enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Academics! Suppose several people for whom you are a reference—not your students—want to apply for the same job. You don’t have to choose, right? My letters stay the same, and the search committee can make up its mind, I would’ve thought. Am I doing this wrong? 030
Reposted by enzo rossiJonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hi folks. You now have until November 4th to submit a paper/panel to the 'political philosophy' section at the biennial IPSA conference in Rome (07/27). We're trying to make it the biggest ever pol-phi IPSA conference, and already have lots of fun things planned... wc2027.ipsa.org/wc/submit-pa...wc2027.ipsa.orgSubmit a PaperCovered in this section: Key Dates Rules for Participation Guidelines for paper proposals Submit or revise a paper proposal Guidelines for full papers Paper Proposal Key Dates 08 SEP 2026 Call for Pap... 144
Reposted by enzo rossiJonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So folks, will we see you next year in Barcelona? After all, LaSagradaFamila is FINALLY finished, so maybe book your ticket already now? @psapolthought.bsky.social @biapt.bsky.social @jamespattison.bsky.social @adrianblau.bsky.social @enzoreds.bsky.social @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social 141
Reposted by enzo rossiJonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Do have you a political theory/philosophy book manuscript? Would you like a one-day workshop dedicated to it in Spring 2027? If so, Bristol is here for you, and as promised a while ago, here's the very short form you need to fill in between now and roughly 4 weeks time: forms.gle/uCvi7sMMT7kW...forms.gleThe Bristol Political Philosophy Manuscript Workshop 2027The Bristol Political Philosophy group will be hosting its first manuscript workshop in 2027. This will give scholars who are currently preparing a book manuscript a chance to engage in a day-long wor... 11918
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The AI lords don’t want to slow down to regulate the tech. They want to make sure they control what ‘regulation’ means. 082
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think human extinction is a morally neutral outcome per se. But the likely pathways there are morally catastrophic in terms of the suffering involved. So, if AI promises to kill us all in our sleep in one fell swoop, I’m OK with the risk. Pinky promise? 020
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Next month at Edinburgh Uni - 'Conflict on Campus': www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conflict-o... 031
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Kinda cute how we’re debating writing nerdy papers with AI when the main purpose of the technology is making autonomous doomsday machines. 170
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What are the odds that the AI Amish (c) will manage to drag the world back to 2022 and keep it there? 020
Reposted by enzo rossiJonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's now 10 days until the pol-theory plenary I'm chairing @ecpr.bsky.social in Krakow. Here you will get, not just a star-studded roundtable on the horrible/hopeful future of democracy, but also the official announcement of our 1st ever Onora O'Neill book prize winner! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...ecpr.euIf democracy is dying, isn't it time political theorists thought of something else?European Consortium for Political Research 165
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Friday at ALTR: www.altrlab.org/latest/strat...altrlab.orgStrategy workshop on direct action — AMSTERDAM LAB FOR TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCHWorshop on 4 September 000
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What do liberalism and fascism have in common? The view that ideas and sheer political will--not material factors--are the key forces shaping history. Hilariously, this is most evident in liberals' panicked writings about fascism. 130
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Arday affair is a lot like the Dreyfus affair—except Dreyfus was innocent. 200
Reposted by enzo rossigordon-arlen.bsky.social @gordon-arlen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Thrilled to organize, plan, and host a 3 day early career researcher (ECR) conference at the University of Melbourne (August 18-20). Theme was "Political Theory in Oligarchic Times." Keynote from Enzo Rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social. 15 participants. Great panels on diverse topics. A career highlight. 251
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is good. “Viewpoint diversity” is not really about improving how we pursue epistemic aims, or not significantly. It is more of a power grab. So it’s no better than the left-leaning activist scholarship its proponents despise. www.aaup.org/academe/issu...aaup.orgSeven Theses Against Viewpoint DiversityDemands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth. 002
Reposted by enzo rossiThe Björnen formerly known as Beelzebjörn @beelzebjorn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sitting in a country where the ruling right-wing coalition are propped up on support from a party literally founded by an SS-volunteer, and the parties of that coalition are STILL referred to as centre-right. Meanwhile when someone says "from the river to the sea" all Hell breaks loose. 173
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Speech restrictions are at best useless. Germany has some of the strictest anti-hate speech laws, and yet this thinly-veiled Nazi-lite party continues to rise and rise. 2135
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026One thing to remember about Cofnas is that he’s against other people’s academic freedom. That’s why I’m not signing the letter defending him on those grounds. 1195
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I continue to be baffled by how many people in my nominal subfield, especially in North America, seem to think that the single most important way to understand how politics works is to stare really hard at books by dead people. 3163
Reposted by enzo rossiJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026People on here are starting to forget why freedom of extramural unscholarly speech is part of academic freedom, even with the firings of people who said unkind truths about Charlie Kirk in recent memory and attacks on extramural pro-Palestinian speech ongoing. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgConceptualizing Academic FreedomAcademic freedom is an unusual and complex set of norms and practices. It arises out of the combination of the corporate self-governance of medieval universities and the spirit of disciplinary scienti... 4110025
