Robert Chapman

Do I know anyone who uses Wikipedia? Someone (no idea who) made a Wikipedia page on me a few years back but it contains a lot of outdated or incorrect info, which is causing problems like people trying to contact me in the wrong places. Would be really helpful if someone could give it an overhaul!

I wrote a new paper. It reconstructs the argument behind Marx’s discussion of the value form in the first chapter of Capital. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm excited to read this and feel confident it will be an important intervention.

Books From Below now has a website! booksfrombelow.co.uk

I think that to be a good revolutionary, you have to have a good belly laugh. When the stakes are so high, how can one trust and follow someone that doesn’t?

Was pleased to see Empire of Normality cited in the recent UK government commissioned independent report on autism and ADHD. One step closer to neurodivergent Marxist hegemony.

Fwiw i think it was brave to stand in a seat where labour have such a strong starting point not to mention in such a hostile media environment. I was impressed by how well @zackpolanski.bsky.social did in the circumstances.

"So many of the people I speak to here tell me they’ve voted Labour in the past – but this time, they’re voting Green to elect an independent local MP who will fight for their communities and keep the Labour government in check." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Very offline atm but as Luxemburg said we must say loudly what is happening: "zionism is racism" is not only true; it’s also obviously true yet vital to state given how its obviousness is being so fervently assaulted to stifle recognition of the apartheid and genocide.

Its been so nice co-running a radical bookshop with @benbowsher.bsky.social and @emilywebz.bsky.social the last few days since opening. Lots of interest, support, gratitude and solidarity. Will write more about it at some point but for now am just extremely busy and not very online.

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This is literally how I speak to my cat

Comrades what are you favourite contemporary zines (available in the UK)? We are discussing what to stock in our radical bookshop!

Lovely to see Ed Sheeran's support acts quitting. I think often liberals dislike solidarity as it shines a light on the utter hollowness of their politics. They do everything they can to shut it down, discredit, or silence it. But always remember that they do this because they recognise its power.

If you told 2013 me I would be a macklemore stan in 2026 I would not believe you but here we are.

A pattern i've noticed since working on opening a radical bookshop: Troskyites get in touch to donate books while Stalinists get in touch to sell you books.

You can listen to me chat to @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @mboveda.bsky.social on Language and (DIS)Ability tensions - languagetensionspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2617863/epis...

'I promised my mum I wouldn't speak about banging my cousin at the fash convention' is just so on the nose what can you even say anymore

People still on twitter are saying there is a big reactionary fuss over @reallandsend.bsky.social's timely critique of eugenic ideology on the left. Good time to note her and @avierkant.bsky.social's book is still one of my favourite books on health politics. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Me, Marxistly: I strongly belive in the power of a good bauhaus style rug to synthesise the apparent contradictions of a room

Really enjoyed Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci. A skillful synthesis of theory, biography and history. www.penguin.co.uk/books/442807...

Soviet health propoganda poster "weight is normal - (good) for the health"

Its been extremely stressful leaving academia due to rising transphobia but I am also relieved in some ways, given the terrible state of the industry in the uk. It feels like its gone through neoliberalism into something more like feudalism, which is hardly compatible with free thought.

Radical bookshops are places full of often suppressed and potentially lifechanging knowledge that AI doesn't know about.

What a great time to read #EmpireOfNormality: Neurodiversity & Capitalism, by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social 🦋 www.plutobooks.com/product/empi...

Went to stroke my cat who was loafing next me on the sofa earlier. I must have pressed the wrong button, as she very suddely sprang into the air, flew across the room, and fell behind the other sofa, all in one single motion. She then acted like this was totally normal, of course.

If people wanna read the paper it's open access here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

It won't let me sign without a university role but would have signed this.

I don't know loads about Dolly Parton but our baby daughter gets one book a month from Dolly Parton's Imaginarion Library and will do until she is five. I think setting up a charity to provide free books and inspire reading in children was a really incredible thing to do. imaginationlibrary.com/uk/

An insightful review by @parkerian.bsky.social of @drrobertchapman.bsky.social's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. Strongly recommend you read the review, the book, and other works by both Chapman and Parker.

Saw all the big name philosophy and psychology professors listed as referees on eugenicist Nathan Cofnas's CV and feel a bit sick seeing how well networked he is. (And of course he has refereed for the Journal of Controversial Ideas eleven times.)

Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent

Misspelt "manosphere" as "nanosphere" and am now wondering whether there is a nanosphere.

Abolish the DWP - Seeking volunteer writers for why the Department for Work and Pensions (UK) is deadly, unreformable and must be abolished. Email - richardamm(at)gmail.com

This is right IMO. The reason why we see increased diagnosis is because society (capitalism) is increasingly reliant on conformity, narrowing the range of what counts as "normal" - if you are sufficiently different, you are disabled. @drrobertchapman.bsky.social has written a book about it.

leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...

Donation page for Jason Arday's family. www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Seems worth repeating this recommendation in the wake of Arday's death.