The Modern Tyrant The Modern Tyrant

Haig Patapan, The Modern Tyrant: Authoritarian Leadership in
Theory and Practice – @edinburghup.bsky.social, March 2026
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Si vous êtes matinaux demain matin ou sinon en replay, Thierry Discepolo « figure maîtresse des éditions indépendantes » des @editionsagone.bsky.social parlera édition avec @davduf.net dans @auposte.media

Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Market Correction in the Humanities — What Are You Going to Do with That? | Los Angeles Review of Books What would it mean to have a genuinely public college or university, one free from both the debt state and its perverse double, philanthropy?

I'm a Hampshire alum. I wrote this in 2019 when it appeared Hampshire was closing. It didn't then. But is now. Wonder how this holds up?
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CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund)

We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026.

Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...

Jacques Cardon, dessinateur (entre autres au Canard Enchainé), vient de disparaître à 89 ans.

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Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

The writing tips I published one by one here have now been gathered up and published by Ed Simon in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*. Happy to make them available here:

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Be sure to check out the relatively new PRoB while you are there!

My chapter on 19th century plebeian internationalism is out now in The Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis 🎉 📕

Many thanks to the editors @julfaure.bsky.social, Matthew Humphreys, and David Laycock!

If you'd like to read it, feel free to get in touch.

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Foucault’s 1972 visit to Attica prison Entrance of the Attica Correctional Facility, by Jayu from Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.,  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic  In April 1972, during his second t…

Foucault’s 1972 visit to Attica prison - progressivegeographies.com/2026/03/29/f...

The Voices of Democracy: A Festival for Ten-Minute Monologues, UC Irvine (Deadline: April 20th, 11:59 p.m. PST)

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Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault (2026)

Appel à communication | 11e rencontres doctorales du Centre Michel Foucault 23 au 25 septembre 2026 à l’Abbaye d’Ardenne à Caen, IMEC Soumissions avant le 1er juin 2026 Appel à communications/ Pour le centenaire de…

Découvrez les titres disponibles de la collection Critique de la politique, fondée par Miguel Abensour et dirigée par Michèle cohen-Halimi: www.klincksieck.com/les-livres/c...

Couv du livre

Un très grand bonheur de lecture, superbement illustré.
Vincent Azoulay, Ostracisme! Éditions de l’ @ehess.fr
Bientôt au micro 🎙️

Ami•es suisses, demain soir avec @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social nous présenterons Apocalypse Nerds à La Chaux-de-Fonds, cette « ville-manufacture » telle que la décrivait Marx. Venez !

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Cover des Buches Christopher Wimmer: Alles muss man selber machen. Zur Geschichte der Rätebewegungen, von der Pariser Kommune bis Rojava. Karl-Dietz-Verlag, 320 S., br.

Am Morgen des 18. März 1871 erwachte #Paris mit dem Ruf „Vive la #Commune“.
„Es war ein historisches Ereignis, an dem eine proletarische #Rätebewegung die Macht herausforderte und neue, eigene politische Organisationsformen erprobte.“
Christopher Wimmer
#CommuneDeParis #PariserKommune
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"Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss : l'aventure humaine : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture Avec le mythique "Tristes Tropiques", Claude Lévi-Strauss raconte ses quatre années d’expéditions au Brésil et questionne la notion de civilisation. Publié en 1955, ce livre total mêle récit de voyage...

A great podcast series @franceculture.fr on the most read, and perhaps most influential, work in anthropology: Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

The turn to the imagination: transformation, politics and limits - Contemporary Political Theory We are currently witnessing what we refer to in this Critical Exchange as ‘a turn to the imagination’. Across the academy and beyond, the concept of ‘imaginaries’is increasingly used to examine how th...

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Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans

Jürgen Habermas im Alter von 96 Jahren gestorben Jürgen Habermas ist in Starnberg gestorben. Das teilte der Suhrkamp Verlag mit.

RIP Jürgen Habermas

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RIP Jürgen Habermas, a giant among giants whose lifelong defense of equality and democracy remains a beacon of hope in an increasingly dark and desolate landscape. I have disagreed with him on almost everything, but I've never stopped learning from him and being inspired by his example.

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Day 3: new thread continuing sampling Bill Connolly’s book Resounding Events — part memoir/part theory. The book gives his perspective on the rewards and trials of political theory from mid century to the coronavirus pandemic. Characteristically funny, insightful, brilliant, & politically astute /1

William E. Connolly Obituary February 25, 2026 - Eclipse Funeral Care View William E. Connolly's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1

I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

A paperback copy of Plato: a civic life by Carol Atack sits on a wooden bookshelf, in front of a Megarian bowl, just glimpsed. The wall behind is off-white. The book cover is bright red and features the words of the title arranged at the top of three Doric columns.

Opening page of paperback edition of Plato: a civic life, containing comments from book reviews: 'Atack handles her material, as throughout, with a steady touch ... All in all, Atack's book is crisply written, shrewd, and well-informed... Readers of many kinds are likely to derive both pleasure and profit from reading this book? Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'In Plato: A Civic Life we journey through the philosopher's life - and, from the third chapter onwards, through his writings - learning as much about Athenian democracy, international relations, education and culture as we do about Plato himself... Anyone who finds raw Plato indigestible will welcome these accessible explanations of his work... Twenty-five years on from my last ancient philosophy exam, I am surprised to discover that I want to open his works again, thanks to this humanizing and carefully contextualized biography? ALICE KÖNIG, Times Literary Supplement 'Carol Atack's study of Plato achieves more in 240 pages than many other writers manage in biographies three times the length... A gem for anyone interested in this ancient Greek philosopher and the world he inhabited. Approachable, enlightening, informative? Bookmunch 'Atack excels, contextualizing the dialogues smoothly and authoritatively, with neither the gatekeeping condescension of the expert nor the oversimplifying condescension of the pedagogue... As a primer to the man, his works, and his time, the general-interest reader could scarcely ask for something better? Open Letters Review 'A richly enjoyable and illuminating account of Plato's life and its social and political contexts. Atack handles the wealth of scholarship with a deft touch: she provides considered support for her interpretations but never obscures the main, vivid narrative, into which she skilfully weaves a number of Plato's key ideas and arguments? ANGIE HOBBS, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Actual physical paperback now sighted! Here it is, just as lovely as the hardback but with some lovely quotes from reviews added (all but one in alt text) - thanks to everyone who has read and commented. Head to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social or your local bookshop to preorder!

The cover of a book by Peter Stacey entitled "The State in Machiavelli" in the series Ideas in Context

Soon in print! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

The Berkeley School: Critical Theory, Political Economy, and the Future of Intellectual History by Jonathon Catlin This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

This is really good www.jhiblog.org/2026/02/16/t...

Citation « Certains à l’extrême droite décrètent, que c’est le Front populaire qui a offert les pleins pouvoirs à Pétain, alors que c’est l’union des droites qui a porté ces idées au pouvoir et permis à ce régime criminel d’exister. » de Laurent Joly Historien, directeur de recherche du CNRS au Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS/CNRS) dans le Journal du CNRS

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📖 Dans le journal du @cnrs.fr, Laurent Joly (@crh.ehess.fr) revient sur l'ouvrage qu'il a dirigé ”Vichy. Histoire d'une dictature 1940-1944”
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Early-career researchers: we offer a Peace Research Fellowship at @ipz.bsky.social University of Zurich - fully funded, 2-week research visit with the Decades of Peace team.
Deadline: March 20
Application details: www.decadesofpeace.com/fellowship
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