Can an Artwork Have Personhood? Many of us yearn for intimate, almost human interactions with art objects. But the risks might outweigh the rewards.

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The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

"what could explain the University’s eagerness to embrace one, and only one, special form of diversity? Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty."

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

And hes gonna sign it and we're gonna change the lives of thousands of contingent faculty and the education of tens of thousands of students

3/24 - Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots" in conversation w/ Naveeda Khan by Red Emma's Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member

In "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots," professor Lisa Siraganian examines who holds power and who is reduced to capital as the concept of personhood expands.
Check out her book talk at Red Emmas on Tuesday, 3/24, at 7:00 pm
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Tool or Colleague? The Case against Personhood for AI Should AI have legal rights? Arguments defending ePersonhood—legal personhood for AI, LLMs, and supposedly autonomous robots—have appeared recently and are taken seriously. Siraganian examines what…

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Two Problems with Personhood: Expanding the Circle and Impoverishing t Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus (2015), Park Avenue Armoury (New York, NY). Photo by James Ewing. Until the 1990s, the term “personhood”—the quality or condition of being an individual person—appeared ...

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Sure! Below are two links for recent short pieces. A few more will be forthcoming, and podcasts too.

Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots" Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?

Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!

The cover of Lisa Siraganian's _The Problem of Personhood: Giving Civil Rights to Trees, Corporationd and Robots_. The cover has the title in a chunky blocky Swissy sans-serif and the picture is a green background, with a white tree, and an shadow of a human head in wavy black lines superimposed looking oddly like a stamp cancellation

Currently reading. Very timely. Thank you @versobooks.bsky.social and @lsiraganian.bsky.social. The law is massively slow to change; perhaps letting go of personhood can form the center of a longterm goal like getting rid of sexism in the law has been and continues to be.

We’re so happy to announce Jen Siraganian as the winner of the 2026 Perugia Press Prize for her debut collection EVERYTHING HAS BEEN MOVED, EVEN THE DEAD. Here’s a description of her book, forthcoming this fall, and a bio of the poet. Congratulations, Jen! 🌟 @jsiraganian.bsky.social

Two Problems with Personhood: Expanding the Circle and Impoverishing t Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus (2015), Park Avenue Armoury (New York, NY). Photo by James Ewing. Until the 1990s, the term “personhood”—the quality or condition of being an individual person—appeared…

"Anglo-American legal systems developed corporate personhood to project large business entities on the model of rationally contracting individuals."

Students that have a red or a blue color wash over them mingle around a campus plaza.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus

A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5

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No shit.

Two Problems with Personhood: Expanding the Circle and Impoverishing t Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus (2015), Park Avenue Armoury (New York, NY). Photo by James Ewing. Until the 1990s, the term “personhood”—the quality or condition of being an individual person—appeared ...

In this excerpt from The Problem of Personhood, Lisa Siraganian lays out the political and philosophical dilemmas at the core of contemporary personhood debates.

This is great work—a new way of slicing our modern expansions of agency. How to think about everything from "speaking for Trees" to "corporations are people" to the shutdown of ChatGPT 4o. Clean, clear, incisive.

This Week's New Titles Buy one of our new titles and save 30% on related books from our catalogue! This week we are publishing Hate by Seyda Kurt and Multitudes by Dan Hancox.

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It’s here! What else has Citizens United wrought besides Musk’s $290M donation to Trump? Find out!

"The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief," by Richard Holmes (Feb 10)

"The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots," by @lsiraganian.bsky.social (Feb 17)

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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity: The problems with arguments for intellectual pluralism, by Lisa Siraganian, Academe, Fall 2025

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Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot Defenses of the policy miss the political point.

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I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

“This is extortion, plain and simple.

It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”

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Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist YouTube video by TheAAUP

This conversation was very good and well worth watching:
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

“Put most bluntly: Viewpoint diversity is anathema to academic freedom.” JHU-AAUP President Lisa Siraganian presents seven theses against viewpoint diversity and the dangers it poses to academic freedom in a new article for #Academe.

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I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky