Denmark’s parliament passed a motion condemning campus radicals’ political agenda for “undermining scholarly inquiry.” Scholars saw the motion as part of a deeper trend: the shrinking tolerance of critical thinking at universities. jacobinmag.com/2021/06/denmar…

Napoli as Italy won!

this is unacceptable, but for a year now anti-vax groups in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have been wielding the star at protests, with little public outrage, legitimised by figures like Giorgio Agamben who compares the #greenpass to a 'virtual yellow star' - reagire, si!

1/ watching the protests against #greenpass in Italy & France, it is important to distinguish legitimate concerns regarding its potential discriminatory effects + questions of data privacy/governance from violent appeals for 'personal sovereignty' from 'sanitary dictatorship'

Having just spent my third summer in Napoli and it’s environs, I am not sure I would recommend Benjamin’s essay on that city, but another lovely ⁦Verso Books⁩ from its book club

#cecilybrown @thomasdanegallery 2018 drawings anticipate 2021 Sydney beach during lockdown “Bathers with Cops” @ Copenhagen instagram.com/p/CSlqgKGIcA-/…

The biggest story ever in Australian sport? The founder of Australian rules football and Melbourne football club likely involved in massacre of hundreds of indigenous people. #AFL abc.net.au/news/2021-09-1…

‘Risky levels’: Australia is the drunkest country in the world, survey finds theguardian.com/australia-news… No hope for me if you look at number two.

World best restaurant. World’s best case rate (almost).

Holiday viewing: Which movie is not about an individual navigating difficult conventional identity boundaries who comes to a sticky end and thus saves the wealthy family? a) Power of the Dog b) Passing c) Spencer

A number of interesting books on Foucault and new English translations of his work have come out recently. I have commissioned reviews of a few of them for CPT. Up first, Nicole Yokum reviews The last man takes LSD: by Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora! link.springer.com/article/10.105…

What does ‘Left’ mean? versobooks.com/blogs/5321-wha… via Verso Books

Neoliberalism for Polite Company: Bruno Latour’s Pseudo-Materialist Coup - Salvage #brunolatour salvage.zone/neoliberalism-…

A Very French Tempest in a Turtleneck - The New York Times “Let them wear cashmere” - a good line despite its source. There’s a PhD on “French roll-neck neoliberalism from Foucault to Macron” in this. nytimes.com/2022/10/11/sty…

"What Foucault and many intellectuals were struggling against after 1968 is the very notion and entire conceptual structure of revolution."

Lecture: "Governing societies after governmentality - order, glory and sovereignty" at King's College London 27 Nov 23 Prof. Mitchell Dean youtu.be/-sv0CmMexXE?si… via YouTube

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/07/03/opi…