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My essay "The risk of action" against ideas of "abyssal" freedom: "To imagine freedom as a freedom from historical constraints is not only misleading, but disempowering. It veils the conditions and contradictions through which genuine action and transformation might occur..." /1

Today, on March 8 we launched @RedThreads1917 ! We conceive of our distinctive contribution as a Universalism from the East. This is at once a geographical and a political-theoretical position, a reclaiming of the struggles for and within twentieth-century socialism.

Abolishing profit means abolishing the social relation in which surplus labour is privately appropriated as profit. The labour process continues. What changes is the form of social mediation: production would be organized for use rather than for valorization.

Marcuse’s fame did such a disservice to his thought, and current attacks are not only anti-intellectual but anti-materialist. I tried to show that his Hegelian aesthetics, the sensuous “shining-forth” of truth, is mediated by labour through and through. doi.org/10.1080/096972…

"Praxis" is a Thiel-connected startup aiming to build settler-colonial network states ... chew on that this morning.

Coming autumn 2026: Jacqueline Rose's novel about Gillian Rose and Edith Stein waterstones.com/book/two-women…

To mark the 30th anniversary of Gillian Rose's death, I wrote an essay for @Parapraxis_Mag on Rose's philosophy of death, Nietzsche's "proud death", and Rose's conversion to Christianity. parapraxismagazine.com/articles/endin…

Our first ever translation of ‘The October Revolution and the Factory Committees’ is out and I am very proud 🥲 @_zach_h__

@McFaul Kissinger

To my knowledge, no one has ever won the Nobel Peace Prize for rewarding imperial invasion. If Im wrong, let me know.

My article on Gillian Rose, 'persons' and 'things', and the phenomenology of necessary illusion, is out now in the latest issue of Radical Philosophy @rphilos radicalphilosophy.com/article/phenom…

Marco Filoni's The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève has been translated into English This is a story of Kojève's life and work, narrated by bringing together archival material, (un)published texts, correspondence, and written and oral testimonies nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810148789/…

It takes work, error, digression, distraction, and return, but you can journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

“If death is nothing, then this death and this nothing have a history—call it baroque, call it fascism.” (Gillian Rose)

Every couple of years, a fundamental misunderstanding between the East and the West of Europe reappears re. the WW2. In the occupied Western parts, life went on as before. Sartre continued writing & his plays were shown in theaters. Simone kept on sipping coffee at Les deux magots. Literary soirees were celebrated. People went to their jobs. Some food items became unavailable, and people listened to Radio London. Life in Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Amsterdam went on as before except for occasional raids on Jewish people.

A major publication for scholarship on Gillian Rose –– with essays by Rocío Zambrana, Michael Lazarus, Daniel Lopez, and more (me!), an interview with Jay Bernstein, and a previously unpublished lecture by Rose on the question: "does Marx have a method?"

damn this is brilliant. @EvgeniaKovda's essay on the nihilism being pushed on youth as some kind of hip new thing by certain downtown influencers — and the nihilism she knew growing with in post-collapse Moscow. nefariousrussians.com/p/against-nihi…

Critical reason cannot work without faith, however sceptical. Gillian Rose turned to Kierkegaard's knight of faith to deepen, not abandon, the Marxist-Hegelian critique of capitalist actuality. And this article came out of my crisis of faith… doi.org/10.1080/146231…

In this interview, Jay Bernstein reflects on the history of his intellectual friendship with Gillian Rose—until her early death, his dearest friend. It was a friendship rooted in a shared passion for Hegel's philosophy and Marxist Critical Theory: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Michael’s interview with Jay Bernstein which rounds off Thesis Eleven’s new special issue on Rose’s work is a fascinating and moving discussion of the themes and questions which pervade her thought: Marxism, the speculative proposition, style, and law. Essential reading!