Robert Chapman
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Socially neurodivergent, fiscally communist philosopher.
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(PDF) Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism
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I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project.
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Not suprised that an academic anarchist is in bed with corrupt people and institutions but I am suprised to hear that so many people hero worshiped chomsky. I agreed with him more often than not but he was just a guy who commented on the news a lot, and may even be the first very online leftist.
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Not suprised that an academic anarchist is in bed with corrupt people and institutions but I am suprised to hear that so many people hero worshiped chomsky. I agreed with him more often than not but he was just a guy who commented on the news a lot, and may even be the first very online leftist.
There were lots of angry reviews of this book. I found it helpful and at times funny.
You’re not necessarily a fascist if you do yoga, but you’re likely unaware of the fascist and racist roots which brought what Stewart Home calls modern postural practice to Europe and North America.
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#fascistyoga #yoga #fascism #stuarthome #books #bookstagram #reading #read #plutopress
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#fascistyoga #yoga #fascism #stuarthome #books #bookstagram #reading #read #plutopress
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There were lots of angry reviews of this book. I found it helpful and at times funny.
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Transphobes are authoritarians who want nothing more than forced deference. This is out of the precise same playbook.
Because why would any members of Sarah Ditum's family possibly want to never see or hear from her ever again...?
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Transphobes are authoritarians who want nothing more than forced deference. This is out of the precise same playbook.
Something i have learned from having a baby is that the primary function of books is for chewing, not for reading.
December 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Something i have learned from having a baby is that the primary function of books is for chewing, not for reading.
Wishing all my neurodivergent and trans comrades a very successful social contagion this Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Wishing all my neurodivergent and trans comrades a very successful social contagion this Christmas.
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me getting ready to tell people i've just met at a nice party that medieval torture devices and methods were largely inventions by the victorians because they wanted to appear more refined than people centuries ago
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
me getting ready to tell people i've just met at a nice party that medieval torture devices and methods were largely inventions by the victorians because they wanted to appear more refined than people centuries ago
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I do think that was the right move of Bill Clinton to just be like yo, I'm cooked anyway so let all the files out. Probably one of the most moral actions he's taken in his evil life.
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think that was the right move of Bill Clinton to just be like yo, I'm cooked anyway so let all the files out. Probably one of the most moral actions he's taken in his evil life.
The way trans activists are routinely demonised in the UK is really wild. You can engage the most basic of democratic, nonviolent forms of protest and transphobes respond as if the world is collapsing and trans activists are to blame. There is no form of trans activism that is acceptable to them.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The way trans activists are routinely demonised in the UK is really wild. You can engage the most basic of democratic, nonviolent forms of protest and transphobes respond as if the world is collapsing and trans activists are to blame. There is no form of trans activism that is acceptable to them.
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Our first cat, Meno, captured here on the day he discovered Marx and Engels and subsequently tried to overthrow us
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Our first cat, Meno, captured here on the day he discovered Marx and Engels and subsequently tried to overthrow us
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The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.
I was talking to a Labour MP the other day who said it would be easier to get behind Wes if he could just mask his ambition a little bit...
Tell me you’re positioning for a leadership bid without telling me :….Taxes too high as opposed to poorly structured?
December 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The problem with Streeting (aside from all the other problems with Streeting) is that he appears to want to be PM purely for the fact of being PM as a win & of in itself. It’s hard to detect any kind of sincere ideology, or even ideas really, other than whatever he thinks will get him there.
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Honored to make some "Best of 2025" lists this month! Huge thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for giving *How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University* a home.
Congratulations to DUP authors whose books landed on "Best of 2025" lists this month, including @naylandblake.bsky.social, @amyjelias.bsky.social, @perryzurn.bsky.social, @caroarthistory.bsky.social, @eunsong.bsky.social, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, and @jmcmaster29.bsky.social! buff.ly/f3UF0sL
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Honored to make some "Best of 2025" lists this month! Huge thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for giving *How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University* a home.
Recently read that the widespread use of modern expresso machines in cafes was an outcome of fascism in Italy. They were advertised as promoting speed, modernity, productivity; Italian machines improving the functioning of the people and efficacy of the nation. Somehow we all now live in that world.
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Recently read that the widespread use of modern expresso machines in cafes was an outcome of fascism in Italy. They were advertised as promoting speed, modernity, productivity; Italian machines improving the functioning of the people and efficacy of the nation. Somehow we all now live in that world.
I'm not a particularly good writer, but for what its worth by far the most important skill I've learned is: being able to ruthlessly delete parts that both took ages and are good, yet which nonetheless detract from the elegance of the whole.
