Took 92 years from the end of the war to the transition. I don’t think the timing is because everyone who lived through the war had died, precisely, but it’s an interesting conjuncture
September 29, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Took 92 years from the end of the war to the transition. I don’t think the timing is because everyone who lived through the war had died, precisely, but it’s an interesting conjuncture
An article I co-wrote has been rejected by a psychology magazine for being too negative because our central premise is that professional bodies should stop reacting to new legislation with ‘cautious optimism’ when an actual analysis of the conjuncture would suggest extreme pessimism.
September 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
An article I co-wrote has been rejected by a psychology magazine for being too negative because our central premise is that professional bodies should stop reacting to new legislation with ‘cautious optimism’ when an actual analysis of the conjuncture would suggest extreme pessimism.
September 25, 2026 at 6:13 AM
I see the value of keyword projects but in our conjuncture of non/ana/cata-performatives, we are probably lacking far more in Biercean Devil's Dictionaries than keyword projects.
"I do not share the optimism, or the theories which underlie it, of that popular kind of inter-war and surviving semantics which supposed that clarification of difficult words would help in the
resolution of disputes conducted in their terms and often evidently confused by them.’’ (Raymond Williams)
resolution of disputes conducted in their terms and often evidently confused by them.’’ (Raymond Williams)
September 25, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I see the value of keyword projects but in our conjuncture of non/ana/cata-performatives, we are probably lacking far more in Biercean Devil's Dictionaries than keyword projects.
"Nevertheless, in the face of the current right-wing authoritarian conjuncture threatening democracy and the rule of law in Germany, readdressing social grievances and creating new channels of representation for marginalized groups such as migrants and women offers a glimmer of hope in dark times."
September 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
"Nevertheless, in the face of the current right-wing authoritarian conjuncture threatening democracy and the rule of law in Germany, readdressing social grievances and creating new channels of representation for marginalized groups such as migrants and women offers a glimmer of hope in dark times."
"A wave of 'red scare' rhetoric aimed at [...] discouraging the Greens and the SPD from forming a coalition". I was interviewed by Istanbul-based journalist Leyla Nehir about the Berlin election and Germany's current authoritarian conjuncture: leylanehir.substack.com/p/berlin-202...
Berlin 2026: The Rise of Die Linke and the New Political Divide in Germany
An open-access interview with Dr. Nikolai Huke on the Berlin election, the rise of the left and right, and the social and economic forces reshaping Germany.
leylanehir.substack.com
September 24, 2026 at 12:14 PM
"A wave of 'red scare' rhetoric aimed at [...] discouraging the Greens and the SPD from forming a coalition". I was interviewed by Istanbul-based journalist Leyla Nehir about the Berlin election and Germany's current authoritarian conjuncture: leylanehir.substack.com/p/berlin-202...
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...
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.
For those in the Egham area (or willing to travel) on 17th Nov at 6.15pm, FREE tickets are available for inaugural lecture, “Stranger Things? The Cultural Politics of Late Capitalism’ - details and booking here
@royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
www.sedarc.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
@royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
www.sedarc.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
Stranger Things? The Cultural Politics of Late Capitalism
This talk investigates how our present conjuncture has become a crisis of culture as much as a crisis of politics, locking us into a state of cultural entrapment and temporal stagnation.
www.sedarc.ac.uk
September 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
For those in the Egham area (or willing to travel) on 17th Nov at 6.15pm, FREE tickets are available for inaugural lecture, “Stranger Things? The Cultural Politics of Late Capitalism’ - details and booking here
@royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
www.sedarc.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
@royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
www.sedarc.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
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.
www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/... From the Anarchism community on Reddit: Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
From the Anarchism community on Reddit: Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
Explore this post and more from the Anarchism community
www.reddit.com
September 21, 2026 at 9:07 PM
www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/... From the Anarchism community on Reddit: Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
despite the border drama, looking forward to the Lund event tomorrow!
www.ace.lu.se/calendar/eas...
www.ace.lu.se/calendar/eas...
September 21, 2026 at 1:34 PM
despite the border drama, looking forward to the Lund event tomorrow!
www.ace.lu.se/calendar/eas...
www.ace.lu.se/calendar/eas...
An Economy Of Dunces
An Economy Of Dunces
by Laurence Peterson
Let’s just plan for catastrophic success. —Jared Kushner
The present must certainly constitute one of the weirdest and most perverse economic conjuncture
3quarksdaily.com
September 21, 2026 at 10:07 AM
An Economy Of Dunces
By contrast, our article makes an intervention in economic geography debates to make the case for an explicitly open notion of concrete totality, which is especially useful for understanding our contemporary conjuncture of crisis 4/4 @jamiepeck.bsky.social
Totality must be defended - Chris Hesketh, Adam David Morton, 2026
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismis...
journals.sagepub.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:21 AM
By contrast, our article makes an intervention in economic geography debates to make the case for an explicitly open notion of concrete totality, which is especially useful for understanding our contemporary conjuncture of crisis 4/4 @jamiepeck.bsky.social
Thorough examination of the flag measles epidemic in Birmingham this past year in Stirchley and beyond.
