"If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure."
I do aspire to one day be a full member of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social so I probably should learn Danish!
silly line chart meme showing progress toward democratic socialism as a function of charts posted
for real it works like this 😭
Crazy that this might be one of the only (the only?) permanent political theory jobs in the UK this year. Job market is really dire
We would have had democratic socialism by now if @yusufimaadkhan.com had been around to make our charts!
also of interest to @martinoneill.bsky.social
This is beautiful 🧑🍳🤌
Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social
observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!
philjobs.org/job/show/30997
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Oh cool! ive not heard of it. Do you have any reading recommendations?
From his 1978 report ia803403.us.archive.org/34/items/Mei...
Looking into the Meidner Plan and came across his calculations for when workers would, under different scenarios, gain majority control of their company
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Brutal
We've published a free e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Quentin Skinner's seminal essay 'Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' including his own reflections on the contributions
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
The London Political Theory Network is organising a professional development workshop on 11 May for PhD students and early career political theorists in order to broaden access to the discipline. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lptn-sprin...
Just opened: 2 calls for positions in political theory in the "Moralizing Politics" project led by C. Rostbøll @ucph.bsky.social
1️⃣PhD Scholarship, "The Dignity of Work": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
2️⃣PhD Scholarship, "Cancel Culture": candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
⏰ April 13
Hegelslop
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...
👇👇👇 3 post-docs in democratic theory
Our PopGov project is live! 📣
We’re recruiting 3 Postdocs at @UCLouvain! 🌍 Help us to disseminate the call! 🙏
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...
An interlude chapter entitled "Anger". It reads: "Anger. I constantly feel like screaming. I'm at the airport. Two men, in their fifties, are having a coffee together. Judging by their behaviour and the volume of their voices, they must be co-workers. I perceive them as being somewhat macho. Wedding rings. Do they rape their wives as they sleep? What about him, the little old man over there? And that young guy? How are you supposed to know? How can you be safe? Where? More than eighty men. Hundreds must have seen the posts on the website. No one said a word. I read excerpts from the forums on the coco.fr site: 'Hi, I'm looking for a distributor to show off my slut on demand.' Can this kind of thing happen to anyone? Is every man regarded by his wife as a 'nice guy liable to rape her and brag about it online? I watch them going by, men, on the street, in the subway. How about him: do you think he thinks dead girls are hot? And him? Nowhere is safe. You get paranoid. No, it's not paranoia, you know the figures, it's worse than that."
I just finished @manongarcia.bsky.social's Living with Men. I highly recommend, though it's disturbing and challenging stuff. What it captures, and refuses to dispel, is a sense of being genuinely adrift if you refuse to flinch from what you on some level know must be true of many men around you.
DISAMBIGUATION There is a reason I publish as 'Emily C. R. Tilton' and not just 'Emily Tilton'. There is another Emily Tilton who publishes erotic novels. If you google my name, many of her books come up. This disambiguation section serves to emphasize that I did not write these books. Given my interest in (feminist) sexual ethics, I think this coincidence is extremely funny. My favorite plotline is from her book Bought and Trained: women sign up for a concubine training program and (consensually) have their memory of consenting to this program erased. You can read the blurb for this book here. I have not actually read this book and so cannot recommend more than the blurb. I recognize that this particular storyline puts some pressure on my insistence that I did not write this book--the plotline reads like a philosopher's thought experiment. This is part of why I am so amused by this coincidence.
Philosopher @nippleslipple.bsky.social has one of my favourite websites in the discipline just for this (emilytilton11.wixsite.com/website/disa...).
Thanks Matt. This is super generous and thoughtful
My review of "Citizen Marx" by @brunoleipold.com and "Marx's Ethical Vision" by @vcwills.bsky.social is out. Good books both. With @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/8313-2/
