Carla Ibled
@cibled.bsky.social
Career Development Fellow in international political economy at University of Durham, working on neoliberalism and psychoanalysis
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Carla Ibled
@cibled.bsky.social
· Apr 10
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
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Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work
Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
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Sur le prix Nobel d'économie décerné au macroniste Philippe Aghion, ce rappel instructif de @cthibout.bsky.social.
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sur le prix Nobel d'économie décerné au macroniste Philippe Aghion, ce rappel instructif de @cthibout.bsky.social.
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Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
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It is in terrific company next to brilliant work by @philiproscoe.bsky.social, @theobourgeron.bsky.social, @cibled.bsky.social, @imaginaries.bsky.social, @busedoyu.bsky.social, @zephoria.bsky.social, @maijutanninen.bsky.social, among others :)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...
Journal of Cultural Economy
Volume 18, Issue 5 of Journal of Cultural Economy
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October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It is in terrific company next to brilliant work by @philiproscoe.bsky.social, @theobourgeron.bsky.social, @cibled.bsky.social, @imaginaries.bsky.social, @busedoyu.bsky.social, @zephoria.bsky.social, @maijutanninen.bsky.social, among others :)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...
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You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.
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An interesting project in Denmark is looking for a PhD & a post-doc in rhetoric: "Talking Empire: Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”. PhD link in the reply. Postdoc here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
PhD position for research project: Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain
PhD position for research project: Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain The Department of Language and Culture at the University of Sou...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
An interesting project in Denmark is looking for a PhD & a post-doc in rhetoric: "Talking Empire: Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)”. PhD link in the reply. Postdoc here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Just reposting in case of interest. Applications close next week. Come to work with @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Jack Copley, Eugenia Giraudo and me!
A Career Development Fellowship has opened in the International Political Economy research group at Durham. Come and work with our lovely crew!
Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
July 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just reposting in case of interest. Applications close next week. Come to work with @harveymurenow.bsky.social, Jack Copley, Eugenia Giraudo and me!
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Pourquoi des franges croissantes du patronat français soutiennent-elles l'extrême-droite? Pour changer la réglementation à leur profit, certes, mais aussi pour provoquer un changement de régime... J'explore ces questions dans un entretien pour L'Huma de ce jour 👇👇
Derrière la bataille idéologique, l’enjeu économique : Théo Bourgeron décrypte les visées de Pierre-Édouard Stérin et de la « finance autoritaire » - L'Humanité
Co-auteur de la Finance autoritaire, précieuse étude sur la mobilisation décisive des fonds d’investissement lors de la victoire du Brexit au Royaume-Uni, le sociologue Théo Bourgeron...
www.humanite.fr
June 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Pourquoi des franges croissantes du patronat français soutiennent-elles l'extrême-droite? Pour changer la réglementation à leur profit, certes, mais aussi pour provoquer un changement de régime... J'explore ces questions dans un entretien pour L'Huma de ce jour 👇👇
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I wrote about how Israel mobilises a highly permissive interpretation of the international humanitarian law prohibition of starving civilians to portray its starvation campaign as a ‘tragic humanitarian crisis’’ and give legal cover to its genocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A “Tragic Humanitarian Crisis”: Israel’s Weaponization of Starvation and the Question of Intent
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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April 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I wrote about how Israel mobilises a highly permissive interpretation of the international humanitarian law prohibition of starving civilians to portray its starvation campaign as a ‘tragic humanitarian crisis’’ and give legal cover to its genocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢📢 NEW EPISODE 📢📢 Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on how Israel's goals in Iran are not confined to destroying the Iranian nuclear programme, but are also aimed at the de-development of Iranian society and the balkanisation of the country:
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Israel's war on Iranian society w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 06/19/2025 · 42m
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June 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📢📢 NEW EPISODE 📢📢 Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on how Israel's goals in Iran are not confined to destroying the Iranian nuclear programme, but are also aimed at the de-development of Iranian society and the balkanisation of the country:
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A Career Development Fellowship has opened in the International Political Economy research group at Durham. Come and work with our lovely crew!
Career Development Fellow in International Political Economy
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A Career Development Fellowship has opened in the International Political Economy research group at Durham. Come and work with our lovely crew!
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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Great new paper on the political economy of austerity by @ilovering.bsky.social. Uncovers history of austerity as an expansive programme of state planning and centralisation of power, rather than a macroeconomic policy driven by bond holders, state slashers etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Austerity governance and the performance anxieties of the tax state
Austerity might not have reduced the net spend of the state, but it has certainly transformed it into something more centralised, coercive, and managerial. The austerity literature often explains t...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Great new paper on the political economy of austerity by @ilovering.bsky.social. Uncovers history of austerity as an expansive programme of state planning and centralisation of power, rather than a macroeconomic policy driven by bond holders, state slashers etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This Wednesday at QMUL - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts 'Transforming Central Banking in the Ecological Crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting'.
