Ian Bruff
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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
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The recording of my
@cssgj.bsky.social
talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-...
It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!
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Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism.
YouTube video by CSSGJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-p3PKIe4
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Phillips OBrien
5 days ago
Iâm very much looking forward to Trump appointing Incitatus as his new Secretary of State. Canât be that far off
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Interesting and, given the present conjuncture, timely new article by Samuel Knafo, who argues that the notion of the double movement undermines our ability to historicize the politics of capitalism.
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Polanyiâs double movement and the politics of capitalism
Polanyiâs idea of the double movement has been highly influential to think the politics of capitalism. However, I argue that this notion relies on a problematic concept of the Market inherited from...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2026.2675147
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Independent Social Research Foundation
6 days ago
Constructive alignment is a one size fits all template that shapes course curricula in Europe. In this contribution to our Dispatches series,
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
 argues that it's not neutral but rather centres a specific philosophy that forecloses alternative pedagogies
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Pedagogical State Apparatus
https://bit.ly/4vjfOzV
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Andreas Bieler
7 days ago
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see
andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit...
@morton.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
https://andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/critical-political-economy-of-european.html
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John Duncan
16 days ago
NEW VIDEO!!! My analysis of the locals, the fascistisation of human rights, and perhaps my most valuable contribution to the world so far! Link below
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Mònica Clua Losada
18 days ago
An unprofitable business " the company lost over $4.2bn in the first three months of 2026." And dependent on state subsidies and contracts (the article could have mentioned that, but it seems they forgot).
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Jeremy Gilbert
19 days ago
Wrote this about the current state of UK politics / Labour leadership after the May local elections disaster for Labour. Written for Rosa Luxemburg Siftung, so should be accessible to non-UK readers who want a good summary of where things are at:
www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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Labourâs Leadership Crisis - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
As Labour reels from electoral collapse, the British left must find a strategy to stop Reform
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/54787/labours-leadership-crisis
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I loathe the Labour Right to the extent that my first thought at the news of Josh Simons standing down is that he's doing it on McSweeney's orders so that Burnham will lose the by-election. Not that I'm a big fan of Burnham, but this is the Labour Together guy who's standing down
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Russell England
24 days ago
"Man of the PayPal"
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ProfAFinlayson
26 days ago
Thinking about Starmer's nationalisation of steel to save 2700 jobs in Scunthorpe (good) & the news that at Nottingham Uni 2700 staff face redundancy risk (bad). How much of Lab's problem is a fantasy of heroic manual workers they'll "save", leaving some workers feeling patronised, others ignored.
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Aleksandra PiletiÄ
about 1 month ago
My new paper is out in
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70165
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As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the 'adults in the roomâ line again | Aditya Chakrabortty
Presenting himself as a serious, sensible âgrownupâ was essential to Starmerâs rise to power. His premiership has revealed how hollow that message is, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/06/labour-wipeout-adults-in-the-room-con-job-keir-starmer-elections
about 1 month ago
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Global Political Economy Journal
about 1 month ago
⨠Discover the latest selection of articles handpicked by the editors for the Editors' Choice Collection. All papers are free to read until 31 August! âł
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...
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Adam David Morton
about 1 month ago
All the commentaries on the 35 books read, so far, in the Past & Present Reading Group are available here. We are excited to be reading, next, Karl Marx, *Theories of Surplus Value*. Commencing Part I of the "fourth volume" of Capital in a few months!!
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Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...
https://www.ppesydney.net/past-present-reading-group/
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Nick Bernards
about 1 month ago
New article! On the echoes between projects of 'financial inclusion' and colonial statecraft. Just out in
@ripejournal.bsky.social
, in an incredible SI on raced finance ed. by
@iliasalami.bsky.social
,
@vincentguermond.bsky.social
and
@alibhagat.bsky.social
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Mònica Clua Losada
about 1 month ago
El trumpisme es tensa internament i el bloc reaccionari explota en contradiccions internes. Mentre una cursa espacial que es presenta com a universal redefineix on i com sâexerceix el poder. âď¸ Mònica Clua Losada
catarsimagazin.cat/trump-guerra...
