Sentimental Clio

A student of Southeast Asian history and literature, sensory and affect studies, and postcolonial/decolonial theory — he/him/his

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Censorship of History by Antoon De Baets! Free access available until 26 August at
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[Victims of Marxist Humanism Memorial Foundation 🌺 @Thuggin1t0ut]

Jairus Banaji - A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

Finally finished this reread and god this is so awesome. Really need to read Banajis back catalog. The essay in the appendix on Islam is also a fantastic addition to the book.

[Hegelian News @HegelianNews]

New book: How to Read Hegel Now. Shannon Hoff. Chicago: UP, 2026. "recovers in Hegel a new vision for human freedom that challenges the heritage of modern liberalism." https://t.co/fk8PFbKJGO

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewPublication
Routledge Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism
eds. Ewout Frankema, Tirthankar Roy, Routledge, 2026
Preview PDF 🔽
https://t.co/ka2B4FJ8ih

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

"In a Field of Static" by James Bliss @james_isnt recenters Black feminist theorizing in the debates that shaped contemporary feminist and queer theory, offering an original genealogy of Black feminist thought. Read the intro for free now: https://t.co/FmQMz4uDPo

[Praxis @praxiss]

unenforced codes that decided who would be under the rubble in the first place. (Cruel) Optimism (as a mode of power) here is doing the work that repression would otherwise have to do. https://t.co/IXxG6aJoei

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Book cover just dropped for Anarchafeminist Horizons at the End of Gender and it's rad AF. Coming January 2027 with a chapter by yours truly: "'To Repulse the State from our Uteri': Anarcha-Feminism, Reproductive Freedom, and Dual Power."

[Bloomsbury History @BloomsburyHist]

Ever wondered how fitness became a global obsession? Join Conor Heffernan's Reddit AMA Aug. 24th starting at 9 AM EST: https://t.co/uhdF5q8dnm

Ask the author of "When Fitness Went Global" anything about the 19th-century origins of modern fitness.

📖: https://t.co/92jMRcI5um

[Praxis @praxiss]

I feel Thompson’s this essay on time and work-discipline is one of the better things to read on why a free day can feel like something you’re wasting. He sets task-orientation (albeit a category later criticized) against timed labour. Under task-orientation the working day++

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Tina Chen’s "Alien Forms and Minor Genres" is an innovative exploration of how academia cultivates, manages, and rewards academic labor. Read the intro for free: https://t.co/VCT6T8mLHd

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Future of Totality," edited by Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão & Robert T. Tally, in which scholars consider Fredric Jameson’s vast body of work.

[Philip Leventhal @PhilipLeventhal]

Jennifer Scappettone discusses her new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM and her work as a translator, poet, and critic in an interview with @ilmanifesto. https://t.co/W7m5737FiL @ColumbiaUP

[Kersplebedeb @kersplebedeb]

(NEW!) Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman

https://t.co/mM4RNiDc1l

A literary history spanning borders and centuries to explore radicalization as portrayed in fiction

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

I'm going to go have some beers with some buds, but everyone should read this essay—perhaps multiple times.

https://t.co/qj2lcXXVCV

[Praxis @praxiss]

There’s a stretch in the fifth chapter of The Political Unconscious (Romance and Reification) that I find quite interesting, where Jameson is reading Conrad. His basic argument is that reification extends beyond the workplace, all the way into the senses. He starts from the++

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

New Cambridge Element, Censorship of History by Antoon De Baets, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://t.co/B85pXRTXa7
#cambridgeelements #history

[Praxis @praxiss]

Walter Benjamin’s “The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses,” from One-Way Street.

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

This essay on Karatani at 85 is fantastic

https://t.co/MBbAxqxrcQ

[Chelsea Ngoc Minh Nguyen @cnmngg9]

So much about Edward Said’s Orientalism. I recommend Chen Xiaomei’s nuanced and critical engagement with Said through the lens of Chinese society in the 1980s: ‘Occidentalism: A theory of counter-discourse in post-Mao China’ (1995).

[Von heute auf morgen @JungeToerless]

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