Pavlos Roufos
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
Pinned
Theorizing the interregnum
The unfortunate relevance of Fraenkel's Dual State
pavlosroufos.substack.com
Noticed some discussions these days on Fraenkel’s Dual State so this might be of (renewed) interest. Originally published in February 2025. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/theorizing...
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On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Inside a Detention Site at the Heart of Europe’s Harsh New Approach to Immigration
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
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I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?
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MUSKISM in Berlin!
with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM
MUSKISM in Berlin!
with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com
Tues, March 10, 14:00, HU Berlin
socializationproject.de/event/muskis...
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Yessss, Mittwoch ist Søren Mau in BERLIN: 11.02. | 18:00 | Centre Marc Bloch Friedrichstr. 191. Unser Tipp der Woche: criticaltheoryinberl.... “Every communist should have a copy of this book” (Design For Manufracture). ‘Mute Compulsion’ auf Deutsch lesen: dietzberlin.de/stumm...
February 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Yessss, Mittwoch ist Søren Mau in BERLIN: 11.02. | 18:00 | Centre Marc Bloch Friedrichstr. 191. Unser Tipp der Woche: criticaltheoryinberl.... “Every communist should have a copy of this book” (Design For Manufracture). ‘Mute Compulsion’ auf Deutsch lesen: dietzberlin.de/stumm...
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In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released December 1st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa
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February 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
I’d like to see a building permit
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I’d like to see a building permit
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People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia.
In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 9:50 AM
People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia.
In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
«Το τσάμπα πέθανε»
February 8, 2026 at 11:16 AM
«Το τσάμπα πέθανε»
“The new delivery economy”. Quite incredible that the practice of branding delivery drivers as “partners” of the platforms and forcing them to set up individual “companies” (4500 only in 2025!) is heralded as the driving force of entrepreneurship in Greece. A joke *and* a tragedy.
February 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
“The new delivery economy”. Quite incredible that the practice of branding delivery drivers as “partners” of the platforms and forcing them to set up individual “companies” (4500 only in 2025!) is heralded as the driving force of entrepreneurship in Greece. A joke *and* a tragedy.
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Pushed by the ECB to create a profitable secondary market for NPLs, with hedge fund investments derisked by the Greek state and a legal re-coding that gave funds credit enforcement, the financial press still “wonders” why auctioned houses end up with investors & do not solve the housing problem. 👏
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Pushed by the ECB to create a profitable secondary market for NPLs, with hedge fund investments derisked by the Greek state and a legal re-coding that gave funds credit enforcement, the financial press still “wonders” why auctioned houses end up with investors & do not solve the housing problem. 👏
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#Χιος
Πρώτη φορά έχουμε δει τόσα πολλά τραύματα.
Ήταν σαν να είδες πάρα πολλά τροχαία μαζεμένα.
Ήταν 10-11 παιδάκια και πολλοί μεγάλοι με πολύ βαριά τραύματα, κρανιοεγκεφαλικές κακώσεις, αιμορραγίες.
Τέτοιο πράγμα δεν έχουμε ξαναδεί.
Τους πετσόκοψαν τα καθήκια οι λιμενικοί.
Είναι ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ
Πρώτη φορά έχουμε δει τόσα πολλά τραύματα.
Ήταν σαν να είδες πάρα πολλά τροχαία μαζεμένα.
Ήταν 10-11 παιδάκια και πολλοί μεγάλοι με πολύ βαριά τραύματα, κρανιοεγκεφαλικές κακώσεις, αιμορραγίες.
Τέτοιο πράγμα δεν έχουμε ξαναδεί.
Τους πετσόκοψαν τα καθήκια οι λιμενικοί.
Είναι ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ
February 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
#Χιος
Πρώτη φορά έχουμε δει τόσα πολλά τραύματα.
Ήταν σαν να είδες πάρα πολλά τροχαία μαζεμένα.
Ήταν 10-11 παιδάκια και πολλοί μεγάλοι με πολύ βαριά τραύματα, κρανιοεγκεφαλικές κακώσεις, αιμορραγίες.
