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Serene

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It’s publication day and Biopolitics as a System of Thought is now out! Can Agamben, Foucault, Deleuze & Spinoza guide us through the impotence of our present? Are we condemned to be Smart beings? Is the possible unrealisable? Find out here:

Biopolitics as a System of Thought

www.bloomsbury.com

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What Deleuze would say on the discourse: 'nothing is sadder for gifted young people, in principle, than growing old without ever having found the books that they really liked ... & then all at once, playing the scholar about all books. That’s a funny thing; it makes you bitter

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Agamben, a brave soul as ever

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8 months

The quiet devastation in this little girl’s eyes breaks my heart

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8 months

My flipping heart man 😭💔 Her innocent sweet soul 💔💔💔

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'Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers not the reform of existence but its complete destruction. It is the expansion of despair, until despair becomes a religious state of the world' - happy birthday Walter Benjamin 🎈

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10 months

Honoured by Agamben’s endorsement of my book, coming soon in May: ‘Serene Richards brilliant, compelling book retraces and masterly detects the genealogy and the ID of this threatening model and with a kind of rigorous humour demolishes one after the other its pretensions’

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'this kind of intellectual bitterness that takes things out against others for your not having been able to find what you loved. So… The air of superiority that one acquires by dint of being stupid…. All that is unfortunate'

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'But you’ve got to have a relation, at the extreme, only with what you love.' - in short, find your molecules, find what you love

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@noklesis

8 months

There's a cover! So very grateful to Mogniss H. Abdallah and IM’média for their kind permission to use this image so dear to me of the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes (1972-76), formerly the Comités Palestine, and to Agamben for his generous comments 💫

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@noklesis

3 months

Had a lovely time chatting about the connections between foucault, philosophical anthropology and biopolitics with a sprinkle too on the arrogance of Smart Being - have a listen

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@noklesis

7 months

It’s all your fault Félix, happy birthday 🎈

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

7 months

Man a lot of leftists are just libertarians who don’t know they’re libertarians. Personally, I blame Deleuze and Guattari.

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Happy to share this extract from my book, the opposite of biopolitics as a system of thought it concerns the phantasm, imagination, sensibility and our collective intellect, via Agamben, Ibn Rushd, Dante, Nancy

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3 years

‘But there is this brilliant, shattering constitution of being. “Love” does not define it, but it names it, and obliges us to think it’ - Jean-Luc Nancy

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@noklesis

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I’m very excited about our book launch event coming up on 12 November! 💫 @bienmaspreciado and I will be chatting about biopolitics, technocapital and destituent power. Register here

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1 year

Got nice reviews of the final manuscript, coming soon in Spring 2024 🌟

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2 years

Nietzsche getting a lot of negative attention on the timeline these days but who among his critics poses amazing questions like this : "When the sleeper awakes, the dream dies. But when the dreamer dies, what becomes of the dream?"

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5 months

E-book out today….! Hardback soon.. how does biopolitics shape the form of our political & juridical strategies? Is there any way to refuse power’s imperative to manage the annihilation of the living and injunction to take one’s place within it?

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4 years

@mattpetersonnyc What’s surprising? Her consistent opportunism or that having a degree in justice studies has little to do with justice?

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@noklesis

3 months

'I situate myself in the field of Agamben and of the Invisible Committee... Democracy has turned into the antechamber of fascism, and there will never be a democratic reversal of the biopolitical dimension of contemporary fascism' - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

The Power of Quitting: An Interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Karl Baldacchino: Your book Disertate (2023), forthcoming in English as Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (2024), treats the subject of desertion or quitting, which according to you is congr…

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@noklesis

3 months

Happy bday Van Gogh, the man, Artaud says, suicided by society: ‘No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modelled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell’

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What characterises our way of life? That one is permitted to survive on condition that one is complicit, one way or another throughout the supply chain, with its heinous crimes

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@noklesis

5 months

Looking forward to this next week, I’ll be talking about my book focusing on the bits on destituent power via Agamben, Spinoza, Benjamin and Deleuze. If in London come along, I believe there is an online link to join as well

Law, Anarchism and Destituent Power: The State’s Monopoly of Violence.