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I'm not a particularly good writer, but for what its worth by far the most important skill I've learned is: being able to ruthlessly delete parts that both took ages and are good, yet which nonetheless detract from the elegance of the whole.
Interesting to see a far right polician wanting us to say "differently abled". In my experience this (terrible) suggestion has always previously come from a certain kind of liberal. Some kind of new ideological convergence seems to be occurring here.
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Interesting to see a far right polician wanting us to say "differently abled". In my experience this (terrible) suggestion has always previously come from a certain kind of liberal. Some kind of new ideological convergence seems to be occurring here.
I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access!
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...
The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access!
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...
I think Tommy Robinson's current Christian stuff is quite reminiscent of the British Fascisti, founded by Rotha Lintorn-Orman in 1923. They were mainly anti-immigrant, anti-communist and Christian nationalist, without any deeper theory, but in retrospect were a signal of what was to soon coalesque.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I think Tommy Robinson's current Christian stuff is quite reminiscent of the British Fascisti, founded by Rotha Lintorn-Orman in 1923. They were mainly anti-immigrant, anti-communist and Christian nationalist, without any deeper theory, but in retrospect were a signal of what was to soon coalesque.
'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Sending solidarity to Jewish comrades everywhere who must be feeling unsafe following the horrific antisemitic attack in Australia.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sending solidarity to Jewish comrades everywhere who must be feeling unsafe following the horrific antisemitic attack in Australia.
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Really interesting Marxist approach to issues around neurodiversity in the modern era, by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Many relevant insights into alienation; how capitalism narrows standards of mental normality; how the pathology paradigm is problematic; eugenics etc.
Recommend.
#books
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Many relevant insights into alienation; how capitalism narrows standards of mental normality; how the pathology paradigm is problematic; eugenics etc.
Recommend.
#books
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December 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Really interesting Marxist approach to issues around neurodiversity in the modern era, by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Many relevant insights into alienation; how capitalism narrows standards of mental normality; how the pathology paradigm is problematic; eugenics etc.
Recommend.
#books
💙📚💡
Many relevant insights into alienation; how capitalism narrows standards of mental normality; how the pathology paradigm is problematic; eugenics etc.
Recommend.
#books
💙📚💡
Seems @robinince.bsky.social has been forced to resign due to his solidarity with trans people. Today I'll be ordering his recent book on neurodiversity, which i've been meaning to read and have heard good things about. Would encourage others to do the same!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robi...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robi...
December 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Seems @robinince.bsky.social has been forced to resign due to his solidarity with trans people. Today I'll be ordering his recent book on neurodiversity, which i've been meaning to read and have heard good things about. Would encourage others to do the same!
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robi...
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robi...
"digital platforms can serve as arenas of epistemic resistance, where lived experience is claimed as collective expertise, challenging traditional medical authority"
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Politics of Self-narration: Self-Diagnosis as Digital Counter-Narrative - Topoi
This article explores the epistemic, political, and affective dimensions of self-narration in relation to neurodivergence and self-diagnosis, focusing on how such practices can resist forms of epistem...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"digital platforms can serve as arenas of epistemic resistance, where lived experience is claimed as collective expertise, challenging traditional medical authority"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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💫 Highly recommend diving into the new amazing work on the mental hygiene movement in India by my colleague Dr. Shilpi Rajpal. From her concluding remarks:
"This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect
of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬
"This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect
of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬
Shilpi Rajpal has written an article on the birth of global mental health in India! Read it at the link below. 💥
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
💫 Highly recommend diving into the new amazing work on the mental hygiene movement in India by my colleague Dr. Shilpi Rajpal. From her concluding remarks:
"This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect
of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬
"This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect
of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬
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"...these diagnoses are increasingly used by students & workers for organising to push back against oppressive systems & institutions of exploitation. The backlash against the expansion of these diagnoses is thus, in significant part, a ruling class backlash against a demand for change..."
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"...these diagnoses are increasingly used by students & workers for organising to push back against oppressive systems & institutions of exploitation. The backlash against the expansion of these diagnoses is thus, in significant part, a ruling class backlash against a demand for change..."
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THIS is great. I feel like it really just skims the surface too and so much more could be added
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
THIS is great. I feel like it really just skims the surface too and so much more could be added
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"To miss the health element of the current fascist global offensive is to miss a core part of that offensive—we ignore late health fascism at our peril."
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A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"To miss the health element of the current fascist global offensive is to miss a core part of that offensive—we ignore late health fascism at our peril."
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