Quinn Slobodian
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
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Quinn Slobodian
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Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social
'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Applications are now invited for a new RHS programme for 2026, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social
'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in June bit.ly/44kfUMM. Closing date: 6 February. #Skystorians
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Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968
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Kicking off 2026 with a new piece in @sciasculture.bsky.social titled “Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s Technological Republic and the Nationalist Faction of the Tech Oligarchy". The piece is part of the forum on "Tech Oligarchy" edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social. A brief summary:
January 5, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Kicking off 2026 with a new piece in @sciasculture.bsky.social titled “Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s Technological Republic and the Nationalist Faction of the Tech Oligarchy". The piece is part of the forum on "Tech Oligarchy" edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social. A brief summary:
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Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
Martti Koskenniemi, The Laws That Rule Us, NLR 154, July–August 2025
In an expansive response to Perry Anderson’s critique of international law in NLR 143, Martti Koskenniemi counterposes to headline rulings on crimes against humanity the opaque, pervasive network of t...
newleftreview.org
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
Martti Koskenniemi, The Laws That Rule Us, NLR 154, July–August 2025
In an expansive response to Perry Anderson’s critique of international law in NLR 143, Martti Koskenniemi counterposes to headline rulings on crimes against humanity the opaque, pervasive network of t...
newleftreview.org
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Excellent piece by Koskenniemi rebutting Perry Anderson on the weakness of international law by pointing to the legal infrastructure of global capitalism (from trade and investment to taxation and SEZs) rather than merely state-to-state public international law. newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
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🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate.
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics.
We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment invited thousands of delegates from most of the world’s countries to address the sorry state of the planet. The interests of oil and industry were well represented—those of the workers, less so.
Earth, Bound | Scott W. Stern
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 marked the birth of international environmental law. It was moribund from the start.
thebaffler.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment invited thousands of delegates from most of the world’s countries to address the sorry state of the planet. The interests of oil and industry were well represented—those of the workers, less so.
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Been saying this for some time about utilities specifically. Most of it relies on elite, inscrutable processes that require - by design - years of training and certification to participate in. As the work gets harder and more costly, we need more democratic connection to the utilities, not less.
He also presents the decline of attention to renewables and energy transition in the EU as something like a failure of political will yet the decline is in dynamic response to the success: failure to secure mass consent through democratic processes makes achievements fleeting.
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Been saying this for some time about utilities specifically. Most of it relies on elite, inscrutable processes that require - by design - years of training and certification to participate in. As the work gets harder and more costly, we need more democratic connection to the utilities, not less.
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Important addition. Another aspect that is in my view crucial to understanding the decline of attention to decarbonization is an economic one: western (green) businesses being outcompeted by China and not expecting to catch-up (even with large-scale state support).
January 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Important addition. Another aspect that is in my view crucial to understanding the decline of attention to decarbonization is an economic one: western (green) businesses being outcompeted by China and not expecting to catch-up (even with large-scale state support).
I always learn from watching @adamtooze.bsky.social but I think he's right when he says in the Q&A that climate/energy is a "nerd's" dream topic. It presupposes rational government—one reason it can feel like a limited lens for understanding the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I always learn from watching @adamtooze.bsky.social but I think he's right when he says in the Q&A that climate/energy is a "nerd's" dream topic. It presupposes rational government—one reason it can feel like a limited lens for understanding the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...
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Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
lpeproject.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Breaking: Dominium = Imperium
January 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Breaking: Dominium = Imperium
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Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social and free to read and download!
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Our brand new monograph, discussing the findings of our work together during the last seven years, is now out for @oxfordacademic.bsky.social and free to read and download!
Love Larry Fink as the William Wallace of neoliberal globalism
January 18, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Love Larry Fink as the William Wallace of neoliberal globalism
One month till Muskismus drops in the German-speaking lands c/o @suhrkamp.de www.suhrkamp.de/buch/muskism...
Muskismus. Buch von Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Technologie, Macht und Größenwahn – wie Elon Musk die Demokratie herausfordert | Buch von Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
www.suhrkamp.de
January 18, 2026 at 12:51 PM
One month till Muskismus drops in the German-speaking lands c/o @suhrkamp.de www.suhrkamp.de/buch/muskism...
Wonder if anyone‘s ever had this tattooed
January 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Wonder if anyone‘s ever had this tattooed
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With the politics of monetary policy much in the news, this is a great new piece by the always excellent Jeremy Green on the hidden importance of gold supply from Apartheid South Africa to Bretton Woods and postwar international monetary stability
The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order
This article revisits gold’s role within Bretton Woods, contributing to recent efforts to develop a more global and thematically inclusive international political economy (IPE). Challenging dominan...
www.tandfonline.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 AM
With the politics of monetary policy much in the news, this is a great new piece by the always excellent Jeremy Green on the hidden importance of gold supply from Apartheid South Africa to Bretton Woods and postwar international monetary stability
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Improbable but increasingly unavoidable conclusion that Christopher “moot” Poole who created 4chan at age 15 is one of the most influential figures of the 21st century.
January 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Improbable but increasingly unavoidable conclusion that Christopher “moot” Poole who created 4chan at age 15 is one of the most influential figures of the 21st century.
Who could have seen this coming www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Who could have seen this coming www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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January 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Highly recommend Unrest (dir. Cyril Schäublin) which manages to convey the strangeness of internationalism and the conviviality of the workshop at the same time, beautifully described by James Quandt here. www.artforum.com/columns/jame...
TIME CODE
James Quandt on Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest
www.artforum.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Highly recommend Unrest (dir. Cyril Schäublin) which manages to convey the strangeness of internationalism and the conviviality of the workshop at the same time, beautifully described by James Quandt here. www.artforum.com/columns/jame...
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Pretty telling that OAI is doing this first and not Anthropic
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Pretty telling that OAI is doing this first and not Anthropic
January 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM