Matt Sharpe
@mattsh4393.bsky.social
Aussie. PhD Philosophy, Social Theory, MA Public Policy (focus: higher ed), Dip Counselling. Author of books and articles on history of ideas, political theory, Stoicism & bullying/mobbing, and the ideologues of the far right. Concerned about democracy.
Looks like Sadler's new book shows academy finally waking up to Nietzche's baleful metapolitics and its continuing allure for Far Right. It only took 50 years or so. #nietzsche #farright #intellectuals #academia
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Looks like Sadler's new book shows academy finally waking up to Nietzche's baleful metapolitics and its continuing allure for Far Right. It only took 50 years or so. #nietzsche #farright #intellectuals #academia
Maga screensaver. What cld the connection be bw rampant disrespect of every known democratic norm and being friends w Epstein? Beats me.
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Maga screensaver. What cld the connection be bw rampant disrespect of every known democratic norm and being friends w Epstein? Beats me.
the book Why Camus Matters is now in proof form. www.bloomsbury.com/us/why-camus... Thanks to Stan Grant and Ronnie Beiner for their gracious praise for it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
the book Why Camus Matters is now in proof form. www.bloomsbury.com/us/why-camus... Thanks to Stan Grant and Ronnie Beiner for their gracious praise for it.
Hallelujah- say on brother.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Hallelujah- say on brother.
Chatgpt, describe US demoo collapse a nutshell.
Chatgpt: OK.
Chatgpt: OK.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Chatgpt, describe US demoo collapse a nutshell.
Chatgpt: OK.
Chatgpt: OK.
att culture warriors, who think "western civilization" is more threatened by "wokeism" than MAGAism: "O, when degree is shaked ..."
October 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
att culture warriors, who think "western civilization" is more threatened by "wokeism" than MAGAism: "O, when degree is shaked ..."
Cover for the 2026 book on Why Camus matters, en face de post-truth, nihilism, unworldly political romanticism and the collapse of leftism, lurch of rightism into neofascism, and the ecological collapse.
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Cover for the 2026 book on Why Camus matters, en face de post-truth, nihilism, unworldly political romanticism and the collapse of leftism, lurch of rightism into neofascism, and the ecological collapse.
So tragic - the power of money and bastardry ascendant
August 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So tragic - the power of money and bastardry ascendant
The string, frred from regulation; the vulnerable, frreed from protection. Land of the free.
July 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The string, frred from regulation; the vulnerable, frreed from protection. Land of the free.
Swamp 211. Drain 210
July 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Swamp 211. Drain 210
For anyone who’s had a maga lecture about epstein as proof of liberal corruption- the public record is a thing for the next while- at least.
July 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
For anyone who’s had a maga lecture about epstein as proof of liberal corruption- the public record is a thing for the next while- at least.
effects of AI algorithms on social media since 2009 or so. Yep, these precedents say to me, roll more out, faster, bros!
July 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
effects of AI algorithms on social media since 2009 or so. Yep, these precedents say to me, roll more out, faster, bros!
Empathy in MAGA era. Big beautiful empathy.
July 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Empathy in MAGA era. Big beautiful empathy.
the clowns are pushing back: for they are clever and entertaining, and serve the human good.
July 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
the clowns are pushing back: for they are clever and entertaining, and serve the human good.
Populism. What a con.
July 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Populism. What a con.
Illegal hunans? Not from any larger pov.
July 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Illegal hunans? Not from any larger pov.
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Trump’s massive penetrators : iran nuclear program - ‘intact’; accountability and democratic checks on tyrannical idiocy- ‘totally obliterated.’ Tick.
June 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Trump’s massive penetrators : iran nuclear program - ‘intact’; accountability and democratic checks on tyrannical idiocy- ‘totally obliterated.’ Tick.
Cool that a democratic nation these days can call media ‘scum’ and no one minds. ‘Post-normativity’. All that time we wasted in history classes gaddamit
June 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Cool that a democratic nation these days can call media ‘scum’ and no one minds. ‘Post-normativity’. All that time we wasted in history classes gaddamit