The workshop focuses on notion of destituent power, the (non)relationship between law and anarchism and the state's monopoly of violence.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@noklesis

3 years

'All our ideas about life must be revised in a period when nothing any longer adheres to life' - Artaud

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'Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts and by no means just with the ghost of the addressee but also with one's own ghost... Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way' -Kafka

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So many people don’t seem to know that the nation state and the passport are modern inventions and seem to want to square off the past, the present and the future through this prism, why?

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@noklesis

2 years

My friend reminded me that Deleuze said his task was to do damage to stupidity and I think it’s a noble if increasingly rare calling

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5 months

Kafka’s the trial by Orson Wells [1962]

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3 months

‘Behind the powerlessness of God peeps the powerlessness of men, who continue to cry “May that never happen again!” when it is clear that “that'' is, by now, everywhere’ - Agamben

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@noklesis

3 years

@guardian Subjectivity, famously ahistorical, was discovered by a guy on lsd who, while critiquing governmental techniques of production & subjugation of the living to the demands of capitalism, is to blame for the techniques success amidst a depoliticised modernity forewarned by same guy

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1 year

For many decolonisation only functions so long as an other can be identified as such, in need of saving and stripped of any political qualities, only in this way can they be spoken for in workshops and careers be built in the name of the ‘good thinker’

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@noklesis

2 years

what if the void has loads of stuff in it

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12 days

Fuck America and Israel and any accomplice whose satanic forces know no limits and whose drive for horror after horror, mutilation and destruction is unmatched anywhere on this planet - soulless, miserable, intent on crushing joy wherever it may flow

Ilan Gabet

@Ilangabet

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Les images sont abominables ⚠️ Des civils, des enfants, brûlent vifs Israël a bombardé les TENTES des Palestiniens déplacés dans la cour de l'HÔPITAL des Martyrs d'Al-Aqsa à Deir Al-Balah, dans le centre de Gaza.

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I’m sick to death of it all I can’t even begin to describe my feelings, anger, shame, what do these words mean anymore

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5 months

Imagine taking pictures like this for the world to see and help, meanwhile we’re told this is all normal and to go about our lives that their extermination is a matter of existential necessity and fully in accordance with international humanitarian law and other such fairy tales

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

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Disturbing | The skeletal remains of a Palestinian woman and her children were found following the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

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9 months

feeling sick, sickened by the depravity and complicity, of the impunity, of their enjoyment and of our impotence

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2 months

Still mourning being plucked away from this spot, shown here on two different days and lights

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@noklesis

6 years

@OwenJones84 @MazzucatoM but the troll is wearing a suit, and has serious looking glasses. He's also a 'he' which basically trumps everything else even if he can't and won't read

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@noklesis

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You know it doesn’t look good when random clowns have to sugar coat for liberals what the US and Israel themselves are calling an invasion

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@BHL

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Israel is not invading Lebanon, it is liberating it. This is a historic moment, not only for the Israelis, but for the Lebanese, Arabs, and Eastern Christians. To not understand this is to have lost all moral and political compass. #StandWithIsrael #Lebanon #IDF

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7 months

Everyday more decadence in the form of imperatives

holistic mami✨

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7 months

my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.

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9 years

@OwenJones84 the assumption that bombing people escaping bombs will stop them escaping from more bombs is a fascinating logic.

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5 months

'Never, I think, in the history of human societies... has there been such a tricky combination in the same political structures of individualisation techniques and of totalisation procedures' -Foucault

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3 years

🥂🎄❤️✨🥂

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@noklesis

5 months

Printer’s ready if anyone needs anything

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6 years

All done!!!! Huge 💜

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3 months

This is my bday gift it sings happy birthday ☺️

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3 years

Chapter coming soon on miracles, law and form of life, checking typos for now 🖋✨🌻

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2 years

festive day 🎄🦉✨

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@noklesis

3 months

10 months of relentless torture by the world’s most powerful states and its armies and weapons, shame on this world

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Israel-Gaza: 400,000 residents ordered to leave Khan Younis

