Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Political Science
@Columbia
and Directeur d'études
@EHESS_fr
. Now also
@bernard
.e.harcourt on Instagram
What is wrong with us??? “Officials in NYC said they would close public schools only as last resort, in part because about 114,000 students in school system are homeless and may have nowhere else to get hot meals, medical care or even a place to wash their dirty laundry”
@nytimes
@jnshep4
@nytimes
Immediate public housing, universal health care, and counseling and social services support, immediately. I think we should each ask ourselves what we would want if it were our niece or nephew, no?
Intolerable: our campus at Columbia has been turned into a police state. Amsterdam and 116th blockaded. Morningside from 114th to 118th blockaded. Nothing but NYPD, no one else present. Leaving office now, empty hallways except 6 guards. All the trappings of authoritarian state.
Foucault's *Nietzsche* just arrived, all 410 pages of it! The official publication date
@EditionsduSeuil
is May 31, 2024, but the publisher has already run through the first printing and has ordered a second run. The book should be available in libraries any time now...
Collège de France is placing online all existing audio recordings of Foucault's annual lectures on "Society Must Be Defended," "Birth of Biopolitics," "Security, Territory, Population," "The Courage of Truth," etc. (). Info here:
Le 25 juin 1984 disparaissait le
#philosophe
Michel Foucault, titulaire de la chaire Histoire des systèmes de pensée.
À l'occasion de ce quarantième anniversaire, le Collège de France met à disposition du public les enregistrements de ses cours.
👉
The value of Nietzsche and Foucault "for the sake of life." I have a new article titled "On Critical Genealogy" that just published in *Contemporary Political Theory* arguing for a new way to think about the genealogical method. It is online in Open Access
NYPD cops issued 99 percent of jaywalking tickets to Black and Hispanic people in the first quarter of this year. Just think about that for a minute... | Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam via
@StreetsblogNYC
Faculty need to reassert the academic mission and take back the university from central administrators who are not faithful to our shared values. Essential reading by my brilliant law colleague David Pozen on the presidentialization of Columbia University:
South of 96th Street??? Do they have no shame?? Do they not have ANY self-awareness or criticality of how constantly racist and classist they are? Could it be any more obvious that they are just protecting white property? Appalling. The whole thing: appealing. 8pm??
#Getoutahere
!
Just received the proposed cover for my next book on the political, legal, economic, and social theory & praxis of coöperism -- an economic regime that will overcome extractive capitalism. I like it!! Thanks
@ColumbiaUP
! Can't wait to get catalogue copy next...and the webpage!
BREAKING NEWS: After almost 20 Years, Guantanamo “Forever Prisoner” Abdul Latif Nasser returns home to Morocco. Nasser was never charged with any crime and was cleared for transfer since 2016. It has been an honor to work with lead counsel
@TADurkin
|
Spinoza’s home near Leiden is a treasure. So peaceful and centered. Thinking back to conversation with Toni Negri at
#Revolution1313
. Visit Spinozahuis here: More photos on Insta:
Our students are entitled to safety, to express political speech, and to full respect of their religious and ethnic identities. There should be no doxxing, no antisemitism, no Islamophobia, no threats, and no retaliation against students for political speech or for who they are.
"96 percent of the people in the Bronx whose bail was paid by [the Bronx Freedom Fund] in the last 10 years returned to court for all of their appearances": New Bail Project for entire USA could assist more than 150,000 detained
Next year, Marx 13/13
@ColumbiaCCCT
: each session will triangulate a key Marx text w/ a formative historical interpretation, discussed by a brilliant critical philosopher. Opening on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach and Ernst Bloch's Commentary in debate w/ Étienne Balibar. Stay tuned!
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are committed to abolishing the death penalty, as they write: . JOIN US on first full day of the new presidency to discuss abolition of federal death penalty w/
@RepEspaillat
and.. |
The mainstream media has still not caught on to the massive paramilitarized NYPD counterinsurgency tactics at Columbia University.
This just in: one of NYPD's finest fired his weapon inside Hamilton Hall.
I'm excited to share that my next book on Coöperism now has its own website
@ColumbiaUP
: . I hope it will be out in March 2023. I am told it's now available for preorder and that folks can use a discount code "CUP20" in shopping cart to get a 20% discount.
TONIGHT at 6: The American Voter Project hosts a post-election chat w/ former US AG Eric H. Holder Jr. CC’73, LAW’76; Neal Katyal, Former Acting Solicitor General of the US; Donna Brazile (formerly of DNC); & Michael Steele (formerly of RNC): .
