Disponible en la revista Res Publica una breve reseña que hice del libro 'Controlar y proteger. El retorno del Estado' de @paologerbaudo.bsky.social (@versolibros.com, 2023): revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RP...

The #GortonandDentonByElection upsets many recent stereotypes. The Greens are represented by a working class candidate who has lived in the constituency all of her life. Reform by an academic and TV pundit airdropped to a place where he is basically a stranger. Curious twist.

Mandelsongate has revealed just how deep is the moral abyss of the Labour Party, and more generally of Western social democracy. Impossible to understand the rise of right-wing populism, and why it appeals to workers, without taking this into account.

Atualmente, o poder digital opera em várias camadas — desde os algoritmos que moldam o que se torna visível online até as infraestruturas que sustentam a comunicação, os serviços públicos e a vida cotidiana.

"In patrimonial systems, uncertainty about the ruler’s exit destabilizes loyalty; promises of indefinite tenure are meant to restore it. This is precisely why proposals for an extended presidency should be vocally opposed and ridiculed, not indulged as speculative theater."

No Brasil a gente fala que o bozismo é cria do fim dos bingos como opção de socialização do idoso. Na França, está associado ao fim progressivo dos bares onde se fuma. Exatamente pelo mesmo motivo. A vida em sociedade pede espaços de socialização. Se não depender de fumar ou perder dinheiro, melhor.

@paologerbaudo.bsky.social on the new Americanized TikTok's highly limiting hard-right Trumpy algorithms: "It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters; it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all [against] these controlling platform algorithms." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

Censorship today is no longer just about bans; it’s also about who controls the visibility of online content. My new Guardian oped examines what the US TikTok takeover reveals about algorithmic power and free speech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Censura algorítmica en la flamante gestión estadounidense de TikTok, después de que el gobierno forzara a la empresa china ByteDance a vender su operación en EEUU y la compraran megamillonarios amigos de Trump. Muy buena nota de @paologerbaudo.bsky.social 👇🏼

What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship - @paologerbaudo.bsky.social : www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Censorship today is no longer just about bans; it’s also about who controls the visibility of online content. My new Guardian oped examines what the US TikTok takeover reveals about algorithmic power and free speech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judging from Trump's response it looks like Starmer is finally doing something right. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Tomorrow evening I will in beautiful Ljubljana at Cankarjev Dom for the Kritični kabaret - which nicely translates as "critical cabaret".

Blocking Andy Burnham bid to enter parliament and become Labour leader is a demostration of just how undemocratic the Labour Party has become. Truly sad for a party with such a long democratic history to be hi-jacked by a self-serving power clique. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today in class we discussed the difference between democracy and authoritarianism in political science scholarship. Much of this literature was developed to understand transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy. It’s increasingly clear it may be just as useful for thinking about the reverse.

Massive crowds on the street in Copenhagen in solidarity with Greenland and against US aggression. Thousands of Greenlandic flags 🇬🇱💪

Trump has shown that unfortunately politics by blackmail works. But it works only until the humiliation becomes politically unsustainable for the blackmailed. The annexation of Greenland would destroy the last shred of self-respect Europeans still hold. It's one humiliation too far.

Online sentiment as the 5th estate of liberal democracy as theorised by Carl Schmitt.

A ação humanitária é frequentemente enquadrada como uma resposta ética à crise. Mas o que acontece quando ela se torna institucionalizada, negociada e incorporada às estruturas de poder globais?

Good riddance. Kyrsten Sinema has constantly betrayed the US public and accepted funds from some of the worst possible sources. If Trump is in the White House is also thanks to her and other centrist Democrats who sank the few progressive policies that were on offer under Biden.

The irony of this post is that it reveals that the EU tech sector is ridiculously small to the obvious advantage of the US. This was the result of a tacit contract between US and Europe. In exchange of security Europeans had to stay out of digital tech. May have to reconsider.

La burocracia española te lleva a conocer fenomenos exoticos y misteriosos como las "Apostillas de la Haya".