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1 year

may the cry and pain of this little boy haunt far and close everyone complicit

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

1 year

"Where are the Arabs? Where are the Muslims?" A Palestinian child cries in pain after some of his family members were massacred by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

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1 year

I don’t have much to say anymore you’ll have to read a book I wrote which is coming soon I believe

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@noklesis

7 years

@audioexpression The issue is political, there's nothing whatsoever to hijack. All politicians are welcome to speak out and have access to media outlets etc

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11 months

‘You understand absolutely nothing in politics’ Agamben on Kissinger, applies to many other political science aficionados

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2 years

In the society of the spectacle which demands no reply the mantra ‘right to have my say’ is less an invitation to speak but an injunction to participate in the endless circulation of order words, no matter their content, serving the glorification of the spectacle

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1 year

'Scientists from the School of Plant Sciences at Tel Aviv University have announced that they have recorded with special ultrasound-sensitive microphones the screams of pain that plants emit when they are cut or when they lack water. In Gaza there are no microphones' - Agamben

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1 year

I am not surprised or shocked but with each passing day filled with more and more disgust, contempt and a hopeless hope

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2 years

Who does it serve to erase from the history of medicine its grounding in debasing humanity and the living in its quest to define the pathological to construct the normal

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@guardian

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Wellcome Collection in London shuts ‘racist, sexist and ableist’ medical history gallery

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3 years

'Artaud said that the problem (for him) was not to orientate his thought, or to perfect the expression of what he thought, or acquire application and method or to perfect his poems, but simply to manage to think something' - Deleuze, hbd Artaud🎈

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on one side we have reactionary bourgeois drives & on the other progressive bourgeois drives.. emotive reflexes, symbolic imaginaries, moved & governed by mass communication. Reactionary & progressive drives which nonetheless share this average bourgeois character - Mario Tronti

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It’s great to know how many pages people read in a day but I think the rereading part is the key bit, it takes time and isn’t something that can be assigned or standardised, it’s the magic of study and after some time away from that is what I really miss

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1 year

stop the waste it is hard to imagine that all is lost since the energy of ashes is still here and blows from time to time through the rubble -Aimé Césaire

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2 years

"it is surplus-value that turns activity into work, or that subjects activity to the rule of work. So that here we better understand the link, if this hypothesis is true, we better understand that, labour, fundamentally belongs to the state apparatus” - Deleuze

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Smart

Stan's Account

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using this juncture in history not to slow down an extinction event, but instead to accelerate it, in service of building machines whose primary purpose is to render humans obsolete. silicon valley makes sense as a grand death drive project, a compulsion towards self annihilation

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3 years

Last @MSCPhilosophy lecture on biopolitics today, ended with destituent power - will miss it 🌟🌹

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4 months

Contemplating etc

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2 years

haven’t read all of this but I find it interesting how it is treated as self evident that Heidegger’s thought mirrors his politics so should be ignored while hardly a word is spoken by sociologists on someone like eugenicist and statistician Francis Galton

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'Do not delude yourself. Together with school, television, and the calmness of your newspapers, you are the great preservers of this horrid order based upon the idea of owning and destroying' - pasolini

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The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966

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2 years

@mattzarb can we get a refund for all donations seems like mis-selling, wouldn't have donated if I'd known it'd be rigged

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1 year

no one has the 'right' to exist at the expense of another, yet this is the modus operandi of the biopolitical era in which we live made apparent from Congo to Palestine

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2 years

Wrote this piece on how the discourse around single sex spaces misses the assault on public space and how online spaces are regulated where we are always potentially guilty, hope you like it ✨

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2 years

Academia is good at emptying the stakes that concepts can imply, this then reproduces abstractions where even the simplest thoughts seem outlandish - but the real perversion lies in the injunction to popularise neutered concepts as what is called 'impact' for public ridicule

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2 years

Every so often a thing is conjured into being as the cause of causes, given a proper name, and resources mobilised to ‘defeat it.’ And every time the ‘end of the thing’ does not take place in the cathartic manner desired, attention simply shifts to the next thing real or imagined

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The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters

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8 months

Blessed to be here 🍉💞

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7 months

‘This impulse to expel the human being from the ideal, only to formally include through abandonment, to conceal the sweat that goes into the making of ever inventive dispositives, is characteristic of Smart Being's mode of being in the world’ - Biopolitics as a System of Thought

Max Burns

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Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped. How insanely dystopian.

