Ali Rıza Taşkale
@alirizataskale.bsky.social
https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
Another seminal essay by Fred Turner, this time on "The Texan Ideology": While the Californian Ideology fused 1960s counterculture with tech entrepreneurship to imagine a connected digital utopia, the Texan Ideology combines neoliberal economics, Christian nationalism, and resource extraction.
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Another seminal essay by Fred Turner, this time on "The Texan Ideology": While the Californian Ideology fused 1960s counterculture with tech entrepreneurship to imagine a connected digital utopia, the Texan Ideology combines neoliberal economics, Christian nationalism, and resource extraction.
New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: Immediacy, mediation and praxis: reading @annakornbluh.bsky.social through the lens of Guy Debord.
The article is currently open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article is currently open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: Immediacy, mediation and praxis: reading @annakornbluh.bsky.social through the lens of Guy Debord.
The article is currently open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article is currently open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The third article has now been published!
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The third article has now been published!
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.
Excited to share that I’ve signed with @springernature.com for my book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film. The book explores the critical intersections between speculative finance & speculative fiction, and I look forward to bringing it into the world soon!
October 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Excited to share that I’ve signed with @springernature.com for my book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film. The book explores the critical intersections between speculative finance & speculative fiction, and I look forward to bringing it into the world soon!
Wonderful research day at the University of Essex - great discussions, networking, and the pleasure of giving a talk. So happy to be back in the UK after a decade!
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wonderful research day at the University of Essex - great discussions, networking, and the pleasure of giving a talk. So happy to be back in the UK after a decade!
I’ve just received wonderful news here in London! My book proposal, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, has been accepted for publication by Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture. The book will be out in July 2026 - I couldn’t be happier!
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’ve just received wonderful news here in London! My book proposal, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, has been accepted for publication by Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture. The book will be out in July 2026 - I couldn’t be happier!
Final touches to slides before tomorrow’s long class on genealogy and degrowth - following Nietzsche and Foucault to understand the foundations of modern growth culture and imagine a slower, fairer future.
September 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Final touches to slides before tomorrow’s long class on genealogy and degrowth - following Nietzsche and Foucault to understand the foundations of modern growth culture and imagine a slower, fairer future.
Another article I commissioned for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social neoliberalism–fascism special issue is now out!
It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Another article I commissioned for @distinktionjournal.bsky.social neoliberalism–fascism special issue is now out!
It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
It examines the political aesthetics of tradwife imagery, using Nancy Fraser & Walter Benjamin to show how nostalgia for domesticity blends empowerment with neoliberal labour politics.
Now is a good time to promote my first book in English, the first systematic study of the concept of post-politics. It shows how neoliberal regimes govern through affect, foreclose politics, and produce subjects incapable of political thought and action. www.routledge.com/Post-Politic...
September 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Now is a good time to promote my first book in English, the first systematic study of the concept of post-politics. It shows how neoliberal regimes govern through affect, foreclose politics, and produce subjects incapable of political thought and action. www.routledge.com/Post-Politic...
Something experimental is on the way. The central argument is that the era of post-politics is over. Antagonism, aggression, and brute force are no longer lurking at the margins; they have become the primary architects of a new and chaotic world order.
September 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Something experimental is on the way. The central argument is that the era of post-politics is over. Antagonism, aggression, and brute force are no longer lurking at the margins; they have become the primary architects of a new and chaotic world order.
Today’s job market: AI writes your application, AI reads it, AI rejects it, and somewhere, a tech oligarch is laughing all the way to the bank while nobody gets hired.
September 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today’s job market: AI writes your application, AI reads it, AI rejects it, and somewhere, a tech oligarch is laughing all the way to the bank while nobody gets hired.
The first article of the Silicon Valley special issue I’m editing is out! @mrshoward.bsky.social shows how contrarianism isn’t genuine dissent but a performative strategy rooted in venture capital. The piece develops negative mimesis, how dissent is aestheticized, repackaged & stripped of politics.
August 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The first article of the Silicon Valley special issue I’m editing is out! @mrshoward.bsky.social shows how contrarianism isn’t genuine dissent but a performative strategy rooted in venture capital. The piece develops negative mimesis, how dissent is aestheticized, repackaged & stripped of politics.
