I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with @politybooks.bsky.social. 🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Last chance to register for the 'Reimagining Digital ID' event @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Join the www.redid.net team and other researchers, designers, digital human rights and migrant rights groups to discuss implications of digital ID systems. All welcome, details below ⬇️

They say everybody uses porn. They’re wrong. People don’t use pornography: it uses us. And you don’t have to watch it to be one of its victims. Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel expose how the multi-billion-dollar porn industry has humanity gripped in a chokehold. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But who truly wields power over this transformative technology? In 'Silicon Empires', Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of AI. Out now www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

“A marvel of narrative art … it’s the very best book I’ve read in quite a while.” Sara Dowse (@saradowse.bsky.social) reviews 'Marseille 1940' by Uwe Wittstock (@uwewittstock.bsky.social) for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/perilous-ref...

LLM 101: Critical Introduction to Large Language Models This Friday (31 October 2025), I will be presenting material from the book "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social during a #NorthernExposureNIU workshop. 71 North Partnership Studio, Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University.

Post-liberalism has distinctive British and US sources but increasingly the US elements are driving changes in British politics - see my new book Against Post Liberalism to find out why and to see why that might be a problem… @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social #Postliberalism

Habermas is the voice of a generation. One of the world’s most influential philosophers, he has shaped debates, both academic and public, for more than half a century.

‘When #data seems so often a tool of oppression and control, this book provides a marvellous exploration of its deployment for social change. This is a core optimistic message for our times; Gray is the ideal guide.’ Geoffrey C. Bowker Public Data Cultures is out now! @jwyg.bsky.social Link below 👇

‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’ Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

#VendrediLecture 📚 What is Politics? edited by Colin Hay @politybooks.bsky.social Exploring what it means to 'think politically' in these troubled times, this cutting-edge textbook reveals the many dimensions of politics. 👉 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... cc @scpo-research.bsky.social

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p... It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

Two rather different titles from same family! My work will be done when both are in Waterstones in Tunbridge Wells @waterstones.bsky.social - to be fair Anne’s book is already in Waterstones Covent Garden @politybooks.bsky.social

That’s more like it @politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Two more days until publication @politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social - picture of new book with an older one - a radical liberal egalitarian theory that is far from the caricature of the post-liberal target…

Three days until publication on 24th October - might be of interest to @iandunt.bsky.social and to @sohrabahmari.bsky.social for different reasons. @politybooks.bsky.social

“In his new study (admirably translated by Robert Savage) Tonio Hölscher…uses his rhetorical skills to patiently and persuasively build his; argument…in an eloquent dialectic with previous scholars.”@historytoday.com review Tonio Hoelscher's The Diver of Paestum www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Only four days to go - Oct 24th publication day @politybooks.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Great to see ✨3 ✨ @mediacomgold.bsky.social books at the @politybooks.bsky.social stand at #aoir2025 ‘Democratic Delusions’ by Natalie Fenton, @kat-hig.bsky.social’ ‘Believability’ and my own ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’

Many people think they know what fairies are. Francis Young's book demonstrates that the truth about belief in fairies is far stranger than clichéd images of wings and wands. Get 25% off @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social's 'Fairies: A History' from Waterstones. Details ⬇️ waterstones.com/book/fairies...

If you missed our book lunch last week, here is the video! 'Decolonising Economics: An Introduction' @politybooks.bsky.social @rethinkecon.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social

Coming soon! In one month my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social will be published by @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from @politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

✨ look what just arrived from @politybooks.bsky.social — fabulous translation of my dear colleague Bénédicte Savoy’s latest book Who Owns Beauty

To live in defiance of society’s expectations and rules, that is what it means to be a witch. 'Witch Power' follows Emma Quilty on an immersive journey into contemporary witchcraft, showing readers why we still need witches. #witchcraft See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

It is UK publication day for "The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life" (from @politybooks.bsky.social). I guess it's a strange time for a book about Disney to arrive in the world, but this project means a lot to me, and I'm really proud of it. www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Ma...

