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Important event tonight with @philosopher1923.bsky.social!

#criticaltheory #BlackAcademics #Phillosophy #AcademicSky

09.03.2026 12:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SEMINAR:

🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026
📌Hybrid (Manchester and online)

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5d5908...

05.03.2026 16:11 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Select tickets – "Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom "Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom, Mon 9 Mar 2026 - For the last 50 years, finance played an ever-larger r...

Coming up: Mon. Mar. 9 ~ 12:15pm ET / 4:15pm UK

"Critical Theory of Finance
Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North

On the effects of the enormous shift around who has economic control.

#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

04.03.2026 13:41 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Join our next session with amazing colleagues working on #race & #ethnicity. #BlackAcademics #AcademicSky #Sociology

03.03.2026 14:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The image is in black and white and depicts a hand holding liquid clay.

The image is in black and white and depicts a hand holding liquid clay.

The image shows the poster for the Critical Currents series, listing the names of presenters, their themes, and the dates. In the background, there is an image of a melon, and the British Sociological Association logo appears in the bottom right corner.

The image shows the poster for the Critical Currents series, listing the names of presenters, their themes, and the dates. In the background, there is an image of a melon, and the British Sociological Association logo appears in the bottom right corner.

📆🚔🫖We're looking forward to 2nd session titled #Policing and #AntiRacistPraxis with Dr Akintoye and Dr Burgher on 10th March, from 1PM-2PM.

Programme/link can be found here: tinyurl.com/criticalcurr...

#WhitenessStudies #Racism #Antiracism #Arts #Porcelain #SocialJustice #BlackLivesMatterUK #BLM

03.03.2026 14:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Select tickets – "Are We Still Human? Günther Anders in the Age of Automation": E. Schwarz, C. Dries and C. Müller with J. Blumenfeld – Zoom "Are We Still Human? Günther Anders in the Age of Automation": E. Schwarz, C. Dries and C. Müller with J. Blumenfeld – Zoom, Mon 2 Mar 2026 - With the publication of the first English translation of i...

In the 1950s, Günther Anders looked at nuclear bombs and TVs and warned about the future, outlining new emotional landscapes shaping our relationship to advancing #technology.

Join experts on Anders:
Mon. Mar. 2 ~ 2:30pm ET / 7:30pm UK
#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

27.02.2026 13:56 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Circular memorial to Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the grass on a hill in Cal Anderson Park, flowers form a circle, fruit and cigarette offerings on a metal table, photos of others murdered by DHS if you look closely

Circular memorial to Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the grass on a hill in Cal Anderson Park, flowers form a circle, fruit and cigarette offerings on a metal table, photos of others murdered by DHS if you look closely

PEOPLE KILLED BY ICE

in 2026.

Renee Good
1/7

Alex Pretti

1/24

Heber Sanchez

1/14

Victor Manuel Diaz
1/14

Parady La
1/9

Keith Porter

1231/25

Geraldo Lunas Campos

1/3

Luis Canceres

1/5

Luis Yazez Cruz

1/6

PEOPLE KILLED BY ICE in 2026. Renee Good 1/7 Alex Pretti 1/24 Heber Sanchez 1/14 Victor Manuel Diaz 1/14 Parady La 1/9 Keith Porter 1231/25 Geraldo Lunas Campos 1/3 Luis Canceres 1/5 Luis Yazez Cruz 1/6

These small ongoing memorials on the streets of Seattle always make me emotional...

24.02.2026 22:20 👍 450 🔁 125 💬 8 📌 3
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

“DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

13.02.2026 22:43 👍 804 🔁 376 💬 74 📌 89
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Postgraduate Paper Prize Winner 2025 We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2025 Postgraduate Paper Prize: Dr Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa (London School of Economics and Political Science): ‘From Migration Crisis’ to…

carceralgeographies.co.uk/postgraduate...

13.02.2026 22:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The image shows text announcing the Carceral Geography Working Group's 2025 postgraduate paper prize winner.

