Excited to present my work on plebeian populism and anti-oligarchic politics at the @populismpsa.bsky.social workshop in Thessaloniki. With keynotes by Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis. @populism.bsky.social

Why #Oligarchy never disappears: power concentrates at the top, leaders gain knowledge, resources & connections, then detach from the people. @camilavergara.bsky.social & #ClaraMattei unpack how #SystemicCorruption works: youtu.be/UT0y1CRFfBA

Watch the full Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (FREE) Podcast with Clara Mattei & myself. We talked about representative democracy, oligarchy, expropriation w/o compensation, praxis, the need to bring art & music as part of political activity, and... youtu.be/UT0y1CRFfBA?...

Are you a scholar working on Latin America? Consider applying to LASA 2026 in Paris for its 60-year anniversary. The theme: “Republic and Revolution". Deadline to send abstracts is tomorrow. lasaweb.org/en/news/pari...

A short video from the @freefreeforum.bsky.social podcast with Clara Mattei. Representative government is not democracy but oligarchy by design. youtu.be/UT0y1CRFfBA?...

I had the honor to launch the @freefreeforum.bsky.social in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside brilliant economist Clara Mattei. We had an exciting conversation about oligarchy, corruption & people's power. Watch the video here 👇 youtu.be/VHlRrO2louU?...

Great article on class, labor, and race in the US, and the way forward, by Michael McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

Watch the great Clara Mattei explain the Trump’s budget bill, how it deepens the oligarchic thrust of capitalism, and the need to include common people in economic decisions. youtu.be/-d6ac0I3hE0

Progress has been detached from the common good and means have become ends in themselves. Without understanding what we have in common and what we want for our life in common, we cannot be truly progressive.

I have been included as part of the "world's leading thinkers" with my interventions about the Enlightenment and progressive politics at a festival organized by the Institute of Arts and Ideas in London. Brief intervention at minute 23:40. @iai.tv youtu.be/ZLuJCUyTg88?...

Great analysis of the LA resistance to ICE raids by Peter Bloom in @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-...

Durante mi visita a Mexico conversé con John Ackerman acerca de la crisis de la democracia, las revoluciones populares y el poder constituyente. También hablamos de las elecciones del poder judicial en México. 👇 youtu.be/gcq9ZCWQdkE?...

I look forward to contributing to the discussion on 'Democracy's Discontents' at this great conference organized by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in Venice.

anti-oligarchic devices @camilavergara.bsky.social #systemiccorruption 🎧 david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/cam...

Today I will be discussing the 'American Constitutional Collapse: Corrosion of Law' with Aziz Rana & Michael Hardt at Red May. Tune in at 11:00 PDT / 19:00 BST www.youtube.com/live/20BkLmO...

Join us now to discuss Bruno Leipold's book Citizen Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tty...

Join us this Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of @LSEHumanRights. I will be in a panel with Banu Bargu and Brenna Bhandar, talking about Human Rights ‘from Below’: Dignity, Democracy & Class Struggle Register here 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/hu...

On Friday at 11am PDT join Alberto Toscano, Jodi Dean, Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes and myself on a discussion about oligarchy, fascism and radical alternatives to the status quo at Red May. Thank you Philip Wohlstetter for organizing. Tune in on YouTube 👇 www.youtube.com/live/VJrfCtx...

New Master (LLM) in Human Rights Advocacy, run jointly by the University Network for Human Rights and NOVA School of Law in Lisbon, Portugal. Applications due May 15. www.humanrightsnetwork.org/llm-human-ri...

Clip from The Settlers. This is how apartheid is enforced in the West Bank.

This Sunday I will give the plenary address at University of Chicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory on "Theorizing from Below: Political Theory as Democratic Praxis". I look forward to discussing about this topic with Wendy Brown in the final roundtable. voices.uchicago.edu/politicalthe...

We held our first special issue seminar yesterday, hosted by Chris Allsobrook (guest editor) and featuring contributors: Abraham Olivier, Dimpho Maponya, Olerato Mogomotsi, Pedro Tabensky, Jane Gordon, and Andrea Hurst. The recording is available now: youtu.be/89dRcKNB4EY #politicaltheory #theoria

We had a great discussion about what is progressive politics. 👇

Funded PhD in labour unions and democracy 👇 www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3507...

