Uygar Baspehlivan
Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.
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- 🖖Hi people! We are launching our new BISA working group, Critical Alternatives for World Politics! We have been working on this for a while now :) It will be a great space to experiment with and create new methods and approaches to IR. Please make sure to follow and join us :)🥰
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanDrawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanI got interviewed about my PhD thesis on the relationship between neoliberal social media and the normalisation of far-right fantasies by @reacpolrn.bsky.social the Reactionary Politics Research Network. Many thanks to @aurelmondon.bsky.social for conducting the interview!
- 📣New interview📣 @paskokisic.bsky.social discusses how psychoanalytic theory can help us understand the contemporary far right and its normalisation. Check it out below! reacpol.net/psychoanalyt...
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🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations! 👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira 🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz - Check out my dear and awesome friend Charlie's new piece on the silly/serious politics of digital reaction! 👇👇
- Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivan🎉 Best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social winner this year was @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for: 'Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes' with judges finding the 'theoretical approach original & highly relevant' 🌟 Summary - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk DOI -
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- 🏆🏆Absolute pleasure to be awarded the: -RIS Best Article Prize for "Theorising the Memescape: The Spatial Politics of Internet Memes -Honourable Mention for BISA Michael Nicholson Best Thesis Prize @MYBISA -BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Best Thesis Prize
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- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivan📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanMy review of The Technological Republic by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and exec Nicholas Zamiska is out. They call for Silicon Valley to re-align with the Pentagon, where democracy is obsolete, engineers shift from apps to weapons, and code becomes law. Tech is no longer just for profit. It’s for war.
- As part of PERC's Silicon Valley Ideology series, @alirizataskale.bsky.social reviews The Technological Republic, by Palantir's CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The books is an unapologetic blueprint for a militarised tech oligarchy that threatens democracy and needs to be resisted.
- Incredibly honoured to have received BISA Emotions in Politics Working Group's Best Thesis Prize! And to share it with the lovely @annemhoude.bsky.social! Double the honour 😊😊
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- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanWe're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanAre you a graduate student who presented at the 2025 ISA in Chicago? If you were part of a panel sponsored or co-sponsored by the IPS section, consider applying to the 2026 IPS Graduate Student Paper Award! Self-nominations are encouraged!
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- my hard pivot to environmental (still digital) politics going strong. really enjoyed Ted DeLay's Future of Denial, this one's going super well too 😇
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- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanA great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
- 📢We had a fascinating concluding event for the year today with @epir-bisa.bsky.social ! 👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking
- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivan📢We had a fascinating concluding event for the year today with @epir-bisa.bsky.social ! 👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking
- Don't forget to join us tomorrow!
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanJuliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST. Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
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- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivanwe all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...
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- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivan🔥Tune into the latest #EISAVoices episode. 🎤Featuring Rahul Rao (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) in conversation w/ Polly Pallister-Wilkins (@pollypw.bsky.social) on his new book: ➡️📕"The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" Out now w/ @plutopress.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Uygar Baspehlivan"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️
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- I am finally sitting down to think more carefully about potential book series to submit my monograph to, which will be based on my PhD thesis, Meme-ing Global Politics. I would love some series/publisher recommendations that are open to critical theoretical research on digital politics.
- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanCFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop. All details below 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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- This looks incredible! I'm sure this will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of digital-cultural aesthetics. Pre-ordered. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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- daily tunes: open.spotify.com/album/4gqGuq...
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- the poor, degraded image has become the aesthetic norm of this administration. they render all serious political desires and imaginaries in a coat of silly aestheticisation to keep up with the zany and the interesting and the cute which Ngai diagnosed as the primary forms of late capitalism.
- I will be talking about reactionary politics and (in)convenience as an ordinary affect of contemporary reaction on the 13th of May with some great company! Don't forget to sign up 😇!
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- omw back to turkey for the month, i'm reading this beautiful collection of ecosocialist essays by richard seymour on the way. this bit especially stood out so far.
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- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanI got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week: newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...
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- Reposted by Uygar BaspehlivanIf you haven’t already, do take a moment to read this brilliant piece by the great @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social on memes in International Relations. It is insightful, sharp, and a lot of fun! 🤓
- Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky. I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
