Adam David Morton

From 2014 on Peter Thomas: “armed now with the trident of absolute historicism, absolute immanence, and absolute humanism, Marxist philosophy is able to combat both speculative idealism and philosophical materialism to offer an autonomous research programme in the renewal of Marxism today.” 1/2

Teaching Walter Rodney *How Europe Underdeveloped Africa* this semester has led me to the conclusion that he provides many avenues of research that can be fruitfully followed up, to develop new and contemporary research projects. Here is one such line for development from Chapter 5 1/

In sum, we can travel with Walter Rodney and Heide Gerstenberger and meet contemporary researchers tracking the past and present "development" of Namibia and its current role as a possible spatial fix for renewable energy infrastructure, transforming the site from annihilation to exploitation 8/8

Teaching Walter Rodney *How Europe Underdeveloped Africa* this semester has led me to the conclusion that he provides many avenues of research that can be fruitfully followed up, to develop new and contemporary research projects. Here is one such line for development from Chapter 5 1/

Methodologically, the documentary reporting combines oral history with digital spatial analysis and archival research, resulting in a comprehensive reconstruction of the camp’s layout and operation. The methods also draw on period postcards to reconstruct a composite image of the area, see 1'59" 6/

Teaching Walter Rodney *How Europe Underdeveloped Africa* this semester has led me to the conclusion that he provides many avenues of research that can be fruitfully followed up, to develop new and contemporary research projects. Here is one such line for development from Chapter 5 1/

The port of Lüderitzbucht was a key location for the genocide and, specifically, the area now known as "Shark Island" (or Haifischinsel in German). This period postcard, used as a set image for the blog post on Gerstenberger's book, displays an aspect from the island looking back to Lüderitz Bay 4/

Teaching Walter Rodney *How Europe Underdeveloped Africa* this semester has led me to the conclusion that he provides many avenues of research that can be fruitfully followed up, to develop new and contemporary research projects. Here is one such line for development from Chapter 5 1/

Towards the end of Chapter 5 on "Africa's Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe - The Colonial Period", Rodney mentions Germany's genocide in Namibia (South-West Africa) of the Herero peoples and expands on this in relation to the emergence of Consolidated Diamond Mines 2/

In his memoir *In the Realm of the Last Man*, @frankfukuyama.bsky.social states: ‘When I wrote The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, I had not yet read Huntington’ (p.165). The two-volume series on *Political Order* was thus an effort to update Huntington’s work as well as Fukuyama’s own 1/

This comment in the memoir is strange given the lengthy block quote in *The End of History and the Last Man*, drawing directly from Samuel Huntington's *Political Order and Changing Societies*, p.11. So was @frankfukuyama.bsky.social faking it then? Or is he faking it now? 2/

Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/

This tension is a springboard for our article in Progress in Human Geography on how the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life 3/

Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/

Alexandre Kojève's famous lectures on Hegel (1933-1939), at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, included Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as students. Registered numbers: 19 (1933), 11 (1934), 9 (1935), 10 (1936), 11 (1937), 17 (1938). No threat of academic "sustainability" in those days!