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Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons (2025)
Report
Ibled, C. (2025). Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons. London: Common Wealth

Space is one of the few remaining commons of humanity protected by
international law, thanks to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Outer space is a rare case where a legal and institutional infrastructure of common ownership and commoning of resources alr... Read More about Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons.

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur (2025)
Journal Article
Ibled, C. (online). ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur. Journal of Cultural Economy, https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2025.2471602

Silicon Valley's tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel's and Elon Musk's involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential elections. Considering these businessmen's ability to... Read More about ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur.

Between Neoliberalism and Fascism: Louis Rougier, Race, and the Ends of Neoliberal Ideology (2025)
Journal Article
Cornelissen, L., & Ibled, C. (online). Between Neoliberalism and Fascism: Louis Rougier, Race, and the Ends of Neoliberal Ideology. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2025.2483768

This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper develops a close analysis of the career and works of Louis... Read More about Between Neoliberalism and Fascism: Louis Rougier, Race, and the Ends of Neoliberal Ideology.