels, the refugees of the Paris Commune, and the delegates from America.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Theodore Cuno describes a trip aboard the channel steamer on the return trip from The Hague with #Marx, Engels, the refugees of the Paris Commune, and the delegates from America.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM