This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Very excited to see my article "When Resistance Turns Right: Counter-Conduct and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism" out in EJST! It interrogates the conceptual space that allows authoritarian populists to successfully mobilise resistance narratives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Who are "The People"? Event in Brighton on 3rd June, co-organised by my Sussex colleague @hannahrichter.bsky.social www.brighthink.org/events/who-a...

WHO ARE “THE PEOPLE”?: Populism, Power and the Future of Democracy — Brighthink

TICKETS £5 (plus booking fee) Across the globe, right-wing populist are leading opinion polls and winning elections with the promise to fight for the interests and concerns of the people, which t...

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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...

I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide

On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

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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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Fantastic last day also for our 2nd workshop International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises organized by @nfgaeckle.bsky.social & @kawezel.bsky.social Big thank you to our discussants @hannahrichter.bsky.social, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social & @gloknos.bsky.social for an engaging roundtable!

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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If this goes through, it’s another huge loss to philosophy and UK HE. Kingston is home to The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), the Iris Murdoch Archive, and more.

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Today's university in crisis is Kingston, which is cutting all the departments and subjects below, a savage retrenchment that won't even make them half of the £20m savings they need. Every day will be like this until something is done.

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students

These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

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Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

Very excited for this workshop in collaboration with @nfgaeckle.bsky.social, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social and @hannahrichter.bsky.social. Feel free to share with PhDs and early careers.

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Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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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Well, political theory starter pack got large. Here's a followup. Please let me know if I have missed you; it's been a busy week. go.bsky.app/KSQkYRp

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...

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Explore the current issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2024

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And last but certainly not least: Ryan Gunderson and William Charles on Georges Gurvitch, the technicization of knowledge, neoliberalism and nudge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tobias Schlechtriemen on social figures as elements of sociological theorizing (part of our brilliant forthcoming special issue on social theorizing): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New articles out as OnlineFirst! Sebastiaan Bierema on anti-utopian blueprints, populism and Müller's uncertain city: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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To accompany my recently published book I wrote a little blog post on the relevance of reading Deleuze and Luhmann together in the political present sunypress.edu/Blog/2023/It...

Sussex has 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black British candidates starting next September - applications from critical theorists welcome! Get in touch with me or one of my Politics/IR colleagues if you're interested www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...