Breaking my Twitter FAST; new essay on JL AUSTIN, political/queer theory, performativity, & language’s powers is out! W/ Hortense Spillers & Toni Morrison, Butler & Sedgwick, Arendt & Cavell, a new reading of Austin’s bull of desire and the sonic sabotage in Arendt’s speech acts

Our Issue 7, 'The Literature Edition,' is now out! Check our first entry: Bonnie Honig on Performativity (shorturl.at/BNRV0).

'Reading literarily, we find a wayward, crowd-gathering and crowd-dispersing bull that sneaks up on Austin and his readers.'

Breaking my twitter FAST to share this incredible short interview with my brilliant colleague Tricia Rose on ABC. Rose’s new book, MetaRacism is accessible storytelling in service of illuminating interlocked structures too often obscured by US habit of individuated reporting.

De Santis: we are going to send the Navy to deal with China

What an amazing boost of hope: hundreds of Jewish and Arab-Palestinian citizens gathered together in Haifa, a Jewish-Arab city in Israel, to send a clear message for partnership and for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

We have a peace movement in Israel: עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣

Anyone I personally/professionally know (political theory, cinema studies, queer theory, classics) who wants a bluesky code… pls DM me.

New political theory work on Ellison (Invisible Man) and Homer (Odyssey) by Ferris Lupino, showing Ellison’s sourcing and making room for tricksterism in democratic theory and practice. Awesome work!!

Perfect timing to watch this incredible performance as I write abt Euripides’ Phaedra today ….
Rock’n Roll noir.

His hopes dimming for the GOP Presidential nomination, DeSantis makes a play for a Supreme Court appointment. wapo.st/48c83RI

Breaking my Twitter-fast to wholeheartedly agree: my 2 wonderful colleagues have 2 fabulous books coming out now - each complementing the other’s analysis of racial injustice, finding in different thinkers & approaches resources for a more deep-going equality. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

Very grateful to have had a collegial and exacting conversation about Hippolytus and JL Austin in Arendtian frames… with Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy and all assembled. Exhausting and gratifying!!

He's right.

If you believe a lone racist gunman killed 3 people in Jacksonville, it's probably because you only learned a whitewashed version of history. But there is a reason why a white supremacist chose this specific location:

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