'Contrainte Muette' is out now from @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social. Thanks to @prada-meinhof.bsky.social and Camilla Brenni for the excellent translation, and to Léa Gallon for the beautiful design 💙
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
'Contrainte Muette' is out now from @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social. Thanks to @prada-meinhof.bsky.social and Camilla Brenni for the excellent translation, and to Léa Gallon for the beautiful design 💙
arrived in sweden
September 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
arrived in sweden
looking forward to learning Swedish and eating smörgastårta
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
looking forward to learning Swedish and eating smörgastårta
Joshua, @marxinhell.bsky.social, me and a well-read copy of Capital at the seminar. Joshua's t-shirt: "CLEAR EYES / FULL COMMUNISM / CAN'T LOSE" 💖 thanks to Rosie Stockton for sending me this photo
April 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Joshua, @marxinhell.bsky.social, me and a well-read copy of Capital at the seminar. Joshua's t-shirt: "CLEAR EYES / FULL COMMUNISM / CAN'T LOSE" 💖 thanks to Rosie Stockton for sending me this photo
@mariethogersen.bsky.social and I arrived at the camp, and I was fumbling around trying to park our rented truck in the small parking lot, while Joshua was laughing and snapping a bunch of pictures of this clueless European struggling to handle a US-sized car. 2/3
April 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
@mariethogersen.bsky.social and I arrived at the camp, and I was fumbling around trying to park our rented truck in the small parking lot, while Joshua was laughing and snapping a bunch of pictures of this clueless European struggling to handle a US-sized car. 2/3
once again applying for a job in the UK as Lord Mau
April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
once again applying for a job in the UK as Lord Mau
just finished Lyndal Roper’s new book on the German Peasants' War of 1525. It’s brilliant! I was really frustrated, though, by how it ends with an extremely superficial caricature of Marx and Marxism as inherently economistic and promethean. On the very last page Roper praises “the sheer... 1/6
April 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
just finished Lyndal Roper’s new book on the German Peasants' War of 1525. It’s brilliant! I was really frustrated, though, by how it ends with an extremely superficial caricature of Marx and Marxism as inherently economistic and promethean. On the very last page Roper praises “the sheer... 1/6
Reading Lyndal Roper's new book "Summer of Fire and Blood" on the German peasants' war in 1525 🔥
April 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reading Lyndal Roper's new book "Summer of Fire and Blood" on the German peasants' war in 1525 🔥
finally got my hands on a copy of @brunoleipold.com's book—now eagerly reading
March 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
finally got my hands on a copy of @brunoleipold.com's book—now eagerly reading
I'm finding Geoff Eley's "Forging Democracy" useful for the historical context
March 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I'm finding Geoff Eley's "Forging Democracy" useful for the historical context
POV: you're applying for a job in the UK
March 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
POV: you're applying for a job in the UK
this is me from now on
March 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
this is me from now on
I have many issues with these manuscripts. Here's a description of a few of them:
March 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I have many issues with these manuscripts. Here's a description of a few of them:
here's some advice from Kierkegaard: "The dissertation is now under my control, I have command. So: Forward, March. The motto is: What I wrote, I wrote"
February 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
here's some advice from Kierkegaard: "The dissertation is now under my control, I have command. So: Forward, March. The motto is: What I wrote, I wrote"
this will be the first in a series of public talks on this topic that I will give in Europe and the US in 2025
February 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
this will be the first in a series of public talks on this topic that I will give in Europe and the US in 2025
It’s a twist on the classic medieval “Danse Macabre” genre, showing death, dressed in peasants’ clothes, killing a count with his own shield. 3/3
February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s a twist on the classic medieval “Danse Macabre” genre, showing death, dressed in peasants’ clothes, killing a count with his own shield. 3/3
of demands written a few weeks later that included access to the commons, the right to freedom, and the reduction of rent and “compulsory labor.” On my back is a tribute to the rebellion: a woodcut by the German artist Hans Holbein, created during the Peasants’ War (1524–25). 2/3
February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
of demands written a few weeks later that included access to the commons, the right to freedom, and the reduction of rent and “compulsory labor.” On my back is a tribute to the rebellion: a woodcut by the German artist Hans Holbein, created during the Peasants’ War (1524–25). 2/3
“We hereby declare that we are free and want to remain free.” Exactly 500 years ago today, peasants from 25 German villages Germany rose up against the nobility in one of the most significant uprisings of the German Peasants’ War. Their demands formed the basis of the “Twelve Articles”, a list...1/3
February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“We hereby declare that we are free and want to remain free.” Exactly 500 years ago today, peasants from 25 German villages Germany rose up against the nobility in one of the most significant uprisings of the German Peasants’ War. Their demands formed the basis of the “Twelve Articles”, a list...1/3
Today, Mute Compulsion has been out for two years. Huge thanks to everyone who has read, discussed, recommended, criticized, reviewed, edited, cited, published, bought, taught, and translated it. Publishing this book has been a such a wonderful, surprising, overwhelming, and moving experience. 1/3
January 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Today, Mute Compulsion has been out for two years. Huge thanks to everyone who has read, discussed, recommended, criticized, reviewed, edited, cited, published, bought, taught, and translated it. Publishing this book has been a such a wonderful, surprising, overwhelming, and moving experience. 1/3