Tom O'Shea
@tomoshea.org
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Philosopher and socialist in Edinburgh.
https://www.tomoshea.org/
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Georgie
about 13 hours ago
I reviewed Pete Wolfendale’s new book, ‘The Revenge of Reason’, for
@radical-philosophy.bsky.social
www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/arti...
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Georgie Newson · Artificial reason (2026)
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/artificial-reason
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View from my new shared office.
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I 👏 can 👏 post 👏 like 👏 a 👏 radlib 👏 when 👏 I 👏 want 👏 to 👏
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The University of Edinburgh has £3.1bn in assets and made a surplus of £43m last year. But the senior management team is still threatening huge staffing cuts while implementing a massively destructive austerity drive.
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Trying to read the text in this print-on-demand book.
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Karen Gregory
9 days ago
With many thanks to
@uoe-cahss.bsky.social
for funding, I'm delighted that the Network for the Study of Work (NSW) is launching in February:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cahss-netw...
With help from
@haylesben.bsky.social
,
@ibalilebali.bsky.social
and
@tomoshea.org
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CAHSS Network for the Study of Work
With funding from the CAHSS Interdisciplinary Fund, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Network for the Study of Work (NSW).
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cahss-network-for-the-study-of-work-tickets-1982184001708?aff=oddtdtcreator
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I had a nightmare where I was on In Our Time but completely fucked it.
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Taking more recommendations for books in the genre Weird Medieval Guy.
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Jeremy Gilbert
17 days ago
Here at last is the 3+ hours recorded by myself and
@profafinlayson.bsky.social
on nationalism and the future of Britain. Subscribe in any podcast app to Culture, Power, Politics. Yes, Burnham-block emergency pod, other guests, more solos, all coming soon.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/n...
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Nationalism and the Future of Britain
In this episode, Alan and Jem go deep and long on the concept of nationalism and its implications for UK politics, at a time when nationalist parties are making significant gains across the country…
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/nationalism-and-the-future-of-britain/
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Daniel Hartley
16 days ago
With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the
@histmat.bsky.social
Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
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Lionella
27 days ago
aspirational
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Upon receiving my own message to the mailing list: What fresh bastard has emailed me now?
28 days ago
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We’ve been using tape to mark out locations for new sofas and now the living room looks like Dogville.
about 1 month ago
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Saw a series of academic conferences about Mary Wollstonecraft which were called Wollapolooza.
about 1 month ago
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Naomi Elizabeth
about 1 month ago
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, it
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I thought it was strange for Maduro to plead not guilty rather than refuse to recognise the legitimacy of the court. But then I remembered how that strategy worked out for Charles the First.
about 1 month ago
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Lost my phone yesterday, and have been watching its merry journey around and around the bus route, before ending up safely in the depot.
about 1 month ago
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If you’re wondering what the weather is like in Scotland at the moment: Hannah, carrying three separate hot water bottles upstairs, asks, ‘Shall we have a second duvet?’
about 1 month ago
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Still searching for a theory of justice on which it turns out to be ‘just ice’.
about 1 month ago
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May the white mausu guide and protect you this year.
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RRRMMM
about 1 month ago
For the hogmanay not the hogafew
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Jeremy Gilbert
about 2 months ago
If you want to hear, not me, but the normally mild-mannered
@profafinlayson.bsky.social
suggest that Britain might now be entering a pre-revolutionary phase, get your ears around this massive Christmas pressie of a Culture, Power, Politics Emergency Podcast.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/12/24/p...
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Pre-revolutionary Britain? (Emergency Pod December 2025)
Alan Finlayson is back to discuss with Jem the key developments in UK politics since the last time they talked about it. Covering the Labour deputy leadership, the politics of immigration, the orig…
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/12/24/pre-revolutionary-britain-emergency-pod-december-2025/
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My favourite tracks released this year.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2J7...
