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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Historical Materialism annual conference in London - plenaries announced www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty... Looking forward to our Marxism & Disability Stream & other panels at the conference in November!

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Twenty-third Annual Conference - Registration is open - Historical Materialism

Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

6th October, 6:30pm BST Second presentation: Based on his book 'Vulnerable Virtuosity: Disability in Concert and Competition' (in-progress), Stefan Sunandan Honisch will addresses matters regarding socialist class struggle & Disability Justice activism marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/d...

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October 2026 – Disablement, Art, and Alienation: Marxist Adventures in Literature and Science (panel event)

We invite MDN members to a panel event with: Saul Leslie – Publication of A Working Title I Want to Change Stefan Sunandan Honisch – Vulnerability: Disablement and the Political Economy of Mus…

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

6th October, 6:30pm BST First presentation: 'Saul Leslie’s novel "A Working Title I Want To Change" explores the dizzying over-lit world of austerity Britain, revealing consumerism’s rituals and illusions in all their comedy and menace' marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/d...

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October 2026 – Disablement, Art, and Alienation: Marxist Adventures in Literature and Science (panel event)

We invite MDN members to a panel event with: Saul Leslie – Publication of A Working Title I Want to Change Stefan Sunandan Honisch – Vulnerability: Disablement and the Political Economy of Mus…

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Joe Gallagher @joedgallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

here myself and @dashflint.bsky.social try to highlight the very real enactment of social m*rder + e*genics happening right now with 3 concrete e.g. in the UK: welfare cuts, c*vid, and (just in time for the very next attempt being voted on next Fri) the assisted su*cide / e*thanasia bill

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The Class Work Project @classworkproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

⚡️ LUMPEN 19 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ⚡️ Disabled and chronically ill people often live in poverty. We want to hear about your crip rage, your crip joy, your crip indifference.. It doesn’t have to be an inspirational story, or a sad one. theclassworkproject.com/lumpen-19-ca...

LUMPEN 19 DISABILITY & CHRONIC ILLNESS
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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' is due to be published in Feb 2027 - available in Open Access and paperback formats It can be preordered from here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disabling-ca... (a 50% discount can be accessed until the end of July)

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The title "Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism, and Disablement" by Ioana Cerasella Chis is displayed on a yellow rectangle.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Brief note: this is a pamphlet that critiques the (very) concept of 'ableism'

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

6th Oct MDN event Disablement, Art, and Alienation - a panel event with: * Saul Leslie – Publication of A Working Title I Want to Change * Stefan Sunandan Honisch – Vulnerability: Disablement & the Political Economy of Music Performance marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/d... #Disability

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October 2026 – Disablement, Art, and Alienation: Marxist Adventures in Literature and Science (panel event)

We invite MDN members to a panel event with: Saul Leslie – Publication of A Working Title I Want to Change Abstract: In the labyrinth of Tesco’s flagship supermarket, precariously employed workers …

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Williams-Findlay concludes that only an analysis of disability rooted in the concrete social, economic and political institutions which enforce disabled people’s exclusion and marginalisation can be the basis for an emancipatory strategy.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

people became dominated and excluded, while ableism merely describes this oppression as a trans-historical, almost ‘natural ‘, fact of living in a world filled with non-disabled people.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

relationship between oppressor and oppressed. Williams-Findlay suggests that each of these uses lead to dead ends: quickly becoming incoherent or circular when tested against the historical record or current political realities. The task of disability analysis is to question why and how impaired

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the Pamphlet’s lead piece, Bob Williams-Findlay argues that ableism is a slippery concept which cannot decide if it is making claims about the beliefs which motivate disabled people’s oppressors, a philosophical claim about society’s response to difference, or a political argument about the

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our first publication concerns how Marxists should approach the concept of ‘ableism’ as a description and explanation of disability oppression; a question which has caused lively debate in the Network since last Spring.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

and expanded versions of debates and disagreements within the Network on questions of theory and political strategy. The Pamphlets are an open forum for members’ writings, and are intended to be a tool for all those fighting against capitalism and the social disability it causes.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are delighted to publish our first Research Pamphlet. This ad hoc, open access series will present written interventions into debates between Marxism and Disability Studies, reflections on ongoing and historical struggles for disability liberation,

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Towards an Historical Materialist Critique of Ableism - first Marxism & Disability Network pamphlet (check website) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/r... #Pamphlet #Marxism #Disability #Ableism

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Missed our September MDN event with Clara Thurner? The video recording is now available on our YouTube playlist: Biocertification in the Capitalist State www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xUM...