Visited the Robert Longo exhibition at Louisiana in Copenhagen. Falling bodies, collapsing buildings, police violence, flags, and ruins - overwhelming in scale and emotion. Charcoal transformed into history that feels heavier than stone.
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Visited the Robert Longo exhibition at Louisiana in Copenhagen. Falling bodies, collapsing buildings, police violence, flags, and ruins - overwhelming in scale and emotion. Charcoal transformed into history that feels heavier than stone.
New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: “A new political diagonal? how students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New at @distinktionjournal.bsky.social: “A new political diagonal? how students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Opening The Contrarian at last. Thiel is a central figure in my research on tech oligarchy and reactionary futurism, so it’s time to read how his story is told, what’s emphasized, and what’s conveniently left out.
July 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Opening The Contrarian at last. Thiel is a central figure in my research on tech oligarchy and reactionary futurism, so it’s time to read how his story is told, what’s emphasized, and what’s conveniently left out.
The 5th article in the neoliberalism–fascism nexus special issue I’m commissioning is out! Drawing on social epistemology, it shows how neoliberalism and fascism converge through epistemic violence by introducing “hermeneutical connectivity.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The 5th article in the neoliberalism–fascism nexus special issue I’m commissioning is out! Drawing on social epistemology, it shows how neoliberalism and fascism converge through epistemic violence by introducing “hermeneutical connectivity.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Join us Saturday afternoon at #Fantasticon in Copenhagen for a panel on how climate fiction can spark real-world climate action and help us imagine new — and, hopefully, collective — futures.
May 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Join us Saturday afternoon at #Fantasticon in Copenhagen for a panel on how climate fiction can spark real-world climate action and help us imagine new — and, hopefully, collective — futures.
Some photos from our packed event at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen. We explored two futures through speculative fiction: one shaped by Amazon workers’ struggles, and the fight for labor and ecological justice. Thanks to @maxhaiven.bsky.social and Sherryl Vint.
May 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some photos from our packed event at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen. We explored two futures through speculative fiction: one shaped by Amazon workers’ struggles, and the fight for labor and ecological justice. Thanks to @maxhaiven.bsky.social and Sherryl Vint.
I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.
May 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.
The 4th piece in the spec issue I'm editing on the neoliberalism–fascism nexus is also out. It tracks how paleo-libertarianism fuses racialized, anti-democratic politics with radical markets, and how elites like the DeVos family weaponize it to shape US politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The 4th piece in the spec issue I'm editing on the neoliberalism–fascism nexus is also out. It tracks how paleo-libertarianism fuses racialized, anti-democratic politics with radical markets, and how elites like the DeVos family weaponize it to shape US politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I heroically avoided all reviews of Quinn’s book; no spoilers, no opinions, just sheer willpower. Now that it’s finally in my hands, I can dive in and unleash my own hot takes!
May 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I heroically avoided all reviews of Quinn’s book; no spoilers, no opinions, just sheer willpower. Now that it’s finally in my hands, I can dive in and unleash my own hot takes!
The 3rd piece in the Distinktion special issue I’m commissioning is out. It maps a neoliberal Great Replacement theory, where socialist elites, not capital, are blamed for migration + welfare expansion. From Hayek to Musk, market logic meets far-right paranoia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The 3rd piece in the Distinktion special issue I’m commissioning is out. It maps a neoliberal Great Replacement theory, where socialist elites, not capital, are blamed for migration + welfare expansion. From Hayek to Musk, market logic meets far-right paranoia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Putting the final touches on my Warsaw talk slides. Now to pretend they were always this coherent. Shoutout to future me for pretending this was all intentional.
May 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Putting the final touches on my Warsaw talk slides. Now to pretend they were always this coherent. Shoutout to future me for pretending this was all intentional.
I’m hosting an event at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen on May 21, exploring two visions of the future: one through the fight of Amazon workers for labour & ecological justice; the other through the environmental crises tied to Silicon Valley’s AI-driven dreams.
April 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’m hosting an event at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen on May 21, exploring two visions of the future: one through the fight of Amazon workers for labour & ecological justice; the other through the environmental crises tied to Silicon Valley’s AI-driven dreams.