Duncan Bell

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

This would have been my dream job when a post-doc myself.

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Performance Philosophy Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate w...

👇👇👇 cool new paper

Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy

www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/arti...

A terrific opportunity for political theorist

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NEW JOB

Assistant Professor - China & Global Development
Dept of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

NEW JOB

Assistant Professor - China & Global Development
Dept of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

V good private eye this week

Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

🚨🚨🚨Job alert!!🚨🚨🚨
Theory post at Cambridge!

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Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

Yup!

Particular focus on "post-colonial political thought, or whose work might connect political theory and historical political economy"👇

"...we are especially interested to hear from those working in international political theory, or who undertake historically informed research on anti-colonial and post-colonial political thought, or whose work might connect political theory and historical political economy"

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Every speech on the subject given by any involved party begins by deploring even the idea of war. A war here would not be legal or useful. It is not necessary or appropriate. It must be avoided. Immediately following this proud declamation comes a series of circumlocutions, circumventions and rhetorico-circumambulations which make it clear that we will go to war, but not really, because we don’t want to and aren’t allowed to, so what we’re doing is in fact some kind of hyper-violent peace in which people will die. We are going to un-war.

The difficulty is what happens next, which is that various nations and groups of nations who are notionally friendly to one another and here for identical, similar or compatible purposes get into disagreements. The good kind of disagreement comes to an end with harsh words and apologies, but disagreements between men and women trained to kill and armed with the best weapons available, who know that they are disagreeing with people who are similarly trained and equipped, are generally the other sort. Giving someone a jolly good talking-to becomes an exchange of warning shots and suddenly there’s a minor battle going on. Minor battles become international incidents; international incidents foster distrust; distrust fosters conflict.

It’s almost as if, now that this place exists as a war zone, everyone feels it would be rude not to use it.

Cover of the UK paperback of The Gone-Away World: black with red spatters or cracks stretching horizontally across the middle. What text with the title abd my name.

It is SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE, you bastards

Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming 'Rethinking Internationalism' conference on 19-20th March in London: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/rethink...

Thanks! (Yes, absolutely!)

RIP William Connolly

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks, Ulas!

Very pleased to find these in the post this morning. Now available as a physical object!

Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought (2024)

go.shr.lc/4mTZyBp

👇👇👇 3 post-docs in democratic theory

Thanks!

Will do!