Realities & Resistance
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
@intrrgnm.bsky.social
Realities & Resistance
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
@intrrgnm.bsky.social
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
David Stark analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organi...
interregnum.ghost.io
September 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Thorough examination of the flag measles epidemic in Birmingham this past year in Stirchley and beyond.
Realities & Resistance
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
@intrrgnm.bsky.social
Realities & Resistance
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
@intrrgnm.bsky.social
David Stark @davescamp.bsky.social analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organising.
@stirchley-is.bsky.social
interregnum.ghost.io/authoritaria...
@stirchley-is.bsky.social
interregnum.ghost.io/authoritaria...
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
David Stark analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organi...
interregnum.ghost.io
September 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM
David Stark @davescamp.bsky.social analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organising.
@stirchley-is.bsky.social
interregnum.ghost.io/authoritaria...
@stirchley-is.bsky.social
interregnum.ghost.io/authoritaria...
I wrote a bit about Birmingham and fascism. As I do.
Authoritarian nationalism in the UK’s second city: Birmingham and the conjuncture of Not-Yet-Fascism
David Stark analyses the economic and cultural politics behind the war over flags that has erupted in Birmingham, and explores Stirchley is for Everyone's methods of community-based antifascist organi...
interregnum.ghost.io
September 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I wrote a bit about Birmingham and fascism. As I do.
“The task of such a theory would then be to detect and to reveal…the outlines of some deeper and vaster narrative movement in which the groups of a given collectivity at a certain historical conjuncture anxiously interrogate their fate, and explore it with hope or dread.”
-Fredric Jameson
-Fredric Jameson
September 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
“The task of such a theory would then be to detect and to reveal…the outlines of some deeper and vaster narrative movement in which the groups of a given collectivity at a certain historical conjuncture anxiously interrogate their fate, and explore it with hope or dread.”
-Fredric Jameson
-Fredric Jameson
Ominous name at the present conjuncture
JOB
Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/foundin...
Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/foundin...
Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government and Rokos Professorship of Government
The University of Cambridge is seeking an exceptional academic leader to become the founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government, alongside appointment to the Rokos Professorship of Government. Thi...
www.cam.ac.uk
September 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Ominous name at the present conjuncture
"The layers of school closings, the destruction of public housing, and police violence under racialized neoliberal capitalism must be understood both individually and collectively, as a conjuncture."
September 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"The layers of school closings, the destruction of public housing, and police violence under racialized neoliberal capitalism must be understood both individually and collectively, as a conjuncture."
Questions that have great significance for understanding our present conjuncture — genocide in Palestine, expansion of imperialist war against Iran — and for situating these conflicts in a broader historical struggle.
progressive.international/blueprint/a8...
#ProgrssiveInternationl #Imperialism
progressive.international/blueprint/a8...
#ProgrssiveInternationl #Imperialism
Gill: Imperialism — Then and Now
Imperialism, the denial of sovereignty that underwrites global capitalism, is the primary contradiction.
progressive.international
September 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Questions that have great significance for understanding our present conjuncture — genocide in Palestine, expansion of imperialist war against Iran — and for situating these conflicts in a broader historical struggle.
progressive.international/blueprint/a8...
#ProgrssiveInternationl #Imperialism
progressive.international/blueprint/a8...
#ProgrssiveInternationl #Imperialism
A new article by Korbel Prof. Ilene Grabel asks what can Albert O. Hirschman teach us about economics—and the crisis of liberal democracy? Her new paper explores how a distinctly Hirschmanian mindset can help us understand today’s emerging post-American, post-liberal global financial order.
Albert O. Hirschman and the post-American, post-liberal conjuncture
The economics profession shares responsibility with others for the current crisis of liberal democracy. In this context, the paper discusses the embrace of coherence and what I term “ism-ism” as a ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
A new article by Korbel Prof. Ilene Grabel asks what can Albert O. Hirschman teach us about economics—and the crisis of liberal democracy? Her new paper explores how a distinctly Hirschmanian mindset can help us understand today’s emerging post-American, post-liberal global financial order.
ergo, even were such superlatively smart and careful thinkers to have decided all will be well, that wouldn’t necessarily be much comfort in the present conjuncture
September 16, 2026 at 1:04 AM
ergo, even were such superlatively smart and careful thinkers to have decided all will be well, that wouldn’t necessarily be much comfort in the present conjuncture
"He does not use the signs up all at once, but waits for the moment when they will all respond, one after the other, creating an entirely unique conjuncture of giddiness and collapse."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 15, 2026 at 6:41 AM
"He does not use the signs up all at once, but waits for the moment when they will all respond, one after the other, creating an entirely unique conjuncture of giddiness and collapse."
- Seduction
- Seduction