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Trump, guerra i lâespai: com es reorganitza el poder dels EUA - Catarsi
Crisi polĂtica, tensions globals i una cursa espacial que es presenta com a universal mentre redefineix on i com sâexerceix el poder.
https://catarsimagazin.cat/trump-guerra-i-lespai/
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My traditional pre-train drink to mark the end of teaching for the semester. The second I walked in here (the Salisbury), Junkhead by Alice in Chains came on the jukebox. What a song!
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fantastic new paper by Aleksandra Piletic
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Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70165
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Joost Vervoort breaking the 4th wall
about 2 months ago
I did an experiment today at the start of two courses I coordinate. I showed this personal statement about the world I would like to see. I did it to open a discussion about genuine desire for a different world, and how we self-censor this, even to ourselves, for fear of being naive or unrealistic.
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Mònica Clua Losada
about 1 month ago
I taught Texas Politics for a few years, during my 9-years of living there. I learned that the political history of Texas was a history of white supremacy against a population that kept resisting for over a century.
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Adam Standring
about 2 months ago
I've been following this BlueSky debate on inequality with interest. A lot of people do seem to be relishing the opportunity to scold the left on their political rhetoric. This measured response by Chris Dillow seems to me to be appropriate.
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Prof Rob Dover
about 2 months ago
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
yes, but ... if we were market stall holders.. you said we could only sell apples for 50p. and it didn't matter how much inflation was, 50p was the price. but you also said we could sell peaches for as much as we like, because the price of apples was.. 1.
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UK universities âfoolishâ to bank on overseas student growth
Foreign students no longer a magic bullet for cash-strapped universities as visa changes and pricing wars force leaders to reconsider growth strategies
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-universities-foolish-bank-overseas-student-growth
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Mark Chadbourn
about 2 months ago
The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.
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Great to see this!
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Alexander Clarkson
about 2 months ago
Presumably Frank Furedi and Matthew Goodwin will now discover the visionary genius of Aleksandar Vucic
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Matt Thompson
3 months ago
If this is a conjuncture marked by escalating crises, provoking growing interest in conjunctural thinking across the critical social sciences and humanities, now's the time to ask... What's the point of conjunctural analysis? New article out in Dialogues in Urban Research:
doi.org/10.1177/2754...
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Mònica Clua Losada
3 months ago
Me publican este artĂculo en Sin Permiso sobre "La convergencia ideolĂłgica de la nueva ola reaccionaria" đ
sinpermiso.info/textos/la-co...
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La convergencia ideolĂłgica de la nueva ola reaccionaria
Se repite hasta la saciedad: la extrema derecha avanza porque el âhombre blancoâ estĂĄ enfadado. Enfadado por las migraciones, por el feminismo, por la visibilidad LGTBI, por el cambio cultural, por un...
https://sinpermiso.info/textos/la-convergencia-ideologica-de-la-nueva-ola-reaccionaria
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Adam David Morton
3 months ago
New article from
@abieler.bsky.social
on the empiricism of polycrisis debate and how to parse structural and conjunctural analysis
@adamtooze.bsky.social
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Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How can we dissect the conjunctural appearances of crisis from the deep structural conditions of crisis shaping global capitalism today?
https://www.ppesydney.net/dissecting-the-polycrisis-charting-the-conceptual-terrain-of-enquiry/
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
9 months ago
#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - âItâs like a prisonâ: EU externalization, racial capitalism, and anti-Black racism in EUâTunisia cooperation on migration - https://cup.org/46lw0as -
@rosamaryon.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
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Great new article by
@rosamaryon.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Security assistance, authoritarian neoliberalism and racial capitalism: entangled mechanisms of coercion and control in post-2011 Tunisia
Security Assistance (SA) â training and equipping another stateâs security forces has become the dominant form of external intervention in the Mediterranean. Scholars have reflected upon trends suc...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2026.2637996
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Very good article!
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I can't believe it - new Neurosis!
neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-und...
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An Undying Love For A Burning World, by Neurosis
8 track album
https://neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-undying-love-for-a-burning-world
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Guy Shrubsole
3 months ago
Revealing who owns England just became Government policy. Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework:
whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...