First up 🗓️for
#Marx1313
: Étienne Balibar will discuss Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach in conversation with Ernst Bloch’s Commentary on the Theses, on Tuesday Oct. 15, 2024, at 4:30PM (Paris time) live
@CGCParisCenter
and livestreamed. RSVP for Marx 1/13 here:
Arthur Giles, a dear friend and the longest-serving person on Alabama's death row, 41 years in isolation waiting death warrant, passed away of natural causes at Holman Prison in Atmore. Thank you attorney Angela Phinney for decades of dedication. In peace and solidarity, Arthur..
The Combahee River Collective statement () remains today a formative declaration of American Black feminism that continues to influence political organizing now. Join
@KeeangaYamahtta
at
#Revolution413
on Nov 10 at 6PM | Intro essay:
Just sent off finished book manuscript to
@ColumbiaUP
*Coöperism: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory*: how to leverage and compound the power of cooperation into an economic structure that can displace extractive capitalism and the punishment paradigm. Pub date Spring 2023!
June 3 1987
@ColumbiaSpec
: “Blockaders Face No Serious Charges.” We are doing research on Columbia University’s history of sanctions for student protests. Creating a web archive here: If you have other docs on sanctions, please contact us
@ColumbiaCCCT
“This University has officially abandoned all pretenses of being dedicated to transparency” — powerful editorial by our brilliant student journalists at Columbia:
Just in time for
#pride
... delighted to receive new
#Foucault
lectures on Sexuality (1964 & 1969) reacting to (1) humanist-feminist turn in sexuality (Beauvoir) & (2) Freudo-Marxist turn to sexual liberation (Marcuse). Super relevant on trans* issues today
New in Paper! Delighted to share that "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory"
@ColumbiaUP
will be coming out in *paperback edition* next month, June 2024. We need Coöperism now more than ever, across every dimension of our lives. Info here:
After 2 1/2 hours waiting outside the execution chamber, ADOC cancels the execution. They probably could not find a vein, as we had insisted since July. Unconscionable. Simply unconscionable. Now at gas station with Doyle‘s brother, Danny, where they dropped us off. Unimaginable!
Relatedly, great interview of
@MaxBoot
(author of ) with
@soledadobrien
at
@MatterofFacttv
on how Trump's dogwhistling became "a wolf whistle" and failure of Republicans to call racism/xenophobia | Perfect example in my post above |
Cancel the debates. We cannot, must not, and should not give airtime to white supremacy, period. There is nothing to be learned, it is only a platform for Trump's racism and bullying. End it, and this presidency, now.
Walking out of Collège de France (
@cdf1530
) with Timothy O'Leary after giving lecture on *Abolition and Cooperation* drawing links between Du Bois, Rusche & Kirchheimer, Angela Davis, Foucault and new abolitionists re. cooperation. A recording (in French):
“The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. Here's why by
@AVitale
“Procedural justice” has nothing to say about the mission or function of policing. “Procedural justice” leaves out of the conversation questions of substantive justice |
Rest in peace Doyle. You survived modern ordeals, 30+ yrs in isolation on Alabama's death row, 2.5+ hrs of sheer torture on the gurney, a bloody mess of your groin, the loss of so many close friends to Alabama's executioners. Be at peace now, my friend |
Seyla Benhabib has been awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize by City of Frankfurt: "At the center of her work is the challenge of how societies can balance the universality of human rights with legitimate interests in alterity." Congratulations Seyla!
It's now officially past time to
#DefundThePolice
@avitale
- we need to disarm & disband it. We are now watching the
#Counterrevolution
in real-time.
#NYCCurfew
just imposed here because of protest?? Unacceptable, intolerable & will only result in more police violence & profiling
Intense debate this afternoon over the future of critical theory, concrete utopias, love-of-world (or not), international law, post colonialism, and critical praxis with Seyla Benhabib, Axel Honneth, Nadia Urbinati, Steven Lukes, and many colleagues and students
@ColumbiaCCCT
With the ongoing graduate student strike
@GWCUAW
, we have decided to postpone our panel👇. The work both to unionize and negotiate is extremely important. We will reschedule for a new date to discuss the future of the DOJ. Thanks
@MayorJenny
@SallyQYates
@EricHolder
@neal_katyal
Mark your calendar🗓️for Marx 13/13
@ColumbiaCCCT
in 2024-2025: . We will triangulate a key Marx text with a formative reading and a brilliant critical philosopher. Date and locations will be announced here starting today, a session per day for next 13 days!
Unconscionable, simply unconscionable to be executing ANYONE during covid: Willie Smith is having (exceptional) family visits THROUGH PLEXIGLASS for his final farewell before he is put to death by state of Alabama. State controls the timing of all this. No basic human decency?!?
Thrilled to be in conversation with
@corinneblalock
and
@akapczynski
on *Cooperation* on Tuesday! Please feel free to join us in person👇🏼if you are in New Haven, more information here:
Super excited to be in conversation with
@BernardHarcourt
about his new book “Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory” on Tuesday at 12:10pm ET! Register to come either in person or on zoom!
