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Matthew Fluck

@mattfluck.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations University of Westminster International Theory | Critical Theory | Transparency | Utopia

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Delighted to find this beast in the post
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Well actually, funny you should mention it… @ajawoods.bsky.social is visiting our Centre for the Study of Democracy in a few weeks to discuss this. It’s a great book, so I’m excited to be on the panel www.westminster.ac.uk/events/the-c...
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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory: A panel discussion
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This @versobooks.bsky.social book 👇 will be of wide interest - tracing the weird fixation on the Frankfurt School by the far right I'm guessing @mattfluck.bsky.social will have views.... www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy
“Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/03/2026
Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Reclaiming Utopia in IR: Problems and Prospects now has a cover 👇 which means it is almost a real thing @mattfluck.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/reclaiming-u...
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Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations
Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations - Problems and Prospects; Bringing together a diverse list of contributors from Europe, Australia and North America, this book challenges conventional wisd...
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"... the specifics of the relationship between Anthropic and the Department of Defense... highlight more general contradictions in the Trump coalition between executive-authority enthusiasts and Silicon Valley oligarch-wannabes" -- @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...
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Who loses from the Anthropic fight? Maybe Elon Musk and Alex Karp.
Arbitrary state power can cut in many directions
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
‘“No appearance, always reality”: Rousseau, transparency, and the international’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... My latest article in the new issue of Journal of International Political Theory
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is a really great piece that explains how Jeffrey Epstein and the people he sought out are united by the ideology that underpins the global fascist project.
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
‘“No appearance, always reality”: Rousseau, transparency, and the international’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... My latest article in the new issue of Journal of International Political Theory
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17/02/2026
The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition: ft.trib.al/MMgA4v4
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The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders
The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Studentship alert! We’ve got three PhD studentships on offer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster.
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MPhil/PhD Studentships in the School of Social Sciences | University of Westminster, London
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Looking forward to our final Westminster CSD seminar of the year tomorrow. Joe Davidson on apocalyptic imaginaries and the black radical tradition. Join us if you can!
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CSD Seminar: ‘Apocalyptic abolitionists: the black radical tradition and the end of white democracy’ with Dr Joe P. L. Davidson (Loughborough)
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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
Text from Minima Moralia, 72: ‘To a child returning from holiday…’
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thanks to a great team of contributors: William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026 #utopiainIR
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Matthew Fluck @mattfluck.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Great piece on the LRB blog. Fascism is “not fundamentally a problem of ignorance” or of “bad information”
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Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
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Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938)
On dialectics and dialogue
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year #polisky
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