New article w/ @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
Commensuration isnt just measurement, pricing, or ranking. Its liberal modernity’s equivalence machine: difference becomes legitimate only when convertible into a common metric. Finance is its purest form: uncertainty formatted as objective necessity.
We are thrilled to host an online launch event for the fantastic special issue on 'The neoliberal-fascist nexus' coming out in April edited by Henry Maher. The event will take place on 22nd April at 9am BST/6pm Sydney time. Details and tickets here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lgx0Cj8Oxu...
Spent the morning presenting our paper for the launch of @distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue on the neoliberal-fascist nexus
Sofia Näsström examines the possibilities for democratic self-defense, proposing the social security approach as well as examining common objections against it, in her article published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Franchement, un des articles les plus intéressants que j’ai lus ces derniers temps. 👍https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2026.2662557
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#Politics #Postcolonialism
My 2023 paper '(Un)Fixing habitus: affective transactions and the becoming body' is just out in the latest volume/issue (26/3) of @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3evry2su
Some other great #socialtheory in that issue (e.g. Paul Gorby's paper on the biopolitics of fear and Agamben) #emosoc
Check out my new article published @distinktionjournal.bsky.social on contrarianism as a cultural practice enabled by the institutional logic of Silicon Valley VC. Read it here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Another article I commissioned for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social neoliberalism–fascism special issue is now out!
It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
Please join us for the launch of our special issue ‘The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus’ in Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory
New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: Immediacy, mediation and praxis: reading @annakornbluh.bsky.social through the lens of Guy Debord.
The article is currently open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise of authoritarian populism has forced many democracies to consider how best to defend democracy against its inner enemies. In the literature on democratic self-defense, one often distinguis...
This article claims that contemporary decolonial thought, by equating universality and coloniality as such exclusively with the history of European modernity, risks collapsing into a metatheoretica...
How might emotional life be best explained and accounted for in sociological theory? How is it that phenomena that seem so subjectively fleeting, and fundamentally individual nevertheless display r...
This paper offers a theorization of contrarianism in Silicon Valley, presenting it as a strategic rationality underpinned by institutional infrastructure. Rather than treating contrarianism as prin...
I am very excited to announce that my work has finally been published in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
It offers a systemic reading of technology and AI based on Niklas Luhmann's idea of functional simplification and develops it from a post-truth perspective
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Austin Hayden Smidt
Department of Government, Uppsala University
John Duncan
lemonpepper
Mark Howard
Jonathan G. Heaney
This article revisits Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory to address what is identified as a persistent conceptual deficit in the sociology of technology, particularly in relation to digitalization, ar...
My article with Kian Aspinall in @DistinktionT is now available tp read. It's open access so anyone can read it (link below)
Neoliberal fascism emerges from the essential social relations of neoliberal hegemony in combination with its increasingly authoritarian statecraft
