Professor i idéhistorie Hans Jørgen Schanz døde den 28. Januar 2022. Schanz’ gang på idéhistorie var så gammel som instituttet selv. Fra sin status som ledende kapitallogiker i ’70’erne over modernitetsanalyser til læsninger af Heidegger, Arendt, Løgstrup og Wittgenstein, tegnede Schanz om nogen instituttet udadtil. Med sit vidtfavnende arbejde sørgede…

Foreword to Manuela Zechner’s Commoning Care and Collective Power, Transversal Texts (2021) — Since the political, social, and feminist revolution of the 1930s, and the reactionary war against it, the global left and feminist movements have looked to Barcelona as a laboratory of social struggle. …

Today I opened a bank account. It was an absurd experience. Here’s a taste of a spirited dialogue I had with the clerk, and later, the manager: - So you’re charging me to deposit money with you? - Yes, that’s right. - And when I deposit money, lend you essentially…

Many states — now including the UK and US — are beginning to act in ways that contradict not just the neoliberal script, but the crisis management strategies of the global financial crisis. This text explores why. By Bue Rübner Hansen, @buerubner This is an updated version of a text…

Reflections on the experience and rejection of solidarity in the British elections. The British elections have left many with a deep disheartening disappointment. But rather than mourn dashed expectations, I people will remember their experiences of the election campaign. …

The uprising against the convictions of Catalan leaders was predicted. But by rioting, parts of the independence movement has entered uncharted territory. Catalonia has had three days of rioting and blockades. Hundreds of thousands have marched and blocked highways after the Spanish supreme court handed long prison sentences to Catalan…

Some reflections on the climate emergency and mental health. It is pretty insane to knowlingly destroy one’s conditions of life. But it is a curious kind of systemic insanity, the aggregate effect of billions of people carrying on their everyday life making more or less rational economic decisions, like taking…

Obviously most of us need to earn a living. Some of us end up doing the batshit work of destroying the planet. A few years back, David Graeber coined the term ”bullshit jobs” to speak of pointless, meaningless and socially harmful jobs. …

Since the 1990s, hygge has become central to any attempt to define an otherwise elusive Danish culture. Hygge” has become a household word in the English language, by way of the lifestyle pages of the New York Times and the Guardian. A Danish word pronounced ”hew-geh,” according to the least…