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2 years

just noticed this schizo fragment of my bookshelf complete disorder

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'we must not imagine that the world turns toward us a legible face which we would only have to decipher' - Foucault

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2 years

Persecution delusion is contagious probably because it’s the primary mode of subjectification in, and condition of entry into, the virtual polis; that infinite spectacle of aggrieved voices trading signifier after signifier

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it’s deleuze’s birthday today and I forgot to post a nice quote, so in lieu I will say his thought is very profound and many should read him it’s life changing

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Inoperativity and Destituent Power in Benjamin, Agamben and Spinoza is now out with Pólemos, can check it out here

Inoperativity and Destituent Power in Benjamin, Agamben and Spinoza

This paper examines the notion of destituent power in the work of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. In contrast to constituent power's emphasis on the formation of a people relying on the metaph...

www.degruyter.com

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Performance today :)

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6 months

Had a lovely chat with the brilliant @thebarronfield on Smart Being, biopolitics and the present state of things, here’s a little preview on remembering to have some fun

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1 year

This massacre is the act of cowards

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1 year

Reports of "unprecedented" level of bombing of Gaza right now . UPD- illustration photo

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The obscenity and perversion makes me ashamed of myself and of this world

Hebh Jamal

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9 months

Dystopian. Evil. A checkpoint with a camera/facial recognition and a loudspeaker tormenting Palestinian refugees as they are forced to flee their homes: “Khaled Mashal did you send your suit to the dry cleaning today?” followed by “women and children pass only.” A genocide.

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« Sovereign Police » - Giorgio Agamben (1991)

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8 months

Would you like a side of dopamine with that?

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6 months

decolonise the curriculum, change the world, diversity, equity and inclusion, so long as all this leads to a movement sur place and things remain the same albeit with a 'modern' sheen decorated with the latest trends in consumer culture

Defending Rights & Dissent

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Columbia University denied approval for a student webinar called "Resistance 101." When students held it anyway, the university reported the event to the FBI. Last week, we submitted a FOIA to find out what Columbia told the FBI, and how the FBI responded.

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Joséphine Guattari and Félix Guattari (1986) - Couple #22

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1 year

How anyone can look at this, look around at the total impunity, and not feel an ounce of fear if not shame, are they so arrogant as to think those condoning this will ever hesitate to spare them if the circumstances demanded it

Sanaa

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The ministry of health: 400 Palestinians, most of them are children and women, were killed by Israeli bombardment in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

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at some point in the lectures on Foucault, Deleuze says that critics don't stop to consider that, for one reason or another, an author had to pass this way and not another way, for better or worse but they had to pass through it.. I like this sentiment a lot

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Shame on the world and what is done in our name, shame on us for our cowardice, accepting compromise for petty change, shame on our impotence, it will never be forgotten

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They cover their ears not because they don’t want to know because they do, they have heard and seen as well, but they don’t care and consider it to be noise, and it’s this noise they want to shut out

BreakThrough News

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DNC attendees cover their ears as the names of dead Palestinian children are read as they leave the convention

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‘Nothing is more anarchic than power.’ - Pier Paolo Pasolini

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"The man who has recognised that he is leading an alienated life in politics, law, etc., is leading his true human life in this alienated life as such. Self-affirmation, in contradiction with itself [...] is thus true knowledge and life" - Marx

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Looking forward to this! If in Paris in October do come along ✨

Minor Incident 2024

@minorincident24

3 months

here we are folks — the participants for @minorincident24 who will be discussing Paris and the future of the international avant-garde ... @noklesis @clement_ribes @_ryanruby_ and Fernando Sdrigotti moderated by @benlibman

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The programme for next week’s conference « Agamben: The Urgency of Thought » is now online, check it out 😍🌄💗✨

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