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Stephen Shapiro
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Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Pinned
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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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
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Is it fascism yet?
January 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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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
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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
Last weekend in #edinburgh
January 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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
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...
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
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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...
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
archive.is/TjgUa
unwelcoming and overly bureaucratic.
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Blood In, Blood Out (1993), the Latinx Godfather
Montana is first seen reading Fanon.
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 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.
January 2, 2026 at 3:34 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 12:00 PM
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...
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
From Burke in the late 18C onwards, pity for pretty cruelty is a standard for reaction and repression.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM
January 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
January 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM