Rachel O'Neill @lsemedia.bsky.social reflects on how “PUA” culture (where men learn how to successfully "pick up" women) resonates in China to mark the new Chinese translation of her book Seduction @politybooks.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
📘 My new book, The #WebofKnowledge, is on its way. tinyurl.com/encylop
It follows the long arc from encyclopedic institutions to digital platforms and emerging AI systems — not to mourn lost expertise, but to ask how authority is reorganised, governed, and contested under platform capitalism.
Next up, I'm #TheoryRedux series with @politybooks.bsky.social: "Self-Sabotage" by the great #ToddMcGowan. Stay tuned.
Will the Government’s rent control legislation help or harm tenants?
Listen to Michael Byrne, author of Beyond Generation Rent on the @irishtimes.com podcast.
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
Tonight at #TheMerode, with my dear friend #LievenDeCauter, we will discuss #Superweak, out with @politybooks.bsky.social. it will be great fun.
How important is the art of performance to gaining political power?
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan @politybooks.bsky.social develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of power in politics.
Review by Milica Resanovic @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory - trans. Andrew Brown, @politybooks.bsky.social, July 2026
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Language of the Conquerors: When Amerindians Spoke Latin in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Serge Gruzinski
See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
One of the most decisive consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution, which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies.
By putting language at the centre of his analysis, Serge Gruzinski develops a fresh perspective on colonization.
Immigration by Nancy Foner is out now in the UK.
Drawing on a wealth of research the book makes a powerful case for writing history into the study of contemporary immigration.
What’s new about the immigrant story?
And to what extent have we been there before?
politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
I enjoyed the conversation with @tammam.bsky.social Rana Sweis and Nathaniel Raymond for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on tech & AI in the aid sector - I spoke about my recent book 'Technocolonialism' out with @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @mediacomgold.bsky.social
📚 Dr Rachel O'Neill's #Seduction: #Men, #Masculinity & Mediated Intimacy @politybooks.bsky.social has been translated into Chinese!
👉 For this edition Dr O’Neill wrote a new preface on the book’s relevance in the #Chinese context with former MSc student Kedi Zhou: book.douban.com/subject/3783...
“Writing with both trenchancy and humour, but above all with a fervent and much needed moral clarity, Kolesnikov examines the deep and ancient roots of [Putin’s] ideology,”
- @thetablet.bsky.social review Andrei Kolesnikov's 'The Closing of the Russian Mind'.
www.thetablet.co.uk/books/inside...
London visitors and locals, don't miss @laurentdesutter.bsky.social discussing his book Superweak: Thinking in the 21st Century, in conversation with fellow polity author, Alfie Bown.
Tuesday March 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Tickets here:
housmans.com/event/book-t...
London visitors and locals, don't miss the chance to see Raewyn Connell discussing her new book Trans Lives, on Tuesday, 17th March at the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre.
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Reserve your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/understand...
NEW: How important is the art of performance to gaining political power?
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan @bristoluni.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of power in politics.
Review by Milica Resanovic 👇
BOOK PRESENTATION: Laurent DE SUTTER, Superweak (Brussels: The Merode [Philosophy Club], 3 MAR 2026)
@politybooks.bsky.social
vubcore.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
Written in critical dialogue with AI, 'Prompt Thinking' by Jianwei Xun proposes a radical reconceptualization of what it means to think, create and exist in an era where intelligence itself takes increasingly distributed forms.
See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... #Philosophy
“Prosperity is not about wealth, it’s about health. Care, in all its forms, underpins a vibrant life. Yet in today’s economy, it is undervalued, underpaid and often overlooked.”
Briony Lipton on The Care Economy by @timjackson.org.uk @politybooks.bsky.social
buff.ly/PMV4tub
Check it out. #JianweiXun is back. His book, #PromptThinking is imminent in my #TheoryRedux series with @politybooks.bsky.social. Very excited.
"Charting AI’s development within its proper economic and geopolitical context...Srnicek’s guide can help us maintain a long-term, realistic perspective of the technology’s likely trajectory.”
@jacobinmag.bsky.social review @nsrnicek.bsky.social's 'Silicon Empires'
jacobin.com/2026/02/ai-b...
Mark Leonard, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail - @politybooks.bsky.social, April 2026
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
"A timely intervention: as governments once again shut borders and attempt to turn us against the foreigners in our midst, it helps us understand... our responsibility to help them.”
@nybooks.com review @uwewittstock.bsky.social's 'Marseille 1940'
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"How does the internet, where communication is compulsive and constant, practically synonymous with all social life as such, fit within the dark forest theory?"
Read an excerpt of The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior in @bigthink.com
bigthink.com/books/how-th...
Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before.
In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, writes about the lives of trans women and men around the world.
See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Listen to Bogna Konior discuss her book The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, on @hermitixpodcast.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=Q9sE...
Listen to Philipp Felsch discuss the subject of his book The Philosopher, Jürgen Habermas, on the Emancipations podcast:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2a2...
