Marie Thøgersen
@mariethogersen.bsky.social
Just another Danish Marxist 🙋♀️
I like reading and writing and talking about international law and political economy, legal theory, world order, and everything that’s wrong with contemporary digital technology. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I like reading and writing and talking about international law and political economy, legal theory, world order, and everything that’s wrong with contemporary digital technology. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
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BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
October 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).
The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
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And we are underway! Our 10th (can you believe it!) annual conference kicks off today with brilliant panels and heated coffee break discussions as well as a brilliant keynote on insurgent utopianism by @genderhorizon.com!
Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰
Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
And we are underway! Our 10th (can you believe it!) annual conference kicks off today with brilliant panels and heated coffee break discussions as well as a brilliant keynote on insurgent utopianism by @genderhorizon.com!
Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰
Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰
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let them cook
October 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
let them cook
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Are you a PhD-student and do you want to join the PhD-course of the year?🔥
Then register before your comrade for this brilliant course with @genderhorizon.com herself on the 9th of October at Aarhus University the day before the annual conference!
Register here:
au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
Then register before your comrade for this brilliant course with @genderhorizon.com herself on the 9th of October at Aarhus University the day before the annual conference!
Register here:
au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
September 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Are you a PhD-student and do you want to join the PhD-course of the year?🔥
Then register before your comrade for this brilliant course with @genderhorizon.com herself on the 9th of October at Aarhus University the day before the annual conference!
Register here:
au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
Then register before your comrade for this brilliant course with @genderhorizon.com herself on the 9th of October at Aarhus University the day before the annual conference!
Register here:
au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
When you’re going to a TWAIL conference but all the hotels near campus seem to have names like this 🙃
July 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
When you’re going to a TWAIL conference but all the hotels near campus seem to have names like this 🙃
Rereading my PhD thesis and just found this golden typo. I’m somewhat happy I didn’t correct it before submission - it’s more accurate this way tbh
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Rereading my PhD thesis and just found this golden typo. I’m somewhat happy I didn’t correct it before submission - it’s more accurate this way tbh
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Job alert: @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social is hiring a legal historian!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04914
Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04914
Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Law and History - Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program – School of Law
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
July 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Job alert: @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social is hiring a legal historian!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04914
Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04914
Via @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social
I’m heading to Australia in August!
Excited to attend @annasaunders.bsky.social and @wanshucong.bsky.social’s workshop on IL and technology from below.
Any other events that would be fun for a Marxist IL scholar?
Would love to meet up with comrades and colleagues - reach out if you’re around💖
Excited to attend @annasaunders.bsky.social and @wanshucong.bsky.social’s workshop on IL and technology from below.
Any other events that would be fun for a Marxist IL scholar?
Would love to meet up with comrades and colleagues - reach out if you’re around💖
June 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m heading to Australia in August!
Excited to attend @annasaunders.bsky.social and @wanshucong.bsky.social’s workshop on IL and technology from below.
Any other events that would be fun for a Marxist IL scholar?
Would love to meet up with comrades and colleagues - reach out if you’re around💖
Excited to attend @annasaunders.bsky.social and @wanshucong.bsky.social’s workshop on IL and technology from below.
Any other events that would be fun for a Marxist IL scholar?
Would love to meet up with comrades and colleagues - reach out if you’re around💖
Knowing that my work actually resonates with people makes it feel so meaningful and worth all of the struggle.
Thanks for reading and for sharing, @malteengeler.bsky.social!
Happy to send a digital copy to anyone interested - feel free to reach out 😊
Thanks for reading and for sharing, @malteengeler.bsky.social!
Happy to send a digital copy to anyone interested - feel free to reach out 😊
Go read Marie Thøgersen's PhD thesis, a materialist critique of international cybersecurity law. It's great.
jura.ku.dk/english/cale...
jura.ku.dk/english/cale...
June 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Knowing that my work actually resonates with people makes it feel so meaningful and worth all of the struggle.
Thanks for reading and for sharing, @malteengeler.bsky.social!
Happy to send a digital copy to anyone interested - feel free to reach out 😊
Thanks for reading and for sharing, @malteengeler.bsky.social!
Happy to send a digital copy to anyone interested - feel free to reach out 😊
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Executive committee member @mariethogersen.bsky.social brilliantly defending her PhD, “Ruling the Cloud - A Critique of International Cyber Law” - and beginning with a denouncement of the University of Copenhagen for their collaboration with Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza genocide ✨🙌✊🇵🇸
June 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Executive committee member @mariethogersen.bsky.social brilliantly defending her PhD, “Ruling the Cloud - A Critique of International Cyber Law” - and beginning with a denouncement of the University of Copenhagen for their collaboration with Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza genocide ✨🙌✊🇵🇸
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the pic doesn’t do justice, but @mariethogersen.bsky.social is smashing it at her doctoral defence😎
June 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
the pic doesn’t do justice, but @mariethogersen.bsky.social is smashing it at her doctoral defence😎
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I wrote a review of @brunoleipold.com's brilliant book:
Hey y'all! We've got a special Friday post this week. @sorenmau.bsky.social reviews @brunoleipold.com 's Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).
spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...
spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...
