Looking forward to sharing new work on ‘the people and the commons’ with amazing colleagues in Leuven.
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Danke, Ralf Michaels @[email protected], für diesen wichtigen Text in Berlin Review.

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Anton Jäger Pezza wrote this in 2000.

Should be good

I've written for Tribune on Tribune's complex postwar relationship with the politics of colonialism & anticolonialism in Africa, and journey as a metropolitan socialist publication towards emphatic support for African decolonisation struggles.
tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/tribun…

Losers’ consent

A reminder that galleys for HOMELAND are now available. If you already requested one, it is on its way. If you haven't, though, and would like one, send me a DM (along with the physical/email address to which it should be sent). penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677393/h…

In Chartbook 279 (but #1 in our heart), Adam Tooze looks into the political economy of Columbia University.

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…

Should be good

In fact that’s why the protests were so quickly and brutally squashed. They threatened to derail the war

'As we're seeing, increasingly professors subject to violence that differs very little from what the state is meting out on students, I think faculty need to realise that our lot lies with solidarity with the students'

UCLA professor Danielle Carr

tranceparty: hyperhumanity
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a celebration of the life of hp baxxter

Further impressions from the Erhard Museum:

coming soon:

In two weeks Anton Jäger myself and 2 others co-organize a small conference about republicanism and markets in Leuven. Workshop is pre-read papers. If you want to join send me message! Speakers include Lillian Cicerchia William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 alexgourevitch Camila Vergara Bruno Leipold

Europe is not in “mortal danger”. It is just in relative decline. But apparently its sense of entitlement makes that feel apocalyptic.

'“For me,” he wrote in his 2006 memoir Prisoners, “the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns.”' jewishcurrents.org/jeffrey-goldbe…