“Right-leaning media have used the uptick in crime to weaponize a counter-narrative to social justice movements”:
@Josmar_Trujillo
brilliantly dissects the current discourse surrounding crime: The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype - @ FAIR
The urgency of Coöperism has never been greater, esp w/ new
@IPCC_CH
#climatechange
report. My new book on *Cooperation*
@ColumbiaUP
is now distributing-just got mine. Website: . I'm told there's a discount code "CUP20" in shopping cart to get 20% discount.
Flat out urban warfare. Excessive force. Escalating. Firing at head. Unmarked car arrests. Overhead air surveillance. Tear gas. Batons. This is what the American
#Counterrevolution
looks like in Portland. If you haven’t watched, this is excellent recap:
Pub date on Friday in Paris! Join Ann Stoler and Timothy O'Leary to discuss the new edition of Foucault's *Nietzsche* on the day of its release, May 31st, at the
@EHESS_fr
, 54 bd Raspail at 4:30PM (Salle des instances). In person, open to the public.
Remember book parties? Well, it's not time for that! These times call for critical
#praxis
! Please join me for a
#BLM
bike protest on 9/19 in lieu of a book launch for *CRITIQUE & PRAXIS* (
@ColumbiaUP
2020) just out. We'll join
@StreetRidersNYC
! More info:
Please join me
@bookculture
tomorrow, Tuesday May 2 at 7PM, for a talk on Coöperism and my new book *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* with
@ColumbiaUP
| Info about book: | RSVP for
@BookCulture
event here:
Over 120
@Columbia
scholars deliver open letter to
@NYGovCuomo
urging him to take action to protect communities by immediately reducing prison, jail, and juvenile center populations, including
#Rikers
, underscoring
#CODIV_19
race bias | OPEN LETTER HERE:
UPDATE: federal court in Birmingham grants stay of execution of Doyle Hamm b/c significant likelihood of winning on the merits, and pushes case forward to discovery. Thank you
@ColumbiaLaw
team!!
Standing Rock civil rights lawsuit moves forward!!! North Dakota fed court rejects police + TigerSwan defense, so lawsuit proceeds on
#FreeSpeech
violations re. repression of
#StandingRock
protests against
#DAPL
. Kudos to
@ColumbiaLaw
team!! Read here:
"Change doesn’t happen because of singular heroes; it isn’t elegant or linear; it comes through the planting of many seeds, only a small number of which will sprout; and you never know precisely where you are in the process." Why the Death Penalty Is Dying
Admin has invited NYPD on campus through May 17, but faculty are not permitted on campus.
What I am saying is that we need to take back the university from central admin, but also the trustees and politicians who have hijacked our pedagogical and research missions at Columbia.
Several prominent academic mathematicians want to sever ties with police departments across the U.S. It’s about time!
#AgainstPrediction
. Read story here:
Mathematicians Boycott Police Work
Is this for real?? New judge at Guantanamo on *death cases* says, “to get up to speed” he will take “a National Judicial College course on how to handle capital cases.” Can they not find a judge with some experience? Someone maybe who teaches that course?
If you are in Paris please join me on Tuesday May 21 at the Collège de France (
@cdf1530
), I will be presenting on "Abolition et Coopération" in Didier Fassin's seminar at 4:30PM (amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot). Looking forward to the conversation
New Yorkers may begin to see our officers with black mourning bands across their shields—and across their hearts. We wear these in quiet commemoration of our 27 brothers and sisters we’ve lost to
#COVID
.
Another way we honor our vow to
#NeverForget
.
Hundreds of
#BLM
protesters were effectively disappeared into
#NYC
detention system, reports
@theintercept
. Classic
#counterinsurgency
practice, should remind you of 1960s unconventional warfare tactics. Thankfully, lawmaker wants to end the practice:
A ruthless confrontation of theory and practice: some thoughts re. ongoing debate within
@LPE_Project
about role of legal theory in progressive politics in convo with
@samuelmoyn
@ntinatzouvala
and others: "Critical Legal Theory & Radical Political Praxis"
An inspiring and inspired group from
@Columbia
joined the
#RBG
vigil and National Memorial at 8PM tonight at Foley Square in
#NewYorkCity
to pay our greatest respects to a giant and exemplar of justice. May the arc of history bend toward Justice
#RBG
! In solidarity and peace ....
Yes indeed
@TPBlake
@AlexToropoc
the new edition of Foucault's unpublished lectures and writings on Nietzsche
@EditionsduSeuil
is now available in French in bookstores all over France. Pub site: . Here it is on front table & window at the Librairie Vrin...
Does anyone know if
@BernardHarcourt
’s new edited volume of Foucault’s work on Nietzsche is available yet, and if not when it’ll be out? My French is totally mediocre but I’m still looking forward to slowly working through it.
