Santosh Anand
@santoshanand.bsky.social
PhD researcher at City Law School & Teaching Fellow at SOAS Law | international law, historical materialism, Third World | he/him.
London
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It’s socialism or barbarism, and the ‘centre left’ will choose barbarism every time…
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We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here's how
This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win, say British PM Keir Starmer and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen
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December 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It’s socialism or barbarism, and the ‘centre left’ will choose barbarism every time…
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Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
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The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
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Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.
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Spectre's Tithi Bhattacharya on her refusal of the MLA's Scaglione Prize.
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My Letter to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Refusing the Prize for my book — Tithi Bhattacharya
Dear Annie Reiser, I am writing to express my deepest gratitude to you and the members of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies Committee for honoring my book, Ghostly Pasts, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Spectre's Tithi Bhattacharya on her refusal of the MLA's Scaglione Prize.
www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...
www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...
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the argument that “the people who lie about disability to get accommodations in school will prosper and lead our most important institutions” is easily fixed by broad application of accommodations instead of making people prove they‘re “really“ disabled, something frustrating for all disabled people
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the argument that “the people who lie about disability to get accommodations in school will prosper and lead our most important institutions” is easily fixed by broad application of accommodations instead of making people prove they‘re “really“ disabled, something frustrating for all disabled people
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My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
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The genocide in Gaza is far from over
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again
Raz Segal
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We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again
Raz Segal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The genocide in Gaza is far from over
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again
Raz Segal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again
Raz Segal
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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‘Germany has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning protest, and bending the constitutional framework until it is almost unrecognisable.’
new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
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new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
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Solidarity under Siege | Transnational Institute
Since 7 October 2023, Germany’s unabating support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza is mirrored by a sweeping crackdown on Palestine solidarity at home. This report unpacks how over decades, authorities h...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
‘Germany has become a laboratory for the criminalisation of solidarity with Palestine, testing how far it can go in suppressing free speech, banning protest, and bending the constitutional framework until it is almost unrecognisable.’
new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
www.tni.org/en/publicati...
new report @tninstitute.bsky.social
www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Me @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen co-edited a Handbook on Global Governance 📔
Some amazing scholars critically think what “global” & “governance” mean in & how ideologies shape institutions & frameworks that claim to address global challenges
1/4
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Some amazing scholars critically think what “global” & “governance” mean in & how ideologies shape institutions & frameworks that claim to address global challenges
1/4
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November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Me @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen co-edited a Handbook on Global Governance 📔
Some amazing scholars critically think what “global” & “governance” mean in & how ideologies shape institutions & frameworks that claim to address global challenges
1/4
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...
Some amazing scholars critically think what “global” & “governance” mean in & how ideologies shape institutions & frameworks that claim to address global challenges
1/4
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This is one of the most Germany-coded things that I have read in a while and I shall not be taking any further questions: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251118-ger...
Germany’s decision to take in donkeys from Gaza for treatment – but not children – has sparked outrage
The news reads like a dark joke—but it isn’t. “Rescued little Donkeys from Gaza Find a Home in Oppenheim,” reports Allgemeine Zeitung, a regional newspaper in western Germany. On Instagram, the com…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is one of the most Germany-coded things that I have read in a while and I shall not be taking any further questions: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251118-ger...
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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Once you remember that these manosphere blokes actively benefit from their audience staying lonely and angry their "advice" makes sense.
They call him Aubrey Huff because my man is on a diet of nothing but turpentine and paint stripper
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Once you remember that these manosphere blokes actively benefit from their audience staying lonely and angry their "advice" makes sense.
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🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility
Abstract. This article revisits the scholarly debates and activist actions around what have become known as ‘humanitarian borders’. The article shows how h
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November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🚨Publication Alert🚨
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Just out, the final argument in my decades plus long research on humanitarian borders.
"Humanitarian Borders, Safe Passage Campaigns, and the (Re)Production of Unequal Mobility"
doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
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Israeli authorities have been systematically abusing Palestinian prisoners with impunity, according to PHRI.
Palestinian deaths in Israeli jails surge amid Gaza war: Report
Israeli authorities have been systematically abusing Palestinian prisoners with impunity, according to PHRI.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Israeli authorities have been systematically abusing Palestinian prisoners with impunity, according to PHRI.
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Masculinity is NOT in crisis. Masculinity is THE crisis.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Masculinity is NOT in crisis. Masculinity is THE crisis.
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i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i think before the uk can start taking jewellery from refugees it needs to return the asante gold, benin bronzes and all the gold and jewels making up the royal collection to the places it stole it from 🥰
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The "jokes" and general callousness in response to the Epst*in emails just affirms my belief that the gulf between survivors of sexual violence and those who aren't / or otherwise do not recognize their experiences as violent is WIDE.
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The "jokes" and general callousness in response to the Epst*in emails just affirms my belief that the gulf between survivors of sexual violence and those who aren't / or otherwise do not recognize their experiences as violent is WIDE.
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Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound.
Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?
This essay reviews two recent edited volumes—Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings and Queer Encounters with International Law: Li
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound.
Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....