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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 12/06/2026

“The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.” - Stuart Hall: Gramsci and Us www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Gramsci always insisted that hegemony is not exclusively an ideological phenomenon. There can be no hegemony without the decisive nucleus of the economic. On the other hand, do not fall into the trap of the old mechanical economism and believe that, if you can only get hold of the economy, you can move the rest of life. The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation
to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions. The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order. The question which faced Gramsci in relation to Italy faces us now in relation to Britain: what is the nature of this new civilisation?
Hegemony is not a state of grace which is installed forever.
It's not a formation which incorporates everybody. The notion of a 'historical bloc' is precisely different from that of a pacified, homogeneous, ruling class.
It entails a quite different conception of how social forces and movements, in their diversity, can be articulated into a set of strategic alliances. To construct a new cultural order, you need not to reflect an already-formed collective will, but to fashion a new one, to inaugurate a new historic project.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Many thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 02/04/2026

The third set of postdocs in our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 will be based across the road from LSE at KCL with @uditbhatia.bsky.social and focus on popular government in the global south my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 29/03/2026

Stuart Hall on conjunctural analysis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHph... sociologytwynham.com/wp-content/u... pod.link/1544487624/e... thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 27/03/2026

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

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Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sometimes Tony Negri's work is criticised for being too pessimistic, in arguing that material labour is largely powerless now. But if this is right, it means Negri wasn't pessimistic enough: he thought that cognitive capitalism would at least have to rent our intelligences from us to function.

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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

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PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 25/02/2026

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

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Jack Wilkinson @jackwilkinson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📣 Call for Abstracts! Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)! Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y... Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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Jack Wilkinson @jackwilkinson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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Charlotte Kuberka @charlottekuberka.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

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Cèlia Estruch @celiaestruch.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 21/07/2025

Famously, fascism was defeated in the marketplace of ideas. With debate.

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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My highly contingent and partial take on Gen AI in Higher Education is this: the biggest problem with Gen AI isn't brazen cheating or dishonesty. It's the normalisation of seemingly minor things being incorrect: call it a 'close enough' mentality.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"Many Americans are done with what they perceive as an unacceptable status quo." 🗽 Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social argues that whilst #Mamdani’s victory surprised the Democratic establishment, it tallies with an increasingly #polarised #US #electorate. 👇🏽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

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Does Mamdani’s victory show that ‘radical’ is the new normal? - LSE Government Blog

Jan H. Wasserziehr argues Mamdani's victory shows an increasingly polarised US electorate is deserting the 'centre' in search of real change and radical ideas.

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

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The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA

Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...

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Isolde Hegemann @isoldehegemann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thanks to Daniel James (TU Dresden) for a great talk on racialized oppression, followed by a great exchange. An absolutely brilliant research seminar.

Daniel James in front of a slide about some challenges for racial eliminativists.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .

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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 25/04/2025

I always knew that one day I’d be able to do something with this meme

2 panel meme of Kadir Mısıroğlu - memri tv meme style.

Top panel Kadir leans forward and caption says “There was no one called John Rawls because John Rawls was not an American”

Bottom panel Kadir leans back and caption says “His real name was Junaid al-Rāwī! He was a secret Muslim!”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My theory: the relative decline in power of a certain kinda woke humanities set (post-2020) happened in some part because when a crisis came and America was relatively receptive they just had no workable policies. "Abolish the police" just weren't it, but it was the only slogan that broke through...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 10/04/2025

Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 09/04/2025

I want to believe 😭

A four-panel meme using scenes from SpongeBob SquarePants. In the first panel, Mr. Krabs (labeled “Me”) is angrily pointing and saying “All right, get lost, all of ya. You’re fired. Go on. Scram.” In the second panel, a crowd of fish (labeled “Political Theories”) is being shooed away while Mr. Krabs says, “Get out of here, you moochers. That’s right, keep moving.” In the third panel, Mr. Krabs turns to one remaining character and says, “Except you. You stay.” In the fourth panel, a goofy-looking clown is smiling with arms outstretched, labeled “Historical Materialism.”

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social is organising an exciting conference on 10th June about AI, consiousness, and morality. Register here: www.eventbrite.de/e/lse-worksh...

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Kai Spiekermann @kspiekermann.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@jackwilkinson.bsky.social told me about this saying today. It will stay with me for a while.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 12/03/2025

about to crack this case wide open

Google Books Ngram Viewer graph showing frequency of the terms "epistemic" (blue line) and "metaphysical" (red line) in English-language books from 1800 to 2022. The "metaphysical line" shows higher usage throughout most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with peaks around 1830. The epistemic line remains near zero until about 1930, then rises dramatically after 1960, eventually surpassing metaphysical around 2018. Both terms show significant increases in usage from the 1980s onward.

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 26/02/2025

A slightly experimental blogpost. More of a scrapbook if anything. "The Gramsci of Life" www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

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‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory

The LSE’s Department of Government in collaboration with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) is pleased to announce its first conference in Feminist, Gender and Queer theory. In a context...

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social

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Dr Maxime Lepoutre – Department of Politics and International Relations

Dr Maxime Lepoutre, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations.

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 12/12/2024

I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our PhD student @yusufimaadkhan.com presenting on genealogical anxiety to our weekly POTY research seminar

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it

Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 24/11/2024

Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one. Code: observablehq.com/d/a207f5c57a...

Bar chart comparing global military spending in 2023, at $2.44 trillion, with the newly agreed annual climate finance goal of $300 billion. The military spending bar, styled as a serpentine blue bar, is about 8 times longer than the pink bar representing the climate finance goal. The title reads, 'Global military spending in 2023 was about 8x larger than the newly agreed annual climate finance goal,' with a subtitle noting, 'Outcome of COP29. Excludes inflation.' Source: Leo Hickman; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Graphic: Yusuf Imaad Khan.

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Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

thinking about this wonderful column from 2017 with the title "The Closed Society and Its Friends; A Defense of the Echo Chamber", written by Center for Wild Analysis, a Danish philosophy collective: "There is much talk about the dangers of social media turning into echo chambers, where we... 1/4

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LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We've put together a starker pack for political theorists based at LSE go.bsky.app/12JJvRZ

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 19/11/2024

It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 18/11/2024

And @cristinaconesa.bsky.social 🤝🫡🎉

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

A comic depicting 12 different types of political theory paper, with titles poking fun at different types of paper.

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