The image shows text announcing the Carceral Geography Working Group's 2025 postgraduate paper prize winner.

Such a great honour to have won @carceralgeography.bsky.social post grad paper prize on anticolonial reading of #migrationcrisis! #carcerality #phd #AcademicSky #BlackStudy #BrookeHouseIRC #SylviaWynter #FrantzFanon

13.02.2026 22:48 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

A short with Linda Kinstler on the theory that gives Trump a blank cheque for aggression. See the attached post for the full video. Please like, subscribe, and comment on YouTube!
#Philosophy #Politics #Corruption

www.youtube.com/shorts/qf-Si...

11.02.2026 20:48 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Radical Philosophy issue 220 (Winter 2026) Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.

RP2.20 is out now!

- Fanon-Tosquelles dossier

- Hashem Abushama on the actually existing 'state of Palestine

- Key MacFarlane on Henri Lefebvre in California

- Toni Negri and Sandra Harding obituaries

- Reviews on Lonzi, Fortunati, TJ Clark and more...

www.radicalphilosophy.com

11.02.2026 14:02 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
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Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem This essay examines the uneasy return of expertise during Covid-19 and asks how much epistemic trust a democracy can sustain without sliding into expert domination. Using the figure of the “Free Nose ...

Sunday read:

"Epistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy Problem"

Jana Bacevic examines the uneasy return of expertise during #Covid and asks how much epistemic trust a democracy can sustain without sliding into expert domination.

#Philosophy
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/epistem...

08.02.2026 13:06 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The image shows a full text published in LinkedIn with the abstracts of Sara Khash's and lisa minerva luxx's abstracts.

The image shows a full text published in LinkedIn with the abstracts of Sara Khash's and lisa minerva luxx's abstracts.

The poster show a melon in the background, with 'critical current' in bold letters. The poster also include themes and dates of each presentations. At the bottom right side, there's a QR code and the BSA logo.

The poster show a melon in the background, with 'critical current' in bold letters. The poster also include themes and dates of each presentations. At the bottom right side, there's a QR code and the BSA logo.

We’re excited to launch our online research seminar series this Tuesday at 1pm 🎉 with Sara Khash and lisa minerva luxx!

Full programme and link to join can be found here: tiny.cc/2ohy001

#ArabStudies #BlackStudies #DuBois #Ethnicity #MENA #SWANA #Palestine #Syria #Sudan

08.02.2026 12:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The new Historical Materialism newsletter is now out, featuring a suite of information about Marxist events, publications, CfPs and other resources.

To ensure you do not miss out, sign up to our new and improved newsletter from the bottom of our homepage: www.historicalmaterialism.org.

04.02.2026 14:01 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
The poster show a melon in the background, and has "critical current;" written bold.  Written and hilighted in red, there is "Every second Tuesday, 1PM-2PM, Online (Teams). The poster include names and theme titles for each session.

The poster show a melon in the background, and has "critical current;" written bold. Written and hilighted in red, there is "Every second Tuesday, 1PM-2PM, Online (Teams). The poster include names and theme titles for each session.

📆 🌍 We’re delighted to announce the programme for the Study Group’s research seminar series, Critical Currents! Join us for the first event next Tuesday at 1pm on Microsoft Teams.

⚡ Check out the programme here: tiny.cc/2ohy001
#race #ethnicity #AcademicSky #BSA #sociology #researchseminars

03.02.2026 15:15 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Select tickets – Life is Hard Reading Group – Zoom Life is Hard Reading Group – Zoom, Wed 25 Feb 2026 - Wed 15 Apr 2026 - OverviewIn this group, we will read and discuss Kieran Setiya's book Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (Londo...

#Philosophy Reading Group coming!!

90 min/week with host, Kate Warlow-Corcoran

"Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way" by Kieran Setiya (joining us Apr. 15th!)

