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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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
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Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
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Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
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Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Is sex work a trade union issue?
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
Join sex workers, trade unionists and allies to discuss the fight for decriminalisation from a workers’ rights, women’s safety and public health perspective.
27/11/2025
7-8:30PM
Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/workers-fo...
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'YouGenix is excited to announce Frienologie, our new AI-driven hiring app that lets you make data-driven, plausibly-deniable hiring decisions. Get Frienologie today. Avoid time consuming guesswork and expensive litigation while keeping your workforce free of Those People!'
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
'YouGenix is excited to announce Frienologie, our new AI-driven hiring app that lets you make data-driven, plausibly-deniable hiring decisions. Get Frienologie today. Avoid time consuming guesswork and expensive litigation while keeping your workforce free of Those People!'
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Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Rewatched Fight Club recently and was struck by how it portrayed the fascist (Durden) as a latent psychological possibility already contained within the liberal (the narrator), rather than fundamentally different to them. Surely the film's most important insight.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Rewatched Fight Club recently and was struck by how it portrayed the fascist (Durden) as a latent psychological possibility already contained within the liberal (the narrator), rather than fundamentally different to them. Surely the film's most important insight.
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His victory is brilliant for so many reasons. One of them being this video:
www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
this my mayor #mamdani #zohranmamdani #newyorkmayor #gwenstefani #hollabackgirl #edit #foryou
YouTube video by Astor Walk
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November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
His victory is brilliant for so many reasons. One of them being this video:
www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...
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This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
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“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
Didnt realise this was out but I read an early draft and it was the best thing i've read on neurodiversity in years. It surely got a lot better by the time it was published. I'm excited to read the final version.
In We See Things They’ll Never See, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday show how neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity.
Out now. Check out a free preview of this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Out now. Check out a free preview of this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Didnt realise this was out but I read an early draft and it was the best thing i've read on neurodiversity in years. It surely got a lot better by the time it was published. I'm excited to read the final version.
A Genealogy of Neurodiversity and Its Entangled Politics by Tom Walters.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
SPSSI Journals
This article will outline a genealogy of neurodiversity, highlighting the power structures and systems that brought about the neurodiversity movement and their implications. Understanding the neurodi...
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A Genealogy of Neurodiversity and Its Entangled Politics by Tom Walters.
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FWIW, this is the MP who works with and co-authors with leading critical psychiatry proponents and PTMF authors.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
Farage urged to take action against Reform MP for 'dinosaur' LGBT comments
There are calls for Nigel Farage to take action against Reform MP Danny Kruger after he warned against the UK being led by a "LGBT-supporting" party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FWIW, this is the MP who works with and co-authors with leading critical psychiatry proponents and PTMF authors.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
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This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
It actually looks quite desperate when the billionaires personally focus on trying to recruit nerds in their 40s to their fascist vanguards.
this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
It actually looks quite desperate when the billionaires personally focus on trying to recruit nerds in their 40s to their fascist vanguards.
All else aside, I think its worth joining your party before the conference next month to help push it towards adopting a pro-trans rights stance, as at the moment this is far from guarenteed. The last thing we need is another transphobic political party.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
All else aside, I think its worth joining your party before the conference next month to help push it towards adopting a pro-trans rights stance, as at the moment this is far from guarenteed. The last thing we need is another transphobic political party.
Looking forward to going to Historical Materialism in London next month. Will be speaking on the "Political Pathologies: revolutionary and counter-revolutionary approaches to mental health" panel.
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: F...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Looking forward to going to Historical Materialism in London next month. Will be speaking on the "Political Pathologies: revolutionary and counter-revolutionary approaches to mental health" panel.
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
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This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.
At one point he gets to know that famous pro-natalist couple uncritically profiled in the Guardian and so on, and in private they were basically open about being dedicated to eugenics and race science. Which isn't surprising but its good to have the evidence.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
At one point he gets to know that famous pro-natalist couple uncritically profiled in the Guardian and so on, and in private they were basically open about being dedicated to eugenics and race science. Which isn't surprising but its good to have the evidence.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Harry Shukman's recent book is an excellent piece of undercover journalism inside the contemporary far right, ranging from violent gangs in Britain to Sillicon Valley eugenicists. I highly recommend it.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/468856...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/468856...
Year of the Rat
'Anyone who wants to understand British politics has to read this book.' Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism
‘Important and courageous’ James O’Brien
The British far right is working to dis...
www.penguin.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Harry Shukman's recent book is an excellent piece of undercover journalism inside the contemporary far right, ranging from violent gangs in Britain to Sillicon Valley eugenicists. I highly recommend it.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/468856...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/468856...
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Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
Peter Lang Verlag - Utopian Variations
Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms ...
www.peterlang.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
There was a poll last year that found 32% of people in the uk thought it likely that a civil war would occur here in the next decade. I don't think that will happen, but i do think it's significant that so many people believe it. And it's significant that this idea has come from the far right.
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There was a poll last year that found 32% of people in the uk thought it likely that a civil war would occur here in the next decade. I don't think that will happen, but i do think it's significant that so many people believe it. And it's significant that this idea has come from the far right.
I've started writing a new book. The first chapter is on the early Scout movement as forming around a proto-fascistic necropolitics. Which would explain a lot, really.
October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've started writing a new book. The first chapter is on the early Scout movement as forming around a proto-fascistic necropolitics. Which would explain a lot, really.
Interesting to read Gramsci saying in 1925 that "We are among the few who have taken fascism seriously, even when fascism seemed nothing more than a blood-stained farce, when fascism was discussed in the common terms of "war psychosis"". It reminds me of all those who dismissed trump as "insane".
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Interesting to read Gramsci saying in 1925 that "We are among the few who have taken fascism seriously, even when fascism seemed nothing more than a blood-stained farce, when fascism was discussed in the common terms of "war psychosis"". It reminds me of all those who dismissed trump as "insane".
Despite all the very real problems with psychoanalysis, I feel that it has room to account for certain things in ways cognitive psychology just doesn't have room for.
October 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Despite all the very real problems with psychoanalysis, I feel that it has room to account for certain things in ways cognitive psychology just doesn't have room for.