Marx's Republican Communism – Spectre Journal
spectrejournal.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I wrote a review of @brunoleipold.com's brilliant book:
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Danish Marxism making headlines. Brilliant colleague and comrade @routhier.bsky.social on the front page of the Danish public service news provider, explaining why he declined a Fulbright scholarship for a research stay at NYU @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Danish Marxism making headlines. Brilliant colleague and comrade @routhier.bsky.social on the front page of the Danish public service news provider, explaining why he declined a Fulbright scholarship for a research stay at NYU @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
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Danish marxist @mariethogersen.bsky.social will be defending her PhD thesis, "Ruling the Cloud: A Critique of International Cyber Law" at University of Copenhagen 😍
Please join us on June 2nd if you want to see something as rare as a Danish Marxist PhD in international law💅
cms.ku.dk/preview/4932...
Please join us on June 2nd if you want to see something as rare as a Danish Marxist PhD in international law💅
cms.ku.dk/preview/4932...
May 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Danish marxist @mariethogersen.bsky.social will be defending her PhD thesis, "Ruling the Cloud: A Critique of International Cyber Law" at University of Copenhagen 😍
Please join us on June 2nd if you want to see something as rare as a Danish Marxist PhD in international law💅
cms.ku.dk/preview/4932...
Please join us on June 2nd if you want to see something as rare as a Danish Marxist PhD in international law💅
cms.ku.dk/preview/4932...
Just got the exciting news that my PhD thesis has been accepted for defence 👏
It'll take place on June 2, 12:00, at UCPH and online.
If you wanna start your week with a boost of fresh Danish Marxism, please join - I'd be thrilled to see some friendly faces! More details will follow soon 💕
It'll take place on June 2, 12:00, at UCPH and online.
If you wanna start your week with a boost of fresh Danish Marxism, please join - I'd be thrilled to see some friendly faces! More details will follow soon 💕
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just got the exciting news that my PhD thesis has been accepted for defence 👏
It'll take place on June 2, 12:00, at UCPH and online.
If you wanna start your week with a boost of fresh Danish Marxism, please join - I'd be thrilled to see some friendly faces! More details will follow soon 💕
It'll take place on June 2, 12:00, at UCPH and online.
If you wanna start your week with a boost of fresh Danish Marxism, please join - I'd be thrilled to see some friendly faces! More details will follow soon 💕
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So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Dansk forsker: Forskningsopholdet ville fremme min forskning og karriere. Alligevel takker jeg nej til Trumps USA
Som hvid mand med papirerne i orden er risikoen ved indrejse til USA begrænset for mig. Alligevel tager jeg ikke imod legatet til et forskningsophold i landet.
politiken.dk
May 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
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An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Come hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨
The talk is free and open to everyone!
The talk is free and open to everyone!
May 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Come hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨
The talk is free and open to everyone!
The talk is free and open to everyone!
The most peculiar aspect of writing might be the seamless coexistence of the two concerns, “if I don’t get shit done soon someone else might run with my idea” and “my idea absolutely sucks”
May 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The most peculiar aspect of writing might be the seamless coexistence of the two concerns, “if I don’t get shit done soon someone else might run with my idea” and “my idea absolutely sucks”
Just received this new volume, which makes a much-needed intervention into the mainstream legal literature on international organizations. I’ll be discussing it next week at CBS with editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social - come by if you’re in Copenhagen, or join us virtually! 🔥
May 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just received this new volume, which makes a much-needed intervention into the mainstream legal literature on international organizations. I’ll be discussing it next week at CBS with editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social - come by if you’re in Copenhagen, or join us virtually! 🔥
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I'm moving to Sweden with Marie! We're looking to rent a traditional Swedish farmhouse in the Gothenburg area starting in September — if anyone has any leads, let me know!
Moving moving to Gothenburg, Sweden! 🧵
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.
May 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm moving to Sweden with Marie! We're looking to rent a traditional Swedish farmhouse in the Gothenburg area starting in September — if anyone has any leads, let me know!
Moving moving to Gothenburg, Sweden! 🧵
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.
May 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Moving moving to Gothenburg, Sweden! 🧵
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.
1/4 Due to the increasingly unapologetic fascism in the US, @sorenmau.bsky.social and I have decided to cancel our American adventure for now.