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Absage Teilnahme "Prozess gegen Deutschland", Thalia Theater Hamburg.

Absage Teilnahme "Prozess gegen Deutschland", Thalia Theater Hamburg.

Ich habe meine Teilnahme als "Experte" im "Prozess gegen Deutschland" von Milo Rau (Thalia Theater Hamburg, 13.–15.02.206) heute abgesagt. Hier meine ErklĂ€rung dazu.

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What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe - Leonard D’Cruz, 2025 Achille Mbembe presents ‘necropolitics’ as a corrective to Foucault’s conception of biopolitics, which Mbembe argues is insufficient to account for the contempo...

New open access article by TASA member Leonard D'Cruz:

What Demarcates Necropolitics from Biopolitics? A Foucauldian Critique of Mbembe

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jetzt mĂŒssen nur noch die verschiedenen GedankenfĂ€den miteinander verknĂŒpft werden 😅.

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Erstes Exemplar. Welcome to the World 💜

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Genug ist genug Leipzig. Subjektiv. Selektiv.

Die UniversitĂ€t Leipzig setzt KĂŒrzungen des eigenen Haushalts durch die NichtverlĂ€ngerung von laufenden Promotionsstellen um, meine ist auch betroffen. kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/01/29/l...

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Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on Autostraddle

Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on Autostraddle

Hot for Revolution
Caleb Ward

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Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. 

Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination

Hot for Revolution Caleb Ward Abstract Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination

Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)

Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)

What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?

Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.

philpapers.org/archive/WARH...

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Current opportunities

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war

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Das klingt aber auch nach einem spannenden Seminar! Aus Interesse: Welche Texte stehen zur Auswahl? :)

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Wissenschaftliche Arbeit zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass der Beruf diskursiv gerne zum Hobby gemacht wird. #IchBinHanna

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That sounds very promising! I'm looking forward to reading it!

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Relatedly, I was at a meeting today at my current job on what to do about students using AI in our courses, and I suggested: Have students write papers on topics they actually care about personally!

Philosophers act like this is some kind of pipe dream, but it works!

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„And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right
I have been one acquainted with the night" - Robert Frost

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Lehrerin ĂŒber Rassismus an Schulen: „Wer sagt, dass wir neutral sein mĂŒssten, hat keinen Plan.“ Gina Waibel ist Lehrerin und viral gegangen. Ein GesprĂ€ch ĂŒber Angriffe der AfD, NeutralitĂ€t und was man rechten Gesinnungen entgegensetzen kann.

Gina Waibel ist Lehrerin und viral gegangen. Ein GesprĂ€ch ĂŒber Angriffe der AfD, NeutralitĂ€t und was man rechten Gesinnungen entgegensetzen kann.

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Mein Lehrkonzept zum forschenden Lernen ist online. Ein Jahr haben wir gemeinsam zu Foucault geforscht und die Studierenden haben ihre Ergebnisse im Rahmen eines Symposiums vorgestellt. Es war eine spannendes Projekt!

#forschendeslernen #forschen #foucault
#disciplineandpunish #studium

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Two Pumpkins standing on a wooden table. Two spooky faces are carved on the pumpkins.

Two Pumpkins standing on a wooden table. Two spooky faces are carved on the pumpkins.

Spooky đŸ‘»đŸŽƒ

#allhallowseve
#halloween

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Zelten ohne Regen? đŸ•ïžâ˜”ïž

#camping #weloverain #summertime

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CFP: After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference (2025-26) Call For Papers After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal | June 18–19, 2026 Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2025 PDF flyer The centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth offers a timely opportunity to reassess the profound contribution of his philosophy to our understanding of human subjectivity in the interwoven contexts of knowledge, power, ethics, and aesthetics, as these unfold throughout history, culture, and society.

CFP: After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference (2025-26)

Call For Papers After The Death Of The Human Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference University of Lisbon, Portugal | June 18–19, 2026 Deadline for submissions: September


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Einfach mĂŒde durch den Tag schleppen.

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This is great, thanks! đŸ„ł

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Hallo Bluesky, ich brauche mal wieder Eure/Ihre Hilfe.

An welchen deutschen Hochschulen oder Forschungseinrichtungen sind US-Fragebögen zu DiversitĂ€tsmaßnahmen etc. eingegangen? Bitte nur direktes Wissen. Wenn lieber persönlich, gern an: post@jmwiarda.de

Gern reposten und weiterleiten. Danke!

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"Faschismus ist nicht einfach ein Schimpf- wort, sondern ein Konzept, das uns hilft, die RealitĂ€t  zu verstehen.  Und was wir jetzt  (in den USA)  sehen – das ist Faschismus.", Jason Stanley.

"Faschismus ist nicht einfach ein Schimpf- wort, sondern ein Konzept, das uns hilft, die RealitĂ€t zu verstehen. Und was wir jetzt (in den USA) sehen – das ist Faschismus.", Jason Stanley.

Was der Philosoph Jason Stanley sagt.

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Ich habe eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in (@criticaldatalab.bsky.social / Uni Oldenburg) zu vergeben und freue mich sehr ĂŒber Bewerbungen. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30.4., Fragen gern an mich: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

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Mal wieder die Klassiker. “Das Widerstreitende zusammentretend und aus dem Sichabsondernden die schönste Harmonie” – Heraklit.

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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An dieser Stelle noch einmal Danke an all die Menschen, die sich klar gegen den Rechtsextremismus stellen - insbesondere in den kleineren StÀdten und Orten - wo das Risiko noch einmal ein ganz anderes ist.

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Die These von der Verbundenheit der Körper finde ich klar herausgearbeitet. Ich werde mir den Text von Joy James mal ansehen. Das scheint eine wichtige und harte Kritik an Foucault zu sein.

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Ein sehr spannendes und gut geschriebenes Buch! Ich freue mich schon auf den Teil zu Foucault!

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GemĂŒtlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 đŸ§”! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)

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