Quinn Slobodian
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out in spring with Ben Tarnoff: MUSKISM. Preorder pretty pls: https://bookshop.org/p/books/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-ben-tarnoff/3d177fb9349a79ff quinnslobodian.com
Pinned
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
If you haven't checked out Carrier Bag, a new site for art and politics, I highly recommend it.
Excellent videos posted recently from symposium organized by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger on Art in the Age of the Average.
carrier-bag.net/focus/art-in...
Excellent videos posted recently from symposium organized by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger on Art in the Age of the Average.
carrier-bag.net/focus/art-in...
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you haven't checked out Carrier Bag, a new site for art and politics, I highly recommend it.
Excellent videos posted recently from symposium organized by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger on Art in the Age of the Average.
carrier-bag.net/focus/art-in...
Excellent videos posted recently from symposium organized by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger on Art in the Age of the Average.
carrier-bag.net/focus/art-in...
japanese jacket looking like the matrix
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
japanese jacket looking like the matrix
already lining up book launch events - like this one in Rotterdam for what De Geus is calling Muskisme: Ein gids voor de verbijsterden
On Saturday March 14 we welcome two of today’s most incisive thinkers on technology, capitalism, political imagination and the rise of the populist right: Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek’s Bastards) and @bentarnoff.com (Internet for the People, Voices from the Valley).
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
already lining up book launch events - like this one in Rotterdam for what De Geus is calling Muskisme: Ein gids voor de verbijsterden
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Two Post-doc positions are advertized at the GHI Washington which is now also establishing a new research focus on „Empires and their legacies“.
Job: 2 Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Neuere und Neueste Geschichte" (DHI Washington)
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159007
Washington, DC, 01.06.2026, DHI Washington; Max Weber Stiftung, Bewerbungsschluss: 11.01.2026
https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159007
Washington, DC, 01.06.2026, DHI Washington; Max Weber Stiftung, Bewerbungsschluss: 11.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Two Post-doc positions are advertized at the GHI Washington which is now also establishing a new research focus on „Empires and their legacies“.
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„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
„A sad fiasco“, my book on colonial concentration camps, has been released in paperback today. If you want to know what characterized these deadly institutions; whether colonial powers copied this technique from each other; and whether they are connected to later Nazi camps, consider taking a look.
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One of my go to examples of blatant neocolonialism when teaching or presenting on the topic, and woefully underresearched. Great book by a great scholar and journalist:
I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books.
www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...
www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...
Africa's Last Colonial Currency - Pluto Press
How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa
www.plutobooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
One of my go to examples of blatant neocolonialism when teaching or presenting on the topic, and woefully underresearched. Great book by a great scholar and journalist:
Very interesting takes from Central Eastern Europe angle to Hayek's Bastards, asking where Klaus, Orbán and the FPÖ fit. With response from me. Thx to @vapunkt.bsky.social, Béla Greskovits, Daniel Šitera. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Very interesting takes from Central Eastern Europe angle to Hayek's Bastards, asking where Klaus, Orbán and the FPÖ fit. With response from me. Thx to @vapunkt.bsky.social, Béla Greskovits, Daniel Šitera. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
Karp: "I'm the sacrifice."
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Karp: "I'm the sacrifice."
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Recommended weekend listening - IQ is back with a vengeance. In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, starring the brilliant Quinn Slobodian, we lift up the 'race science' rock to see what's squirming underneath soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
#206 Race Science is Back. It Never Went Away.
Race science, with its noxious claims that ‘biology is destiny,’ comes roaring back during periods of social change. That’s the conclusion of a new book by historian Quinn Slobodian, tracing today’s o
soundcloud.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Recommended weekend listening - IQ is back with a vengeance. In the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social, starring the brilliant Quinn Slobodian, we lift up the 'race science' rock to see what's squirming underneath soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
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Historian Quinn Slobodian in the Financial Times today describing how eugenics is now firmly back on the political agenda
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November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Historian Quinn Slobodian in the Financial Times today describing how eugenics is now firmly back on the political agenda
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
www.ft.com/content/23e9...
neuartige Verschmelzung
In „Hayek‘s Bastards. Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right“ diagnostiziert Quinn Slobodian eine „neuartige Verschmelzung neoliberaler Wirtschaftstheorie und wissenschaftlicher Rassenforschung“. Die Rezension von Stefan Kühl:
www.soziopolis.de/die-neoliber...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
neuartige Verschmelzung
Trying to self-brand as the R.L. Stine of the Left.