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Correct take, though it may be that UGhent’s ethics code falls short of guaranteeing academic freedom 240
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If there’s a case to be made for firing Cofnas, it’s not the “he’s a nasty racist” one—even though he is—but this one: he is in breach of contract for violating UGhent’s ethics code. (As a code it seems pretty bad for academic freedom, but that’s another issue.) science4justice.nl/2026/08/23/w...science4justice.nlGuest post by Pieter Beck: Why I believe Nathan Cofnas violated Ghent University’s Code of Ethics - Science for justice - NLDr Beck is a postdoctoral researcher in history and philosophy of science, Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University Pieter Beck, recipient of one of the Jan Gillis prizes awarded ... 142
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Nolan can do kinetic set pieces, but every scene of The Odyssey in which anyone opens their mouth is both didascalic and illiterate—a feedback loop of unbearable middlebrow slop. Remove all dialogue and it may be OK, even good. As it is, it’s a near-total failure. Unwatchable. 250
Reposted by enzo rossiAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis 31990894158
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Back at HQ. Grateful to colleagues and students in Wuhan, Hong Kong, and Melbourne for a great time. Also happy that after the best part of a month on the road, Amsterdam started feeling much more like home. I relished the couple of random convos in Dutch I had on the way back—a first. 021
Reposted by enzo rossiEdouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It’s natural to feel gleeful about cofnas’ suspension. I do. He is a racist and his post about Arday was clearly motivated by his racism and pettiness. But academics should not lose their jobs for what they outside their classroom, at least on millian grounds. 7154
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 21/08/202697% of reactions to the Arday/Cofnas affair—even from academics—are of the form “who are the good/bad guys? Hurrah/booh!”. There is almost no talk of the facts, nor of basic academic standards & values, from integrity to academic freedom. This is maddeningly depressing and scary. 040
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Political theorists are using AI extensively. I believe this because of a big increase in submissions to EJPT. Our acceptance rate went from 7% to 4% since AI got good. But I see exceedingly few AI slop papers. AI is freeing up research time and/or it’s speeding up research. 210
Reposted by enzo rossilastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Basic contention is academia used to be about inquiry, and not just a finishing school for elites as it is nowadays. But my impression is academia has always been to a large extent a finishing school for elites and by historical standards there's an unusually high emphasis on intellectual merit now? 3780866
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📢 New preprint! 📖 Tl;dr - Too much talk of disobedience in the literature, hardly any of direct action. We define it, explain how it works, and show what difference it makes to how we understand social movements. Coming soon to an AJPS near you: philpapers.org/rec/RAETLO-4 3234
Reposted by enzo rossiSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Germany: we have learned our lesson, we will never do it again, we will create an entire culture of memory about this Also Germany: have you heard about the sinister religious minority among us that intends to subvert our civilization through communism 322439
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026How did academic wokeness spin out of control? Because of an alliance between managers/admins & a loud ultrawoke minority (plus the typical timidity of most other academics) The ultrawoke got positions & power, the managers got yet another instrument of control & marketisation. 020
Reposted by enzo rossiJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What’s the American dream now? Letting AI make a killing for you by betting on oil prices and global warming on Polymarket while you ride in your self-driving Cybertruck to your fortified country club where you’ll drink protein shots and brag to people who despise you about your wealth? 8566
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It seems some high-status people at Cambridge operate with the trope known in cultural criticism as ‘the magical N…o’. Funny how racism can come out so clearly through one’s attempts to disavow it. 010
Reposted by enzo rossicon questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Well this is a fun game. I’ve long thought Walter Benjamin, Fernando Pessoa, and Mina Loy all had ADHD (and that this was, indirectly, a reason I was drawn to them, long before I was diagnosed). Who wants to add to the list? 131
Reposted by enzo rossiAngela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgEditorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journalsAnalyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals. 29044
Reposted by enzo rossiBen Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If I wanted to protect the most prestigious and highly paid jobs for the social groups who usually hold them I'd probably design an education system that discouraged poorer children from studying the entry qualifications for these jobs as early as possible.. 1431577
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A lesson from the Arday case: academic appointment committees should stop caring SO much about public profile, engagement, media attention, and all the rest of it. Universities are not TikTok. They should be the opposite of that. Let’s go back to just being nerds please 🙏 1162
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Academia is too much like this website, and vice versa 150
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026There is a special place in hell for the academics who mark refereeing invitations as spam. Yes, they exist. 291
Reposted by enzo rossiDigressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 29/04/2026@samuelmoyn.bsky.social is visiting us @uva.nl @aissr.bsky.social in Amsterdam in May! @enzoreds.bsky.social (with a salt of AI?) is the artist of the poster. 163
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comA Radically Realistic View of Human Rights Justifications - Jus CogensJus Cogens - It is widely acknowledged that human rights law and politics are interwoven. This paper focuses on a specific aspect of this connection: states using human rights discourse to justify... 032
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Basically why Marxism and political economy more broadly are being revived in academia 060
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I hate that we’ve been semiotised by you-know-who into calling everything “a deal”. 170