Wed. Feb. 25 to Apr. 15 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
$82usd/£60 (half price for members)
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

01.02.2026 15:13 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Select tickets – "What Is We? : Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham – Zoom "What Is We? : Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham – Zoom, Mon 2 Feb 2026 - The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sci...

Coming up: Mon. Feb 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"What Is We?"

If "we" is a method for enacting, apprehending, contesting, and instrumentalizing boundaries, then we can confront failure, impossibility, and the hallucinatory nature of the universe.

#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

28.01.2026 18:00 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Select tickets – "Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom "Love In Time": Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi – Zoom, Mon 26 Jan 2026 - What does it mean to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world? We live in time, and so we ...

We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers?
How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty?

Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
#Philosophy #Love
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

23.01.2026 15:06 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Our #TopReads of 2025. Not necessarily published last year, but some books are just intemporel, such as Walcott's meditation on Black freedoms and Black life-forms. #BlackStudies #BlackAcademia

22.01.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception.

University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration & Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 (followed by drinks reception)

All welcome!
@britsoci.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bor...

13.01.2026 11:56 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
CBS News on X: BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
10:51 AM

CBS News on X: BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition. 10:51 AM

Zero percent chance this is true.

14.01.2026 16:40 👍 23178 🔁 3498 💬 3678 📌 1440
Select tickets – "Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought": Yann Allard-Tremblay in conversation with Leila Ben Abdallah – Zoom "Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought": Yann Allard-Tremblay in conversation with Leila Ben Abdallah – Zoom, Mon 12 Jan 2026 - North American Indigenous and dominant Euro-modern political trad...

TODAY! Mon. Jan. 12 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"#Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought"

Yann Allard-Tremblay with Leila Ben Abdallah to
discuss irreconcilable political options and argue that reconciliation must be transformative for both sides.

#Philosophy
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

12.01.2026 13:41 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Text repeats title and speaker name from above. Event is in person (Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building University of Manchester, and online). Logos of university of manchester and CoDE

Text repeats title and speaker name from above. Event is in person (Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building University of Manchester, and online). Logos of university of manchester and CoDE

SEMINAR:

Denaturalisation & Modernity: Drugs & Racial Capitalism
Anne Pollock (KCL)

📅1-2.30pm Thurs 19 Feb
📌Manchester/online

All welcome
@uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/940a34...

08.01.2026 11:15 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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The Philosophy of Fascism Fascism is often dismissed as a political phenomenon confined to twentieth-century Europe, but this assumption obscures its enduring ideological structure. Like democracy, fascism abstracts from local...

Sunday read:

"The Philosophy of Fascism"

Jason Stanley argues that fascism abstracts from local history and reappears unders diverse conditions, organized around exclusionary nationalism, status grievance, and authoritarian leadership.

#Philosophy
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-phi...

11.01.2026 12:18 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

We're looking for reviewers!
#Blackacademics #Blacksky #AcademicSky #philsky #philosophy #PhdChat #BookSky

05.01.2026 15:27 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Excited by our Winter Programme. Join us for our free and online conversations 🤟🏾

04.01.2026 12:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writing Ourselves Otherwise: Representation, Specularity, and Epistemic Humility | Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy – Open access journal published by University of Groningen Press.

My new article for @krisisjournal.bsky.social shows how the depiction of artificial consciousness in @annaleen.bsky.social's novel Autonomous offers a new vantage on the search for a decolonial representation of the human. krisis.eu/article/view...

#AcademicSky #DecolonialStudies #SpecLit 🪐📚 🌈📚

18.12.2025 13:06 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Excerpt from the essay.

Excerpt from the essay.

"Clifton remembers that to be home is to be within a polyvocal continent whose variety feels almost incomprehensible in comparison to this country’s circumscribed notions of #Blackness." #BlackArtsMovement #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies #CliftonHouse
lareviewofbooks.org/article/keep...

23.12.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An important call to save sociology!

17.12.2025 15:46 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0