After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...
Much more extensive research resources on Foucault are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... - bibliographies, textual comparisons, audio and video links, etc.
Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind - @routledgebooks.bsky.social, August 2026
www.routledge.com/The-Foucauld...
Congratulations to @danlor.bsky.social for bringing this massive collection together.
Today, February 21, 2026, is the 178th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and is celebrated around the world as #RedBooksDay. Read a red book today!
A statue of Paine in Morristown, New Jersey sculpted in 1950 by Georg J. Lober. It shows a seated Paine with a musket using a drum-head as a makeshift table. See more at the TPHA's Thomas Paine Monument Gallery: thomaspaine.org/gallery/monu...
Herzlich Glückwunsch!
Happy birthday Thomas Paine, born otd in 1737, and presented anew in a six-volume Princeton University Press edition of his writings, due out in June 2026.
@harvardpress.bsky.social
@harvardpress.bsky.social
Another must-have from Harvard University Press coming this August 18,2026! #hupharvard
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Coetzee’s blurb:
Anxiously waiting for this in June 2026!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Happy Birthday Mozart - 1756
EXCITED SCREAM
The third installment of our Online Speaker Series will take place on February 7!
Jeremy Chow, Andrew S. Curran, and Mona Narain will be discussing "The Natural and the Social: Thinking About Diversity and Norms with the Enlightenment".
www.csecs.ca/en/events/th...
Requiescat in pace; ein großartiger Mann und Gelehrter!
Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026)
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
76 years ago today, George Orwell’s life ended. But his “life” continues and is so relevant today. Read the master again and again!
The Turin Horse (2011)
Directed by Bela Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky
Written by Tarr and Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai - BOTD in 1954
Excellent interview with #belatarr
This screenshot from the The Turin Horse is, to me, the best expression of hope and longing. Read Krasznahorkai’s Nobel acceptance speech for an eloquent statement of this sort of hope.
His work was just beautiful. The Turin Horse moved me like no other film. Such a great loss.
Hungarian director Béla Tarr, known for his bleak and beautiful films, dies at 70
apnews.com/article/hung...
In fact, one reason social theorists will always be debating this issue is that we can't really know how much difference 'human agency' -the preferred term, currently, for what used to be called 'free will' - really makes. Historical events by definition happen only once, and there's no real way to know if they 'might' have turned out otherwise (might Spain have never conquered Mexico? Could the steam engine have been invented in Ptolemaic Egypt, leading to an ancient industrial revolution?), or what the point of asking is even supposed to be. It seems part of the human condition that while we cannot predict future events, as soon as those events do happen we find it hard to see them as anything but inevitable. There's no way to know. So precisely where one wishes to set the dial between freedom and determinism is largely a matter of taste.
Due to its broad scope and sometimes (very bold, but thought-provoking) theses, this book is intellectal fun. Here's part of an excursus to the philosophy of the social sciences (and the humanities). I won't subscribe to the taste thing, though.
Graeber/Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021.
Yes, the last sentence is poorly expressed.
Und wie er es benutzt.
*day NOT *say
I would not wish this day to end without acknowledging the birthdate of the greatest classical philologist and Hellenist of our modern times. Born this say in 1848.
grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/gr...
Poignant, intelligent, and so valuable for life’s reflections: Anne Carson LRB's Winter Lecture series at Senate House, London on 22 January 2025.
youtu.be/g8fPmTtG0qw?...
Watch Dan Edelstein speak on his book, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, in conversation with @judith-surkis.bsky.social and @sandipto.bsky.social on October 10th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfGW...
