I suggest the contours of my doctoral project in this brief post for @NLSJ_NLSIU's new column, 'After Notes'. Thanks to Janani Ganesan for the invitation to write, and for the excellent editorial assistance. Look forward to reading the other posts in this series.

Retired professor VK Tripathi leaves his home in India’s New Delhi every day to hand out flyers about Israel's genocide in Gaza. Despite criticism and confrontations, he says he won’t stop speaking out against injustice.

How do we write a fuller constitutional history of the ‘communal question’ — one that addresses Sardar Patel’s role as archon (constitution-maker), the seemingly miraculous success of the Anglo-Indians, and the bitter disappointment of the Sikhs? By sieving silence, I argue here:

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Beyond excited to share the details for the next History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar! Join us on December 2nd, from 4:30pm (GMT), in person at SOAS, or online, to hear from our two speakers on "State-Building Under Occupation". Sign up here:

Join our upcoming book launch event on "Re-Imagining Biopolitics: Life in a Time of Techno-Capital" with Serene Richards and Ian Alan Paul 📆12 November 2024, 14:00 — 16:00 📍Birkbeck Central 🔗book now: https://t.co/Ou1kejba4n #booklaunch #technocapital #biopolitics

Exciting book launch @BirkbeckLaw

Join us @BirkbeckLaw for discussion of books by @noklesis & Ian Alan Paul on re-imagining bio-politics on 12th Nov. Details below.

📢announcing the MK Nambyar Essay Competition 2024! - on either delimitation or "forests" - for 3/5 y LL.B students - by 15 Oct 2024 - with generous cash prizes + internships at the chambers of Senior Advocates at the Supreme Court! info: https://t.co/cGR34yd57y

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Colonial Legacies in Public Law: histories, theories, pitfalls and potentials w/ Prof Philipp Dann. https://t.co/yPuVpZDnjc

Costas Douzinas describes State responses to the refugee crisis as an expression of the former’s “wounded sovereignty”. Refugees are, he says, the “paradigmatic biopolitical subjects.” #LCTSS23

[Side bar: The continued use of a *Christian* theological register in both Balibar and Žižek’s thinking through the current political crisis — miracle, fate, messianic, saviour — is striking. On which note, looking forward to the release of Nolan’s Oppenheimer!]

Slavoj Žižek said many things today, but the key point (and this seems to be the argument in a forthcoming book on ‘Christian Atheism’) was: yes, we’re doomed, but miracles do happen.

An absolutely scintillating talk by Sisonke Msimang on “political widowhood” — how nationalist narratives of (assassinated) Great Men are complicated by the grief/rage of their wives.. #LCTSS23

Thinking today with Esther Leslie about art and politics in bleak times.. #LCTSS23

Étienne Balibar speaks on the possibility of politics after the environmental, digital, and nuclear catastrophe(s). #LCTSS23

💥@countersign_sm podcast celebrates its 3rd birthday this week! I want to thank my amazing guests on 17 episodes for sharing your thoughts and generously discussing your work. Thank you also to 5000+ listeners in over 70 countries. 1/3

Is a defence of political constitutionalism possible in our times, pervaded as they are by 'total market thinking'? Folks in London, do consider joining us this Friday, for what promises to be a thought-provoking discussion ...