I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New issue of Distinktion is out! This one is all about theorising the political present - with papers on the fascist uses of conspiracy theories, identity, hegemony and cities as anti-utopian blueprints www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/2...

Very excited to see the first paper of our forthcoming special isdue on the intersections of neoliberalism and fascism out! Lloyd Cox and Brendon O'Connor argue that Trumpism is a 'proto-fascism' in whose emergence neoliberalism has been heavily implicated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic last day also for our 2nd workshop International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises organized by @nfgaeckle.bsky.social & @kawezel.bsky.social Big thank you to our discussants @hannahrichter.bsky.social, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social & @gloknos.bsky.social for an engaging roundtable!

And @mflohr.bsky.social recovers Marx's highly original theory of democracy and constituent power www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Luca Mavelli argues that Foucault's 'impure' critique of neoliberalism tells us something about the symbiotic entanglements particular to the neoliberal regime of truth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also in the new issue, @timchristiaens.bsky.social uses Castoriadis' early work to develop an agonistic theory of work at amazon's Mechanical Turk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In our new issue, @alexdobeson.bsky.social @toteraltermann.bsky.social and Saskia Brill develop a field guide to the most salient forms of contemporary capitalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@islates.bsky.social and @mohanjdutt.bsky.social use Lacanian theory to rethink control and resistance in platform work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Issue of Distinktion is out! 💥This one has a focus on contemporary capitalism, desire and algorithmic governance www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...

If this goes through, it’s another huge loss to philosophy and UK HE. Kingston is home to The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), the Iris Murdoch Archive, and more.

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

Very excited for this workshop in collaboration with @nfgaeckle.bsky.social, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social and @hannahrichter.bsky.social. Feel free to share with PhDs and early careers.

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

New issue of Distinktion is out! With a fantastic special section on Lukács and the Critique of Capitalism, including papers by Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social, Timothy Bewes and Arthur Bueno, www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...

Well, political theory starter pack got large. Here's a followup. Please let me know if I have missed you; it's been a busy week. go.bsky.app/KSQkYRp

New Distinktion issue (25:2) is out! It is a special issue on "Forms of Theorizing" that explores how, from which building blocks, and to what end we make social theory - individually or collectively. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/c...

And last but certainly not least: Ryan Gunderson and William Charles on Georges Gurvitch, the technicization of knowledge, neoliberalism and nudge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tobias Schlechtriemen on social figures as elements of sociological theorizing (part of our brilliant forthcoming special issue on social theorizing): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New articles out as OnlineFirst! Sebastiaan Bierema on anti-utopian blueprints, populism and Müller's uncertain city: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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To accompany my recently published book I wrote a little blog post on the relevance of reading Deleuze and Luhmann together in the political present sunypress.edu/Blog/2023/It...

Sussex has 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black British candidates starting next September - applications from critical theorists welcome! Get in touch with me or one of my Politics/IR colleagues if you're interested www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

People working at UK universities will want to sign this open letter to the UKRI. The govt is trying to shut down academic freedom (on things like, you know, being able to criticise genocide...) docs.google.com/document/d/e...