Tom O'Shea
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Philosopher and socialist in Edinburgh.
https://www.tomoshea.org/
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Reading a new OUP book with the stomach-turning mixture of a serif font for the main text and sans-serif for block quotes.
5 days ago
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This enormous student will devour us all.
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I would refer you to Kantorowicz's classic study in political theology, The King's Two Boobies.
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Bruno Leipold
9 days ago
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)"
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Keir Starmer should stop vowing to do things.
9 days ago
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I was the only person in the gallery this morning, and it turns out absolute desolated solitude is the best way to experience art.
13 days ago
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Academic cant is bad but art cant is worse.
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hannah
15 days ago
On
#WorldFrogDay
I'm shamelessly exploiting the chance to promote my article on gay frog memes, which I hope may delight and entertain:
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Theorizing the Gay Frog | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/3/661/319761/Theorizing-the-Gay-Frog
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Pete Wolfendale
16 days ago
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.
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Robert Chapman
18 days ago
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...
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Books from Below: A Radical Bookshop for Newcastle
Opening new radical bookshop, coffee shop, and community space in Newcastle UK!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfrombelow
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Realising you only received that email in the dreamworld.
18 days ago
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Generative AI writes like Robert Brandom.
18 days ago
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Ah, yes, felt I knew him well â once dined with him, upon a time, and my supervisor would tell me the tales â one of the greats perhaps, but not without blemish, oh no. All had to contend with his thought, did we not? We must continue onwards, I suppose. Yes, the work, the work of ideas, for us.
19 days ago
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Peer reviews from political theorists can be unfair but are usually pretty straightforward. Philosophers are more likely to spring some âanswer me these riddles threeâ scenario.
20 days ago
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Helen Hester
29 days ago
Five years of the Feminist Futures Programme! Thank you so much to everybody
@autonomy-institute.bsky.social
for half a decade of hard work. Lots coming up in 2026, too. Catch our selective retrospective here:
autonomy.work/wp-content/u...
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View from the office in Edinburgh this morning.
30 days ago
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Going to be publishing my book on Socialist Republicanism with Cambridge University Press. Should be out in both hardback and paperback next year.
about 1 month ago
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Bruno Leipold
about 1 month ago
The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply!
jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
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George Boss
about 2 months ago
Itâs book launch day! Marx & the Politics of Need is out today, available open access. I hope it sparks ideas and conversations. Dive in here:
doi.org/10.4324/9781...
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Marx and the Politics of Need | George Boss | Taylor & Francis eBooks,
Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032705439
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This essay could have been very slight but managed not to be.
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Seamus Perry · Pluralism and the Modern Poet
âArt arises,â Auden writes, âout of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/seamus-perry/pluralism-and-the-modern-poet
about 2 months ago
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Georgie
about 2 months ago
I reviewed Pete Wolfendaleâs new book, âThe Revenge of Reasonâ, 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.
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Trying to read the text in this print-on-demand book.
about 2 months ago
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Karen Gregory
2 months 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.
2 months ago
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Taking more recommendations for books in the genre Weird Medieval Guy.
2 months ago
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Jeremy Gilbert
2 months 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 countryâŠ
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/01/26/nationalism-and-the-future-of-britain/
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Daniel Hartley
2 months ago
With the contract now signed, Iâm pleased to say that Iâll 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 đș
3 months ago
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Upon receiving my own message to the mailing list: What fresh bastard has emailed me now?
3 months ago
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Weâve been using tape to mark out locations for new sofas and now the living room looks like Dogville.
3 months ago
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Saw a series of academic conferences about Mary Wollstonecraft which were called Wollapolooza.
3 months ago
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Naomi Elizabeth
3 months 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.
3 months 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.
3 months ago
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If youâre wondering what the weather is like in Scotland at the moment: Hannah, carrying three separate hot water bottles upstairs, asks, âShall we have a second duvet?â
3 months ago
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Still searching for a theory of justice on which it turns out to be âjust iceâ.
3 months ago
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May the white mausu guide and protect you this year.
3 months ago
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RRRMMM
3 months ago
For the hogmanay not the hogafew
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Jeremy Gilbert
3 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 origâŠ
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/12/24/pre-revolutionary-britain-emergency-pod-december-2025/
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My favourite tracks released this year.
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The Year 2025
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2J7VLUlkNER6CIZbfuKybB?si=FQize7bASwSP4JMfAC2xvA&pi=KJ9d8ACJRs2kx
3 months ago
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tara
3 months ago
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Who protects the mattress protector?
3 months ago
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wendy copium
4 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
4 months ago
Here, for
@historyworkshop.org.uk
I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show womenâs 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 womenâs needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbaf032/8383722
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