Matthew Fluck
@mattfluck.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
University of Westminster
International Theory | Critical Theory | Transparency | Utopia
University of Westminster
International Theory | Critical Theory | Transparency | Utopia
Looking forward to our final Westminster CSD seminar of the year tomorrow. Joe Davidson on apocalyptic imaginaries and the black radical tradition. Join us if you can!
CSD Seminar: ‘Apocalyptic abolitionists: the black radical tradition and the end of white democracy’ with Dr Joe P. L. Davidson (Loughborough)
www.westminster.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Looking forward to our final Westminster CSD seminar of the year tomorrow. Joe Davidson on apocalyptic imaginaries and the black radical tradition. Join us if you can!
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
Thanks to a great team of contributors:
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks to a great team of contributors:
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
Great piece on the LRB blog. Fascism is “not fundamentally a problem of ignorance” or of “bad information”
Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Great piece on the LRB blog. Fascism is “not fundamentally a problem of ignorance” or of “bad information”
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...
www.thedigradio.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Translation: Horkheimer's Birthday Letter to Adorno (9/11/1938)
On dialectics and dialogue
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
happy 9/11—Theodor W. Adorno’s Birthday—to those who celebrate, here’s my translation from a while back of Horkheimer’s 1938 birthday letter to Adorno on dialogue and dialectics! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Reposted by Matthew Fluck
For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year
#polisky
#polisky
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year
#polisky
#polisky