Jeff Whyte

I wrote an article about this back in 2022 — open access, so no paywall!

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Irony is that Grassley was a major Russiagate guy at the time it was happening, but then it was about suppressing BLM as ‘Russian disinfo’ so he was more than happy to go along with it

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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I am delighted to share my latest (open access) publication, co-authored with the marvellous @carolineholmqvist.bsky.social for the Thesis Eleven special issue on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thought I'd make a thread of all of my publications, for easy access! First up is 'Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity?' in Media, War and Conflict doi.org/10.1177/1750...

"We believe everyone can be the 1%" etc

The democrats are not marvellous

Woke right vs Soy right civil war NOW

Why would I read Proust when I can simply use the RememberTRON 3000?

People are rightfully saying that this is the weakest response imaginable, but can we also consider how insane this taco construction is? Why did they put all the meat and salsa on one and the cheese and lettuce on the other?

We did a thing. We analyse the ‘red pill’ discourse and its use of The Matrix to help produce and circulate popular anti-feminist manosphere conspiracy theories. Principally annoyed that they’ve messed with one of the greatest sci-fi texts ever.

Have the authors considered simply *writing* the fake books?

This is an exciting time for secrecy research and an important time to understand how central it is to our current crises. Do consider contributing a chapter to what we hope will be a new definitive volume.

Brad Neely’s wizard people dear reader holds up

Odo seems so happy in his bucket…wish I could join a collective like he can

The podcast I recorded with @drsusanliebell.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is available. Have a listen as we explore the book and some current political reverberations. Also, the book is out in paperback in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. newbooksnetwork.com/presidents-k...

Monday mornings are for emails

Marx Valley High

Can you add me to this list? Thanks!

But doctor, pagliacci is my research subject

Don’t tell me that wasn’t a Nazi salute.

Nice revolutionary subjectivity you got there. Shame if someone interpellated it

The brush contact: my foray into the world of substacks First contact...

This seems to be what all the cool kids are doing, so I started my own substack. It's called The Brush Contact. It will cover (mostly) intelligence and covert action related matters based on things I read, listen to, or watch. We start with plausible deniability. substack.com/@lucatrenta/...

“Colonial expansion is a Russian psyop new to American politics”. never has a career pivot to one-note audience pandering rotted a brain more

What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online?

Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia.

Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi

My legal letter is raising questions already answered by my legal letter

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New article out co-authored w. @alexyates2000.bsky.social in @bjpir.bsky.social

‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people

or how anti-populism is really good old demophobia

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Thinking about Idris Elba cast in a Mr Bean reboot and all the British pundits losing their minds like they do with James Bond