'instead of a class-based society of the old capitalism, we now have an elite-ruled society', @brankomilan.bsky.social says. Here I argue that we must constrain the power of that elite, to enhance liberty (republican theory) and growth (Schumpeterian theory): www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Understanding the conditions that made Lula possible requires us to look further back, decades before he was born. The result of that discussion is “Lula: A People’s President and the Fight for Brazil’s Future” — out today! I’m proud and happy that it’s done (3/3)

Early in @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social’s third term, I was asked if I’d like to write a book about him by an editor at @politybooks.bsky.social… (1/3)

Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, African Philosophies, trans. Matthew B. Smith - @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

“Exemplary philosophy...The profession needs exactly the sort of discussion to which this terrific book contributes.” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews review 'Seeing Double' by Raymond Geuss ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/seei...

‘A lucid guide to what is at stake when we engage with digital storytelling. It offers valuable critical tools, & its historically informed & intellectually rigorous yet accessible approach is much needed.’ Hanna Meretoja Digital Storytelling by Leah Henrickson: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

“a taut and much-needed introduction to the British philosopher-statesman that should be a starting point for any student in their initiation into Burke studies.” Ross Carroll's 'Edmund Burke' reviewed in The Review of Politics See more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The online Manosphere has exploded in recent years. For a cohort of alienated men, the promise of community provides a space of understanding, connection and purpose. Listen to Simon Copland discuss his book 'The Male Complaint' on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-male-com...

Read @mattpolprof.bsky.social’s review of Volumes I & II of Habermas’ Also a History from earlier this year alongside his new review of Volume III. Thought provoking and challenging stuff. christiansocialism.com/2025/03/19/j...

After a fortnight on Vancouver Island with my Grandson I’m now at APSA giving paper and promoting my @politybooks.bsky.social book on post-liberalism. Plenty of LSE colleagues and students in town and Chandran Kukathas former colleague and HoD @lsegovernment.bsky.social

In "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I talk about the environmental costs of #LLM #AI data centers, esp. their dependency on H2O. But for a more entertaining version of that argument, see Charlie Barens for the Manitowoc Minute. www.youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

Amazing endorsements from #RitaFelski and #AvitalRonell for "Superweak", out with @politybooks.bsky.social in November. I'm honored.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, many societies seemed set on a path to cultural reintegration, progressive reform, and democracy. This didn’t happen. Jeffrey C. Alexander's new book explores why. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

New York visitors and locals, don't miss an evening with Philippe Descola, author of Forms of the Visible, in conversation with Professor Elizabeth A. Povinelli Friday, September 26, 2025 | 5pm Albertine Books Details: villa-albertine.org/va/events/fo...

President Trump seems to have it in for Latin America... one country has emerged as a special target of Mr. Trump’s ire: Brazil. Andre Pagliarini in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Bénédicte Savoy has been named as the next “Chaire du Louvre” of the Louvre Museum in Paris. Her new book, Who Owns Beauty?, reflects on who really owns the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a... See the book here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

"In a career known for taking enormous swings, Habermas has just produced his most ambitious work yet" Matt McManus reviews Habermas's 'Also a History of Philosophy: Volume III' for the Institute For Christian Socialism christiansocialism.com/2025/08/28/i... #philosophy

Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening? Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words' Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1 At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...

Prof. Zelizer's forthcoming book, “How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism’s Decline," is available for preorder from @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

"To recognize one’s stupidity, one has to be clever." 'A Short History of Stupidity' by Stuart Jeffries is out today. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

“This poetic volume will nourish gardeners and nature lovers.” @publisherswkly.bsky.social review Byung-Chul Han's 'In Praise of the Earth' www.publishersweekly.com/9781509567898

“From Shakespeare’s fools to Donald Trump, this exhilarating read considers stupidity in its many forms” - Sam Leith, @theguardian.com reviews 'A Brief History of Stupidity' by Stuart Jeffries www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Secretary Rubio's visit with President Noboa this week will be in part to warn the country off Beijing, but seriously, what does Washington have to offer? Read Jorge Heine in Responsible Statecraft responsiblestatecraft.org/rubio-trip-m...

“Pettman’s book might best be read as comfort for the ghosted, providing a conceptual framework and a history of the idea. (You are not the first to be ghosted, and you won’t be the last.)” Kyle Chayka @newyorker.com reviews Ghosting by @dominicpettman.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...