A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Effrayant.

#6 "Frontières" is the print version of online media "Livre Noir", a sort of French Breitbart news. It was created by far-right journalist and activist Erik Tegnér, with financial backing of businessman Gérault Verny (owner of an industry SMB, now also far-right MP)...

#5 Vincent Bolloré continues to reshape French publishing. He has just fired Olivier Nora, the CEO of Grasset, a prestigious publisher. Grasset published Proust's first volume in 1913. it published left-wing figures, such as Paul B. Preciado and Virginie Despentes...

#4 Rassemblement National recruited François Durvye as "special advisor" for Jordan Bardella on 1 April 2026. François Durvye is a former private equity fund CEO for Otium Capital, the fund of Pierre-Edouard Sterin. He says he plans to be "a bridge between the business community and the party"...

Maintenant que les petits télégraphistes réactionnaires s'inquiètent pour la suite après la défaite d'Orbán, je rappelle qu'Erik Tegnér, le patron de Frontières, a grenouillé dans un de ces think tanks proches du pouvoir hongrois au moment du lancement de Livre Noir. www.telerama.fr/debats-repor...

C'est ce soir! Venez 👇👇

#2 The real king of French capitalism, LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault (worth $165bn), has had dinner with Marine Le Pen yesterday. Arnault used to say he would "never" meet Rassemblement National leaders. Expect a paragraph on French luxury sector "industrial champions" in the coming RN manifesto...

So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵 #1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

L'extrême-droite est aux portes du pouvoir en France. Et que font les grands patrons pour lutter contre cette menace ? Ils dinent avec Marine Le Pen pour s'assurer que le RN agirait en faveur du patronat.

Quoi de commun entre le milliardaire d'extrême-droite Peter Thiel, figure des franges réactionnaires du transhumanisme de la Silicon Valley, et la philosophe féministe Donna Haraway, influence majeure de la pensée féministe des années 1990? Au premier abord, rien. Et pourtant...

Trump-backing US hedge fund billionaire (Bill Ackman) handing €16.5bn to Le Pen-backing French fossil billionaire (Vincent Bolloré) to acquire the world's largest music group. All good 🙃 www.ft.com/content/3322...

Depuis pas loin de 5 ans, @provokedeconomy.bsky.social étudie NESARA/GESARA, cette théorie de la conspiration selon laquelle les Etats ont été abolis par le Congrès américain au profit d'un système qui donnerait à chacun-e droit à sa part de l'or détenu dans la banque centrale de son pays...

Des théories du complot aux utopies anarcho-capitalistes, en passant par la SF suprémaciste, l'extrême droite a fait des genres spéculatifs l’un de ses instruments culturels par excellence. On en parle le 14 avril prochain à 19h pour la soirée de lancement de notre numéro "Spéculation/réaction"...

On the 15th of Mai, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss Reimagining Care: Accounting, Political Economy, and the Financialization of Life. Registration link buytickets.at/queenmaryuni... - with @shirinmrai.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social , but also with...

et cette extrême droite proche du peuple, elle est avec nous dans cette pièce ?

The HEPI white paper waffles, doesn’t clarify what ‘populism’ means in this context, insists universities must listen to concerns of a nebulous ‘the public’ (via elected politicians) but reading between the lines it subtly advocates universities comply in advance of a possible Reform government

#LAutreRevueDePresse #LuVuEntendu Les petites phrases qui tuent... "Faut-il baisser les prix américains aux niveaux français ou cesser de fournir la France? Il faut cesser de fournir la France" Albert Bourla, PDG de Pfizer 1/2

Crikey. Read this (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...) for more detail

"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing" www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

this may be the most English man ever to exist.

"Spéculation / Réaction" @ Multitudes 101 www.multitudes.net/category/l-e...

SF suprémaciste, utopies anarcho-capitalistes, théories de la conspiration libertariennes : que faire quand l'extrême-droite s'approprie les genres spéculatifs? C'est la question que Boris Le Roy et moi-même explorons dans le numéro de Multitudes avec notre dossier "Spéculation/réaction"...

Glad to have contributed to the 2026 "State of Power" of Transnational Institute with an interview on "Follow the money: The business interests behind the far-right"! 👇

Happy to have been interviewed for @rfi.fr 's latest "Spotlight on France" podcast on drug prices and Trump's threats! An episode that you can listen to here:

Intéressant que les fortunes de la tech qui cherchent à "vaincre la mort" comme s'il s'agissait d'une idéologie à combattre se nomment entre eux les "Vitalistes", une ontologie chérie du fascisme qui pense la vitesse et la jeunesse comme hygiène du monde. www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/29/1...

Yes, please do come! 🙂👇

Ute Tellmann @ CSI 09.02.2026 : 'Financialization and Assetization as a Politics of Property' www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/agenda-en...

Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

'In total, the 20 universities spent £8.3 million on remuneration for their vice-chancellors. The accounts also reveal they collectively let go almost 7,000 staff in the same year – costing £124.6 million in compensation for loss of office.'

👋🏼Coucou c'est nous 😈 📆Les parisien·nes rdv le 04 février ? 🕢19h30 à la librairie le Monte-en-l'air, Paris 20è 📙Lancement de notre dossier "Trahir la blanchité" ✅Disponible en ligne et à la vente dans qques jours 🗣️Chauds pour venir en parler dans vos labos, librairies prèfs, orga, asso ou syndicat

Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health 2 February 2026, 6:15pm @ucl-ccs.bsky.social welcome authors Susi Geiger @susigeiger.bsky.social & Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social to present their new book. Chaired by Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Definitely one for the 2026 reading list. Peak Pharma by @susigeiger.bsky.social & @theobourgeron.bsky.social. Open access @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/book/61632?l...

"J'ai dit au chef de la France: 'Je suis désolé mais tu vas devoir tripler le prix des médicaments.' 'Non, non, non, je ne ferai pas ça!' 'Oh si, je t'assure que tu vas le faire.'" Ainsi Donald Trump racontait-il lors d'un meeting son échange récent avec Emmanuel Macron...

Compelling EU states to pay more for US drugs, forcing EU firms to lower drug prices in the US. In our column w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social for @theguardian.com, we show how Trump wants Europeans to pay for sky-high pharma profits, in a context where US citizens can't accept more extortionate prices...

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Our Happy New Year present for 2026: a new, clearer version of our ShinyApp to explore central banker speeches! Please try it out, and reach out if you encounter any problems, or have any suggestions to improve it for your use case (and of course, our underlying CBS database is still open access)

Compelling EU states to pay more for US drugs, forcing EU firms to lower drug prices in the US. In our column w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social for @theguardian.com, we show how Trump wants Europeans to pay for sky-high pharma profits, in a context where US citizens can't accept more extortionate prices...

¡Regala poesía anarco-paranoide a tus seres queridos! ¡Disponible por encargo en las mejores librerías, y en las peores! tienda.rileditores.com/q/detalle?p2...

Out: Peak Pharma @susigeiger.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

📢 Tomorrow - Seminar with Théo Bourgeron ⤵️ His research reevaluates the relationship between the French far right and business circles. 🗓️ 11 December - 12.30 to 2 pm 📍Sciences Po & on Zoom More info & registration: www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Content d'avoir pu développer quelques digressions avec les élèves de l'ESAC sur les imaginaires d'extrême-droite et les transformations de "l'arbre symbolique du capitalisme", sur invitation de @fabricesabatier.bsky.social ...

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!