Quinn Slobodian is the master of articulating not just the horror of our age but its nightmares; the brutal fantasies dreamed up by our overlords that we can hardly believe are already being inflicted upon us.
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trying to self-brand as the R.L. Stine of the Left.
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@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@patrickmccray.bsky.social's literary history of computers, "README," explains the essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
May 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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🔴Three ex-Tory defence ministers have taken up lucrative private sector jobs in recent months
One has become a paid advisor to
Peter Thiel’s Palantir, the US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
New on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
One has become a paid advisor to
Peter Thiel’s Palantir, the US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
New on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Conservative defence minister joins Peter Thiel’s Palantir
Calls for action as trio of ex-defence ministers take up lucrative private sector jobs, including with US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
open.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🔴Three ex-Tory defence ministers have taken up lucrative private sector jobs in recent months
One has become a paid advisor to
Peter Thiel’s Palantir, the US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
New on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
One has become a paid advisor to
Peter Thiel’s Palantir, the US spy tech firm that’s helping Trump deport migrants
New on Democracy for Sale
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Good one from @edwardluce.bsky.social on.ft.com/4307991
May 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Good one from @edwardluce.bsky.social on.ft.com/4307991
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"The reader is unsure if this is really a world of madmen or the world of smart people who pretend to be madmen to extract money"
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
Review: Hayek's Bastards. The Neo-Liberal of the Populist Right, by Quinn Slobodan
Branko Milanovic reviews Quinn Slobodan's most recent book.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"The reader is unsure if this is really a world of madmen or the world of smart people who pretend to be madmen to extract money"
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
@brankomilan.bsky.social reviews @quinnslobodian.com's most recent book on neoliberalism and the far right.
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Please come to @quinnslobodian.com's book launch 👇 (Hayak's Bastards) at SOAS co-hosted by the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (organised by Co-Director @parvathimenon.bsky.social), and the Department of Economics.
Come listen to @quinnslobodian.com discuss his latest book with @tilley101.bsky.social @brosef-stalin.bsky.social and @emilhth.bsky.social on Wednesday, May 7th, at KLT, SOAS from 12-13:30 Please register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right, with Quinn Slobodian
Book Launch with author, Quinn Slobodian and discussants, Lisa Tilley (SOAS), Ashok Kumar (Birkbeck) and Emil Huth (SOAS).
www.soas.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Please come to @quinnslobodian.com's book launch 👇 (Hayak's Bastards) at SOAS co-hosted by the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (organised by Co-Director @parvathimenon.bsky.social), and the Department of Economics.
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Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right.
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
May 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Join us for our public event w/ @quinnslobodian.com on the neoliberal roots of the populist right.
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Professor of #InternationalHistory @bostonu.bsky.social, Quinn Slobodian was named as one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers by @prospectmagazine.co.uk
📅 21st May, Maison de la paix
👉 shorturl.at/EGNk6
Longish interview with @ladn.bsky.social www.ladn.eu/nouveaux-usa...
Le république technologique, les visions politiques des tech bro
Vivra-t-on bientôt dans des zones en fonction de son origine, son entreprise et (surtout) de son portefeuille ? Quinn Slobodian, Professeur d’histoire économique à Boston, nous explique ces idées qui ...
www.ladn.eu
May 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Longish interview with @ladn.bsky.social www.ladn.eu/nouveaux-usa...
The actual answer is the current US project is only accelerating a trend of underfunding and academic precariousness that is worldwide.
It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
May 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The actual answer is the current US project is only accelerating a trend of underfunding and academic precariousness that is worldwide.
Some of the better baseball walkout music I’ve heard in a while open.spotify.com/track/3XCOAB...
El Hacha Macizon
Tambor Urbano · Que No Se Pare la Rumba · Song · 2004
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May 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Some of the better baseball walkout music I’ve heard in a while open.spotify.com/track/3XCOAB...
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Interesting interview with @quinnslobodian.com in @eurozine.bsky.social
Far-right foreign policy in the age of MAGA 2.0
For the US today, tariffs serve the same purpose as bombs. But Trump’s revival of 19th century-style economic imperialism may be alienating his international far-right allies – with one exception: Rus...
www.eurozine.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Interesting interview with @quinnslobodian.com in @eurozine.bsky.social