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John Keane
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political thinker & writer| professor| sense of humour| lover of deserts| against hubris| CSD (London) & SDN (Sydney) founder| ex-WZB Berlin| VMO| forever young
Sydney, Shanghai and Berlin
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    John Keane
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    Dec 15, 2023
    for the first time in my career, police began arresting students peacefully gathered @FU_Berlin to hear my lecture โ€˜Universities in Troubled Timesโ€™; the students regathered in local cafes and the webinar - soon on @YouTube - went aheadโ€ฆ
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    John Keane
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    May 19, 2020
    a tiny skywriter with a big message has been busy over Sydney this morning...
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    John Keane
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    Feb 8, 2024
    in sacking star anthropologist @anthroprofhage - world-class critical analyst of bigotry and hatred - Germanyโ€™s Max Planck Society joins that countryโ€™s shamefully long list of institutions de facto collaborating with Israeli genocide mpg.de/21510445/stateโ€ฆ
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    John Keane
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    Aug 18, 2025
    In Australiaโ€™s Federal Court my colleague @NickRiemer1 and I are facing absurd charges of โ€˜racial hatredโ€™ (โ€˜antisemitismโ€™) for publicly condemning Israelโ€™s war crimes; we need your help! wherever you are, please support us!
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    Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
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    John Keane
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    Nov 5, 2023
    โ€˜Toleration is a form of colonisationโ€™; my open letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney on Israel, Palestine, genocide and toleration
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    John Keane
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    Dec 16, 2023
    Replying to @mazzenilsson @FU_Berlin and 11 others
    whatโ€™s your evidence for this claim? isnโ€™t the key point that German campuses are now targets of crazy police crackdowns even for lectures on the history and future of universities?
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    John Keane
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    Aug 7, 2025
    Is public condemnation of Israelโ€™s barbarous crimes a legal right? this is the core principle @NickRiemer1 and I want to confirm against @josephtoltz et al in Australiaโ€™s federal court; our legal victory will have major local and global significance; please follow and support us!
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    John Keane
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    Aug 18, 2017
    delighted to be chairing @ggreenwald tomorrow on 'abuse of power' & other topics come citizens all! @Scottludlam bit.ly/2w97lWe
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    John Keane
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    Jan 2, 2021
    a thought for 2021: โ€˜Democracy has to be continually fought for and won over again by every generation. It cannot stand still; unless it moves forward to meet the demands of new conditions of life it degenerates and will finally dieโ€™ (John Dewey, speech in Vermont, May 1939)
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    John Keane
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    Dec 18, 2022
    โ€˜The title suggests โ€œshort,โ€ but do not be deluded, dear readers, the chapters are crammed with detail and strewn with classic and modern terminology inviting a demanding and exciting exercise.โ€™ @CityBookReview @seattlereviewof @SF_Book_Review
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    John Keane
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    Oct 31, 2024
    โ€˜Nothing would be more dangerous than treating a win for the Democrats as proof that the crisis of democracy is recedingโ€™, says Wendy Brown, among our most brilliant critics of liberal conceits and theorists of democracy re-imaginedโ€ฆ.
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    The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy
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    John Keane
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    Jun 3, 2025
    published this week: my Sorbonne lectures on thinking, uncertainty, civil society, green politics and how democracies die, fast and slowโ€ฆ
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    John Keane
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    Sep 5, 2024
    published today in ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ: my diagnosis of demagogues - Modi, Trump, Orbร n, Bukele, Lรณpez Obrador, Netanyahu - as a dangerous auto-immune disease of democracy @BulletinAtomic
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    How demagogues destroy democracy: A step-by-step global guide
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    John Keane
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    Jan 17, 2023
    just published in India! just arrived in Sydney! with special thanks to @PanMacIndia @TeestaGuha @saburipandita @BlackIncBooks ๐Ÿ™
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