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Reading Group: Andrea Dworkin’s Right-Wing Women (15 May) We will be holding a reading group discussing Andrea Dworkin’s book Right-Wing Women in light of its recent reissue. Led by the global historian of feminism Rosa Campbell (KCL), we’ll explore what the...

critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/reading-grou...

Would you still love me if I was a gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor? 💕

i respect this deep cut

Wage slavery: A neo-Roman account - Tom O’Shea, 2026 The idea of wage slavery is often regarded with suspicion even among critics of capitalism. Sceptics note the dubious racial politics associated with its use, w...

My republican defence of the idea of wage slavery is now in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A small slice of scrutopia.

Copies of the New Left Review with colourful spines on a brown desk.

Decorating the office.

map of the long march

men’s mental health walk and talk

starts at ruijin teahouse, 10th october
all ages welcome

Saw them breaking down your man’s chitinous outer shell to devour the sweet tender meat hidden within

far off lands near me

56k modems learned those sounds from me

now is the time of the bog egg

Good luck! I can heartily recommend Alex Gourevitch's ‘Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike’.

On the Friday of Easter Week in 1916, James Connolly was among those who surrendered to British troops, after having helped lead the Easter Rising. I wrote about his life and socialist republican politics for the New International this time last year. www.newintermag.com/james-connol...

There are lots of academics who have far sharper minds than I do — especially in philosophical work, where precision and clarity are prized. But I console myself that many of them have terrible judgement which makes them incapable of writing anything interesting.

a marking AND assessment boycott? in this economy? why, yes, precisely

Got asked whether I’d like to microfinance my purchase of the new edition of Capital: Volume 1 with three easy payments of £9.72.

Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online:

academic.oup.com/book/62523

In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

I'l never forget a South American guy getting violently dragged off by a police snatch squad, shouting “This is not a democracy!” He was right. The TSG near Gleneagles were even more brutal: one harmless older woman nearly had her skull stoved in. That forever shapes how you see police officers.

Line of police with riot shields with the Balmoral Hotel in the background.

For reasons that aren’t clear, this photograph hangs outside my office. I think it's from the anti-G8 protests in Edinburgh in 2005, which is the only time I'd been to the city before I started working here. Uncannily, it seems to be taken by a protestor from the same police kettle I was trapped in.

The upshot of a lot of academic complaining would be a university without students. But the fantasy of senior university leadership is that they could manage a property portfolio without the need for academics.

Is this ultra-processed vegan food in the room with us right now?

my plumbing ✨🚽✨ odyssey ✨🔧 ✨

Don't get me started on the 'definitive edition' of a certain author, where the font sometimes changes mid-sentence in the footnotes.

nest-maxxing

Reading a new OUP book with the stomach-turning mixture of a serif font for the main text and sans-serif for block quotes.

"The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We look for the best in the field across all disciplines and provide a working environment where academics can develop their careers and passion for their chosen subject area. We offer the full range of academic roles and have a genuine focus on our student’s performance and wellbeing."

This enormous student will devour us all.

I would refer you to Kantorowicz's classic study in political theology, The King's Two Boobies.

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"