The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult...

This @versobooks.bsky.social book 👇 will be of wide interest - tracing the weird fixation on the Frankfurt School by the far right

I'm guessing @mattfluck.bsky.social will have views....

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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory: A panel discussion

Well actually, funny you should mention it… @ajawoods.bsky.social is visiting our Centre for the Study of Democracy in a few weeks to discuss this. It’s a great book, so I’m excited to be on the panel www.westminster.ac.uk/events/the-c...

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations - Problems and Prospects; Bringing together a diverse list of contributors from Europe, Australia and North America, this book challenges conventional wisd...

Reclaiming Utopia in IR: Problems and Prospects now has a cover 👇 which means it is almost a real thing

@mattfluck.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/reclaiming-u...

Who loses from the Anthropic fight? Maybe Elon Musk and Alex Karp. Arbitrary state power can cut in many directions

"... the specifics of the relationship between Anthropic and the Department of Defense... highlight more general contradictions in the Trump coalition between executive-authority enthusiasts and Silicon Valley oligarch-wannabes" -- @himself.bsky.social

www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

‘“No appearance, always reality”: Rousseau, transparency, and the international’

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My latest article in the new issue of Journal of International Political Theory

This is a really great piece that explains how Jeffrey Epstein and the people he sought out are united by the ideology that underpins the global fascist project.

‘“No appearance, always reality”: Rousseau, transparency, and the international’

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

My latest article in the new issue of Journal of International Political Theory

The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition

The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition: ft.trib.al/MMgA4v4

Studentship alert! We’ve got three PhD studentships on offer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster.

The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.

Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

CSD Seminar: ‘Apocalyptic abolitionists: the black radical tradition and the end of white democracy’ with Dr Joe P. L. Davidson (Loughborough)

Looking forward to our final Westminster CSD seminar of the year tomorrow. Joe Davidson on apocalyptic imaginaries and the black radical tradition. Join us if you can!

Text from Minima Moralia, 72: ‘To a child returning from holiday…’

This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time

Thanks to a great team of contributors:

William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.

Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026

#utopiainIR

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

Great piece on the LRB blog. Fascism is “not fundamentally a problem of ignorance” or of “bad information”

State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938) On dialectics and dialogue

happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year

#polisky