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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THE PROGRAMME IS HERE 💥 The programme for the 11th conference is now ready and we are happy to share it with friend & foes of Danish Marxism alike! We look forward to seeing you all for two smashing days in Copenhagen with great presentations, keynotes, and socialising in just over a week 🥰

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Mathias Hein Jessen @mhjessen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How do analogies between states and firms shape competing political and economic visions? I’m looking for a PhD researcher and a postdoc to help me explore this question in my new research project at Copenhagen Business School. Links below 👇

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The launch of the Danish translation of David Graeber’s “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” [Om fænomenet skodjob] was great thanks to brilliant contributions from @candmageloes.bsky.social @eskilhalberg.bsky.social @machinemarx.bsky.social and everyone else who came out.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is today!

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One more thing... 👀 At our 11th conference we will not only have two exicting keynotes for you but for the first time also an extra event: A special plenary session with the FREEDOM OF MOVEMENTS research collective!

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am glad to see my article "Sketch of a Political Theory of States of Exception” out in @paradoks.nu's "Philosophical-Theoretical Yearbook." It summarizes the findings of my research project “Politics of the Exception” funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk in Danish. Full text: paradoks.nu/wp-content/u...

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First page of an article titled “Skitse af en politisk teori om undtagelsestilstande” (Sketch of a Political Theory of States of Exception) by Mikkel Flohr

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have been invited to present my Sapere Aude research Project "Populism and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Anti-Populism" tonight at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. More info (in Danish) here: royalacademy.dk/event/foredr...

Pictures of four researchers on a flier from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters announcing am event with presentations of Sapere Aude research projects.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I translated David Graeber’s “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: a Work Rant” into Danish and wrote an afterword. Release event at BCAB on the 18. September with contributions from @candmageloes.bsky.social, @machinemarx.bsky.social , and @eskilhalberg.bsky.social. More info here dukop.dk/10442/

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BOGLANCERING: David Graeber: Om fænomenet skodjob - BCAB - Bogcaféen almindelig brand - Duk Op!

Fredag d. 18. september kl. 17 - 19BCAB, Baldersgade 70, 2200 København N, København I 1930 fo…

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The fruit of my postdoc academic labor (!) + that of my co-editors and 38 brilliant contributing authors... The Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and Ideas, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social open access 💕 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205417...

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The Aesthetics of Machine Vision

The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspect...

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

YOU'LL WANNA STAY FOR THIS 👇😮 We are beyond happy to announce the second keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: EVA VON REDECKER! Eva will be giving a keynote talk titled "The Freedom to Stay. On Emancipation from Negative Liberty".

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I will be in exceptionally good company later today at the annual Danish Historian’s Meeting at Copenhagen University on a panel about the people, presenting my paper “What is the Problem with Populism? Contribution to the Genealogy of Anti-Populism”

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Laura Horn @lauralohorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Voice of Hind Rajab screening at @roskildeuni.bsky.social on Tuesday 22 September 🍉 Join us if you're around campus; it's free and everybody is welcome. After the film there will be a discussion with a panel and the audience. Organised by #TuesdaysForGaza at RUC

a poster announcing the film screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at Roskilde University on 22 September 2026

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Dagbladet Information @information.dk · 24/08/2026

Information har desværre ladet sig skræmme af de økonomiske overdommere, når avisen kalder sænkelsen af fødevaremomsen for uklog. Prisen på mad er klassekamp – og derfor må vi ikke overgive os, skriver Eskil Halberg i denne klumme.

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Debat: Information underkaster sig de borgerlige økonomiske klogeåger i sag om madmoms

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The new issue of “Kultur & Klasse” on Palestine is amazing. It contains brilliant texts by Sune Haugbølle and Maj Ørskov as well as translations of texts by Saree Makdisi, Ilan Pappé, Sami Khatib, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Gilles Deleuze, Franco Fortini Edward Said, and Salman Rushdie. Open access.

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Årg. 53 Nr. 151 (2026): Palæstina | K&K - Kultur og Klasse

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In other news..... REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 🎉 Register for FREE for our 11th conference, "Freedom", at Copenhagen Business School, 2-3 October 2026. You can also register for the conference dinner (limited availability). See you there 😍 Link below 👇

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

BIG NEWS 💥 We are excited and proud to announce the first keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: ROBERT KNOX (@pashukanist.bsky.social). Rob will be delivering a keynote talk titled 'Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law'.

Portrait of Dr Robert Knox from the University of Liverpool.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The good people at Political Theology are promoting the special issue on “Marx and Revolution” that @s-msorentino.bsky.social and I edited with graphics on some other sites. Resharing here. Go check it out.

