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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 1d

My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!

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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Our next #IdentitiesEvent!

'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to hear! I would highly recommend Alia Al-Saji's writings which I cite in the article. Their work on Fanon and the politics of time is simply unmatched.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 3d

It's not a particularly pathbreaking contribution, but it does try to bring together some of the existing literature on Fanon and temporality to outline a distinctly Fanonian critique of colonial time, while tentatively considering embodied forms of resistance through the term "temporal defiance".

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see my short article on temporality in Fanon's political thought published today in the Review of African Political Economy.

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

‘I am not a prisoner of history’: Frantz Fanon, temporal defiance, and the critique of colonial time

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d2970367e85">Reflecting on the revolutionary life and legacy of Frantz Fanon a century since his birth...

www.scienceopen.com

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing, looking forward to this one

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! I will check it out.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 7d

My favorite companion text so far has been Stuart Hall’s ”Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates” (1985). Definitely worth a read.

Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 9d

Very much looking forward to this!

Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 13d

New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Johan! I think I have the Thompson book but never opened it for some reason

Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

We just finished reading some Gramsci, now doing Althusser, and then some Poulantzas and Stuart Hall.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you! I have the Verso edition so will definitely read Balibar's foreword at least.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

I guess it was only a matter of time that I have to actually read Zizek. Thanks for the recommendation

Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 12d

Question for Marxists: We're reading Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" in our reading circle next week. What's one companion text you'd recommend to make sense of Althusser's work on ideology?

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Reaffirming a relation to the environment was a way of becoming-other than colonial subjects.”

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Insurgent Geologies - Kathryn Yusoff et al. - Planetary Vernaculars

Thomas Sankara’s infamous speech of anticolonial environmentalism in 1983, which locates the polis of insurgent struggles in the forest, came from an intellectual history of seeing independence as a g...

www.e-flux.com

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Sep 2

The board and membership of the Helsinki University Association of Researchers and Teachers (HUART) has successfully voted for the academic boycott of Israel! This is the first Finnish academic union to commit to the BDS campaign.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here is the HYT union statement:
helsingin-yliopiston-tieteentekijat-ry.creamailer.fi/ac4/p0C1N02/...

If you are a HYT member you can register here to vote: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

If you are not a member please join
tieteentekijat.fi

or take this up in your own union.

HUART Statement in Support of Ending Institutional Collaboration with Israeli Academic Institutions

HUART Statement in Support of Ending Institutional Collaboration with Israeli Academic Institutions The current situation in Palestine is critical and demands action from all sectors. Since October...

helsingin-yliopiston-tieteentekijat-ry.creamailer.fi

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you work at University of Helsinki and belong to the HYT/HUART union please take part in the upcoming vote on the academic boycott of Israel. It takes place on September 2nd at 5pm!

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Aug 10

When movements call for the boycott of entities clearly complicit in genocide & settler-colonialism, we should do just that: boycott. Participation coupled with symbolic gestures of support is not solidarity. It undermines the cause & legitimates colonial violence.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Aug 7

Looking forward to this one

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 7

One of my mentors has a new book and it looks amazing.

www.ucpress.edu/books/slaver...

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History by David McNally

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Aug 7

Does anyone have access to the current issue of Polity Journal? There's a few articles in there engaging with Cedric Robinson's work that I'd really like to read.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...

Polity | Vol 57, No 3

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Jul 29

Best article/text on Marx's "method"?

Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Jul 22

How should we read Fanon in our current conjuncture? Grappling with difficult questions in Berlin.

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Jun 24

next up

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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · Jun 10

I haven't! looks like an important contribution

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