John Keane
@professorjkeane.bsky.social
political thinker & writer|sense of humour|lover of deserts|against hubris|democrat|VMO|forever young
just published: my unorthodox thoughts on the past, present and future of revolution, including the unfinished ‘slow motion’ democratic revolutions of our times…https://johnkeane.substack.com/p/on-revolutions
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
just published: my unorthodox thoughts on the past, present and future of revolution, including the unfinished ‘slow motion’ democratic revolutions of our times…https://johnkeane.substack.com/p/on-revolutions
…and in Spanish…https://letraslibres.com/revista/keane-amerika-maga-china-decadencia-imperial-y-democracia/
May 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
…and in Spanish…https://letraslibres.com/revista/keane-amerika-maga-china-decadencia-imperial-y-democracia/
my unorthodox account of MAGA and Trump’s demagoguery as symptoms of US imperial decline is now available in Dutch…
May 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
my unorthodox account of MAGA and Trump’s demagoguery as symptoms of US imperial decline is now available in Dutch…
my interview with Lithuanian writer Almantis Samalavičius on the gamification of war, citizen indifference towards genocide and the role of rebel journalists in exposing war’s barbarities…it’s also published this week in Lithuanian @TodaInstitute toda.org/assets/files...
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
my interview with Lithuanian writer Almantis Samalavičius on the gamification of war, citizen indifference towards genocide and the role of rebel journalists in exposing war’s barbarities…it’s also published this week in Lithuanian @TodaInstitute toda.org/assets/files...
my latest essay, just published: ‘The Beautification of War - برحلا ليمجت: Digital Communications, Public Indifference, Rebel Journalism, and Civilian Resistance in the Age of Meta Wars’ www.jstor.org/stable/48806...
February 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
my latest essay, just published: ‘The Beautification of War - برحلا ليمجت: Digital Communications, Public Indifference, Rebel Journalism, and Civilian Resistance in the Age of Meta Wars’ www.jstor.org/stable/48806...
amidst the most serious student uprising in Europe since 1968, my interview with the distinguished journalist Stefan Slavković appeared this week in Belgrade’s Radar magazine; for curious readers there’s a rough English translation…https://johnkeane.substack.com/p/the-serbian-government-is-a-modern
January 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
amidst the most serious student uprising in Europe since 1968, my interview with the distinguished journalist Stefan Slavković appeared this week in Belgrade’s Radar magazine; for curious readers there’s a rough English translation…https://johnkeane.substack.com/p/the-serbian-government-is-a-modern
a spectre is haunting Vučić’s Serbia: a youthful, smart, courageous, digitally savvy civil society disgusted by systemic corruption & abusive power| my interview published in @RadarsRs coincided with last week’s general strike ✍️ Stefan Slavković
radar.nova.rs/politika/dzon-…
radar.nova.rs/politika/dzon-…
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a spectre is haunting Vučić’s Serbia: a youthful, smart, courageous, digitally savvy civil society disgusted by systemic corruption & abusive power| my interview published in @RadarsRs coincided with last week’s general strike ✍️ Stefan Slavković
radar.nova.rs/politika/dzon-…
radar.nova.rs/politika/dzon-…
‘Might we be living in times in which many real-world things are happening to democracy that are not just unexpected or strange but far weirder than we can presently think? But what does it mean to think about democracy? Come to think about it, what exactly is thinking?’
January 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
‘Might we be living in times in which many real-world things are happening to democracy that are not just unexpected or strange but far weirder than we can presently think? But what does it mean to think about democracy? Come to think about it, what exactly is thinking?’