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The Year 2025
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2J7VLUlkNER6CIZbfuKybB?si=FQize7bASwSP4JMfAC2xvA&pi=KJ9d8ACJRs2kx
about 2 months ago
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tara
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Who protects the mattress protector?
about 2 months ago
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wendy copium
about 2 months ago
no microsoft word i would not like to live deliciously by turning all the chapter headings blue
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Rosa Campbell
about 2 months ago
Here, for
@historyworkshop.org.uk
I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women
Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbaf032/8383722
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The true walk of shame is when someone's phone goes off in the National Library of Scotland and they have to scuttle away while being pierced with twenty dirty looks.
about 2 months ago
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Stuart White
2 months ago
Huge thanks to Sanat Sogani for this conversation for the 'Justice Everywhere' site, in which we discuss punk, anarchism, radical republicanism, and the relationships between them.
justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...
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Punk Rock, Radical Republicanism & the Politics of Joy: Beyond the Ivory Tower with Stuart White
When I mentioned anarchism to friends or family, the response was always, “That’s impossible—get rid of government and you get chaos.” So I wanted real answers.
https://justice-everywhere.org/general/beyond-the-ivory-tower-with-stuart-white/
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Josh Milburn
2 months ago
Just published in Philosophers' Imprint: A powerful new paper from Rich Healey and Angie Pepper challenging 'pet-keeping'.
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Pets, Power, and Legitimacy
This article argues that the relations of social and political power that obtain between humans and pets are illegitimate. We begin by showing that pets, a largely neglected population in political ph...
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/article/id/6219/
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DB 📉
over 1 year ago
don't worry everyone Keir Starmer is being kept alive in the Golden Throne & his psychic power allows him to provide a navigation beacon for police & local councils to sustain humanity in the face of unrelenting threats
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Fungocrat
2 months ago
They've invented a pill that makes you arbitrary and unaccountable, a tyrant in your sphere.
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Sam
2 months ago
I'm not your lawyer and this is not legal advice, but you might consider burying yourself in the soft earth.
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"Special awards go to the students who obviously had no help from AI." It's getting to the point where I am so happy to see a clumsy but earnest sentence that I would actually support this.
2 months ago
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k-punk demon hunter
2 months ago
It probably goes without saying (and if it doesn't then hi, new person, you're about to learn something about me!) that this is extremely My Bag
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hannah
2 months ago
This is a great article and I'm happy to see it in print! A really helpful contribution to ongoing debates about what we might salvage from radical feminist thought.
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Sean Irving
2 months ago
My new article explores the neoliberalisation of the British worker coop movement. A lost history that speaks directly to today’s debates about ownership and the future of work. It's Open Access, so if it interests you, take a look!
tinyurl.com/27r9j957
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From New Left to Social Enterprise: A Conceptual History of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement, 1971–2001 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
From New Left to Social Enterprise: A Conceptual History of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement, 1971–2001
https://tinyurl.com/27r9j957
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My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/radical-feminism-and-the-politics-of-desire/503C3840C90529ADA4E336F5D1412AD1
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UCU Essex
2 months ago
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
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Dear predatory journal: Thank you for sending me the abstract of an old article of mine. As respected experts in the field of mail merge, I'd gladly consider joining your editorial board, once you pay the standard Email Processing Charge. Quick decision guaranteed after the funds reach my account.
2 months ago
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
3 months ago
truth coming out of her well to shame humanity
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lauren
3 months ago
i'm not convinced by your lived experience actually. i just don't think it would have went down like that
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Like a grizzled detective writing a book about how to commit the perfect murder, I reckon I could produce a decent guide for students engaged in the far worse crime of getting AI to write their essays.
2 months ago
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Going to resign my brief membership of Your Party. I hated the gleeful cynicism of those on the left who were willing the whole thing to collapse. But apart from the public spats and locking in the terrible name, it’s now going to be strangled in the cradle by the dead hand of British Trotskyism.
2 months ago
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Every tenth publication, academics should be allowed to publish a weird essay in a prominent journal with no editorial interference.
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Daydreaming of getting two cats called Guelph and Ghibelline.
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Duncan Bell
2 months ago
David Leopold, "Hegel and Utopia," European Journal of Philosophy (2025)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Hegel and Utopia
G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti-utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. T....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.70046?af=R&msockid=2beee2a0bb616a9f3b22f0c0ba9a6b94
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Karen Gregory
2 months ago
www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
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‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
https://www.theferret.scot/consultancy-advising-edinburgh-huge-cuts/
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