Register and share:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Register and share:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Select tickets – Transforming central banking in the ecological crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting – Queen Mary University of London, iQ East (Scape) 0.14
This event brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This Wednesday at QMUL - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts 'Transforming Central Banking in the Ecological Crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting'.
Register and share:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Register and share:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
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As part of PERC's Silicon Valley Ideology series, @alirizataskale.bsky.social reviews The Technological Republic, by Palantir's CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The books is an unapologetic blueprint for a militarised tech oligarchy that threatens democracy and needs to be resisted.
Palantir’s Technological Republic: The Militarised Tech Oligarchy is Here - Political Economy Research Centre
In his farewell address this January, then US President Joe Biden delivered a striking warning: a “tech oligarchy”, he said, now threatens American democracy. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning about the mi...
www.goldperc.uk
May 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
As part of PERC's Silicon Valley Ideology series, @alirizataskale.bsky.social reviews The Technological Republic, by Palantir's CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The books is an unapologetic blueprint for a militarised tech oligarchy that threatens democracy and needs to be resisted.
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The (Not So) Hidden Bias in the UK Pension System by Ariane Agunsoye for @goldperc.bsky.social. Those with interrupted & varied work trajectories suffer in an unequal system, built for the "ideal" full-time, well-paid worker.
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The (Not So) Hidden Bias in the UK Pension System - Political Economy Research Centre
Retirement planning can be daunting – especially in the UK, where a weakened welfare state has led to one of the lowest pension provisions among OECD countries. Rising living costs, job insecurity, an...
www.goldperc.uk
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The (Not So) Hidden Bias in the UK Pension System by Ariane Agunsoye for @goldperc.bsky.social. Those with interrupted & varied work trajectories suffer in an unequal system, built for the "ideal" full-time, well-paid worker.
www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
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🗣️ Join us at Queen Mary on 4th June for an event on transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. The event brings together political economists, accountants, policy experts & more to explore the challenges. All welcome! Register free:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Select tickets – Transforming central banking in the ecological crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting – Queen Mary University of London, iQ East (Scape) 0.14
This event brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming...
www.tickettailor.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🗣️ Join us at Queen Mary on 4th June for an event on transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. The event brings together political economists, accountants, policy experts & more to explore the challenges. All welcome! Register free:
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
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The 3rd piece in the Distinktion special issue I’m commissioning is out. It maps a neoliberal Great Replacement theory, where socialist elites, not capital, are blamed for migration + welfare expansion. From Hayek to Musk, market logic meets far-right paranoia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The 3rd piece in the Distinktion special issue I’m commissioning is out. It maps a neoliberal Great Replacement theory, where socialist elites, not capital, are blamed for migration + welfare expansion. From Hayek to Musk, market logic meets far-right paranoia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢🔔 ICYMI - this at 1989 views in less than a month is By FAR our fastest moving article ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur - @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📢🔔 ICYMI - this at 1989 views in less than a month is By FAR our fastest moving article ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur - @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Durham IPE group is hosting @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social tomorrow. Come along if you are in the North East.
May 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Durham IPE group is hosting @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @abenanav.bsky.social tomorrow. Come along if you are in the North East.
Very excited to be in the Guardian today!
“Common Wealth ... warns that a powerful coalition – composed of private corporations, billionaires ... and “neoliberal” thinktanks – is working to extend earthly ownership structures to space.”
Our new report with @cibled.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
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Our new report with @cibled.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
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The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos | Editorial
Editorial: Donald Trump ignited a scramble that is transforming space from shared frontier to private asset – raising questions about law, equity and ethics
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Very excited to be in the Guardian today!
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📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
April 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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🚀 It's here, the launch of the @cmmonwealth.bsky.social report we've all been waiting for. @cibled.bsky.social makes the case for defending outer space as a commons, against imperial rivalry & neoliberal plans for corporate enclosure
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Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons | Report | Common Wealth
Wealthy countries and corporations are seeking to rewrite international law to undermine the neutrality of space and privatise its land and resources.
www.common-wealth.org
April 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🚀 It's here, the launch of the @cmmonwealth.bsky.social report we've all been waiting for. @cibled.bsky.social makes the case for defending outer space as a commons, against imperial rivalry & neoliberal plans for corporate enclosure
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
www.common-wealth.org/publications...