The New Jim Code -- that's a good way of saying it! Excellent review
@hyperallergic
of Ruha Benjamin's (
@ruha9
) new book on *Race After Technology*
@WileyGlobal
| How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the “New Jim Code” |
Oh my lord, no, not with lame duck DOJ & Senate and House bills introduced to abolish the federal death penalty and Biden committed to supporting the abolition. No, no, it would be too extraordinarily arbitrary, one week away from likely moratorium, the definition of C&U punishme
Sur la "mort de l'Homme" selon Foucault, et Nietzsche, et au-delà de leur pensée : merci pour la très bonne conversation Géraldine Muhlmann, Judith Revel, et Jean-Claude Monod, sur le programme "Avec philosophie" via
@franceculture
. En podcast maintenant :
Abolish the federal death penalty! Every vector points in that direction: public opinion; jury sentencing trends; racial problems that plague death penalty; President Biden; Congressional support; even Red state Republicans | Brilliant editorial
@ebruenig
:
"Columbia administration has sealed its campus; kept faculty out of our offices, classrooms, and libraries; sowed untold anxiety, fear, and depression in its communities; and created a circus" -- the brilliant critical thinker Marianne Hirsch here:
I'll be discussing the Yellow Vest movement in France tomorrow w/ Étienne Balibar, Toni Negri, and Ludivine Bantigny
@Columbia
and just published a photo essay on it here: | Please join for livestream (in French) at noon 1/16 here:
New York City, Nov. 28, 2020, Riverside Park overlooking the Hudson: It is starting to feel that we will be able to turn things around and put it all back left side up... Just a little bit more... hold and turn!
The birth of the insurantial society and the politicization of risk: the translation of François Ewald’s landmark 1986 book 📚 on *L’État providence* (The Birth of Solidarity) is just out
@DukePress
. A tour de force in the wake of
@Foucault_M
. Info here:
... also returning to this excellent piece from 2018 in
@theintercept
by
@KateAronoff
and
@ryangrim
on the Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment: "Everything in the structure of the economy is geared toward making sure that wages never rise." |
UPDATE
#DoyleHamm
: "This was torture. The federal courts and the governor of Alabama have just invented ‘wrongful execution.’" Headed back into Holman Prison tomorrow, Sunday, with Dr. Mark Heath to document the botched execution for the US district judge:
I'll be
@Princeton
Center for Human Values this Thursday 9/19 to deliver the Moffett Lecture and present a new project "J'Accuse: A Critical Theory of Radical Legal Praxis" with Alan Patten
@KimLaneLaw
and others, please join me if you're in town! Info:
David Graeber & Andrej Grubačić on Peter Kropotkin's *Mutual Aid* (1902) () perfect companion to
#co
öperationism: "It seems a peculiarly fitting moment to raise a glass to that old “despiser of law and private property” who changed the face of science...1/3
Was just at
@BookCulture
on 112th and saw
#Cooperation
out in paperback on the philosophy table. Thanks
@ColumbiaUP
for such a quick time to paper! Hoping to support more cooperatives and mutual aid, desperately needed in these dark times. More info:
Preparing for last class of semester, concluding on "Enlightenment and Critique," realizing how fortunate I am to spend so much time thinking critically. Hope you will join
@samuelmoyn
@ProfessorShaw
@KarenGreenberg3
May 1 at 7pm for convo
@bookculture
|
UPDATE
#DoyleHamm
: Our work here is done for today, so we are heading back to NYC. Thank you Nika and Phoebe for extraordinary lawyering. It’s been a roller coaster this week. Doyle, and us all perhaps, are battered and broken, but alive. It reminds me of how fragile life is...
My greatest surprise was when, over lunch, having read my draft book manuscript The Illusion of Free Markets, Ronald Coase told me that he was not and had never been part of the Chicago School with great disdain for the ideological and non-empirical nature of Posner et al.
Roger-Pol Droit
@LeMondefr
: première recension du *Nietzsche* de Foucault
@EditionsduSeuil
@Gallimard
@EHESS_fr
. « Le recueil qui paraît aujourd’hui fait mieux saisir le rôle moteur joué par la lecture de Nietzsche dans cet immense travail ». Chronique :
“It reached that threshold when I saw Pinochet-type behavior from our own government”: classic counter-insurgency practices (unidentified squads in unmarked vans) normalized by feds. “Navy Vet Had Question for Feds in Portland. They Beat Him in Response”
A fond farewell and final well-deserved congratulations to the
#ClassOf2020
@Columbia
in
#NYC
the greatest university in the greatest city in the world. Make us proud! Together we will build a just society.
@EmpireStateBldg
is blue for
#ColumbiaUniversity
alumni! Congratulations!
The New Popular Front takes first place in France, three days after the Labour Party landslide in the UK. These are good winds for the upcoming elections in the USA...