A book of unfinished theories

by Samuli Schielke. (From 2011 until 2014 this blog carried the title "You'll be late for the revolution!" An Anthropologist's Diary of the Egyptian Revolution and what followed.)

Monday, 17 November 2025

More than is necessary to prove my point - Thinking about language, power and truth with George Orwell in 2025

Last week, my wife Asmaa Essakouti was re-reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a class on censorship she teaches. I was reading...

Monday, 16 December 2024

Zensur durch Andeutung: Vorläufiger Bericht aus der Sache Ghassan Hage gegen die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Wer erwartet hatte, ein deutsches Arbeitsgericht wäre kein Ort für Gerichtsaal-Dramen, wurde am vergangenen Dienstag eines Besseren belehrt....

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Peace as a Local Exception

I. 22nd century, another planet In an unfinished science fiction novel by Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, the hero of an earlier novel travel...

Monday, 21 June 2021

On Exiles and Alternatives: An Afterword

by Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Saad Shehata On 5 July, our new book Shared Margins: An Ethnography with Writers in Alexandria will be pub...

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