🚨 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…

An important additional chart to keep in mind. Building on Brett Christophers opinion piece "We must not mistake China’s success on green energy for a global one" - on.ft.com/3CwOxny Code here - observablehq.com/d/20d13d84dd...