A good day for preparing my slides for next week's conference presentation on the democratization of the workplace, and Robert Michels' iron law of oligarchy, and plebeian democracy. Looking forward to seeing @uguraytac.bsky.social and @tatianallaguno.bsky.social. More info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2

Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.

Today we concluded the ERC project "The Business Corporation as a Political Actor" with its final conference. End of an era!

We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)

Fantastic paper by @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social!

Looking at the tariff debate and I reckon it's excellent that we managed to preserve normative theory in polisci, and that we still think about the fact-value distinction. Economists make moral & political judgments and pretend they're just scientific predictions, or mix predictions and politics.

Shame on you for instrumentalizing an autocrat's self-coup to make a point. Millions are fighting against brutal state violence and a regime where one man controls the media, judiciary, and law enforcement. We are not your rhetorical toy!

Today the Dutch Higher Education Relay Strike happened in Twente. Once more, a massive turn-out and strong protest against the announced budget cuts that are unnecessary, illegitimate, unjustified, and irrational. #WOinActie #Doehetniet

Transition to full authoritarianism is inevitable unless this attack on free elections is reversed through large-scale resistance from a broad coalition.

Garbage. Utter garbage.

Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?

Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?

Good discussion at @uguraytac.bsky.social's talk in Barcelona this afternoon.

Foucault basically reinvented Hume on artificial virtues [ducks for cover]

Happy to share that my paper "What is the Point of Social Media?" is available online in Philosophy & Technology! In it, I offer a new normative lens to think about Big Tech reform, proposing to transform the corporate purpose of social media companies. doi.org/10.1007/s133...

The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

Last two days for submissions! Join us at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki in August 2025. @tatianallaguno.bsky.social and I are convening a panel on how digital tech transforms work and the economy. Submit your abstract to us by Dec 15.

Day two of the strike!

A lot of "civilisationism" flying around left and right: where politicians use gender equality, gay rights and anti-Semitism to discredit cultural others, particularly Muslims. Politicians on the Right, and the their advisors, have admitted to using this strategy as a weapon against the Left 🧵

Reflecting on randomness in human life is likely to transform our agency and how we relate to society. Our sense of efficacious agency can be undermined by the pervasiveness of luck as much as hard determinism. The question is "how should we do an ideology critique of beliefs about causation?"

Come join us in Thessaloniki this summer!

Referee 2 called me out for misspelling “iff” in case any philosophers are wondering what publishing interdisciplinary research is like.

Workers should have a labor right to protected in-group communication and information sharing as a means of securing more foundational labor rights such as the rights to strike and unionization.

Now that I'm back on here, let me share two of my latest papers. 1- In this @thejop.bsky.social piece, I defend democratizing Big Tech's algorithmic powers through Citizen Boards of Governance to promote the autonomy of the digital public sphere. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Come join us in Thessaloniki this summer!

We marched in The Hague with some 20,000 colleagues and students today. Stop these politically motivated cuts on higher education!

Enzo Rossi and Uğur Atcay with a message. #WOinActie #StopDeBezuinigingen #EppoCiao

Den Haag, 25.11.2024 #StopTheCuts #WOInActie