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Biocertification in the Capitalist State (with Clara Thurner)

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Missed our June book launch event? The video recording is now available on our YouTube playlist Communist Ontologies (with Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX8... #Disability #Marxism

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Communist Ontologies (with Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky)

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now online: 'Biocertification in the Capitalist State (with Clara Thurner)', organised and hosted by @marxdisability.bsky.social.

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Biocertification in the Capitalist State (with Clara Thurner)

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tomorrow from 6.30pm BST! The link to join the event has been shared with MDN mailing list subscribers.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This event will be taking place on Tuesday next week!

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Looking forward to our autumn series of monthly seminar events! Join us on Tuesday, 1st September, 6:30pm BST for an event with Clara Thurner, who will be presenting on 'Biocertification in the Capitalist State' The abstract is available here: marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/s...

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September 2026 – Clara Thurner: Biocertification in the Capitalist State

Abstract: This paper aims to understand anti-disability laws from a historical materialist standpoint as crisis management of capitalist states. While disability theorists have mostly interpreted s…

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Friday next week! Join the book launch jointly organised with CAPPE (University of Brighton)

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Friday, 19th June, 3pm BST Book launch: Communist Ontologies by Bruno Gullì and Richard Gilman-Opalsky This event is co-organised/co-hosted by MDN and the University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/

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Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network

To receive the links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. Coming up in 2026: On the first Tuesday of the month (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT Friday, 19th June, 3pm BST: Boo…

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Don't forget - this event will be taking place on Tuesday, 2nd of June from 6:30pm BST! Join us.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This collective discussion will be taking place today from 6:30pm BST!

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

For the 5th May MDN session (from 6:30pm BST), the Steering Committee are inviting MDN members to a collective discussion about: * The Disability Stream at the HM Conference * MDN–Notes from Below Issue on Disability & Work * MDN–SLSA Special Issue * Pamphlets * Other activities #Marxism #Disability

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Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I love this in its own right, but also because it reminds me of when I started a non-serious campaign against time as an undergrad because I had an essay due too soon, and then spent the years after journeying through a crip[/]time awakening.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Call for Abstracts - submit by 15 May Marxism & Disability Stream at the Historical Materialism conference 2026 MDN looks forward to hosting the first designated stream related to Marxism & Disability at the HM London conference (5-8 Nov) Details here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

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Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our event today! The May MDN event will take place on the 5th of May from 6:30pm BST Sibin Eldhose: Excluded from Power: Disability and the Political Economy of Civic Worth

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This event is due to start in less than 2 hours! Join us.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

After a Workers' Inquiry workshop co-hosted with Notes from Below (in Jan) & a co-organised book review symposium event (in Mar), we're excited to announce 9 more events for 2026! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/ Joining links will be shared on the MDN mailing list ahead of each event

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Missed our event yesterday? Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing The video recording is now available on our Youtube Playlist/the HM Channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Yd...

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The Machinistic Production of the ‘Defective Worker’ (with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni)

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Starting in 40 minutes! Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Reminder - the March MDN event with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni will take place on Tuesday next week from 6:30pm GMT! #Disability #Marxism

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you'd like to catch up on some of our past events, our playlist with 33 video-recorded (and public) events is available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

24th March 2026, 6:30pm UK time – Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni: The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’: A technoableist analysis of labour in digitalized warehousing marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...

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This paper investigates how the digitalisation of work reconfigures the understanding of workers, their labour, and their value. Drawing on technoableism theory, which foregrounds how technologies establish new normative, disabling standards of capability, we analyse the shifting ontology of the worker in digitally intensive workplaces. We base our study on extensive qualitative data collected with managers, workers, trade union representatives, technology providers, labour market intermediaries, and local authorities across 12 warehouses in three European logistic hubs. Our analysis shows how warehouse workers are problematized as fallible, defective productive resources through systematic comparison with digital technologies, and how these latter are conversely constructed as necessary to enhance, fix and “save” them. In this way, a negative ontology of the human as disabled, generic labour power, holding at best residual “soft” skills, is established, within which any claim to the value generated is pre-emptively undermined. Our study shows that technoableism offers a powerful theoretical lens to interrogate and demystify the worker empowerment trope at the core of Industry 5.0.

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Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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