Jack Wilkinson

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.

I always knew that one day I’d be able to do something with this meme

My theory: the relative decline in power of a certain kinda woke humanities set (post-2020) happened in some part because when a crisis came and America was relatively receptive they just had no workable policies. "Abolish the police" just weren't it, but it was the only slogan that broke through...

Really enjoyed talking about Marx and the Paris Commune for this week's episode of Past Present Future

A four-panel meme using scenes from SpongeBob SquarePants. In the first panel, Mr. Krabs (labeled “Me”) is angrily pointing and saying “All right, get lost, all of ya. You’re fired. Go on. Scram.” In the second panel, a crowd of fish (labeled “Political Theories”) is being shooed away while Mr. Krabs says, “Get out of here, you moochers. That’s right, keep moving.” In the third panel, Mr. Krabs turns to one remaining character and says, “Except you. You stay.” In the fourth panel, a goofy-looking clown is smiling with arms outstretched, labeled “Historical Materialism.”

I want to believe 😭

A ramshackle of suspicions and prejudices is all theories ever are (approbative)

Our PhD student @janwasserziehr.bsky.social is organising an exciting conference on 10th June about AI, consiousness, and morality. Register here: www.eventbrite.de/e/lse-worksh...

@jackwilkinson.bsky.social told me about this saying today. It will stay with me for a while.

Google Books Ngram Viewer graph showing frequency of the terms "epistemic" (blue line) and "metaphysical" (red line) in English-language books from 1800 to 2022. The "metaphysical line" shows higher usage throughout most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with peaks around 1830. The epistemic line remains near zero until about 1930, then rises dramatically after 1960, eventually surpassing metaphysical around 2018. Both terms show significant increases in usage from the 1980s onward.

about to crack this case wide open

A slightly experimental blogpost. More of a scrapbook if anything.

"The Gramsci of Life"

www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsc...

Marx and socialist anti-politics Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about w...

Wrote a short piece for the @princetonupress.bsky.social Ideas blog on one of the themes of my book press.princeton.edu/ideas/marx-a...

‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory The LSE’s Department of Government in collaboration with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) is pleased to announce its first conference in Feminist, Gender and Queer theory. In a context...

Submit a paper for the LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: ‘What’s Next for Feminism?’. Deadline for abstracts March 1, conference May 29-30. Organized by our great PhDs Julia Costet and Nadia Ma @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social philevents.org/event/show/1...

Our research seminar kicks off this Thursday at 4pm with a talk by Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) on geo-engineering. All welcome. www.reading.ac.uk/politics-int... @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb! philevents.org/event/show/1...

I have a short piece on the imperative mandate in this just released volume on democracy from current/former fellows at The New Institute. Its fully open access and available here: www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6...

Our PhD student @yusufimaadkhan.com presenting on genealogical anxiety to our weekly POTY research seminar

Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one.

Code: observablehq.com/d/a207f5c57a...

thinking about this wonderful column from 2017 with the title "The Closed Society and Its Friends; A Defense of the Echo Chamber", written by Center for Wild Analysis, a Danish philosophy collective: "There is much talk about the dangers of social media turning into echo chambers, where we... 1/4

We've put together a starker pack for political theorists based at LSE
go.bsky.app/12JJvRZ

It’s publication day!
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And @cristinaconesa.bsky.social 🤝🫡🎉

A comic depicting 12 different types of political theory paper, with titles poking fun at different types of paper.

Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

An important additional chart to keep in mind.

Building on Brett Christophers opinion piece "We must not mistake China’s success on green energy for a global one" - on.ft.com/3CwOxny

Code here - observablehq.com/d/20d13d84dd...