Mikkel Flohr
@mflohr.bsky.social
I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and lecturer at Roskilde Uni. He/him. Skeets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸 Homepage: mikkelflohr.com
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Mikkel Flohr
@mflohr.bsky.social
· Nov 18
With the influx of new people on here, it makes sense to reintroduce myself. My name is Mikkel Flohr and I am currently working on a book on Marx’s critique of political theology and co-editing a special issue of Political Theology on “Marx and Revolution.”
Time to revisit the classics
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Time to revisit the classics
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THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran
Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street.
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE...
@geoconfirmed.org
Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street.
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE...
@geoconfirmed.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran
Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street.
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE...
@geoconfirmed.org
Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street.
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE...
@geoconfirmed.org
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Fresh year
Fresh hell
Fresh Danish Marxism
Fresh hell
Fresh Danish Marxism
Just published…
Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
Vol. 34 No. 70 (2025): Special issue: Marxist Aesthetics
| The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
tidsskrift.dk
December 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Fresh year
Fresh hell
Fresh Danish Marxism
Fresh hell
Fresh Danish Marxism
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In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Alec Israeli reflects on recent debates on the method and stakes of "high" versus "low" intellectual histories, arguing for a neo-materialist approach that nuances those discursive boundaries.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
Mind, Matter, and the Question of Materialist Intellectual History
by Alec Israeli
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Alec Israeli reflects on recent debates on the method and stakes of "high" versus "low" intellectual histories, arguing for a neo-materialist approach that nuances those discursive boundaries.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
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I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.
Three Meanings of Political Economy: Reflections on Intellectual History, Marxism, and Capitalism’s Unthought
by Nate Holdren
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I wrote this, please read! (As usual when I have a thing come out I'm acutely aware of its limits but fwiw I'm excited this is out. I learned a lot writing it. Also: JHI blog editors were incredibly rigorous and vigorous, made the piece better as object and the process of writing it more edifying!)
My review of Camila Vergara’s brilliant book “Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic” is out in @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
"Liberal democracies remain unable to address this oligarchization because they conceive their constituency as an undifferentiated people and cannot grasp or address its internal divisions."
Mikkel Flohr on Camila Vergara's Systemic Corruption: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/mikkel_flohr...
Mikkel Flohr on Camila Vergara's Systemic Corruption: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/mikkel_flohr...
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My review of Camila Vergara’s brilliant book “Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic” is out in @criticalinquiry.bsky.social
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Seventeen years ago today.
Happy holidays to al who observe.
Happy holidays to al who observe.
two men standing at podiums with flags behind them and a sign that says ap on it
Alt: Bush shoeing incident.
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Seventeen years ago today.
Happy holidays to al who observe.
Happy holidays to al who observe.
I have a new essay "Outline of a Political Theory of States of Exception" out in @paradoks.nu, where I develop a typology and analysis of the different political political forms of states of exception, their distinct dynamics and implications for democracy and the rule of law. 1/2
Skitse af en politisk teori om undtagelsestilstande af Mikkel Flohr
Vi lever i en periode karakteriseret af kriser, opbrud og omvæltninger. Og ekstraordinære omstændigheder fordrer, som bekendt, ekstraordinære tiltag. De sidste tre årtier har s...
paradoks.nu
December 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I have a new essay "Outline of a Political Theory of States of Exception" out in @paradoks.nu, where I develop a typology and analysis of the different political political forms of states of exception, their distinct dynamics and implications for democracy and the rule of law. 1/2
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"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
"Lovely", Frog replied.
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Stay safe, US friends. The FBI is compiling a list of domestic terrorists and I for one satisfy the criteria in all five possible ways.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Stay safe, US friends. The FBI is compiling a list of domestic terrorists and I for one satisfy the criteria in all five possible ways.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!
In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Lotte Liste critically situates Reinhart Koselleck's concept of the Sattelzeit with Adam Smith's philosophy of history. @lottelist.bsky.social
Economy and History in the Sattelzeit: On Adam Smith’s Alleged Sobriety
by Lotte List
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!
The new US National Security Strategy is wild on Europe. It pursues JD Vance's right-wing civilisationalist rant in Munich as policy, rambling about "the real ... threat of civilizational erasure" and encourages "patriotic" parties' "revival of spirit." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The new US National Security Strategy is wild on Europe. It pursues JD Vance's right-wing civilisationalist rant in Munich as policy, rambling about "the real ... threat of civilizational erasure" and encourages "patriotic" parties' "revival of spirit." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
The Danish Social Democrats who have pursued far right policies on immigration and governs with the centre-right are set to lose in Copenhagen for the first time in a 100 years, while the left looks set to win a major victory today.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Danish Social Democrats who have pursued far right policies on immigration and governs with the centre-right are set to lose in Copenhagen for the first time in a 100 years, while the left looks set to win a major victory today.
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I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
Reposted by Mikkel Flohr
A huge win for Danish Marxism by proxy
Truly and deeply honoured
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The Deutscher Prize on X: "🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat" / X
🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Bruno Leipold’s “Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought” has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @BrunoLeipold @histmat
x.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A huge win for Danish Marxism by proxy
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Mikkel Flohr, The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas
www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...
www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...
The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas
by Mikkel Flohr
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
www.jhiblog.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Mikkel Flohr, The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas
www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...
www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/t...
Great to be part of the brilliant panel on “Critique and Method” at the @histmat.bsky.social london 2025 conference with Anna Beria, Svenja Bromberg, and Silvestre Gristina, chaired by Kaan Kangal
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Great to be part of the brilliant panel on “Critique and Method” at the @histmat.bsky.social london 2025 conference with Anna Beria, Svenja Bromberg, and Silvestre Gristina, chaired by Kaan Kangal
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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The freshest research is hitting the oldest university next week!
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The freshest research is hitting the oldest university next week!
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Back from Aarhus and feeling the post conference blues, staring out of the window into the gloomy grey yonder of October rain, wondering how you can get some more of that sweet sweet Danish Marxism?
Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇
Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Back from Aarhus and feeling the post conference blues, staring out of the window into the gloomy grey yonder of October rain, wondering how you can get some more of that sweet sweet Danish Marxism?
Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇
Don’t worry fam we got you 😘👇
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨Publication alert🚨“Sovereignty, State of Exception, and the Politics of the Pandemic: Where is Agamben Now?” is out in Thesis Eleven. It forms part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded research project "Repoliticizing the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the Exception" doi.org/10.1177/0725...
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Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...