Sofia Näsström examines the possibilities for democratic self-defense, proposing the social security approach as well as examining common objections against it, in her article published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...

New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: Immediacy, mediation and praxis: reading @annakornbluh.bsky.social through the lens of Guy Debord. The article is currently open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another article I commissioned for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social neoliberalism–fascism special issue is now out! It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.

Check out my new article published @distinktionjournal.bsky.social on contrarianism as a cultural practice enabled by the institutional logic of Silicon Valley VC. Read it here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: “A new political diagonal? how students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

My paper on Castoriadis and workplace struggles over digital technology in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social received an issue number. When Big Tech today looks like an unstoppable force of destruction, I hope we can still see how to contest oppressive technologies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'A science of stereotypes: paranoiac-critical forays within the medium of information' @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...

My special issue proposal on Silicon Valley has been accepted by @distinktionjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Excited to work with great contributors: Sherryl Vint, Hugh O’Connell, Jeannette Estruth, Susannah Glickman, Matthew Darmour, Erdogan Sima, & Max Haiven. More to come but for now, celebrating this win!

Contra the presumption of a rational public sphere, Eeva Luhtakallio @luhtakallio.bsky.social and Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social show that fame matters for how value is publicly assigned www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social argues that we should think Marx's critique of the Srate through the concept of alienation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

William Davies @will-davies.bsky.social makes the case that we should take reaction seriously as subjective and social expressions in the digital public sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

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...

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...

Great to see that Alberto Toscano publishes in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social, where he discusses how the young Lukács viewed life as resistant to transformation under modern capitalism and explored the potential for self-transformation in modern drama. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Henry Maher is organizing a special issue for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social, on "The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus." If you are interested in contributing to this timely topic, please send an abstract to Henry at [email protected]. Details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Our beautiful journal, @distinktionjournal.bsky.social, has released its new issue, which includes our article on Avengers: Endgame. We are so happy that it has been assigned an issue number! Additionally, we have 50 free copies available. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's alive! New issue out now. Open Access. cambridge.org/core/journal... It's got everything you need: currency internationalization, infrastructural ambivalence, sustainable finance, and a whole forum on the rise of central banks. Come one, come all, bring your friends.

As one of the co-editors overseeing special issues/the new forum exchange section at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social , I've commissioned my first task. A forum exchange centered on the book "Global Libidinal Economy." Huge thanks to all contributors and reviewers! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"[I]n resisting fascism, critical theorists have too readily taken fascist projects at their word." moneyontheleft.org/2021/07/05/t...

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....

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....

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....

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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