Accidentally made Debbie Harry themed slides for a workshop in Durham next Friday on Christopher Finlay's new book The Philosophy of Force. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-works...

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Edinburgh today. 🐇

wan mair chuin

Lobo disdaining Marx. More proof that cats are anarchists.

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

I'm chairing the launch of @rosavcampbell.bsky.social's new book at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wed! Recommended to all interested in feminist politics, social history, and anyone who likes turning heads on public transport. Come along: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

Got some slightly overwrought riso prints to decorate the office.

Inordinately amused by this headline.

Historians of political thought can't be trusted with footnotes.

Greeted by the mighty Lobo after voting earlier.

beware of fake spoiler parties! this is not an official scottish green party candidate for your area! it is an architectural motif retrospectively attributed pagan significance in the 20th century!

I should be able to delete a file while a program is using it. The program will just have to figure it out. Who is in charge here?

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

gorse-maxxing

When I leave the gym, their app says, "No-one has ever regretted a workout." It should be illegal to say that kind of thing to a philosopher.

75% of politics you can learn from wojaks but for the last quarter you have to read Aristotle

The Books From Below Collective has four days left to raise funds to open a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle! We are so grateful to everyone who has supported but still have some way to go. Share or donate if you can! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

My whole life has been leading to the moment today when a colleague asked 'what's the opposite of avuncular?' and I could shout 'materterine!'

Would you still love me if I was a gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor? 💕

My republican defence of the idea of wage slavery is now in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Decorating the office.

Saw them breaking down your man’s chitinous outer shell to devour the sweet tender meat hidden within

far off lands near me

now is the time of the bog egg

On the Friday of Easter Week in 1916, James Connolly was among those who surrendered to British troops, after having helped lead the Easter Rising. I wrote about his life and socialist republican politics for the New International this time last year. www.newintermag.com/james-connol...

There are lots of academics who have far sharper minds than I do — especially in philosophical work, where precision and clarity are prized. But I console myself that many of them have terrible judgement which makes them incapable of writing anything interesting.

Got asked whether I’d like to microfinance my purchase of the new edition of Capital: Volume 1 with three easy payments of £9.72.

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online: academic.oup.com/book/62523 In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

For reasons that aren’t clear, this photograph hangs outside my office. I think it's from the anti-G8 protests in Edinburgh in 2005, which is the only time I'd been to the city before I started working here. Uncannily, it seems to be taken by a protestor from the same police kettle I was trapped in.

The upshot of a lot of academic complaining would be a university without students. But the fantasy of senior university leadership is that they could manage a property portfolio without the need for academics.

Is this ultra-processed vegan food in the room with us right now?

my plumbing ✨🚽✨ odyssey ✨🔧 ✨

nest-maxxing

Reading a new OUP book with the stomach-turning mixture of a serif font for the main text and sans-serif for block quotes.

This enormous student will devour us all.

I would refer you to Kantorowicz's classic study in political theology, The King's Two Boobies.

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

Keir Starmer should stop vowing to do things.

I was the only person in the gallery this morning, and it turns out absolute desolated solitude is the best way to experience art.

Academic cant is bad but art cant is worse.

On #WorldFrogDay I'm shamelessly exploiting the chance to promote my article on gay frog memes, which I hope may delight and entertain: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Here's the essay on AI that I've been hinting at for a while. The argument is quite condensed, and could be elaborated in any number of ways, but I hope people will find it interesting.

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Realising you only received that email in the dreamworld.

Generative AI writes like Robert Brandom.