Graphic from "Political Theology" with a picture of an academic article titled "Turning the Wold Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" by Mikkel Flohr with a picture of the author and a background with images of a protest where a number of people are raising clenched fists

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" that I edited with @s-msorentino.bsky.social has just been published. It is 232 pages, contains two introductory essays, ten articles, and two response essays. It can all be found here www.tandfonline.com/toc/ypot20/2.... 1/15

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’m very happy to announce that I have received a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) for my project "Populism and Its Discontents (PAID): Towards a Genealogy of Anti-Populism." (1/3) dff.dk/en/about-the...

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40 new Sapere Aude Research Leaders awarded DKK 249 million

Forty researchers will now have the opportunity to pursue their own research ideas and strengthen their role as the research leaders of the future. Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded DKK 24...

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just learned that the great historian of The Russian Revolution Alexander Rabinowitch has passed away at the age of 91. I never met him, but his brilliant studies of the revolution in Petrograd have had a massive impact on my thinking since I first encountered them in high school.

The cover of Alexander Rabinowitch's 1976 book "The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd"

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40 new Sapere Aude Research Leaders awarded DKK 249 million

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Signed, sealed, delivered. Open letter signed by 200 Danish academics protesting the prosecution of five student protesters from Students against the Occupation who partook in the blockade of the central administration of the University of Copenhagen in 2024.

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200 ansatte på danske universiteter: Vores studerende skal ikke retsforfølges

Vi er 200 ansatte på danske universiteter, der siger fra over for retsforfølgelsen af fem studerende, der deltog i en fredelig blokade på deres eget universitet

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

if you do not read the 2017 draft chapters of the dissertation version of Mute Compulsion can you even call yourself a Danish Marxist?? smh

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

More Danish Marxism than you’ll know what to do with 💫

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200 ansatte på danske universiteter: Vores studerende skal ikke retsforfølges

Vi er 200 ansatte på danske universiteter, der siger fra over for retsforfølgelsen af fem studerende, der deltog i en fredelig blokade på deres eget universitet

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Excited to report that "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" has been published online. It introduces the forthcoming special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" that I co-edited with @s-msorentino.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/1462...

A screen cap of the first page of a pdf of a journal article titled "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" by Mikkel Flohr from the journal Political Theology. It shows the title, the abstract and part of the text.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rest in power Marjane Sartrapi (1969-2026)

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nancy Fraser on Gaza and philosemitic McCarthyism in Europe and the US: “anti-woke war against the universities—and against civil society more broadly—came straight from McCarthy’s playbook, painting campuses as incubators of intolerance, where ‘Marxist professors’ oppressed conservative students.”

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Nancy Fraser, Gaza as World Event, NLR 158, March–April 2026

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the ...

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I've just gotten through the second of two major interviews this week and I am now heading back to Copenhagen to discuss 120+ abstracts and make the selection for the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in October. Not sure what day it is, but it's already been one hell of a week.

Famous meme of captain Haddock from Tintin saying “What a week, huh?” And Tintin responding “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

'The University of Hertfordshire’s decision to “suspend” five humanities undergraduate courses is a further stark warning about how readily higher education has jettisoned its former commitment to such subjects.' 1/4

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Market competition is hollowing out humanities in England

Hertfordshire’s announcement of course closures is the latest example of a dynamic that cuts off non-traditional students from non-vocational courses, says Dragan Plavsic

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Had a great time presenting my research on "Populism and Antipopulism in the Climate Debate" at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters yesterday. Lots of great presentations and thought-provoking questions and discussions.

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The author presenting at a lectern in front of an audience in the old auditorium at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Ben-Gvir, a key ally of Trump and Israel’s Minister of National Security, as well as leader of the far-right ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, posted a video of himself verbally abusing and mocking international human rights defenders while they were chained, forced to kneel, and abused.

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Please sign to support colleagues and comrades fired from University of Essex Business School

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It is international workers' day of struggle! There is still a world to win. The struggle continues.

Demonstration with raised fists in front of a banner reading “lotta continua” (the struggle continues” in Italian)

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Rushing to submit my abstract to the 11th Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. 2-3 October 2026. Deadline is tomorrow. marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Tupac said it decades ago and it continues to be true that we always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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Liberal arts fields like
History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I wrote an article on the emerging “global war regime” – a condition in which war is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly generalized mode of governance shaped by geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, securitization, and authoritarian drift. portolan-journal.org?post=thinkin...