The financial bubbles of techno-feudalism seem indistinguishable from the capitalist ones: Goldman Sachs projects US AI investment to peak at 2% GDP (this would be ~ $560 billion)! goldmansachs.com/insights/artic…

📚 New on the blog! From nuclear war to climate breakdown, how do we make sense of the catastrophic potential of technology? Caroline Ashcroft explores perspectives on the place of technology in the end of the world. Read now 👉 edin.ac/4h0Hi65

We are advertising a PhD position in Political Theory! Please let us know your interest. The day to day supervisors will be myself and Paul Raekstad, and Enzo Rossi will also be a part of our team. PS: Through Easter, I won't be responding to DMs here. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…

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I wrote about technology, catastrophe and the risks of techno-optimism: iai.tv/articles/techn…

I'll be speaking (online) about technology and nature at the LUPS Research Institute for Politics and Government this Wednesday at 1pm UK time. Please do join! ripg.uni-nke.hu/hirek/2025/03/…

Everyone—but especially people like Elon Musk Sam Altman and anyone involved in tech, particularly AI research, engineering, etc.—should study the concept of the Promethean gap &in doing so, should read this 1956 essay by philosopher Günther Anders: marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ander… experts:

On Wednesday I will give a talk on my new project on Barbara Ward's planetary thought at the LSE international history seminar (the seminar begins at 4pm in LSE’s CKK building, room 2.13.). Thanks Martin Bayly Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson and Elisabeth Leake for the invitation.

Really excited to be going up to Institute of Intellectual History today to give the Istvan Hont (my PhD supervisor) Memorial Lecture on 'Centrism from the French Revolution to Today'🎉 If you're around come by to say👋🏻 intellectualhistory.net/events/centris…

On the emergence of the strange figure of the "oligarch-intellectual" - a new major essay where I try to make sense of some, well, recent developments theideasletter.org/essay/silicon-…

Maximilian Fenner, "Josef Weber and the Politics of Utopia: Between Eco-socialism and Prefigurative Strategy," European Journal of Political Theory (2025) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

“Any definition of Anglofuturism is elusive because it evolves every day in a kind of collaborative game played out on social media” — Andrew Orlowski says AI-obsessed policy wonks are trying to re-shape Britain thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…

Political theory/philosophy job at our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/a…

I very much look forward to giving this year's Quentin Skinner Lecture CRASSH, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, on 6 June. The event will include presentations from Dr Gaby Mahlberg, Adela Halo, Tom Hopkins, and Greg Conti. Registration is open!

How to think with/about Hannah Arendt: authors of recent books on Arendt, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Thomas Meyer, in conversation with Sophie West, TOMORROW, Tuesday 13 May, 4pm, Christ Church Research Centre. intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/hannah-a…

Registration for our annual graduate conference is now open! To join us on the 5th of June, please register below ⬇️ intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-c…

📢 New Blog Or Rosenboim explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/planet…

Very much looking forward to delivering this year's Quentin Skinner Lecture this Friday CRASSH, Cambridge Cambridge History crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46619/

📢 New Blog Robert James Taylor, '"Dropping Out" as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/droppi…

Most amazing new doctoral school for the arts and humanities at King's - 20 new PhD studentships next year, bright stars be in touch! 🌟kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-lau… King's College London King's History saravanan