Tim Christiaens

My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions.

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Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

“Universities have existed as partial exception to demands for complete intellectual loyalty from presidents, bosses, executives, financiers. […]
But Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.”

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My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions.

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Picture of protest for Palestine in Amsterdam.

Protesting for Palestine yesterday with 250.000 others (!) in Amsterdam. 🍉

Let’s be honest. I would definitely listen to a Taylor Swift black metal album, though.

AI vragen op welke politieke partij je moet stemmen? Geen goed idee Een chatbot die vertelt waar je bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen op moet stemmen? Volgens hoogleraar Tim Christiaens kent dat risico's. ‘Denk zelf na over wat

Univers, the university paper at Tilburg University, interviewed me about the use of AI chatbots to acquire voting advice and why that’s a terrible idea.

They accidentally called me full professor, so I am expecting an e-mail to confirm my promotion any day now 😅

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When criticizing Kantian liberalism, remember: “Nothing but ad hominem abuse is more than nothing.”

From Raymond Geuss’ Philosophy and Real Politi

Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition? An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, but...

‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’

— @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Calling it a “race” suggests that you should want to win. But my inner luddite is saying: “Do we really want to spend all this money and effort on traveling to the moon?” Traveling to a sunny beach sounds much nicer and feasible, to be honest.

Verschijnt deze winter!

Een Inleiding in Het Kapitaal van Karl Marx
door Michael Heinrich

Nog altijd de beste korte inleiding in Het Kapitaal.

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Maybe. Though I’m not sure homeopathic representation in parliament with one seat is truly helpful + one could also pursue new views as a radical flank within a larger party (though I admit that’s difficult as we’ve seen with Corbyn or Sanders).

It gives parties some real bargaining power as you would have fewer parties with more seats. And it attenuates the Dutch tendency for celebrity politics. A politician becomes famous on talkshows and immediately forms their own party with nothing but their personal brand to hold it together (see NSC)

5% thresholds wouldn’t generate two-party systems like first-past-the-post does in the US/UK. But it would deter ideologically similar parties with just different branding. After 4 years in NE, I honestly still don’t understand the fundamental difference between some parties apart from marketing.

But it would avoid the formation of new parties in the first place + encourage parties with basically the same ideology packaged in different branding to merge.

I know of very few arguments as good for a 5% voting threshold as the Dutch electoral system.

Thanks!

I know 😳 bought a Kamel Daoud novel just before stepping on the train home, but still …

Petit prince 😎

It was Vrin 🙂

Librairie Vrin actually

Thanks ☺️

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

With the cover ready, proofs submitted and index made, I am very happy that my next book “An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is now ready for release on 22 January 2026. Co-authored with my friends Stijn De Cauwer and Joost de Bloois 🥳

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New conference program just dropped!

Go check it out!

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🚨 Conditions remain dire at at Amazon India. A recent survey conducted by @uniglobalunion.org reveals 68% of workers suffer heat-related illness, and 42% fear retaliation for raising safety concerns.

We need to keep up the pressure and boycott Amazon this coming Black Friday to #MakeAmazonPay.

The book can be pre-ordered online already and you can find the table of contents below. For fellow academics, please let me know if you would like to organize a seminar or book presentation. I never get tired of talking about Italian philosophy anyway 😅

I’m particularly proud of the cover art, which we as authors developed in collaboration with Bloomsbury. Very proud of the colour scheme. We were inspired by the poster of the recent Suspiria remake.

We discuss what contemporary Italian political philosophers like Federici, Agamben, Lazzarato, Braidotti, or Toscano have to offer for some of the major global crises of today: climate change, online conspiracies, algorithmic management, or decolonization.

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

With the cover ready, proofs submitted and index made, I am very happy that my next book “An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is now ready for release on 22 January 2026. Co-authored with my friends Stijn De Cauwer and Joost de Bloois 🥳

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/introduct...

The day we will finally know what “room temperature” means!

When you’re in Paris and you know you overdid it on the book purchases.