Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
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Critical social and political theory in a postfoundational key. Articles and special issues welcome - contact h.richter@sussex.ac.uk and gavinrae@ucm.es
New article w/ @distinktionjournal.bsky.social Commensuration isnt just measurement, pricing, or ranking. Its liberal modernity’s equivalence machine: difference becomes legitimate only when convertible into a common metric. Finance is its purest form: uncertainty formatted as objective necessity.
Franchement, un des articles les plus intéressants que j’ai lus ces derniers temps. 👍https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2026.2662557 @distinktionjournal.bsky.social #Politics #Postcolonialism
Ever-co-provincialization: transcending metatheoretical Eurocentrism in decolonial thought by reclaiming relational universality
This article claims that contemporary decolonial thought, by equating universality and coloniality as such exclusively with the history of European modernity, risks collapsing into a metatheoretica...
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Spent the morning presenting our paper for the launch of @distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue on the neoliberal-fascist nexus
John Duncan@johntheduncan.bsky.social · 7mo agoMy article with Kian Aspinall in @DistinktionT is now available tp read. It's open access so anyone can read it (link below) Neoliberal fascism emerges from the essential social relations of neoliberal hegemony in combination with its increasingly authoritarian statecraft
We are thrilled to host an online launch event for the fantastic special issue on 'The neoliberal-fascist nexus' coming out in April edited by Henry Maher. The event will take place on 22nd April at 9am BST/6pm Sydney time. Details and tickets here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lgx0Cj8Oxu...
The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus Special Issue Launch
Please join us for the launch of our special issue ‘The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus’ in Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory
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I am very excited to announce that my work has finally been published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social It offers a systemic reading of technology and AI based on Niklas Luhmann's idea of functional simplification and develops it from a post-truth perspective tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Technology as functional simplification: revisiting Luhmann in the age of artificial intelligence and post-truth
This article revisits Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory to address what is identified as a persistent conceptual deficit in the sociology of technology, particularly in relation to digitalization, ar...
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My 2023 paper '(Un)Fixing habitus: affective transactions and the becoming body' is just out in the latest volume/issue (26/3) of @distinktionjournal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3evry2su Some other great #socialtheory in that issue (e.g. Paul Gorby's paper on the biopolitics of fear and Agamben) #emosoc
(Un)Fixing habitus: affective transactions and the becoming body
How might emotional life be best explained and accounted for in sociological theory? How is it that phenomena that seem so subjectively fleeting, and fundamentally individual nevertheless display r...
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Sofia Näsström examines the possibilities for democratic self-defense, proposing the social security approach as well as examining common objections against it, in her article published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Democratic self-defense: bringing the social model back in
The rise of authoritarian populism has forced many democracies to consider how best to defend democracy against its inner enemies. In the literature on democratic self-defense, one often distinguis...
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New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: Immediacy, mediation and praxis: reading @annakornbluh.bsky.social through the lens of Guy Debord. The article is currently open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Another article I commissioned for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social neoliberalism–fascism special issue is now out! It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
Check out my new article published @distinktionjournal.bsky.social on contrarianism as a cultural practice enabled by the institutional logic of Silicon Valley VC. Read it here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contrarian optionality and negative mimesis: venture capital and the institutional logic of Silicon Valley
This paper offers a theorization of contrarianism in Silicon Valley, presenting it as a strategic rationality underpinned by institutional infrastructure. Rather than treating contrarianism as prin...
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New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: “A new political diagonal? how students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New issue of Distinktion is out! This one is all about theorising the political present - with papers on the fascist uses of conspiracy theories, identity, hegemony and cities as anti-utopian blueprints www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/2...
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Volume 26, Issue 2 of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
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Very excited to see the first paper of our forthcoming special isdue on the intersections of neoliberalism and fascism out! Lloyd Cox and Brendon O'Connor argue that Trumpism is a 'proto-fascism' in whose emergence neoliberalism has been heavily implicated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trumpism, fascism and neoliberalism
The recent US presidential election has re-energised a debate about Trumpism and fascism that has been percolating since 2015. This debate has unfolded in stark binary terms of presence or absence....
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In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies
This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...
