JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

Bold action by the government to prevent the “incalculable damage” wrought by people from Sudan studying computational biology at Cambridge. www.ft.com/content/4493...

An epic book

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Delighted that this is now out (w. @sunelaegaard.bsky.social), along with all the articles it introduces. link.springer.com/article/10.1... Hopefully of interest to anyone thinking (methodologically) about how 'empirical' leaning pol-theory might become more 'experimental', e.g....

An epic book

This would have been my dream job when a post-doc myself.

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

👇👇👇 cool new paper Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/arti...

A terrific opportunity for political theorist 👇👇👇

NEW JOB Assistant Professor - China & Global Development Dept of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

NEW JOB Assistant Professor - China & Global Development Dept of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

V good private eye this week

🚨🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨🚨 Theory post at Cambridge!

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My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

Particular focus on "post-colonial political thought, or whose work might connect political theory and historical political economy"👇

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

It is SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE, you bastards

Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming 'Rethinking Internationalism' conference on 19-20th March in London: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

RIP William Connolly

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought (2024) go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

👇👇👇 3 post-docs in democratic theory

On Joe (Heath) on Jack (Rawls) and the profession. open.substack.com/pub/digressi... Responding to @josephheat.bsky.social [HT @dailynous.com ]

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals". www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of political life and political philosophy. Why is doing politics so hard? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

An enjoyable day at the Emirates

An enjoyable day at the Emirates

The perfect moment to re-up Stuart McGurk's piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the rise of the man who dominated the Labour party only to become a symbol of Starmer's failing government www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Biggest W in the history of historians tbh

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

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

Mark Coeckelbergh, "Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the New Authoritarianism," AI & Society (2026) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Arsenal fans watching Spurs this afternoon

Amazon has placed a VERY specific product warning on the published edition of the Kenneth Williams diaries. The incident that prompted this surely deserved more media attention.

Mark Coeckelbergh, "Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the New Authoritarianism," AI & Society (2026) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“The overwhelming liberal focus on disinformation misreads how digital platforms work…cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes”. Start of a new series by the excellent @robtoes.bsky.social

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Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link

Just a reminder of one of Suella Braverman's greatest ethnonationalist hits: "I will never be truly English: here is why", Telegraph, 26 February 2025 (Source: www.suellabraverman.co.uk/news/i-will-...)

Lawrence Hamilton, "Representative Democracy Against Oligarchy," New Political Science (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article/...

A truly gorgeous cover for Polygon’s new edition of Frankenstein.

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

ICYMI - the first of our papers on Global Disorder were published this week. Circa 4000 words they get properly under the skin of an issue but are accessible for a general reader. The first two papers look at the past, present and future of the global dollar system

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.