This is happening today. If you are in London and want to learn about commoning in the energy sector, join us at Pelican House.

This issue isn't markets versus the state, it is capitalism versus the demos. We must get out of this private/public impasse. For books that identify the problem, see @graceblakeley.substack.com's Vulture Capitalism, @camilavergara.bsky.social's Systemic Corruption, or my own The Master's Tools.

Next Tuesday we have an event at Pelican House featuring Joelson Ferreira de Oliveira & Melka Barros from Teia dos Povos (People's Network), a Brazilian articulation of self-managed communities and territories. Free & open to the public. Register here 👇 tinyurl.com/mh4xvnuw

Daré una charla magistral en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM sobre guerra, oligarquía y corrupción de la democracia. 8 de Abril, 11 am puedjs.unam.mx/conferencia-...

Join us on 10 April 2025, at 4pm BST for a seminar with the authors of our special issue: On the Politics of Recognition. The event will be held on Zoom and live-streamed on YouTube. Register here: tinyurl.com/5fhkuepm. #politicaltheory #theoriajournal @laurencepiper.bsky.social

49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

A second wave of AI-powered McCarthyism is upon us. Nobody is safe and there is no use in hiding. Only a collective frontal response can shield us from the purges. University administrators are complicit and more than willing to comply with the witch hunt.

Who is 'the people' and what is its political power? Tomorrow I will give the James H. Burns Memorial Lecture at University of St. Andrews on 'The People & Constituent Power' in which I will trace 'the people' as a collective subject in intellectual history. events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/insti...

This headline from the nytimes is misleading. Bannon is not a populist (even if he likes calling himself that), but a far-right, christian zionist & economic nationalist. Musk is also the first 2 + a South African self-serving tech oligarch that is weakening the State.

I am happy to share that my article 'Republican Constitutional Thought: Elitist and Plebeian Interpretations of the Mixed Constitution' published in HPT has been making some waves in the field so it was made Open Access by the publisher. Download for free. 👇 www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/i...

In his State of the Union address Trump vowed to impose a mandatory death penalty on those who kill police officers. This is a gross violation of human rights law.

Grotesque, depraved, ilegal. Trump wants to take over Gaza and turn it into an Atlantic City of the Middle East: a place for gambling, lust, gluttony & luxury. From a graveyard of children to an oligarchs’ paradise.

UCLA spent $12.3 million to suppress pro-Palestine protests, resulting in over 200 arrests and withheld degrees. All this to silence students standing against genocide.

The university just decided to cancel our event. Dark times for academic freedom and international law and a very dangerous precedent www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/franc...

@che-utulsa.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/cent...

University of Tulsa is launching a new Center for Heterodox Economics directed by the great Clara Mattei. They have an awesome speaker lineup for its inauguration this Thursday 👇

One of our editors, @camilavergara.bsky.social, delivered a public lecture last week, which is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/b59Yf8Ws7qU?... - 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War and the Destruction of Nature' #republicanism #oligarchy #politicaltheory #TheoriaJournal

The journal Theoria has joined this space. Give us a follow for news on new issues and online roundtables and seminars. 👇

Tomorrow at 2:15 Berlin time - you can still register and join!

The ‘wise few’ veto the deliberated decision of the ‘many’ to condemn the bombing of universities in Gaza. Historians who condone the destruction of archives & universities are a disgrace to the field. The elitist veto must not stand. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

SAVE THE DATE: 20 January, 2:15-5 pm CET I'll give the lecture 'Corrupt Republics: Oligarchy, War & the Destruction of Nature' at the Social Philosophy Colloquium, organized by @robin-c.bsky.social at FU Berlin. Register here 👇 tinyurl.com/yp69y46p

Eugene V. Debs on Jesus, the working-class revolutionist. 1914. jacobin.com/2021/12/debs...

This is terrifying. We are truly going back to the 1930s.

Panel discussion on the 50th anniversary of Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture ‘The Pretence of Knowledge,’ warning against the hubris of the economic establishment. Mark Pennington, Kristian Niemietz & Sean Irving Institute of Economic Affairs 11/12 @ 6 pm iea.org.uk/events/panel...