I beg of you: please read the plot summary of this film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luc...

Can't recall if I shared this before but this article is a very important corrective to contemporary views of technological change and disruption 'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Has there ever been a study about the age at which 'Cartesian dualism' starts? My kids are always talking about what they do and what their body does like two totally separate entities.

Thanks to a great team of contributors: William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.

Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026 #utopiainIR

IR utopianists - article on Carr, Zimmern and Utopia in International theory 👇 Will also be of interest to scholars of the interwar period in IR's intellectual history #utopianIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Australian pen aficionados: The Melbourne Pen & Stationary Show is this weekend. Details 👇 I may suggest to the organizers that they offer a 6-7% discount for the under 18s melbpenshow.com.au

QOTD: 'Reading Outline of a Theory of Practice was like trying to read the Bible in Latin.'

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

Special Issue of JIPT 👇 will be of interest to IR folks looking at utopia in world politics #utopiainIR journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Piece on postcolonial cosmopolitanism 👇 is an interesting effort to retain ethical/moral universalism from a grounded and context-sensitive approach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting article from a Gramscian perspective in hegemony and post-growth 👇 - argues that the future will not be easily understood in traditional left-right terms www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For an extended discussion of world government proposals see 👇 , The Universal Republic: A realistic utopia?, by Matthias Archibugi. Caveat: eye watering price by OUP #polisky #utopianIR global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Can't remember if I shared this before, but an interesting article from ISQ on global attitudes towards world government #polisky academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

The Centre for Human Security and Social Change Director Lisa Denney will speak on this webinar on 10 September: Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The examples to trot out would be legion. Syrup bottles. Beer ads. Latte-sipping liberals. 'Hummus' as a password. www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

Came across a reference to Croce's 'creative misreading' of Hegel in his work. I think my new favourite conceptual move will be to claim a 'creative misreading' in all my work. With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting

📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks. #polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15. jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Utopianists: Check out 👇 Special Issue on Far Right Utopias in Practice #polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If 'blueprint' utopias had never existed scholars of utopianism would surely have needed to create them. Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?

I increasingly watch a lot of dystopian films for research purposes. This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

Reading up a little on temporality today and found the best reference ever in a scholarly work! Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018 Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting article developing socio-technical imaginaries perspective, applied to future of 'low carbon' war in the UK 👇 #polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jamal is the winner of the 2024 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial paper prize for early-career scholars! Be sure to read the newly publish piece 👇

Very interesting looking piece on Anarchy and Balance of Power: #polisky academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Late to the ball on this one this is an interesting piece on 'anarcho-pacifism' in IR 👇 A relatively neglected topic in the field (barring the longer-term project on pacifism in IR by Richard Jackson (@fr33palest1ne.bsky.social) of course!) academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Those interested in the historiography of IR/its continued salience see Sean Molloy on debate btw Normal Angell & Thayer Mahan 👇 My exposure to Angell was via @lucianashworth.bsky.social founder of the 'Limerick School' - big impact on a wide # of IR scholars journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought - cup.org/4fATs6z - Susan McWilliams Barndt #FirstView

Maybe its the overcast sky, maybe it is writing about imagined futures, but I've finally got around to looking at the interesting work on existentialism in IR (e.g. 👇). To go along with it, a great comic: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year #polisky

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

If folks are ever looking for helpful writing advice for students (UG and PG), check out the Purdue University OWL site. While my own institution of course has great advice (*ahem*) the Purdue site is terrific in its clarity and simplicity owl.purdue.edu/owl/index.html

Highlight of my day! Wu Tang! hiphopdx.com/news/wu-tang...

🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...

Interesting piece on transparency, international relations, and Rousseau 👇 Draws out the historical lineage of transparency talk in contemporary global politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Following Robyn Eckersley's agenda-setting keynote on planetary politics, first OCIS panel up for me this morning: 'Unruly politics in the contemporary world' featuring a great range of speakers (George Lawson, Bina D'Costa, Nicole George, Lukas Nagel, and Catherine Hirst) #ocis2025

At OCIS2025 at UNSW. Really great looking program - interesting papers and panels on a wide range of topics Congrats to the UNSW and USydney co-chairs and the organizing committee 👏 ocis.org.au/organising-c...

We’re very pleased that four of our projects have been featured in La Trobe University’s 2024 Impact for Sustainable Development Report. The report showcases the university’s transformative contributions to global and local challenges: shorturl.at/2BAzi

New book from Verso 👇 on Utopia, tracing out evolution from thought experiment to practical political project www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Article below by Antonis Balasopoulos in Utopian Studies on the dreaded 'blueprint' utopia and its partial recovery 👇 It is rare to read any article on utopia that does not disavow 'blueprints' - this is a welcome intervention muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...

RFK vibes

Clive Gabay's paper on utopia and failure in IR repays repeated engagement - check it out 👇 #utopiainIR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For IR folks at BISA: Lydia De Cruz will be at the @Routledge table to chat over ideas for books on Technology and World Order - feel free to stop by. First book in the series coming out at the start of 2026! Series flyer 👇 #polisky

How do shocks to the global system shape state creation? New article with @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social & @kyungwon.bsky.social. We argue that global crises create waves of new secession movements, but also doom them to failure after the crisis passes. [open access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is Trump considering the brave move of kicking someone in the head once they are already on the ground?

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

Interesting article on 'interspecies diplomacy' Tore Fougner in International Relations, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Can't remember if I shared this before, so sharing again - very good article by Tom Vaughan on nuclear futures and the need for utopia #utopiainIR #polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...