Michael

@mischa-k.bsky.social

MA student in sociology - interested in all things money, labor, markets, and (e)valuation. Mostly using this as a live journal and as a way to share things that I find interesting đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș📍Bielefeld University

Nach der Welle der Postcolonial-Kritik ist nun wohl die Soziologie an der Reihe. Die neueste Runde im Kulturkampf (in der Soziologie ist allerdings der innere Methoden- und Erkenntniskampf eher die Regel als die Ausnahme) treibt schon seltsame BlĂŒten. 1/x

Pierre Bourdieu: Was bleibt vom Werk des grossen französischen Soziologen?

Seine Studien ĂŒber den gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg und die «feinen Unterschiede» zwischen den Klassen machten den Franzosen weltberĂŒhmt. Doch seine politisierte Forschung ist heute eine Warnung.

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There's long been a quasi-Gramscian take on polling, that it 'constructs' publics rather than 'represents' them, but the idea of 5-party politics colliding with the FFTP system is going to deserve whole-hearted performativity studies in the MacKenzie/Callon tradition

Wenn ich das nĂ€chste Mal Bourdieu unterrichte und ĂŒber Klasse, Distinktion und insbesondere den selbstbewussten Besitz politischer Kompetenzen spreche, zeige ich den Studierenden die Werbe-Anzeige der Zeit, wo die Podcasts mit einem 500 Euro Kopfhörer bebildert sind.

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Why is environmentalism class divided? My new paper in The British Journal of Sociology maps attitudes to green issues in the social space of economic and cultural capital. Spoiler: it’s not just about being rich. đŸ§”https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.13231

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"The form of the list survives mockery, however, and even thrives today, precisely because we agree with what Barthes argued: that taste lists create a “subjectivity effect,” a social profile, rather than revealing an actual self.

This is a good framing I think. Ideology critique in an age of social media feels filled with pitfalls — the temptation is to talk about ideas where what matters more is affect, impulse, provocation

In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together. I've made some free courses to help: ‱ Reading Capital v1 ‱ Reading Capital v2 ‱ Reading the Grundrisse ‱ Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason ‱ The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

Reading Capital

Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har


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josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls... Not entirely knowledgeable on the history of Western Marxism - particularly in the anglophone world - as well as political philosophy as a field but this substack entry seems to be particularly bad in outlining the reasons for the decline of academic Marxism

John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism

Back when I was an undergraduate, during the final years of the cold war, by far the most exciting thing going on in political philosophy was the powerful resurgence of Marxism in the English-speaking...

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Thread: I have quite a bit of time on my hands of late, so I am (re)reading some classics, starting with Discipline and Punish. A briljant, strange book, suprisingly different from the textbook version (scary opening, Panopticon, docile bodies etc) most people have in mind. Some thoughts >>

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