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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Want to study Poulantzas but don't know where to begin? My next course with @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social starts this Tuesday, 9/15! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Syllabus writing for my upcoming @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social course on the theory and practice of dictatorship. A few spots are still available—we start on March 3! (Link below)

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Curtis Sliwa looks like he is ready to negotiate the transition to democracy in a southern European country after the generalissimo has died.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Barack hitting the phones between now and November

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Pulling up to the Capital reading group with this

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a snake oil man

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Not sure. I emailed asking for an explanation.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Playing with no rhythm or melody whatsoever to introduce my child to atonal music.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I visited my mom yesterday, and she sent me back home with a platter full of gata.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I mapped the road trip from The Irishman. 10 hours, or three days (with cigarette breaks)

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It's a warm fall evening in 2006, you're taking the Q back home to Brooklyn from an afternoon in the city, your s/o is napping on your shoulder, your iPod is synced, tomorrow is a Friday.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This has lived rent-free in my head since I became a parent.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Still making my way through it, but Alex Anievas' and Kerem Nişancioğlu's How the West Came to Rule is such an impressive work. It's rare to encounter a theoretical synthesis that takes important insights from often opposed interpretations and fuses them into something original.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That one time Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran crossed paths with Joe Biden in 1972:

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"Democracy enthusiast, helping turn TX Blue"

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Is there a special BlueSky lab that designs guys like this or

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

They know exactly what they're doing with this.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#tbt turkey insurrection, North Providence, RI, Thanksgiving Day 2019

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Found the two-volume 1939 NatGeo Book of Birds at a Providence thrift store. Look at these beautiful illustrations of now extinct species: the passenger pigeon, ivory billed woodpecker, and Carolina parakeet.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ray Rodrigues, Chancellor of the University of Florida system, taking an already stupid metaphor to its logical conclusion:

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Midlands Working Group of the Conference of Socialist Economists spent 6 months (!) carefully reading and discussing our volume to produce this review. I completely agree with their critiques, not least of all about the prohibitive price tag.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thinking about this graphic from the Simpsons' McBain film "universe"

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I wrote this back in January 2017:

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Danish Marxism circa 1972: Althusser on the ideological state apparatuses, Poulantzas on Marxism and law

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great first session of The Origins of Capitalism with @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Feeling exhausted and exhilarated. Exhaularated.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

They say Edmund Burke never recovered from this:

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Local man walks into woods, doesn't return

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

The Irishman is a Christmas movie.

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Diasporans whenever they have to deal with Hayastantsis

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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Our volume was published today! Grateful to everyone who participated in the conversations over the past few years and helped make this possible. We hope to make as much of the volume as possible widely accessible, and to organize public events around it. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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