Mikkel Flohr, The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...

Great to be part of the brilliant panel on “Critique and Method” at the @histmat.bsky.social london 2025 conference with Anna Beria, Svenja Bromberg, and Silvestre Gristina, chaired by Kaan Kangal

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

The freshest research is hitting the oldest university next week!

Back from Aarhus and feeling the post conference blues, staring out of the window into the gloomy grey yonder of October rain, wondering how you can get some more of that sweet sweet Danish Marxism? Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇

🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Great talk, great moves, 10/10, Danish marxism recommend @brosef-stalin.bsky.social

THANK YOU 💕💕 Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶 Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!

The second keynote of the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies @brosef-stalin.bsky.social "Abolish Capital: Disrupting the Laws of Motion" @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

Day two of the conference is underway with great panels on transformative futures and on critical aesthetics 🤩

BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

And we are underway! Our 10th (can you believe it!) annual conference kicks off today with brilliant panels and heated coffee break discussions as well as a brilliant keynote on insurgent utopianism by @genderhorizon.com! Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰

First panel of the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social tenth annual conference on “Marx and History” with contributions from @magnusz.bsky.social @lottelist.bsky.social anf myself, chaired by @brunoleipold.com and with great comments and questions from the highly engaged audience

The tenth annual conference of the Danish Society of Marxist Studies is on. Two days of brilliant panels and presentations, more than a hundred participants and two amazing keynote speakers, starting with @genderhorizon.com "Insurgent Care and the Utopian Horizon" @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

Comrades! The team behind SMS are looking so much forward to welcome all conference attendees in Aarhus this friday!💕💕💕 It is going to be two days of intense discussions, amazing presentations and ✨great company✨

Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.

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For further reflections on liberal democracy's ambivalent relationship to the freedom of assembly, consult me and @bpoppmadsen.bsky.social's recent article "Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly: Liberal, Associative, Radical"

Last chance to register for the tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies next week in Aarhus. Don't miss out.

Israeli forces intercept and board several boats that were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to deliver aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to camera footage from the group.

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

let them cook

Looking forward to presenting some new research and the world's most fun Marxism conference

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Danish PM: “Dear all, Denmark has been subject to hybrid attacks in the past couple of days. Drones have appeared in several places, near critical infrastructure, military and civilian. We must expect that there will be more attacks like this…”

This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Political Economy: buff.ly/z88CcZP

Reviving Marx's historical materialism as a toolkit for intellectual history, this piece argues that ideas emerge from dominant social relations. The author rejects base-superstructure clichés and faults Meiksins Wood's historicism. By @mflohr.bsky.social in @jhideas.bsky.social buff.ly/TgR83So

"The inherent exclusivity and parochialism of the modern nation-state is not a marginal phenomenon but constitutes a central feature of our political system, which is likely to spread unless contained, and, as such, we are all likely to be forced to confront it one way or the other."

"I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration." –Trump to the UN Suddenly feel the need to share my article "Beyond the Nation State: Rereading Hannah Arendt's 'We Refugees' Eighty Years Later" again

Are you dying to know if Hegel hated ersatz coffee? Then boy do I have the piece for you. Very happy to be part of the JHI blog forum on political economy in intellectual history!

I finally shut down my academia page due to the new terms and conditions and created a homepage instead, where my back catalogue will be available mikkelflohr.com

Just because Agamben got all paranoid doesn’t mean he wasn’t right some of the time

This is a travesty. Honestly, McGill should be censured by CAUT for this decision and the changes it is making to the student code of conduct that will compromise student academic freedom and undermine the very conditions of the institution’s accreditation. Solidarity, @marxinhell.bsky.social

Laurent Thévenot giving inaugural lecture “FIGURING CLOSE TO THE LIVING AND CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONS” in anticipation of his honorary professorate at Roskilde University today @roskildeuni.bsky.social

“Adopting nativist discourse and policies does not win back far-right voters. It leads to losses for centrist and leftwing parties. Moreover, it raises the salience of the topic and the expectations of the government” @casmudde.bsky.social with a reminder for social democrats everywhere

My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...

I have the privilege of opening “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ forum in the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog ( @jhideas.bsky.social )‬ with an essay titled “The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas.”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Officially marking the first of many pieces in the Blog's forum "The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History," Mikkel Flohr offers a novel reading of Marx's historical materialism for a "political economy of ideas." @mflohr.bsky.social

The five stages of realizing that you were too late to get a conference dinner ticket because they are all sold out💔

J Butler: “It is time to resist the injustice now normalized by those who capitulate to powers willing to destroy the basic principles protecting the university’s independence & who imperil the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Roskilde University was founded by a surprising alliance of parliamentary parties and radical student movements both trying to reform the old universities. It was an experiment characterized by interdisciplinary and collaborative problem-driven approaches to learning and radical ideas. 1/3

Danish social democratic PM apparently upset with migrants and my current place of employment (Roskilde University). No surprise there. One of the few things that consistently inspires me about my place of employment is the fear and hatred that it consistently appears to evoke on the right.

Come check it out before it fades into oblivion. 10-11 October at Aarhus University. The tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies. The theme is “Abolition” and there will be keynotes from M.E. O’Brien and Ashok Kumar

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.