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@mattfluck.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in International Relations University of Westminster International Theory | Critical Theory | Transparency | Utopia

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CSD Seminar: ‘Apocalyptic abolitionists: the black radical tradition and the end of white democracy’ with Dr Joe P. L. Davidson (Loughborough)

Looking forward to our final Westminster CSD seminar of the year tomorrow. Joe Davidson on apocalyptic imaginaries and the black radical tradition. Join us if you can!

01.12.2025 09:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Text from Minima Moralia, 72: ‘To a child returning from holiday…’

Text from Minima Moralia, 72: ‘To a child returning from holiday…’

This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time

10.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 88    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

Thanks to a great team of contributors:

William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.

07.11.2025 03:25 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026

#utopiainIR

07.11.2025 03:19 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

Great piece on the LRB blog. Fascism is “not fundamentally a problem of ignorance” or of “bad information”

27.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

22.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 27    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938) On dialectics and dialogue

happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

11.09.2025 17:18 — 👍 50    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 4

For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year

#polisky

07.08.2025 03:42 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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