Jacob Collins
@jcollinshistory
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History at CUNY-CSI / Editor @NewLeftReview
Joined April 2013
My book is out! . What comes after 1968 in French thought? How did French thinkers contend with the turbulent 1970s? I look at 4 key thinkers (Debray, Todd, Gauchet, Benoist) to understand the logic of contemporary political ideas in France. Check it out!.
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RT @zevin_a: Could NYC once again become an ‘island of social democracy’ in the US? My piece sets Zohran’s win in historical perspective g….
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Zohran Mamdani’s NYC.
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George Steinmetz’s Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is a meticulous study of the links btw the social sciences & the French empire. In my review, I suggest a need to think decolonization as a deeper process of social transformation.
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This review article discusses George Steinmetz's The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, a history of the French social sciences and their colonial entanglements. Surveying a vast array of...
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RT @ErikLinstrum: Highly recommended: "On Decolonizing the Social Sciences," a new review essay by @jcollinshistory in @histandtheojrnl. A….
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This review article discusses George Steinmetz's The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, a history of the French social sciences and their colonial entanglements. Surveying a vast array of...
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RT @acidhorizonpod: FROM A CRACK IN THE EARTH, THE FIRE OF GLOBAL REVOLUTION SURGES. GO PHILADELPHIA!!.
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RT @zevin_a: What path forward for socialism at the end of history? I wrote about historian Eric Hobsbawm’s complex relationship with liber….
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Hobsbawm’s contradictory relations with liberalism—and with liberals—from his rescue of the legacy of the French Revolution in Echoes of the Marseillaise to the impasses of Age of Extremes.
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‘An impatience with style can (if you’re good enough) make a style of its own.’ True of Clark too, what a great piece.
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Fanon’s world has a logic. His pages are full of identities, contradictions, Aufhebungen – master and slave, being...
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RT @VanStorek: -Celebration Now in Algeria after the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won the gold medal. -Célébration en Algérie après que la b….
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RT @AntonJaegermm: Excellent article, with consequences far beyond France .
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On France’s far-right vote.
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I’m in the latest issue of YFS writing about the motif of the ‘savage’ in post-68 French thought, covering Clastres, Deleuze & Guattari, Althusser, and Wittig.
🎉Happy pub day to our latest issue, YFS #143, "The French Seventies." Special edited by Richard Golsan @TAMU and Lynn Higgins @dartmouth this volume examines the legacy of the 1970s in France with essays on film, literature, history, social movements .
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RT @AntonJaegermm: Even by @BaptisteOduor's standards this is exceptionally sharp: . "The dilemma is that Britain lacks any coherent set of….
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Country Study: Britain
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RT @JHIdeas: In this interview, Benjamin Diehl asks Stefanos Geroulanos about how seemingly innocuous concepts drawn from prehistory have b….
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by Benjamin Diehl
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RT @taliaotg: Students emerge from the deoccupied Al Aqsa University Library (CUNY Grad Center) after announcing they got amnesty for their….
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RT @cybersebb: ‼️ If you are in NYC, CCNY needs you there to defend their encampment! . Give them the same solidarity and protection you ga….
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RT @Cuny4P: From CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment Telegram: .BREAKING: CUNY FACULTY BLOCK NYPD AT CAMPUS ENTRANCE: "TO GET TO OUR STUDENTS,….
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RT @StuartElden: Marx, A French Passion: The Reception of Marx and Marxisms in France’s Political-Intellectual Life - ed. Antony Burlaud an….
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Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is co-director of the journal Actuel Marx. Antony...
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RT @NewLeftReview: Joshua Rahtz on Rothko:. ‘Rothko here appears to pursue the objectification of painting through illusory representation….
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Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
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RT @NewLeftReview: For NLR, Jacob Collins (@jcollinshistory) on the life and work of Pierre Nora:. ‘Nora proposed an innovative conceptual….
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