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  • The class composition of American proto-fascism

  • The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

  • Does Trump dictate his tweets?

  • The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

  • Mainstream betting sides offering 1/3 odds on Trump either disregarding or changing constitutional term limits

  • What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

  • There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

  • Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

  • Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches ðŸ˜¬

  • If Donald Trump represents an insurgency against elites then why do so many billionaires support him?

  • It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

  • What comes after Trump?

  • Trump’s regrets about Twitter

  • Anti-Trumpism mirrored Trumpism

  • The vested interests of the media in Trump

  • It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

  • The mundane reality of neo-fascism

  • Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

  • Trump administration seeking permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • When the populists inspire the ad men

  • The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

  • Trump as a tactician of post-truth

  • The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

  • An interview with Stand Up magazine about social media and fragile politics

  • The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

  • Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

  • The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

  • How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

  • Defensive Elites

  • Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

  • Social media and populism 

  • Fighting for ‘political correctness’ in an age of Trump

  • Educational technology in an age of Trump: a risk to students?

  • The epistemology of democracy’s death

  • No longer praying at the altar of virality

  • A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

  • A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

  • Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

  • Donald Trump explaining intelligence

  • Trump is masculinising poverty

  • What might Trumpist authoritarianism look like?

  • What Donald Trump’s business strategies suggest about his presidency 

  • Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

  • Richard Rorty predicted Trumpism

  • Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

  • The Republican elite are now openly declaring their contempt for the American white working class 

  • Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

  • The Skilled Demagoguery of Donald J. Trump

  • the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

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