Here we go again

Extremely happy to organize this conference New School for Social Research on the critique of colonial modernity and the ongoing traditions of resistance to it…from Abolitionism to Marxism, Migration and Ecology, Popular Politics, or the Question of Israel & Palestine: event.newschool.edu/anticolonialis…

In which Zizek demands the post of chief of secret police in Cornel West’s future Presidential Cabinet:
event.newschool.edu/zizekwest

Zizek comes clean: 'I write in an ecological way: recycling, plagiarizing myself.' event.newschool.edu/zizekwest

Slow catastrophe: 'the devastation wreaked by climate change is often just as much about headline-grabbing catastrophes as it is about the subtler accumulation of innumerable slow and unequal burns that are already underway' R. Jisung Park for The New York Times
nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opi…

The recording of the colloquium 'Critical Theory, Jewishness, and Antisemitism' held at CUNY Graduate Center last week is now on Youtube. ft. Martin Jay, Asaf Angermann, Seyla Benhabib, Jonathan Boyarin, Jonathan Judaken, Lars Rensmann, Liliane Weissberg:
youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4SRz…

On DE’s colonial genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama and the way its memory/forgetting affects Germany’s policy regarding the genocide in Gaza, and the memory of the holocaust. Sent from Windhoek and published on 12 April on the genocide’s anniversary. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Cover reveal for my fall 2024 translation, featuring Adorno, Benjamin, Kracauer, and so many more Yale Univ Press amazon.com/Naples-1925-Be…

Five months ago Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah was prominently featured on this episode of The New York Times podcast The Daily describing the situation on the ground in Gaza. Today he was reportedly denied entry to Germany at the airport. He was supposed to give a lecture.
open.spotify.com/episode/0mHJk1…

On this week's On the Nose pod, I talk with Peter Beinart, Mari Cohen, & Daniel May about the spate of articles (esp in The Atlantic) that have made campus antisemitism national news. How are these narratives told & what do they leave out of frame? 1/2
jewishcurrents.org/unpacking-the-…

My talk at tomorrow’s NYU symposium is titled “Blame It on the East: Rightwing Extremism and the Problem of Cold Warrior Rhetoric in Germany.” 🇩🇪

Really excited to ponder the tricky question of “How and When the 20th Century Really Ended” (but did it end though?) NYU CEMS

Martin Jay in his keynote this evening at CUNY: “You know, with Benjamin it’s always a dialectic between brilliance and… it’s opposite.”

Back of the program for “CRITICAL THEORY, JEWISHNESS, AND ANTISEMITISM: A COLLOQUIUM”

Today at CUNY. See you there!

“What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today world”: newrepublic.com/article/179786…