Pavlos Roufos

In my pocket while drinking in Berlin

If I had a real job, I’d ask for a sabbatical and spend a year reading all the books that I haven’t had the time for.

Fascinating essay on the sexual politics of contemporary fascism by Robyn Marasco on @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/reconsiderin...

What do Americans get for Trump's $40B bet on Argentina? A massive bailout ahead of the country's legislative elections reveals the high stakes Washington has placed on President Milei's survival

Here's my latest, arguing that the ever-swelling US bailout of Argentina is bad economics, bad politics, and bad diplomacy.

responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-milei/

It seems to me that these questions answer themselves. Yet another indication of Washington's short-term/short-sighted preferences and its nonsensical overall 'policy'.

If David Lynch had directed Requiem for a Dream, this is what it would have looked like

Foreign official US treasury holdings at the Fed are down another $50bn over the last two weeks.

The plot shows reserve managers' starkly different reactions: Trump I sparked a surge of foreign official holdings; Tump II a sell-off (which coincides with high issuance and Fed QT).

Really good and informative thread (in French)

🙏

Hands Off! – Spectre Journal Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

“Centering the administration’s lack of respect for law amounts to criticizing its policies for their procedural incorrectness, rather than the substantive harm they inflict”. Hitting the nail @nhold.bsky.social

What can I say other than everyone should be listening to @hypervisible.blacksky.app not just on smart glasses, but on everything else too. One of the most insightful tech researchers out there. Don’t miss our conversation!

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Theorizing the interregnum The unfortunate relevance of Fraenkel's Dual State

Might be of interest pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/theorizing...

Good expose for @verfassungsblog.de by Etienne Hanelt on the Orbán-linked Mathias Corvinus "Collegium".

Though little known internationally, the Orbán-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium is gaining ground. Its recent attack on EU academic programmes shows how it seeks to shape narratives about Europe.

ETIENNE HANELT on its growing challenge to academic freedom.

verfassungsblog.de/castles-of-i...

Again, and again and again

Next we will hear that it was in fact palestinians who invaded Poland in 1939 and council communists who ran the extermination camps..

"The [Italian] Minister of Equality of Opportunity in Meloni's government criticised school trips to Auschwitz which, according to her, unjustly associate antisemitism with the far-right".

Ettttt on y est.

Then keep ‘em coming, I say

morgen 18–20 Uhr
Patrick Eiden-Offe:
Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen
(hybrid)
infos hier:

krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/

Hope so too!!

This is the working syllabus for it

Just had a first meeting with my students for a new course I designed - and which I’m very excited to teach this semester at Witten-Herdecke University! 🥳🎈

Form over content etc etc

A considerable element of Trump's governance is to be unhinged and *say the quiet part out loud*. Remarkable in some ways but the indignation this causes pretty much relies on the pretense that "keeping it quiet" means "it never happened".

Δεν μπορεί να πιστέψει η Κεραμεως ότι οι εργαζόμενοι εκβιαζονται να υπογράψουν βλαπτικες για τους ίδιους, ακόμα και παράνομες, επιχειρησιακες συμβάσεις, άρα είναι πραγματικό τους αίτημα. Άρα θα κάνουμε το παράνομο νόμιμο.
Άξια εκπρόσωπος της εργοδοσίας.

Γιατί το λες, δεν υπάρχει κανένα ξεκάθαρο στοιχείο που να δείχνει κάτι τέτοιο