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Well I hope the Iranian monarchists are pleased

Suggestions for Bloomsbury and Routledge books to get with peer review vouchers?

With thanks to @brianleiter.bsky.social and @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

Brian Leiter, From a Realist Point of View

Look at what just came in the mail! “Incisive, fearless, and indispensable” — it’s true what I said in the blurb

Thank you!!

To give a 2nd suggestion from the excellent @enzoreds.bsky.social, I found his recent piece on universities being 'pluralist' rather than 'neutral' very interesting, if not quite so firmly on the requested topic: scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation....

scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipation...

Thanks, Richard. I’m working on a proper essay on this. Meanwhile there’s this occasional piece I did with Albena Azmanova around a petition we organised scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Early career researchers, please remember: journals aren't assessing how smart/thorough/whatever you are. They're trying to guess what is both good and something people are likely to read and cite.
Yes, sometimes this becomes a trade-off.
Yes, sometimes there are also more sinister motives at play.

Either the AI jobpocalypse is an excuse for sacking people and inflating stock prices, or it's going to be a different kind of 'pocalypse

YPG fighters

Happy IWD!

Social Science and the Tactics of the Climate Movement — AMSTERDAM LAB FOR TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH Date: Thursday 9 April Location: BG2 0.8 (09:00-15:00) + BG2 0.2 (15:00-17:00). Debates about climate justice have long focused on the movement’s goals and their feasibility. A new and urgent dis...

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Trump & co can't get their story straight on the Iran war because it's not their war. It's Bibi's, and his story can't be said out loud

This should be obvious but looking at the big legacy rags it looks as though it isn't. Then again those rags still won't talk about Epstein's obvious Mossad links

'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to hummus and soggy veggies

If the main US and Israeli war aim is simply to destroy the Iranian state and economy then that's more achievable than many on this site think

Luddites

That went well before

True, they're not discerning, and it's the pathology of the most visible forms of wokeness that's enabling that

Social Science and the Tactics of the Climate Movement — AMSTERDAM LAB FOR TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH Date: Thursday 9 April Location: BG2 0.8 (09:00-15:00) + BG2 0.2 (15:00-17:00). Debates about climate justice have long focused on the movement’s goals and their feasibility. A new and urgent dis...

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The far right doesn't go after the pathologically woke because they're a threat. They go after them because they make fantastically unpopular targets and a great distraction.

And this is similar to when people react to right wing attacks on hypertrophic wokeness by doubling down on it. Just because you make a good target doesn’t mean you’re doing something right. The opposite is more likely in this case.

The people who turned critical theory into toothless liberal moralism feel edgy again now because of the rise of authoritarianism. That is backwards. Far right anti-establishment politics is, in part, a response to the lack of a credible left alternative to the (neo)liberal blob.

Pairs of theorists one has to choose to as travel neighbours. The only correct answer is Marx and Nietzsche.

Tragically, for quite a few people this isn’t a no brainer

It was not enough for the left to be associated with the people who tell you you can’t eat cheese, nor fly, nor say “you guys”. Now we also have to be the people who tell you you can’t automate the most tedious bits of your email job.

They’re not infallible

You think sewing machines stole the labour of those who used to sew by hand?

Why build it when you can seize it

It’s the fact that they’re in the wrong hands that’s destroying us

AI veganism is a dead end for the Left.

We’re not supposed to be the ones fettering the development of the productive forces, remember? Things usually don’t work out for those who do that.

We’re supposed to open new possibilities for human flourishing, not save our souls from Sin.

Journalism undefeated loser of all time