Book Series: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global, published by Bloomsbury (London). Introduction and Premises “Nature loves to hide,” said the philosopher Heraclitus. Strangely enough, the same is true of Artificial Intelligence, except that it
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‘After’ the Rojava Revolution? Rethinking Political Hope in a Post-Autonomy Syria
Since early 2026, Rojava in North East Syria, has been under renewed assault by the new Syrian regime. A majority-Kurdish region, Rojava has, for more than 12 years been home to one of the world’s largest experiments in democratic autonomy…
Iran and the ‘state of exception’
It seems that we have entered a period of endless war. The undeclared American war “Epic Fury” (the name of the attack on Iran) and Israel’s new murderous campaign has replaced the “cosmopolitan order of rules” heralded by those who…
CfP LHub Four Nations Law and Humanities Forum
First Call for Papers Deadline 13th March 2026 The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums Glasgow Workshop 21st May 2026 in collaboration with: Queen’s University Belfast; University of Warwick; and Cardiff University. We are excited to announce the calls…
CfP: Critical legal thinking in a rapidly evolving world
The Queen Mary Annual PhD Law conference 2026, organised in collaboration with the Queen Mary Law Journal, invites submissions for papers engaging with critical legal thinking in a rapidly evolving world. Critical legal thinking involves a shifting of perspectives, which…
Emilios Christodoulides 1963–2026
It is with the greatest sadness that wish to inform you that our comrade, colleague, friend and amazing intellectual, Emilios Christodoulides, passed away yesterday. After a long illness that tormented him for the last two years, he passed away peacefully in Edinburgh,…
Event: Anarchism and Sex
Emma Goldman stands as a foundational figure in anarchist political thought, embodying a radical reimagining of freedom, political activism, and the ethical conditions and possibilities of collective life. Living My Life provides not only a vivid autobiographical account but also…
CLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative
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The Diapausal Life of International Law: Gaza and Beyond
Few contemporary conflicts have been as saturated with legal language as Gaza. Provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice, arrest warrants sought by the International Criminal Court, findings by United Nations commissions of inquiry, emergency sessions of the…
Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly
It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached. Trump recently pronounced that he doesn’t need to follow international law because all that…