Lars Cornelissen
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
Researcher, editor, teacher
Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
Pinned
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
I really enjoyed recording this podcast on my new book, Neoliberalism and Race, with Morteza Hajizadeh
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I really enjoyed recording this podcast on my new book, Neoliberalism and Race, with Morteza Hajizadeh
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
Latest blog post
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
isrf.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Latest blog post
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!
Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race by Lars Cornelissen shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. #ReadUP
https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e
https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Turns out the men who founded the Adam Smith Institute held some pretty controversial views on race, IQ, and segregation.
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
The Adam Smith Institute on Race
Explore the controversial history of the Adam Smith Institute's views on race, IQ, and intelligence in this revealing archival research from a groundbreaking neoliberal study.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Turns out the men who founded the Adam Smith Institute held some pretty controversial views on race, IQ, and segregation.
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Very much looking forward to this!
Book Launch: 'Neoliberalism and Race', by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person & online.
isrf.org/events/neoli...
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person & online.
isrf.org/events/neoli...
Neoliberalism and Race | 9th December 2025
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Dr Lars Cornelissen, author of 'Neoliberalism and Race', co-hosted with the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre.
isrf.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Very much looking forward to this!
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state
Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...
www.tandfonline.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
(1/3) Apropos of the University of Edinburgh's report on its historical relations to slavery, colonialism, and race science:
For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...
For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
(1/3) Apropos of the University of Edinburgh's report on its historical relations to slavery, colonialism, and race science:
For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...
For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...
"Snowdon’s is a knee-jerk reflex calculated to protect the neoliberal project and some of its most precious philosophers from what he perceives to be a smear campaign."
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-neolib...
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-neolib...
The Neoliberals Read Slobodian
So You Don’t Have to - #2
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Snowdon’s is a knee-jerk reflex calculated to protect the neoliberal project and some of its most precious philosophers from what he perceives to be a smear campaign."
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-neolib...
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-neolib...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
Wrote a post about Lionel Robbins and race.
After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/robbins-on...
After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/robbins-on...
Robbins on Race
Notes from the Archive - #1
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Wrote a post about Lionel Robbins and race.
After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/robbins-on...
After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/robbins-on...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
📢🔔 ICYMI - this at 1989 views in less than a month is By FAR our fastest moving article ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur - @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📢🔔 ICYMI - this at 1989 views in less than a month is By FAR our fastest moving article ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur - @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
I've accidentally wound up doing a mini-lecture tour of London this week & in case anyone is desperate to hear two very different perspectives on the history of Newfoundland, here they are. First, at Gresham (there are tickets left for the live stream) ... www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World
Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death of her world in the early nineteenth century, creating the only first-hand account we have of the Beothuk people from the Island of Newfoundland....
www.gresham.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I've accidentally wound up doing a mini-lecture tour of London this week & in case anyone is desperate to hear two very different perspectives on the history of Newfoundland, here they are. First, at Gresham (there are tickets left for the live stream) ... www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...
www.sup.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
I wrote a report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social on the current corporate push to privatise outer space - one of the few remaining commons of humanity (dixit international law)
🚀 Space: The Final Frontier ... of privatisation?
🌕 Our new report warns of the nebula of billionaires & corporate interests attempting to privatise outer space.
🖊️ Carla Ibled on why the left should fight to protect the status of space as a commons.
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
🌕 Our new report warns of the nebula of billionaires & corporate interests attempting to privatise outer space.
🖊️ Carla Ibled on why the left should fight to protect the status of space as a commons.
www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons | Report | Common Wealth
Wealthy countries and corporations are seeking to rewrite international law to undermine the neutrality of space and privatise its land and resources.
www.common-wealth.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I wrote a report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social on the current corporate push to privatise outer space - one of the few remaining commons of humanity (dixit international law)
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
I'll be speaking at @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 30 April about my new research; on a subject that is profoundly important to me and to the world (even if few have heard of this incredible woman and her people). Register to attend in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World
Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death of her world in the early nineteenth century, creating the only first-hand account we have of the Beothuk people from the Island of Newfoundland....
www.gresham.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'll be speaking at @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 30 April about my new research; on a subject that is profoundly important to me and to the world (even if few have heard of this incredible woman and her people). Register to attend in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
New article with my dear friend @lcornelissen.bsky.social! We read through Louis Rougier's work and discussed his connections with the French far right.
The article is behind paywall sadly, so DM me or Lars if you don't have institutional access and need a free copy.
The article is behind paywall sadly, so DM me or Lars if you don't have institutional access and need a free copy.
New publication with @cibled.bsky.social
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper devel...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New article with my dear friend @lcornelissen.bsky.social! We read through Louis Rougier's work and discussed his connections with the French far right.
The article is behind paywall sadly, so DM me or Lars if you don't have institutional access and need a free copy.
The article is behind paywall sadly, so DM me or Lars if you don't have institutional access and need a free copy.
New publication with @cibled.bsky.social
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper devel...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New publication with @cibled.bsky.social
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology
We discuss the career and thought of Louis Rougier, who for most of his career moved between neoliberalism and the French far right
doi.org/10.1080/1600...
"Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike?"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark. How is inequality to be tackled – not just tinkered with – in a serious fashion, without immediately bringing on a capital strike?"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
Lars Cornelissen reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY alongside Melinda Cooper's new book and Jennifer Burns at Modern Intellectual History. @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
www.cambridge.org
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Lars Cornelissen reviewed THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY alongside Melinda Cooper's new book and Jennifer Burns at Modern Intellectual History. @princetonupress.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New publication!
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
For Modern Intellectual History I reviewed Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, @tsasson.bsky.social’s The Solidarity Economy and Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
For Modern Intellectual History I reviewed Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, @tsasson.bsky.social’s The Solidarity Economy and Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
doi.org
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New publication!
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
For Modern Intellectual History I reviewed Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, @tsasson.bsky.social’s The Solidarity Economy and Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
For Modern Intellectual History I reviewed Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, @tsasson.bsky.social’s The Solidarity Economy and Jennifer Burns’s Milton Friedman
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Reposted by Lars Cornelissen
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
ISRF Fellow Rachel Rosen (@ucl.ac.uk) & Mai Abu Moghli (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on a recent report commissioned by the UN, via @uk.theconversation.com.
isrf.org/blog/israels...
ISRF Fellow Rachel Rosen (@ucl.ac.uk) & Mai Abu Moghli (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on a recent report commissioned by the UN, via @uk.theconversation.com.
isrf.org/blog/israels...
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
isrf.org
March 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
ISRF Fellow Rachel Rosen (@ucl.ac.uk) & Mai Abu Moghli (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on a recent report commissioned by the UN, via @uk.theconversation.com.
isrf.org/blog/israels...
ISRF Fellow Rachel Rosen (@ucl.ac.uk) & Mai Abu Moghli (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on a recent report commissioned by the UN, via @uk.theconversation.com.
isrf.org/blog/israels...