“The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.” - Stuart Hall: Gramsci and Us www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Many thanks to Chiara Cordelli for this masterclass with our PhDs and postdocs ahead of her Brian Barry Lecture this evening www.lse.ac.uk/government/e...

Top UK universities spent £440k+ on private security to spy on their own pro-Palestine students and academics. No wonder a recent survey of Middle East Politics scholars by @abuaardvark.bsky.social and @stelhami.bsky.social found that 81% self-censor when it comes to criticism of Israel

The third set of postdocs in our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 will be based across the road from LSE at KCL with @uditbhatia.bsky.social and focus on popular government in the global south my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Stuart Hall on conjunctural analysis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHph... sociologytwynham.com/wp-content/u... pod.link/1544487624/e... thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

Sometimes Tony Negri's work is criticised for being too pessimistic, in arguing that material labour is largely powerless now. But if this is right, it means Negri wasn't pessimistic enough: he thought that cognitive capitalism would at least have to rent our intelligences from us to function.

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

📣 Call for Abstracts! Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)! Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y... Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

📣 Call for Abstracts! Excited to be among the organisers of the 12th annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory (28-29th May)! Submit abstracts here: forms.gle/ccfeNR21Pn3Y... Please share among colleagues and fellow PhD Students!

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

Famously, fascism was defeated in the marketplace of ideas. With debate.

My highly contingent and partial take on Gen AI in Higher Education is this: the biggest problem with Gen AI isn't brazen cheating or dishonesty. It's the normalisation of seemingly minor things being incorrect: call it a 'close enough' mentality.

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

"Many Americans are done with what they perceive as an unacceptable status quo." 🗽 Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social argues that whilst #Mamdani’s victory surprised the Democratic establishment, it tallies with an increasingly #polarised #US #electorate. 👇🏽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/government/2...

If you're around London next week, consider joining us for this workshop on alternatives to capitalism! Details below👇

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

Truly and deeply honoured x.com/DeutscherPri...

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

Thanks to Daniel James (TU Dresden) for a great talk on racialized oppression, followed by a great exchange. An absolutely brilliant research seminar.

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

From political philosophy to political proposals via the social sciences. A lively debate, launching Tom Parr's new book. With Becky Clark (LSE), David Axelsen (Essex) and @brunoleipold.com .

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.

I always knew that one day I’d be able to do something with this meme

My theory: the relative decline in power of a certain kinda woke humanities set (post-2020) happened in some part because when a crisis came and America was relatively receptive they just had no workable policies. "Abolish the police" just weren't it, but it was the only slogan that broke through...

Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future

I want to believe 😭

Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social is organising an exciting conference on 10th June about AI, consiousness, and morality. Register here: www.eventbrite.de/e/lse-worksh...

@jackwilkinson.bsky.social told me about this saying today. It will stay with me for a while.

about to crack this case wide open

A slightly experimental blogpost. More of a scrapbook if anything. "The Gramsci of Life" www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...

Wrote a short piece for the @princetonupress.bsky.social Ideas blog on one of the themes of my book press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...

Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...

Our PhD student @yusufimaadkhan.com presenting on genealogical anxiety to our weekly POTY research seminar

Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one. Code: observablehq.com/d/a207f5c57a...

thinking about this wonderful column from 2017 with the title "The Closed Society and Its Friends; A Defense of the Echo Chamber", written by Center for Wild Analysis, a Danish philosophy collective: "There is much talk about the dangers of social media turning into echo chambers, where we... 1/4

We've put together a starker pack for political theorists based at LSE go.bsky.app/12JJvRZ

It’s publication day! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

And @cristinaconesa.bsky.social 🤝🫡🎉

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…