How do ecological activists use expert knowledge to stage scenes of dissensus & what does this reveal about expertise & democracy? @aehyvonen.bsky.social reformulates radical democratic theory to offer new insights into both questions. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/p4HjxBc @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Tired: publish or perish Wired: Humppaa taikka kuole (taikka humppaa, taikka humppaa ja kuole)

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds

What should radical democrats think of expert knowledge? In this new piece I argue that democratic theorists could learn a lot by asking this question in the context of ecological activism. 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Esitys yliopistojen rahoituksen leikkaamisesta on täysin käsittämätön ajassa, jossa talouskasvu sakkaa jo valmiiksi”, sanoo rehtorimme Sari Lindblom valtionvarainministeriön ehdotuksesta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

Everyone right now

At WPSA mid-April, I told colleagues we had a parliamentary agreement on research funding—but that turned out to be optimistic.The current @kokoomus.bsky.social led gov is decreasing basic funding while cosmetically increasing politically controlled modes of funding. /1

"To phase out anthropogenic GHG emissions is key. Sustainable forest management is key, i.e., maximize carbon uptake and sustain carbon stocks. They are equally urgent, [...]. Nobody, neither politicians, nor forest industry executives can escape from this reality." -Johan Rockström

Global warming represents an existential threat to the European Union, according to a landmark German government report. www.politico.eu/article/clim...

For political science people…. Sign so that as a discipline can be heard

Also includes a dope special section on Arendt and the ecological crisis! 👇

Not too worried about Nduja stock, people will always want to have that stuff on their pizzas.

China seems to be doing the right things in the struggle for the energy-basis of global hegemony. The US, meanwhile, is not.

Quick question: was Aristotle a democrat?

This was heartbreaking to find, as I was trying to see what Jon might be working on now. Even though we never met in person, we kept actively in contact over the years, and I learned a lot from his books on Arendt, Luxemburg, Auerbach, and higher education. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If one were inclined towards historicism, perhaps today would be a good day to ask whether the *order* in which events repeat themselves was accidental in Bonapartism—and whether we are now about to witness a repetition in a tragic key of what was originally a farce.

Me, editing my own work

Also includes a dope special section on Arendt and the ecological crisis! 👇

In the wake of #JeromeKohn death, I'm resharing this starter pack to connect various "keepers" of "Arendt's flame," as NYT poignantly put it. Let us boldly think with and, at times, against Arendt. go.bsky.app/3354EJi

🌎 Happy to inform that this recent piece on Arendt, planetary politics, and plurality beyond humans (from The Review of Politics) is now Open Access! 🌍 📖 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

Does anyone else love it how Manuscript Central has journal-specific usernames, so your browser always suggests the wrong username/password combo, and then you are like: "Umm, log in via Web of Science" - What's my WoS account?? "Ah, log in via Orcid" *system freezes*

Smolenskin lento-onnettomuus ei suinkaan ole ensimmäinen kerta kun suuronnettomuudesta syntyy vaihtoehtoisia tarinoita salaliitoista, kirjoittaa tietokirjailija Severi Hämäri sivuillamme. faktabaari.fi/nakokulmat/e...

⏰🚨 NEW ARTICLE "The Plural Planet: A Democratic Culture of Earthlings" (The Review of Politics) Which discusses, with Arendt, the need to expand plurality and other key concepts of democracy beyond the limits of 'human affairs' narrowly conceived. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Brilliant first day of Politicized Loneliness behind - excellent mix of philosophers, social and political scientist talking about isolation, radicalization, ressentiment etc. Can't wait for more tomorrow!

Yes! Mockery and humor were Hannah Arendt’s preferred register for anti fascism. And that was certainly my aim in Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump (2021). Eg., opening chapter notes his family romance, built on his mother’s-a housewife from Queens-weird identification with *the* Queen

One day left! Come to our workshop to talk about loneliness, democratic backsliding, extremism and hate. CfP open until tomorrow (Friday the 15th).

RIP keyboardistPedro Hietanen One of the most organic-sounding prog performances, and among the most energizing studio lives's ever: this version of Wigwams's Grass for Blades. youtu.be/gL7AqYop2a4?... Here with MA Numminen playing Wittgenstein. youtu.be/57PWqFowq-4?...

I will never recover from this student email.

Interested in loneliness as a political phenomenon? CFP of the conference "Politicized Loneliness: Perspectives on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization" is open! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/12...

How is loneliness mobilized to fuel hatred and extremism in politics? In what kind of environments does loneliness become linked to racism, misogyny, or the glorification of violence? Come conference with us in Helsinki in March to talk about it! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/12...

"Go ahead and write as unclearly as you want […] alas, I have a lot of practice because sometimes I have to read my own damned handwriting". Thanks, Hannah. This is of some consolation when trying to comprehend handwritten marginalia on lecture notes (unsuccessfully). (source: Arendt to Scholem)

How can we think about bodily, earthly, and otherwise material aspects of care with Arendt? We edited a special section to Arendt Studies on these questions. I wrote an introduction, in which I discuss Heidegger, Foucault, feminist care ethics, and planetary politics. www.pdcnet.org/arendtstudie...

All the good words in one sentence:

The Pope citing Donna Haraway - and on the point! "Nonetheless, the technocratic paradigm can isolate us from the world that surrounds us and deceive us by making us forget that the entire world is a “contact zone”. [41]" www.vatican.va/content/fran...

How can we think about bodily, earthly, and otherwise material aspects of care with Arendt? We edited a special section to Arendt Studies on these questions. I wrote an introduction, in which I discuss Heidegger, Foucault, feminist care ethics, and planetary politics. www.pdcnet.org/arendtstudie...

"Cut from your OWN future" Student occupation of the main building of the University of Helsinki against the government's austerity policies.

I have spent too much time on an research application lately - I want to write that my approach is, to quote Jarrell, "hitherto-unthought-of, thereafter unthinkable combination" of elements. How's that for novelty! (Pictures from an Institution)

First post! This Bluesky place seems nicer and wiser than the birdie place I promise this was the first and the last time I butcher Auden by awkwardly paraphrasing him. (cue for all the clocks in the city to begin to whirr and chime: ‘O let not him deceive you)