I was reflecting that I rarely see the US Christian Right quoting from the gospels (almost all their favourite quotes come from the old testament). Here is finally a quote from the gospel, but my sense is that Matthew would disagree on the interpretation.

The problem with the EU in the present geopolitical scenario is very simple: the EU is not a state. Being a loose league of states gathered around a common market is not viable anymore. In these turbulent times if you are not a state you lack the necessary cohesion and coordination to be an actor.

Key passage in Mamdani's speech: "To those who say that the era of big government is over I say we will govern expansively and audaciously." Strong pledge to recuperate the transformative power of politics and rebuild interventionist political institutions.

Peak oil is coming, sí. Pero justo al revés de lo que profetizaba el pikoilismo: "Por primera vez en su historia, la industria petrolera tiene un competidor económicamente superior". Como es habitual en @corrientecalida.com: corrientecalida.com/sedientos-de...

No només perquè em convidaren a mi fa no tant a divagar sobre Draghi i la UE o perquè Xina siga l'objecte de bona part de la meua recerca però xapó la faena de @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social en este @margendemaniobra.net maniobra.net amb @paologerbaudo.bsky.social i @clara-garcia.bsky.social

📻 CHINA A ESCALA INDUSTRIAL ¿Qué papel está teniendo el coche eléctrico para el desarrollo industrial de China, hasta dónde está apoyando el Estado a este sector y cómo se está reaccionando desde Europa a esta realidad? @paologerbaudo.bsky.social youtu.be/JVril5Z6-aE?...

Estos dos textos de @paologerbaudo.bsky.social para @phenomenalworld.bsky.social sobre la economía política del vehículo eléctrico chino. «El Estado desarrollista del vehículo eléctrico»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/... «BYD Global»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...

Ha sido un placer debatir con @clara-garcia.bsky.social de la Complutense y @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social del Instituto Meridiano sobre la transicion verde en China - y lo que podemos aprender de sus exitos de politica industrial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVri...

📻 NUEVO EPISODIO China a escala industrial Hablamos con Clara García y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social sobre cómo la política industrial china está transformando la economía planetaria y acelerando la transición energética, cuáles son sus precedentes y cómo Occidente puede adaptarse a este escenario.

It is interesting that @thisisyourparty.bsky.social has been relatively closely following the "1-9-90" rule that @paologerbaudo.bsky.social has discussed as a characteristic of "digital parties": - 800,000 expressed support - 50,000 joined as members - 8-10,000 participating in online voting

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/euZgJ8z

Yesterday I visited the #Xpeng production plant in Guangzhou. It was an opportunity to see the production process in person at one of the emerging Chinese EV firms. The impression was one of high sophistication and a reminder that the Chinese EV world is far bigger than #BYD. 🧵

We are happy to welcome our new Senior Researcher, Paolo Garbaudo / @paologerbaudo.bsky.social!

Yesterday I visited the #Xpeng production plant in Guangzhou. It was an opportunity to see the production process in person at one of the emerging Chinese EV firms. The impression was one of high sophistication and a reminder that the Chinese EV world is far bigger than #BYD. 🧵

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/93Wo42J

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆 'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Very glad to see our new article "Transition without transformation? The strategic limits of NextGenerationEU green-digital transition plans" co-authored with Walter Haeusl, out in Globalizations! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Y muchas gracias a @luisaguado.bsky.social, Cristina de Benito y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social. Las discusiones en profundidad sobre la sociología del cambio climático, los conflictos en el despliegue de renovables y la reindustrialización verde es lo que necesitamos ahora mismo. Este es el camino.

Varieties of Religious Experience: Tech Conference Variety.

fresh audio product: • Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America, on the bearded one’s reception in the US www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Another exhibit of the prominence of the security frame in post-global discourse; but where the notion of security is geared exclusively towards defence. Many who find themselves in a difficult economic situation in reading this will ask: “Secure at home? Really?”

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Protection and security have indeed become "master frames" of contemporary politics. Unfortunately less and less in the sense of social security and social protection; more and more in the sense of national defence and rearmament.