ConradBongardHamilton

Assistant prof at East China Normal Uni pursuing research on the relation between agency and value form in the work of Marx, and the link to Speculative Realism

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

New interview out with Ege Çoban of the Turkish magazine @Terrabaytt, in which we discuss how I came to (Marxist) philosophy, real abstraction, Jordan Peterson and Alexander Dugin, video games, and more
https://t.co/bwAEeyKmq7

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

Great conversation with Daniel Tutt, in which we discuss everything from Clavicular to Nathan Cofnas to AOC to Hyperpolitics to the Khmer Rouge

https://t.co/eyPFOnIxUq

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

A new show with @BongardConrad on Platner Gate and the crisis of left-populism, whether D&G is even a coherent leftist practice in our time and how liberal hegemony affects the left. We also discuss Bernard Stiegler.
https://t.co/WGYtscWs1Z

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

The report for the conference I co-organized at East China Normal University in Shanghai in 2024--that featured Jason Moore, Alberto Toscano, Guanjun Wu, Roberto Finelli, et al.--has now been published

https://t.co/ZIQOWPNA7g

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@Joltjoyklip Staged…

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@RodericDay @TuttReal I’m just describing the basic conventions of interviewing as a descriptive act. Also, while I’m sure your “side” work is extremely valiant you should learn to read obviously positioned footnotes before loudly contesting claims on Twitter

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@TuttReal @RodericDay I think it's quite possible he just considers recognition effectively absent as a theme without (as he says) a reckoning with the "anthropological and logical Hegel"

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@TuttReal @RodericDay Yes of course the articulation is just misleading since it's more likely to elicit this objection than to make people reflect on how Losurdo frames recognition and the Hegelian sources he leans on

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@TuttReal @RodericDay The footnote itself is too schematic, what Finelli seems to be really trying to get at it is that justifying the use of the state or collective to remove barriers to individual freedom/recognition is not in of itself a positive account of individual freedom/recognition

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

In early 2025, I did an interview with Roberto Finelli--in my estimation, one of the greatest living Marxist philosophers--on the work of Domenico Losurdo, with whom he was a long time interlocutor. It's now been published; I recommend checking it out!

https://t.co/KsMeDuEYPf

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

My long response to @BongardConrad's review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism."

https://t.co/IITxaPSfab

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

My review of Matt McManus' The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, in which I argue that what is needed to remedy the illiberal traits of socialism is not a fusion with liberalism, but the victory of socialism.

https://t.co/LNef2wufJm

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@BenBurgis I mean, this is just Proudhon redux…

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@GoldenAgeUnfold Dude drove prices up and alienated America’s allies, had to be coerced by his base into releasing the Epstein files, then launched a stupid war… 1

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

Scholarships are here for The New Centre for Research & Practice! Proud--as the incoming Programmer for Sociopolitical Thought--to have played a part in recruiting a line-up for Spring/Summer 2026 that includes @MattPolProf and @BenBurgis among others

https://t.co/BQDh8Mmn4U

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@BenBurgis This is doubly interesting because most of the ghastly stories about Borgia were fabricated by Italian clerical rivals who disdained his family as overly aggressive modernizers and outsider Spaniards

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

@BenBurgis I always take their view of state socialism to be summed up by Horkheimer: “The world situation is that everything seems to be improving, but the world's liberators all look like Cesare Borgia.”

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

My review argues that--while Turl's critique of the embourgeoisement of modern art is accomplished, and their temporal schemas no less so--the book struggles at times to reconcile its Romanticism with a dialectical perspective, slipping into a kind of "magic individualism"

[Marx & Philosophy @MarxPhilosophy]

New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:

Conrad Hamilton on Adam Turl's Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth

https://t.co/3G69jnk4MG

[Cosmonaut ☭ @CosmonautMag]

Conrad Hamilton responds to Nicolas D Villarreal's recent review of 'Flowers For Marx,' taking issue with his critique of the collection's contents. https://t.co/M0dFZNt4Es

[ConradBongardHamilton @BongardConrad]

At the request of Cosmonaut I wrote a response to Nico Villarreal's review of Flowers for Marx--necessary not because he was critical of it, which is fine, bit because it crossed the line into making demonstrably false claims about the scholarship therein

https://t.co/cAhVKsKq6a