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And @mflohr.bsky.social recovers Marx's highly original theory of democracy and constituent power www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond political theology: Marx’s materialist theorization of democracy and constituent power
This article recovers and develops Marx’s highly original materialist theorization of democracy and constituent power in Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State. Through close textual analysis and th...
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Luca Mavelli argues that Foucault's 'impure' critique of neoliberalism tells us something about the symbiotic entanglements particular to the neoliberal regime of truth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Symbiotic neoliberalism: Foucault and the impure critique of neoliberalism
This article brings together two distinct research trajectories – the growing characterization of neoliberalism as a monster and the recent debate on whether Foucault was a neoliberal – to investig...
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Also in the new issue, @timchristiaens.bsky.social uses Castoriadis' early work to develop an agonistic theory of work at amazon's Mechanical Turk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cornelius Castoriadis’ agonistic theory of the future of work at Amazon Mechanical Turk
Digital innovations are rapidly changing the contemporary workplace. Big Tech companies marketing algorithmic management increasingly decide on the Future of Work. Political responses, however, oft...
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In our new issue, @alexdobeson.bsky.social @toteraltermann.bsky.social and Saskia Brill develop a field guide to the most salient forms of contemporary capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sorting out economic forms: a field guide to contemporary capitalism
A series of recent works have put forward a post-commodification understanding of the contemporary economy as based on one central economic form. While this approach allows us to conceptualize the ...
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@islates.bsky.social and @mohanjdutt.bsky.social use Lacanian theory to rethink control and resistance in platform work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The algorithmic big Other: using Lacanian theory to rethink control and resistance in platform work
Despite burgeoning literature on platform work, there has been a lack of scholarship which carefully considers what we mean by the terms control and (particularly) resistance in the context of algo...
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New Issue of Distinktion is out! 💥This one has a focus on contemporary capitalism, desire and algorithmic governance www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...
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Volume 26, Issue 1 of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
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My paper on Castoriadis and workplace struggles over digital technology in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social received an issue number. When Big Tech today looks like an unstoppable force of destruction, I hope we can still see how to contest oppressive technologies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cornelius Castoriadis’ agonistic theory of the future of work at Amazon Mechanical Turk
Digital innovations are rapidly changing the contemporary workplace. Big Tech companies marketing algorithmic management increasingly decide on the Future of Work. Political responses, however, oft...
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'A science of stereotypes: paranoiac-critical forays within the medium of information' @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...
My special issue proposal on Silicon Valley has been accepted by @distinktionjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Excited to work with great contributors: Sherryl Vint, Hugh O’Connell, Jeannette Estruth, Susannah Glickman, Matthew Darmour, Erdogan Sima, & Max Haiven. More to come but for now, celebrating this win!
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory@distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 2y agoNew issue of Distinktion is out! With a fantastic special section on Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism, including papers by Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Timothy Bewes and Arthur Bueno, www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...
Contra the presumption of a rational public sphere, Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social and Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social show that fame matters for how value is publicly assigned www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fame democracy? Social media and visuality-based transformation of the public sphere
We argue that a shift in the underlying values that inform people’s actions in the public sphere is taking place in the social media age. From ways of qualifying the public sphere as a space that p...
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social argues that we should think Marx's critique of the Srate through the concept of alienation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Karl Marx’s critique of the state as an alienation of society in his 1843 Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State
Alienation became a central but controversial concept in the reception and interpretation of Karl Marx’s thought after the posthumous publication of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in 19...
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William Davies @will-davies.bsky.social makes the case that we should take reaction seriously as subjective and social expressions in the digital public sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reaction value: affective reflex in the digital public sphere
The concept of ‘reaction’ has been frequently viewed pejoratively in the history of social and moral theory, as unthinking and often resentful. But ‘reactions’ of various kinds play a central role ...
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New issue of Distinktion is out! With a fantastic special section on Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism, including papers by Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Timothy Bewes and Arthur Bueno, www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...
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Volume 25, Issue 3 of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
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New Distinktion issue (25:2) is out! It is a special issue on "Forms of Theorizing" that explores how, from which building blocks, and to what end we make social theory - individually or collectively. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
Explore the current issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2024
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New Distinktion issue (25:2) is out! It is a special issue on "Forms of Theorizing" that explores how, from which building blocks, and to what end we make social theory - individually or collectively. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory
Explore the current issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2024
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