Τέτοιο πράγμα δεν έχουμε ξαναδεί.
Τους πετσόκοψαν τα καθήκια οι λιμενικοί.
Είναι ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ
Πρώτη φορά έχουμε δει τόσα πολλά τραύματα.
Ήταν σαν να είδες πάρα πολλά τροχαία μαζεμένα.
Ήταν 10-11 παιδάκια και πολλοί μεγάλοι με πολύ βαριά τραύματα, κρανιοεγκεφαλικές κακώσεις, αιμορραγίες.
Τέτοιο πράγμα δεν έχουμε ξαναδεί.
Τους πετσόκοψαν τα καθήκια οι λιμενικοί.
Είναι ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ
Pushed by the ECB to create a profitable secondary market for NPLs, with hedge fund investments derisked by the Greek state and a legal re-coding that gave funds credit enforcement, the financial press still “wonders” why auctioned houses end up with investors & do not solve the housing problem. 👏
February 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Pushed by the ECB to create a profitable secondary market for NPLs, with hedge fund investments derisked by the Greek state and a legal re-coding that gave funds credit enforcement, the financial press still “wonders” why auctioned houses end up with investors & do not solve the housing problem. 👏
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
…
32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
February 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
Spotted in the wild. Katharina Pistor and Natasha Wheatley in a bookshop in Athens.
February 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Spotted in the wild. Katharina Pistor and Natasha Wheatley in a bookshop in Athens.
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Trump's fascist goons are very much still terrorizing our community
After 6am this morning in Whittier, Minneapolis—FOUR BLOCKS from where Pretti was murdered.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
18 agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) markings smashed an apartment window, ran in, and came out with one man.
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Trump's fascist goons are very much still terrorizing our community
Shot and chaser on Venezuelan oil, the reluctance of private companies to invest and the (state capitalist) alternative (last pic giving context from @iliasalami.bsky.social and @adamdixon.bsky.social's book on state capitalism).
February 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Shot and chaser on Venezuelan oil, the reluctance of private companies to invest and the (state capitalist) alternative (last pic giving context from @iliasalami.bsky.social and @adamdixon.bsky.social's book on state capitalism).
Refusing to meet SPD and Green MPs is a whole new level of "we have lost our marbles while embedding our clown-level far-right direction". 🤦
A planned meeting in Washington collapsed after U.S. State Department officials told the German embassy it refused to meet with center-left German lawmakers.
It’s unclear, however, who ultimately cancelled the appointment.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dona...
It’s unclear, however, who ultimately cancelled the appointment.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dona...
February 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Refusing to meet SPD and Green MPs is a whole new level of "we have lost our marbles while embedding our clown-level far-right direction". 🤦
I actually spend more time imagining what will happen when the bubble bursts but thanks
February 4, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I actually spend more time imagining what will happen when the bubble bursts but thanks
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'What You Don’t See: On the Private Films of a Wehrmacht Officer' (Klaus Theweleit, Marius Babias, and Clemens von Wedemeyer in conversation) @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...
What You Don’t See: On the Private Films of a Wehrmacht Officer - Journal #159
Klaus Theweleit, Marius Babias, and Clemens von Wedemeyer discuss the candid WWII film footage of Wehrmacht Cavalry Captain Harald von Vietinghoff-Riesch.
www.e-flux.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
'What You Don’t See: On the Private Films of a Wehrmacht Officer' (Klaus Theweleit, Marius Babias, and Clemens von Wedemeyer in conversation) @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...
Always wondering if someone will finally call out the fact that years of indoctrination in the "support our troops" mantra across the US political spectrum have now resulted in a constant production of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans lecturing people about how ICE doesn't respect the law. Is this a joke?
February 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Always wondering if someone will finally call out the fact that years of indoctrination in the "support our troops" mantra across the US political spectrum have now resulted in a constant production of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans lecturing people about how ICE doesn't respect the law. Is this a joke?
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We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.
JUST IN: The five-year-old Columbia Heights Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who have been in an ICE detention facility in Texas, are on their way home.
Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have landed back in Minnesota following a judge's order
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, returned home to Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning after a judge ordered their release.
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.