Duncan Bell, “John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire,” History of Political Thought (2025) go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

I am honoured to share this news!

Taking paracetamol to alleviate my cold symptoms and also, apparently, to fight fascism.

NEW ARTICLE: Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social bit.ly/3D5vUY5

Recent (v. belated) arrival from Musk madhouse. Please make me feel welcome

I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

Govt should take this message seriously. The far right, backed by the world's richest man, is actively stoking racial & political violence. Staying quiet, flattering them, saying "we hear you" won't work. Stand up for decency, for respect, for the best of modern Britain or watch those things burn

Michael Billig & Michael Skey, "Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review," Nations and Nationalism (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Michael Billig & Michael Skey, "Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review," Nations and Nationalism (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism" bit.ly/4gcheoe

Who was the most influential pragmatist political thinker in the opening decades of the twentieth century? In this paper, I argue that it was H. G. Wells "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism" bit.ly/4gcheoe

A brilliant run. I hope they keep the show going

From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century

Latest Wollstoneblog post on a wonderful book workshop on ‘Political Theory and Speculative Fiction’ hosted by @duncanbell.bsky.social at Jesus College, Cambridge! sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

This is a humanities fan post

at a workshop on political theory and science fiction and so far have heard papers on speculative apocalyptic fiction in opera, Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley & for post-London apocalyptic fiction tracing as far as Pride &Prejudice &Zombies; utopianism in LeGuin; Exit West & real world migration

Yes! What a result for Grimsby ⚽

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Come on Grimsby ⚽️⚽️

Duncan Bell, “John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire,” History of Political Thought (2025) go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

It's been very enjoyable working on this book with Doug Mao. An excellent new series

I’ve written for @noemamag.com about the need for a different approach to economic statistics - the data isn’t ‘rigged’ but it hasn’t kept up with the changing economy www.noemamag.com/the-critical...

From Le Guin's Utopia(s) to Alisdair MacIntyre's Periodizations (and some Adam Smith & Aristotle) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Ken MacLeod sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macleo... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stephan Martiniere, Fangorn, Jean Vouillon and Lee Gibbons):

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

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It is not implausible that I'll be examining someone's PhD before too long alongside Dr Niall O'Flaherty.

Minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed

On Koebler, @josephinequinn.bsky.social, and some Le Guin open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

On Spinoza (and Platonic Utopianism) in Lévi-Strauss and Le Guin open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Maybe amusing to @duncanbell.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social @eschwitz.bsky.social

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London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up By Professor Matt Goodwhinge From the new Private Eye, out now.

just unbelievably grim

This discussion article is now open access until the end of September! Find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

When you make J. Edgar Hoover look like a well-adjusted individual ...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

The Benthamite-Liberal critique of John Locke open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @duncanbell.bsky.social

The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.

Arthur Williams as Smithian; and the Kuhn-loss as an arbitrage opportunity open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

New(ish) article: Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought go.shr.lc/3EFfrLf

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Check out this fascinating new article: Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this fascinating new article: Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is good www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

“Walter Benjamin once wrote that there is no document of culture which is not also a document of barbarism. If one does not explicitly recognize this, making the concept of ‘tradition’ central to one’s thinking risks giving it, at best, a massively problematic bias.”