see also onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Jaerisch is still in Berlin. The Portuguese translator of the SC essay, Yasmin Afshar (also written on this work), introduced me to her a few years back. Other than Horkheimer and Eisler, as well as the sociological studies, one of the few people he co-authored anything with?

Yes! Adorno imagined these as part of the same line of inquiry. He (and Jaerisch) opens the 'Social Conflict' essay explicitly linking it to the 'Laughter' lecture/essay. Completed a draft translation of the SC essay some time ago, but haven't managed to finish it. Should really pull my finger out.

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

Now published: issue 33.1 of the Historical Materialism journal. Featuring articles on Black radicalism in Detroit, Marx as a dialectical writer, translations of Julius Dickmann and Fabiola Escárzaga, the question of 'alien powers', Marxist epistemology, Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What, ...

Oh god, I found it.

You have a link that I can open, be mortified at, and then close again?

For anyone interested in the critical revival of Rose's work, I am co-convening 'Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law' at the University of Warwick this coming December.

Registration and further details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/.... Abstracts and paper titles in due course.

video of the discussion from May with Alex Demirović about the politics of critical theory in the post-war Frankfurt School is now online

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfe...

Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon.

Join us this year (and every year) in November!

@magnusz.bsky.social informs me that the name of the cultural minister in the period was in fact Eichhörn!

Excellent micrological-Marxological detail there.

Note the squirrel in the upper-left.

Coming soon in paperback!

The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

There is still time to sign up for what I am sure will be a fantastic event!

Babe, wake up…

We are delightet to announce the call for the third issue of NEW BENJAMIN STUDIES on this highly topical theme: "Walter Benjamin in Times of Crisis"

Guest editors: Ana Miranda Mora and Anna Migliorini.

Deadline: 31 January 2026 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

brill.com/display/seri...

Forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series: *Artistic Labour of the Body* by Rose-Anne Gush (@rsenne.bsky.social).

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."

- I have a new essay out, read it here:

www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

'Discussions about wealth and expropriation quickly become about everything else. How to discuss class warfare in a way that doesn’t become the fodder for some neoliberal or parochial moral?' Eunsong Kim (@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social) in the latest e-flux.

CfP: Internationale Tagung zu Günther Anders (19.-20.2.26), organisiert von @buber-rosenzweig.bsky.social, @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social, der IGAG und der Günther-Anders-Forschungsstelle.
Beiträge können bis zum 20.7.26 eingereicht werden. Infos:
www.guenther-anders-gesellschaft.org/s/Anders2026...

⏰ Call for Papers zur Tagung »Kritische Theorie der Endzeit. Günther Anders als Denker der Gegenwart« am Institut für Sozialforschung (19./20.02.2026).

Wir freuen uns auf Einsendungen bis zum 20.07.!

Eine Langfassung des Calls gibt es hier👇 www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/cf....