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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

This is where I find myself in a slightly awkward position. I don't unequivocally love the university either - and not only because it is not what it used to be. I don't buy the idea of a lost 'golden age' (although I can say from personal experience that things were far better even one decade ago than they are now). Nor can I take seriously the image of academics in general - either now or in some hallowed past - as noble truth-seekers chipping away at the coalface of enquiry, or brave truth-speakers to power. Much of what academics do is pointless or worse - pretentious or pernicious (or both). I'm far from confident, much of the time, that what I do has much positive value to anybody. So, why save the university? One reason is simply that there are numerous exceptions to every rule. A lot of academic work might be bad and useless, but even I don't think that all of it is bad and useless all of the time.
That might sound a feeble defence, but it's actually not at all. Most films might not be good. Most scientific experiments might not work. Most people you meet will not become your friends. But making or seeing no films (or cutting funding for independent film-making), conducting no experiments or meeting no people, is a sure way to guarantee that none of the good that comes of these things (even if only exceptionally) ever happens. There is a huge - technically infinite - difference between something and nothing.

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Hannah Richter @hannahrichter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Very excited to see my article "When Resistance Turns Right: Counter-Conduct and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism" out in EJST! It interrogates the conceptual space that allows authoritarian populists to successfully mobilise resistance narratives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are thrilled to host an online launch event for the fantastic special issue on 'The neoliberal-fascist nexus' coming out in April edited by Henry Maher. The event will take place on 22nd April at 9am BST/6pm Sydney time. Details and tickets here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lgx0Cj8Oxu...

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The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus Special Issue Launch

Please join us for the launch of our special issue ‘The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus’ in Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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/...

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When ‘Peace and Security’ Means Arming Genocide

On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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...

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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....

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Trumpism, fascism and neoliberalism

The recent US presidential election has re-energised a debate about Trumpism and fascism that has been percolating since 2015. This debate has unfolded in stark binary terms of presence or absence....

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DVPW Early Career Gruppe Internationale Beziehungen @ecib-dvpw.de · 21/03/2025

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!

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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.

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Nicolas Gäckle @nfgaeckle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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!

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Katharina Wezel @kawezel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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.

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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...

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Volume 25, Issue 3 of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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...

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

Explore the current issue of Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2024

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

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....

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

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....

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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

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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Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory @distinktionjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Distinktion is now on bluesky! Follow for updates on new papers, issues and all things critical social theory!

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Hannah Richter @hannahrichter.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

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...

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Hannah Richter @hannahrichter.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

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...

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