Dorian Alt

PhD in European Studies & Discourse Analysis. Interested in 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇵🇵🇱 politics, society & identity. Alter-European socialist. he/his

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

A year ago, the AfD glorified the Holocaust by holding a remigration conference in Wannsee. Cooperating with such a party means abandoning Germany's foundational political values. Very good visualization of this spotted at today's #WirSindDieBrandmauer protest. #FCKCDUafd

[Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey]

Informationen bei der Einschulung.

[Cornelius Heimstädt @cheimstaedt]

SO IT'S CALLED ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY BUT THERE IS THIS WHOLE DEBATE GOING ON WHETHER IT SHOULD BE CALLED A THEORY AT ALL. I MEAN, LATOUR HIMSELF ONCE SUGGESTED THAT "ACTANT-RHIZOME ONTOLOGY" MIGHT BE A MORE SUITABLE NAME BECAUSE

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

Life goals

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I’m not a regular lecturer; I’m a cool lecturer,” you tell yourself, as you reference another tv show cancelled before your students were born.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

Short welcome interview out now on @OVGUpresse website. Talking about my political socialization, marxist theories of European integration and why it's necessary to have beers after class. #EU #EuropeanStudies

https://t.co/U0epsEnoKf

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

All student emails are a coin toss between “Dear esteemed Dr Professor” and “Hey”.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

Everyone's last year of phd...

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

First day as assistant lecturer at the Chair of European studies of @EGHeidbreder at Magdeburg university. Judging from the similarity with the university's name patron, this promises to be a great fit 🎉

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

"I got 99 contracts but I just need one" - my favorite slogan today at the protest against #WissZeitVG. This law increases precarity and kills diversity. #IchBinHanna

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

@Payperback Agreed. These are my top ten favourite German words to say aloud...

10. Wackeldackel
9. Kuddelmuddel
8. Umgebung
7. Schnickschnack
6. Schmetterling
5. Antibabypille
4. Muckefuck
3. Dudelsack
2. Krimskrams
1. Dingsbums

[Hanna Liubakova @HannaLiubakova]

Belarusians in Latvia combined the drawings of prisons in #Belarus and #IKEA furniture catalogues to protest against the alleged use of the labour of Belarusian political prisoners.

Thinking about this makes me sick.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

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[Manuela Boatcă @ManuelaBoatca]

Instead of long readings on the history of European colonial rule and on the coloniality of the EU project, I can just show this short clip, where the head of the EU foreign policy spells it all out in all its racist glory in 2022.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

@sanchezcastejon @larsklingbeil @MarinSanna call for excess profit tax and for QMV in #EU foreign policy. Great to see such policy visions voiced in a transnational manner, as European Social Democrats. This is how the European public sphere works.

https://t.co/7Ph6lJnjYa

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

"You - the United States - take care of our security. You - China and Russia – provided the basis of our prosperity. This is a world that is no longer there."

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

THREAD Let's start a long thread about how Russian book market prepared Russians for a full-scale war against Ukraine, NATO, the West, and promoted stalinism and nazism, and how this was ignored by the West. Keep seat belts fasten, you will see a lot of nasty things here.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

"Tbf, Germany hasn’t understood or considered anyone’s security interests, not even its own"

Excellent threat on how #UkraineWar has affected inner #EU cleavages.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

@_ManuelMueller "second order public sphere" nennen und buch zu schreiben

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

Interesting spin on the deficit model...

[Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann]

Politicians across countries make large errors in estimating public support for policy & regularly misperceive what a majority of the voters wants. Politicians are hardly better at estimating public preferences than ordinary citizens.
https://t.co/hDKRtg8CTf

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

🧵5/5 The absence of the neoliberal vision is striking. It is very prominent in official discourse and yet has failed to take root among citizens. This highlights the need to rely on both supply and demand side material to study discursive identity formation.

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

Is there a European #identity? If yes, what does it look like? In @n_nationalism, I argue that EU citizens construct an economic identity around a European social model. This means that official EU discourse partly fails to resonate with citizens.🧵1/5
https://t.co/88yuYGx9Kc

[Dorian Alt @alt_dorian]

🧵4/5 The popular representation of the European social model has three parts: a definition of the European economy through high social standards; a distinction from unregulated capitalism, exemplified by the US; a distinction from state socialism, rooted in collective memories.