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Hi Lisa - are you still using the same email address? (I've got a couple of bounce backs)

Ken MacLeod sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/macleo... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Stephan Martiniere, Fangorn, Jean Vouillon and Lee Gibbons):

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

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From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century

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It is not implausible that I'll be examining someone's PhD before too long alongside Dr Niall O'Flaherty.

Minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed

On Koebler, Quinn, and some Le Guin. While reading Joseph Tainter’s (1988) The Collapse of Complex Societies (recall this post; and here), I had noted that he frequently criticizes Alfred Kroeber’s analysis of the collapse of societies.

On Koebler, @josephinequinn.bsky.social, and some Le Guin open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

On Spinoza (and Platonic Utopianism) in Lévi-Strauss and Le Guin Today’s post will juggle or cross-fertilize two lines of inquiry.

On Spinoza (and Platonic Utopianism) in Lévi-Strauss and Le Guin open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Maybe amusing to @duncanbell.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@himself.bsky.social
@eschwitz.bsky.social

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London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up
By Professor Matt Goodwhinge

From the new Private Eye, out now.

just unbelievably grim

This discussion article is now open access until the end of September! Find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

When you make J. Edgar Hoover look like a well-adjusted individual ...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

The Benthamite-Liberal critique of John Locke John Bowring (1792 – 1872) created and published a (1834) Benthamite text known as “History of the Greatest Happiness Principle” published near the end of Bentham’s Deontology. Because I am myself not...

The Benthamite-Liberal critique of John Locke open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
with a shout out to @duncanbell.bsky.social

The Duck of Minerva The Duck Quacks at Twilight

The @duckofminerva.bsky.social is a International Relations blog with a focus on theory, teaching, and research. I founded it in 2005. It quickly grew to become a cooperative endeavor. It's gone from multiple pieces a day to maybe an article every 2 weeks. But it's still alive and publishing.

Arthur Williams as Smithian; and the Kuhn-loss as an arbitrage opportunity In two recent posts (recall here and here), I explored the significance of Eric Williams’ respectful engagement with Adam Smith in his very early writings).

Arthur Williams as Smithian; and the Kuhn-loss as an arbitrage opportunity open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

NEW ARTICLE:

Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social

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New(ish) article:

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

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History and motivations How It All Started In the spring of 2015, the Steering Committee (SC) of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) announced for the first time 13 fellowships for junior scholars from...

I am currently chairing a network very close to my heart, namely the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science. It finally has an account here @eenphilsci.bsky.social. To start here's a moving piece by a Bulgarian philosopher and a founding member Lilia Gurova on how it all began.

Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: the deceleration of crises in late modernity ‘Crisis’ is a word of ancient coinage whose purchase in modern politics is frequently taken to be diminished in discourses of ‘crisis pessimism.’ This pessimism argues that the proliferation of ‘cr...

Check out this fascinating new article:

Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)

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@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: the deceleration of crises in late modernity ‘Crisis’ is a word of ancient coinage whose purchase in modern politics is frequently taken to be diminished in discourses of ‘crisis pessimism.’ This pessimism argues that the proliferation of ‘cr...

Check out this fascinating new article:

Joe Robinson, "Beyond Koselleck’s Neuzeit: The Deceleration of Crises in Late Modernity," Journal of Political Ideologies (2025)

@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is good www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

“Walter Benjamin once wrote that there is no document of culture which is not also a document of barbarism. If one does not explicitly recognize this, making the concept of ‘tradition’ central to one’s thinking risks giving it, at best, a massively problematic bias.”