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Rabea Rittgerodt-Burke @rabeari.bsky.social · 5h

Super excited and proud to announce the start of the De Gruyter Brill/GSA Dissertation Prize!!

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Cannot WAIT to check out everything people have worked on - please spread the word and/or submit, prize is a 1000EUR and a free OA publication :)

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 6h

I decided to spent some time on this beautiful morning to read up on the "Boston Massacre" in 1770, when British troops dispatched to the city by a distant regime fired into a group of protesters.

Sound familiar?

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 8h

Toooodddaaaaay!

Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 18h

Sooooooo….this is starting tomorrow ⬇️

#ComicsStudies

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Poster der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung. Mehr per Link (im Pist).

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 20h

Doing author guessing the right way.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

Der großkoalitionär mantrahaft vorgetragene Einwand, man solle es mit der USA-Kritik nicht übertreiben, denn schließlich handele es sich um die älteste Demokratie der Welt, belegt vorzüglich, dass seit Tocqueville der US-Exzeptionalismus auch eine Praxis der Zuschreibung von außen ist.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

Little of that doom and gloom pervaded the conversations I had with my fellow fellows (no pun intended) at the MWS 10 years ago. Yes, career precarity was a big concern, but oh my did we feel invincible and optimistic about the ever-widening paths of global exchange. How wrong we were.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a German historian of the US, and I remember how I said to myself a few years ago man it must suck to be a German historian of Russia with all the repression bearing down on the GHI in Moscow and the dangers of doing critical scholarship there and all.

Well…

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

In light of current events

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a German historian of the US, and I remember how I said to myself a few years ago man it must suck to be a German historian of Russia with all the repression bearing down on the GHI in Moscow and the dangers of doing critical scholarship there and all.

Well…

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 1d

In light of current events

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

In light of current events

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty wild that Trump 2.0 rebranded border control as one of America’s “foundational principles” when colonial settlers had given a rat’s ass about border control in the run-up to the American Revolution.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

In light of current events

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

In good company.

Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

Does “history is process” mean anything anymore? Also, if Berlin 1938 constitutes your touchstone for calling something fascist, it’s already way past midnight.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I‘ve been doing some thinking about why there’s is still a stunning hesitancy when it comes to using “fascism/fascisization” as a category for describing what is going on in the US right now. Imho it’s important to distinguish between two factions. /1

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 2d

I may be exaggerating, but I think the same people who buy into the Milleresque talk of “domestic terrorism and seditious insurrection” are determined to re-erect Confederate statues and keep referring to the Civil War as the “War Between the States.”

Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I guess I’m gonna close with this: Whatever our viewpoints and motivations, we can’t afford to fall back into methodological nationalisms to make sense of - and effectively intervene in - the world we live in.

Happy to discuss!

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

…in which American exceptionalism is deteriorating into brute ultranationalism. Still, I would insist on making a difference between these scholars and the ideologues who don’t like the f-word because they can barely hide their adulation for Trumpism. /6

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying that these isms are not present in what we’re witnessing. Yet stopping there is like pitching soft balls to Babe Ruth. Unless we prioritize process over singularity, fascism will always remain an ocean apart from the US. A strangely exceptionalist position to take at a moment… /5

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

…that are pretty much irreplicable elsewhere. This makes the “fascism skeptics” engage in rhetorical contortions where they come up with terms such as “Caesarism” or “Sultanism”, which only add to the confusion. Others seek a save haven in “authoritarianism” or “right-wing populism.” /4

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

…that objective. Then there is one side in what I would call an honest disagreement among scholars. Of course it’s hard to concede that fascism is on the rise in the US if your definition of that term is tied to a very specific set of historical circumstances (post-WW1 Europe)… /3

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

There are folks who reject the fascism label for purely ideological reasons. Either because they agree, openly or tacitly, with the MAGA takeover or because they detect in Trump the long-awaited wrecking ball that will smash the old liberal empire. Calling T. a fascist would go against… /2

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

I‘ve been doing some thinking about why there’s is still a stunning hesitancy when it comes to using “fascism/fascisization” as a category for describing what is going on in the US right now. Imho it’s important to distinguish between two factions. /1

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 3d

Um es deutlich zu sagen: die Faschisierung der USA klar zu benennen ist ein pro-amerikanischer Akt.

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