Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen

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/RoFhPou

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Cleaning my bookshelves I found this 2010 policy report (by EUISS) anticipating scenarios for 2025. This is the worst they could think of. How sweetly optimistic!

One more day to submit your proposals! 👇

WSJ: “David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he’d make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump’s ire. Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming”

Call for Chapters – Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives Call for Chapters: Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives   We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Polit...

I'm co-editing a book on Radicalized Loneliness and we need a few more chapters to make an already exciting collection a bit thicker.

Please share this Call for Chapters or consider submitting something yourselves!

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Well this sounds highly promising...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call for Chapters – Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives Call for Chapters: Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Political Perspectives   We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume Radicalized Loneliness: Philosophical and Polit...

I'm co-editing a book on Radicalized Loneliness and we need a few more chapters to make an already exciting collection a bit thicker.

Please share this Call for Chapters or consider submitting something yourselves!

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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/kXLuWCS

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Kaput | Swift Press ‘Compelling’ Guardian ‘Eloquent and comprehensive’ Financial Times ‘Excellent’ The Telegraph ‘Astonishing’ The Times ‘An eye-opener’ Gavin Esler Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of eco...

Esim. tässä todetaan, että juuri näin #velkajarru
toimi Saksassa. Eikä vain siirtymän vaan kaikkiin sijoituksiin.

Pääomakanta on kohta rikkaiden maiden heikoimpia.

Velkajarru oli "probably the worst fiscal rule by any government anywhere" ja "fiscal doomsday machine."

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Tai,

Ennen: Mettätyö

Nyt: Meta- ja etätyö

...as long as your brains don't fall out!

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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Ennen: Naapuri vituttaa

Nyt: Viipuri natottaa

Humpan kutsu kun kajahtaa
Hop-hop kylkiin kannuksia
Silmään isompaa vaihdetta
Eipäs paineta jarrua!

Humpan kutsu kun kajahtaa
Hop-hop kylkiin kannuksia
Silmään isompaa vaihdetta
Eipäs paineta jarrua

Tired: publish or perish

Wired: Humppaa taikka kuole (taikka humppaa, taikka humppaa ja kuole)

Tired: publish or perish

Wired: Humppaa taikka kuole (taikka humppaa, taikka humppaa ja kuole)

@polstudies.bsky.social

Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria The violent weather that battered Europe this summer caused short-term economic losses of at least €43bn, according to an EU-wide estimate, with costs expected to rise to €126bn by 2029. The immediate hit to the economy from a single brutal summer of heat, drought and flooding amounted to 0.26% of the EU’s economic output in 2024, according to the rapid analysis, which has not been submitted for peer review but is based on relationships between weather and economic data that were published in an academic study this month. Continue reading...

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

Finally, I suggest that architecture offers a potent metaphor for thinking more productively about the democratic affordances of expertise.

I draw examples from ecological activism to show how disruptive acts and expert knowledge is used together to change how the world is perceived, antagonism brought to surface, equality enacted and the constitution of the public reimagined.

Specifically, I argue that bringing thinkers like Mouffe and Rancière to bear on the questions of democratic expertise adds an important perspective to the existing literature, while at the same time prompting us to revamp radical democratic theory itself, moving beyond the critique of technocracy.

Toward a Radical Democratic Theory of Expertise - Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen, 2025 This article proposes that radical democratic theory offers a unique angle for analyzing the role of expertise in politics. Recent literature on expertise and d...

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. 👇

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Rehtori Sari Lindblom: “Satojen miljoonien yliopistoleikkauksilla Suomi uppoaisi vain syvemmälle suohon” | Helsingin yliopisto Valtiovarainministeriön ehdotus valtion vuoden 2026 budjetiksi julkaistiin 6. elokuuta. Esitys sisältää mittavia, satojen miljoonien leikkauksia yliopistojen, tutkimuksen ja innovaatioiden rahoituksee...

"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

Hopefully there is still time to correct the course and that @tieteentekijat.bsky.social and @sivista.bsky.social and @professoriliitto.bsky.social etc. are doing their best to avoid the most catastrophic outcome.

Mea culpa to international colleagues for the unrealistic rosy picture I provided. /3

This is infuriatingly shortsighted, and in many ways contradicts their own programme – not to mention ambitions relating to societal security and democratic self-governance. It also bears uncanny family resemblance (as watered down version, of course) to the attacks on academic freedom globally. /2

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

Voipi vaan äkkiä vaihtua hampaiden narskuntaan.