@temcd.bsky.social
Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University. Author: Neoliberal Parliamentarism: The Decline of Parliament at the Ontario Legislature (UTP, 2021).
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tom McDowell, 'Jeremy Bentham and the Neoclassical and Neoliberal Traditions: Architect or Adversary?'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
08.05.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1My latest in @TheoryCulture argues that although Bentham is often seen as a forerunner of the neoliberal tradition, this overlooks how his mature theory of โpsychological dynamicsโ renders him its antithesis.
@malrog.bsky.social,
@timcauser.bsky.social, @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
Sheep & Wheat map of Australia. Green areas have "some sheep" while white ones have "no sheep"
thinking about the some sheep/no sheep map again
08.05.2025 03:29 โ ๐ 279 ๐ 52 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 6
Spent 50 minutes chatting with Martin Lukacs and @breachmedia.ca about the profound ideological influence Milton Friedman has had on Pierre Poilievre. Podcast episode is at the link attached:
breachmedia.ca/the-radical-...
#poilievre #cdnpoli
Featuring talks from @malrog.bsky.social, @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy, Anne Brunon-Ernst, and Mark Knights, and a series of terrific looking panels, it promises to be an excellent couple of days
16.04.2025 08:18 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My newest scholarly article on Doug Ford, neoliberalism, (anti)majoritarianism, and the use of inherited institutional and constitutional frameworks to insulate austerity from critique.
ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cp...
#dougford #ontario #onpoli #ontariopolitics #neoliberalism
Come check this panel out on Thursday from 2-4.
www.yorku.ca/research/glr...
@temcd.bsky.social @johncke.bsky.social
Check out my piece breaking down Pierre Poilievre's radical austerity politics and explicitly linking them to his professed intellectual hero, Milton Friedman.
jacobin.com/2025/02/poil...
#canpoli #canadianpolitics #poilievre #jacobin #cdnpoli
โTHE LAST WORDS OF BENTHAMโDr. BOWRING arrived in London from Blackburn (where he had been canvassing the votes of the electors of that borough) just in time to see his old and long-cherished friend, JEREMY BENTHAM expire. The last words of BENTHAM are thus detailed in the following copy of a letter, written by the Doctor to the Secretary of his Committee:โ โMy dear Sir,โCordial thanks to youโto all of you, for your ardent and noble exertions. I should have written to you again, but my most venerated and most venerable friend has, by making me his executor, imposed on me so many cares that I can hardly withdraw myself a moment from them. When I returned from Blackburn life was still glimmering, and intellect, tooโand almost the last words he uttered were, as I will tell you. I entered his roomโโDo you know me?โ He smiled and said, โBowring! Bowring! how have you sped?โ I told him of your acceptance and of my prospects. โVery good,โ he said, squeezing me by the hands. He repeated it perhaps twenty times, till he was exhausted. With you, and with me, was his last breath associated. How much will the beauty and the glory of his memory be connected with my parliamentary exertions! How would I, whom he calls in his will his most intimateโthe most confidential of his friendsโhe, who was honoured with the friendship of all that is illustriousโhow could I disgrace a name so holy, great, and good, and wise?โโ
'The Last Words of Bentham', according to John Bowring: '". I entered his roomโโDo you know me?โ He smiled and said, โBowring! Bowring! how have you sped?โ I told him of your acceptance and of my prospects. โVery good,โ he said, squeezing me by the hands...
28.11.2024 09:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Bernie Sanders on the Senate floor just now: The United States government cannot provide weapons to countries that violate internationally recognized human rights or block US humanitarian aid. That is not my opinion, that is what the law says.
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UCL Press Play is delighted to announce the final episode of the podcast series The Greatest Good, which explores the lasting influence of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose radical progressivism was the intellectual inspiration for
UCL. Watch free: ow.ly/Tjxo50U4iho
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