Mikkel Flohr

How we arrived on Bluesky:

The Alibi of Capital Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...

Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow - @versobooks.bsky.social, March 2026
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A black and white print from the Danish left-wing collective "Røde Mor" [red mother] with the text "Kvinder er den halve verden" [Women er half of the world].

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A black and white print from the Danish left-wing collective "Røde Mor" [red mother] with the text "Kvinder er den halve verden" [Women er half of the world] for "Danmarks demokratiske kvindeforbund" [Denmark's Democratic Women's Asssociation].

Happy international women's day! The struggle continues!

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Spoiler alert: it has to do with “desertion” understood as ways of withdrawing from the structures that sustain the global war regime and building alternatives.

I try to address that question at length in the final two parts of the article.

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Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

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We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM.

The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026.

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The article also explores “desertion” as a strategy of resistance that does not conform to the logic of the war regime. It denotes a collective and internationalist withdrawal from the infrastructures and logics that sustain permanent war, while building new forms of solidarity and autonomy.

Portolan cargo.site

I wrote an article on the emerging “global war regime” – a condition in which war is no longer an isolated event, but an increasingly generalized mode of governance shaped by geopolitical and geo-economic tensions, securitization, and authoritarian drift. portolan-journal.org?post=thinkin...

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a man is singing into a microphone with the words `` do n't call it a comeback ! '' ALT: a man is singing into a microphone with the words `` do n't call it a comeback ! ''

@magnusz.bsky.social

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that:
1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul;
2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.

The owl of Minerva must’ve gotten up early to predict our precarity huh?

…a visiting grad student at UC Berkeley with Martin Jay during his last semester there #ThePlotThickens

A fascinating text by @joncatlin.bsky.social on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay and his students, and the role of political economy in intellectual history that also picks up on my recent work. In a strange twist, I can report that I was actually…

They made a book about us?

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The advice to meditate on "Danish Marxism" probably made the difference

Had she meditated for four hours before the event she would, undoubtedly, have qualified.

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and you just reminded me, I need to get back on "The Thick of It"

The continued reproduction of the privilege, isolation and infighting of the aristocratic elites that structures UK politics, is endlessly fascinating and horrifying!

a man is standing in front of a sign that says foul real Alt: Classical scene from “Boyz ‘n the Hood” where Furious Styles explains how there are gun and liquor stores on every single corner in the black neighborhoods, but not in Beverly Hills and how property values are brought down before the neighborhoods are gentrified.

“There are gun and liquor stores on every corner in this community […] You go out to Beverly Hills you don’t see that shit” - Furious Styles

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