Aleco Kastanos

I’m speaking at Birkbeck on Tuesday! Come say hello!
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Manually updating my reference style because apparently that justifies not going for a run

Each year it’s the same. University staff in the UK are asked to do more with less

Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year

We’re so back

@bbkhistorical.bsky.social is delighted to announce the 2025 Edgington Lectures, which will be delivered by Dr. Stacie Friend on 14 and 15 May 2025. Dr Friend’s two-part lecture series is entitled 'Fiction and Reality'.

Register for both the lectures and the graduate workshop

Dr Richard Elliott (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social) discussing “The Last Metaphysician: Heidegger on Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Overcoming of Metaphysics”. The room was at capacity!

Can’t recommend this book enough, a clear and comprehensive exposition of economic power

@sorenmau.bsky.social 👏

On 'Person and Community in Traditional African Thought' Discussing Menkiti, Marx, non-human animals, and some Rousseau. How do we relate to our community and ourselves?

I've compiled some thoughts on Ifeanyi Menkiti's classic 'Person and Community in Traditional African Thought'.
Is there a Western conception of personhood? What's the status of non-human animals? Whose virtue?

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One of my favourites from last year. Well worth attending if you can!

I Hate New Year's Day - Viewpoint Magazine That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...

"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself."

Happy New Year from Antonio Gramsci

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Fanon's Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, ...

Birkbeck is hosting the 'Fanon's Philosophical Legacy' international conference in June. The PhilEvents page is live with a Call For Papers:
philevents.org/event/show/1...

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...