Ominous name at the present conjuncture
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Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge
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Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge
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Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government and Rokos Professorship of Government
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September 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Ominous name at the present conjuncture
It always seems odd to me when people criticize a book that is an attempt to describe its conjuncture by arguing that "has not held up" after time. Was the book wrong, or has the conjuncture passed.
September 22, 2026 at 5:05 PM
It always seems odd to me when people criticize a book that is an attempt to describe its conjuncture by arguing that "has not held up" after time. Was the book wrong, or has the conjuncture passed.
solid first attempt at a theory of the current conjuncture: escalating decline
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
solid first attempt at a theory of the current conjuncture: escalating decline
🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
What is a Conjuncture? And why does it matter? thisconjuncture.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
What is a Conjuncture?
And why does it matter?
thisconjuncture.substack.com
August 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
What is a Conjuncture? And why does it matter? thisconjuncture.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere.
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch...
thedigradio.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Our world crisis of ecology, economics, and empire, has continued to metastasize. It is shaking confidence in established worldviews & ruling elites everywhere.
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
@iliasalami.bsky.social & @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I chatted about @thepolycrisis.bsky.social
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; Dem establishment collapse; resurgent left. Recorded live @socialismconference.org www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...
Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant
Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to ...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; Dem establishment collapse; resurgent left. Recorded live @socialismconference.org www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
Sloppy conjuncture with no data and trying to conflate an unfounded syphilis disgnosis with Trump’s low moral character is gross and irresponsible
Do we know what’s up with Trump’s neck? Is it syphilis?
March 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Sloppy conjuncture with no data and trying to conflate an unfounded syphilis disgnosis with Trump’s low moral character is gross and irresponsible
Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment.
The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future.
My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future.
My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 14, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment.
The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future.
My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future.
My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Bring back psychoanalysis as the core method in social and political science. The only useful approaches for this conjuncture are Freudomarxism and Lacanianism.
June 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bring back psychoanalysis as the core method in social and political science. The only useful approaches for this conjuncture are Freudomarxism and Lacanianism.
Alexander Stubb on Suomen presidenteistä ensimmäinen, joka ei ole ylellisen, etuoikeutetun ja hemmotellun elämänsä aikana kokenut koskaan mitään vaikeuksia tai vastoinkäymisiä (vrt. pelkästään edeltäjänsä).
Tämä on merkittävä conjuncture presidentti-instituution historiassa.
Tämä on merkittävä conjuncture presidentti-instituution historiassa.
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Alexander Stubb on Suomen presidenteistä ensimmäinen, joka ei ole ylellisen, etuoikeutetun ja hemmotellun elämänsä aikana kokenut koskaan mitään vaikeuksia tai vastoinkäymisiä (vrt. pelkästään edeltäjänsä).
Tämä on merkittävä conjuncture presidentti-instituution historiassa.
Tämä on merkittävä conjuncture presidentti-instituution historiassa.
This is one of the most lucid discussions of Britain’s current conjuncture (and of liberalism’s more generally) that I’ve heard
‘Whether they're most concerned about restoring inequality of men over women, of global cultures, of races or religions, or of economic orders and hierarchies, there's a push back against that principle of equality.’
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 1h 15m
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October 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is one of the most lucid discussions of Britain’s current conjuncture (and of liberalism’s more generally) that I’ve heard
“What Democrats need to understand, is that this is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Trump who wants to arrogate despotic powers to himself.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
“What Democrats need to understand, is that this is a moment of drastic, monumental change, initiated by a Republican Party poisoned by illiberalism and anti-democratic resentments and a figure in Trump who wants to arrogate despotic powers to himself.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Article: Albert O. Hirschman and the post-American, post-liberal conjuncture, by Ilene Grabel
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
September 24, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Article: Albert O. Hirschman and the post-American, post-liberal conjuncture, by Ilene Grabel
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
One of the reasons I suspect Aster’s “Eddington“ and other satires released during the present conjuncture will not age well is that actual things that are happening are far wilder than even the most extreme things satirists can come up with
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of the reasons I suspect Aster’s “Eddington“ and other satires released during the present conjuncture will not age well is that actual things that are happening are far wilder than even the most extreme things satirists can come up with
It's got a cover!
Coming out in June.
Coming out in June.
February 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
It's got a cover!
Coming out in June.
Coming out in June.
"We are experiencing a widespread GOP attempt to undo the Reconstruction Amendments that, along w/later civil rights reforms, form the constitutional foundation for our multiracial democracy."
Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA):
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA):
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"We are experiencing a widespread GOP attempt to undo the Reconstruction Amendments that, along w/later civil rights reforms, form the constitutional foundation for our multiracial democracy."
Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA):
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA):
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
It’s not easy to recognize you’re in a revolutionary moment in the middle of one. The Founders certainly didn’t all at first. Neither did many at the outset of the Civil War.
But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change
Happy 4th
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change
Happy 4th
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It’s not easy to recognize you’re in a revolutionary moment in the middle of one. The Founders certainly didn’t all at first. Neither did many at the outset of the Civil War.
But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change
Happy 4th
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change
Happy 4th
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
This story contains almost all the contradictions of our moment. It’s hard to imagine one event more perfectly expressing a global conjuncture.
March 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This story contains almost all the contradictions of our moment. It’s hard to imagine one event more perfectly expressing a global conjuncture.
If you listen to this episode of The Dig from a couple weeks ago they called this the point of the tariffs and go into exactly how it will work:
April 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you listen to this episode of The Dig from a couple weeks ago they called this the point of the tariffs and go into exactly how it will work:
I feel like I'm running out of bitter and sardonic witticisms about the current conjuncture, and mostly just entering a state of despair instead.
September 23, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I feel like I'm running out of bitter and sardonic witticisms about the current conjuncture, and mostly just entering a state of despair instead.
On Ideology & actions of an unstable empire convinced of its righteousness, ordained to lead good against evil, while blundering towards failure...
Weekend Listen
@thedigradio.bsky.social w @iliasalami.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I:
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Weekend Listen
@thedigradio.bsky.social w @iliasalami.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I:
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington’s shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch...
thedigradio.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On Ideology & actions of an unstable empire convinced of its righteousness, ordained to lead good against evil, while blundering towards failure...
Weekend Listen
@thedigradio.bsky.social w @iliasalami.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I:
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
Weekend Listen
@thedigradio.bsky.social w @iliasalami.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social & I:
thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
🚨New Publication🚨
"Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance" in Public Humanities over at Cambridge University Press 👇🏻
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"Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance" in Public Humanities over at Cambridge University Press 👇🏻
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Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance - Volume 1
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January 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨New Publication🚨
"Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance" in Public Humanities over at Cambridge University Press 👇🏻
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance" in Public Humanities over at Cambridge University Press 👇🏻
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...