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Revealing who owns England just became government policy
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Yesterday, in their ambitious new Land Use Framework for England, the Government announced that they would be opening up the Land Registry. Iâve been campaigning for âŚ
https://whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/revealing-who-owns-england-just-became-government-policy/
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Lisa Tilley
3 months ago
New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to someone đ
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Indonesian nickel sovereignty and global raced finance: the value of Element 28 in an age of âtransitionâ
In the context of a global rush to electrify vehicle markets, for which nickel is recast as a âcritical mineralâ, Indonesia has sought to build sovereignty over its mineral resources and reinvigora...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2026.2642935
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Guy Shrubsole
3 months ago
The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/
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Land Use Framework
How we can use our land more effectively to increase the resilience of our homes, communities, infrastructure, and food systems, while speeding up development and restoring nature.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-use-framework
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Victoria M Basham
3 months ago
New paper out now witten with my brilliant collaborators
@jamcjo.bsky.social
and
@drowendthomas.bsky.social
. Hard to write given the topic and ongoing injustice but hope it proves useful to others.
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Looking forward to it!
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Rob Knox
5 months ago
Me and Mary Robertson in
@ripejournal.bsky.social
articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by
@iliasalami.bsky.social
@alibhagat.bsky.social
@vincentguermond.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Locating race in capitalismâs laws of motion: the case of subprime
Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2025.2606781#d1e156
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Adam David Morton
3 months ago
Tackiing the polycrisis afresh with
@abieler.bsky.social
and Vincenzo Maccarrone in a new critical political economy book on the EU
www.ppesydney.net/critical-pol...
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
@adamtooze.bsky.social
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How is the European polycrisis inflected through the classed, raced, gendered and environmental conditions of global capitalism today?
https://www.ppesydney.net/critical-political-economy-of-the-european-polycrisis/
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Jamie Doucette
3 months ago
Hard agree with this analysis. I think a main contradiction of the Silicon Valley/tech right is a vision of decentralization and extra-territoriality that is in fact backed up by US might and force. The Network State is actually the US 'empire'.
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Looks very interesting. Reminds me of Japhy Wilson's work on apocalypticism
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My favourite Fugazi album is Red Medicine, so I approve of this mix of In On The Kill Taker!
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Taku Tamaki, PhD đđŹđ§đđđˇ
3 months ago
My contribution to the literature on emotions in IR--using Watsuji's philosophy to think about emotions as a function of space. Part of a special issue on Emotions in Japan's Foreign Policy.
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The Indo-Pacific as Japanâs emotional space: emotions, the duality of space, and Watsuji tetsurĹâs aidgara
Space as a concept remains subdued in the discussions of emotions in International Relations (IR). The geographical space within which Japan is located plays a crucial role in the emergence and ela...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2026.2625773
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Got to love/pity those who still think that artist and audience are separated by a giant chasm, allowing them to exist in two hermetically sealed spaces
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So for Starmer, the party which gives a shit about literal shit in our rivers and seas are the extremists. Run that argument by me again...
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Essential reading
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Jeremy Morris
3 months ago
A new post summing up what I got wrong and right, four years into the Russian war on Ukraine. Some musings on the problem of prediction, on main problems of not taking economic forces seriously enough, and lots more.
postsocialism.org/2026/02/25/a...
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âA simulacrum of charismatic authority tending towards shabbiness, decay and deformation.â Russia four years after the disaster
a wall displays a directions towards a padlocked bomb shelter thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, February 2026. In a wide-ranging interview for Die Zeit a few weeks ago I said: âfor most, a natiâŚ
https://postsocialism.org/2026/02/25/a-simulacrum-of-charismatic-authority-tending-towards-shabbiness-decay-and-deformation-russia-four-years-after-the-disaster/
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Gareth
3 months ago
âď¸New essay for
@the-breakdown.bsky.social
which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!)
www.break-down.org/electro-capi...
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Electro-Capitalism
Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.
https://www.break-down.org/electro-capitalism/
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Jeremy Gilbert
4 months ago
The Meaning of Peter Mandelson. Me &
@profafinlayson.bsky.social
on the fall of Mandelson and why he ever mattered. Is the Long '90s finally totally over? Would we rather be ruled by the actual Sith than guys who hang around with Steven Pinker? It's all here:
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/02/17/t...
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The historical, political and cultural significance of Peter Mandelson
Jem and Alan get deep into the historical significance of Peter Mandelson, his career and his recent fall. What has the Epstein case revealed about the ideology of our ruling elites? Why did MandelâŚ
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/02/17/the-meaning-of-peter-mandelson/
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Muireann O'Dwyer
4 months ago
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - âIt would have slowed down the workâ â the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy
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