Brilliant essay www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Book 130: ‘Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy’ by James Williams #booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #techsky

David Hume vs literature Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy | by Katie Ebner-Landy aeon.co/essays/how-d... #Hume #literature #philosophy #philsky

BBC News - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

An asymmetry: monetizing hate is an established human activity, arguably exacerbated under capitalist society; monetizing love is not, because if it is monetized, it is not love: love can only be a gift.

New paper with @jowylie.bsky.social and @anagantman.bsky.social on art, morality, and the true self, forthcoming in Cognition! #philsky #psysky

Common sense observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Er, the words may have been appropriated and mis-used in various ways but being Anti-Fascist is good, actually. And brave. And, who could have believed it?, still necessary.

Important read 👇

Thread 👇 (esp “nobody seems to have addressed Musk's chilling Rivers of Blood call for British people to prepare for inevitable violence & to "fight back or die")

Review of Michel Barnier's Brexit diaries by someone who is a keen observer of British and European politics @nwhyte.bsky.social : fromtheheartofeurope.eu/my-secret-br...

#philsky Very sorry to hear of the death of Conor Gearty who was a brilliant lawyer, a superb scholar and a lovely man.

Some actual analysis rather than political posturing www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

#polisci #polisky

Now available for interested folk OWEN, David, BAUBÖCK, Rainer (editor/s), Citizenship as reparations : should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership?, EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2025/55, [GLOBALCIT] - hdl.handle.net/1814/93664

Missing the Programme

Heading to Germany and long train journeys but happily I have a perfect companion

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today. Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏

AfD loses. Badly, and in the first round. It’s just a mayoral election, but Meißen is the heart of Saxony and as the thread points out, AfD invested a lot in this race.

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

📢 New blog Alert! 🇧🇯 In 2024, Benin adopted a law granting people of African descent nationality "by recognition" 🌍 Why does it matter & how does it work? 🤔 Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa & Renaud Fiacre Avlessi break down its context, key provisions, legal effects & appeal ⚖️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdff8ud4

Blog post from @globalcit.bsky.social country experts on Benin explains the law on nationality 'by recognition' for people of African descent - complements the debate on reparative citizenship earlier this year hosted by @artsofdenial.bsky.social‬ and Rainer Baubock globalcit.eu/citizenship-...

If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.

Voices from Gaza darajapress.com/publication/...

Bizarre in a very bad way. And an act of utter disrespect to those who earned such honours.

InsurgenSeas - a new podcast. Hosted by Dr Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, the podcast explores how oceans are too often imagined as a non-space, or best a pipeline, and a deadly frontier. But InsugenSeas turns toward the waterline to ask: What else can the sea be? The first episodes are now live (below)

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl... A list sadly lacking the UK's greatest living sportswoman: Lauren Price.

"Welcome to Sweden – the land of the Nobel Prize!" | The Swedish Research Council has collected useful information for scholars considering working in Sweden. www.vr.se/english/rese... #academicsky #philsky

I think I remember reading or hearing Habermas saying recently that everything he has dedicated his life to (fought for/defended) is being destroyed - but I can't find this now. Does anyone know where he says this or something like it?

Extremely grateful to all the participants in this collection, some of whom I seem to have not managed to convince. Lots to work with in the near future.

Was sent this by my fiancée, 10/10 no notes.

I think there's just one openly trans philosopher in UK and she's made sterling efforts over the years to give the GCs the kind of respectful, thoughtful engagement they claim to want. Reward is v nasty tweeting from someone who makes a big thing about how philosophy blogs ought to listen to him.

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

Honored to share that our book Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances with David Doyle @hectorsolaz.bsky.social & @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social was awarded the APSA Migration & Citizenship Best Book Award! Grateful to the committee & thrilled to see our work recognized. 🙏🏼

Special issue of Public Reason which it is shamelessly immodest of me to post: publicreason.ro/cuprins/29

This piece, by @dahliasc.bsky.social, gives a very good and accurate overview of how right wing Israeli public opinion has become over the past decade, and why Netanyahu is not an outlier. These are my takeaways - and differences. 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

Last year the Centre for Global Constitutionalism at Southampton hosted Itamar Mann for a lecture and workshop. The results are now published as an Agora in the journal Global Constitutionalism. Links below.

One night in Munich

#philsky philpapers.org/rec/MARRTG-2

#NewArticle Moderate Structural Exploitation | Benjamin Ferguson, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer #philsky #philosophy OPEN ACCESS TEXT HERE: doi.org/10.1111/japp...

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

Free speech and support for proscribed organisations www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is extremely interesting. And the list of examples is far more extensive than I knew

Is Genocide Happening in Gaza? This was written by the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Horrifyingly, it’s a cut and dry case of genocide. #gaza #genocide #philsky

1) "Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration" - Lukas Schmid, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck, and Julia Mourao Permoser @julia-mp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S089...

2) "Climate Migration, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Motivation" - Michael Blake doi.org/10.1017/S089...