Had a great time presenting my research on "Populism and Antipopulism in the Climate Debate" at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters yesterday. Lots of great presentations and thought-provoking questions and discussions.

Ben-Gvir, a key ally of Trump and Israel’s Minister of National Security, as well as leader of the far-right ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, posted a video of himself verbally abusing and mocking international human rights defenders while they were chained, forced to kneel, and abused.

Had a great time presenting my research on "Populism and Antipopulism in the Climate Debate" at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters yesterday. Lots of great presentations and thought-provoking questions and discussions.

Please sign to support colleagues and comrades fired from University of Essex Business School

It is international workers' day of struggle! There is still a world to win. The struggle continues.

Deadline tomorrow!

Rushing to submit my abstract to the 11th Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. 2-3 October 2026. Deadline is tomorrow. marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

“Tupac said it decades ago and it continues to be true that we always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.”

I wrote an article on the emerging “global war regime” – a condition in which war is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly generalized mode of governance shaped by geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, securitization, and authoritarian drift. portolan-journal.org?post=thinkin...

Together with @s-msorentino.bsky.social, I have edited a special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution." All of the articles are finally complete and it will be published June 1 as volume 27.4. Can't wait to see it in print!

We love a procastinating marxist queen/king 💅 but the answer is NO! The deadline for submitting your abstract is May 1st and there will be no extension💮🌸🩷💕

Together with @s-msorentino.bsky.social, I have edited a special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution." All of the articles are finally complete and it will be published June 1 as volume 27.4. Can't wait to see it in print!

The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online! Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!

Just gonna leave this here to celebrate the general elections in Denmark.

Just gonna leave this here to celebrate the general elections in Denmark.

"There is nowhere to escape to, neither on a planetary level, nor on a local level, as the contemporary advances in domestic surveillance and militarized police control, border militarization, and forms of remote violence remind us" Really appreciate this part in particular. Thanks for writing this.

On this day in 1871, revolutionary Parisians seized the cannons at Montmartre and control over Paris, establishing the #ParisCommune a radical but short-lived experiment in workers’ self-government #OTD

New article out:

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Went back to Twitter to check something and @deontologistics.bsky.social reminded me of this meme, I genuinely think the best meme to ever be produced by Philosophy Twitter.

Did Jürgen Habermas just die on the same day as Karl Marx?

How we arrived on Bluesky:

Happy international women's day! The struggle continues!

The best conference of the year! Send your abstracts before 1. May and come join us in Copenhagen 2.-3. October.

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

I wrote an article on the emerging “global war regime” – a condition in which war is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly generalized mode of governance shaped by geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, securitization, and authoritarian drift. portolan-journal.org?post=thinkin...

This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that: 1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul; 2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.

A fascinating text by @joncatlin.bsky.social on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay and his students, and the role of political economy in intellectual history that also picks up on my recent work. In a strange twist, I can report that I was actually…

This is pretty much where I want to be: in the middle of the left-wing intellectuals between politics and humanities scholars.

Wendy Brown giving a talk on “Postliberal Futures: A Prolegomenon for Reparative Democracy” at Copenhagen University today

Danish Marxism - now in Danish!

I have a new article out in the most recent (double) issue of Politica developing the Marxist approach to political theory and the history of ideas I have been working on for a while 1/2

"this is already a form of martial law, just without the paperwork. More importantly, the entire goal of martial law is to enforce quiescence. Pre-emptively rewarding the regime with precisely what it wants does not so much avoid martial law as make it unnecessary." –Phil A. Neel

That's how you headline coverage of authoritarianism 👏

Read this 👇 brilliant analysis of the recent wave of protests in Iran. By far the most comprehensive and insightful overview that I’ve read so far.

Will be translating an essay by Giorgio Agamben on war, the political, and play in Carl Schmitt and Johan Huizinga. More news will follow soon together with @mflohr.bsky.social and @lottelist.bsky.social .

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

It was simply bizarre to watch that press conference: "we had a very productive meeting with our US counterparts about not being invaded, but failed to come to an agreement." #KalaallitNunaat #Greenland

Protest graffiti from Iran

#IranProtests Tehran – Modarres Highway pedestrian bridge: “We are no longer afraid, we will fight.” January 11, 2026

“Hello darkness my old friend”

“Birzeit reiterates its call on international organizations, human rights institutions, and media outlets to assume their moral and legal responsibilities by taking immediate action to expose these ongoing violations against Palestinian higher education …” www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

2025 was a busy year full of teaching, talks, and a lot of publications in social and political theory and intellectual history. The following is an attempt at an overview. 1/15

Time to revisit the classics

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

Fresh year Fresh hell Fresh Danish Marxism

In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Alec Israeli reflects on recent debates on the method and stakes of "high" versus "low" intellectual histories, arguing for a neo-materialist approach that nuances those discursive boundaries. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)

My review of Camila Vergara’s brilliant book “Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic” is out in @criticalinquiry.bsky.social