Frederik Carl Windfeld

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Why look to the past rather than the future when analysing military tech? Focusing on military ballooning, @fredwindfeld.bsky.social article shows why foregrounding technologies’ antecedents — not imagined futures — helps us rethink disruptive tech debates.

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Thank you, Daniel!

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Can't recall if I shared this before but this article is a very important corrective to contemporary views of technological change and disruption

'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment'

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Traversing Memories in Global Politics - Kinti Orellana Matute, Woohyeok Seo, Pauline Zerla, 2025

🎉I am very pleased to share the publication of our @millennjournal.bsky.social Vol. 53 Special Issue: Traversing Memories in Global Politics.

You can read our Introduction, co-authored with Kinti Orellana Matute and Pauline Zerla, here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

Many thanks!

Thank you!!

A big thanks to @ajbousquet.bsky.social, @stephofmann.bsky.social, @fredjerris.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social, @soderbergnora.bsky.social, and others not on here, for their feedback on earlier drafts!

Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025 Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...

⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.

Contrarian optionality and negative mimesis: venture capital and the institutional logic of Silicon Valley This paper offers a theorization of contrarianism in Silicon Valley, presenting it as a strategic rationality underpinned by institutional infrastructure. Rather than treating contrarianism as prin...

Check out my new article published @distinktionjournal.bsky.social on contrarianism as a cultural practice enabled by the institutional logic of Silicon Valley VC. Read it here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Killer robots aren’t just sci-fi. They’re a battleground of expertise. @fredwindfeld.bsky.social breaks down how legal, tech & military voices clash over what LAWS are and who gets to define them.

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#AI #LAWS #epistemicpower

Thank you Jocelyn!

Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...

🚨 New article

In it, @fredwindfeld.bsky.social shows that the contention over defining Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is not reducible to country positions alone; it also has its roots in epistemic contests over what constitutes superior knowledge.

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Thank you Mauro!!

Big thanks to @maurogilli.bsky.social, Stefano Guzzini, @stephofmann.bsky.social, Marius H. Hvithamar, @fredjerris.bsky.social , @miranda-loli.bsky.social, @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social, @streinz.bsky.social, Nora Söderberg, and reviewers/editors for their feedback on earlier drafts!

Struggles over epistemic capital: Complex governance objects and the making of lethal autonomous weapons systems The regulation of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has emerged as a salient and perplexing issue in global governance, especially in the UN GGE on LAWS. This article argues that contentions...

Just published in @cspjournal.bsky.social 💡💻⚖️
My article looks at how legal, technical, and military expertise condition the debate over defining and regulating lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)—and how such “epistemic struggles" can produce political effects in global governance.

Thank you so much, Lindsay!

Apprenticeship in Diplomacy, or How I Became Another Replaceable Intern at the OECD Abstract. What can we learn about diplomacy by studying its practice through the body of an apprentice? Drawing on the works of Loïc Wacquant, this article

Forgot to share this here. This article on my internship came out in IPS some months back. I argue that apprenticeship as a concept/methodological device cultivates a sensitivity to the corporeal dynamics at play in the making/transmission of habitus in diplomacy 👇

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🎉 Vol 50(1) is out! 🎉

This new issue includes a welcome from our new editorial team and features 10 research articles from: 

@fredwindfeld.bsky.social
@delfrothe.bsky.social
@jelenasubotic.bsky.social
@tobiaswille.bsky.social
& many more  

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‘Gothic visibilities and International Relations’ (with Marius Hauge Hvithamar and Lene Hansen) is now assigned to the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social 🎉. And in great company! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...