Stephen Shapiro
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Pinned
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there's a publishing trend to reissue/translate German books written in the 30s about the nazi-era, since, you know, the simliarities.
January 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
there's a publishing trend to reissue/translate German books written in the 30s about the nazi-era, since, you know, the simliarities.
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Is it fascism yet?
January 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Is it fascism yet?
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Good morning from Canada, a country whose border Trump has called an “imaginary” “artificial line” established by an illegitimate treaty. I’d like to be spared your nuanced “Were Trump voter’s racist with fascist inclinations or just low information voters with fascist inclinations?” debate today.
January 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Good morning from Canada, a country whose border Trump has called an “imaginary” “artificial line” established by an illegitimate treaty. I’d like to be spared your nuanced “Were Trump voter’s racist with fascist inclinations or just low information voters with fascist inclinations?” debate today.
When overpaid administrators just give up.
UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor
Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
When overpaid administrators just give up.
This is the key shift from the liberal biopolitcal, which feels the need for platitudes and justifications for violence, and the new necropolitical, which doesn't, and couldn't string a logical sentence together anyway.
bsky.app/profile/davm...
bsky.app/profile/davm...
Crazy that Trump Regime has not even bothered to run disinformation campaign against US for why we are kidnapping Maduro: drugs, money, oil, crimes against humanity, who knows?!?
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
This is the key shift from the liberal biopolitcal, which feels the need for platitudes and justifications for violence, and the new necropolitical, which doesn't, and couldn't string a logical sentence together anyway.
bsky.app/profile/davm...
bsky.app/profile/davm...
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From Burke in the late 18C onwards, pity for pretty cruelty is a standard for reaction and repression.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM
From Burke in the late 18C onwards, pity for pretty cruelty is a standard for reaction and repression.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
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archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
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archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
first off, no one who isn't impaired would even think of mentioning this.
second, no one not as risk gets repeatedly tested.
25th looming.
second, no one not as risk gets repeatedly tested.
25th looming.
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
first off, no one who isn't impaired would even think of mentioning this.
second, no one not as risk gets repeatedly tested.
25th looming.
second, no one not as risk gets repeatedly tested.
25th looming.
there's a publishing trend to reissue/translate German books written in the 30s about the nazi-era, since, you know, the simliarities.
January 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
there's a publishing trend to reissue/translate German books written in the 30s about the nazi-era, since, you know, the simliarities.
January 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
The words "German bureaucracy" and "digital modernization" aren't ones that are usually paired
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The words "German bureaucracy" and "digital modernization" aren't ones that are usually paired
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
From Burke in the late 18C onwards, pity for pretty cruelty is a standard for reaction and repression.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM
From Burke in the late 18C onwards, pity for pretty cruelty is a standard for reaction and repression.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
nazis are nazis
nazis are nazis
January 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
nazis are nazis
nazis are nazis
January 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
