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@enzoreds.bsky.social
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Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Academics! 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?
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi 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...
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Submit a Paper
Covered 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...
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So 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
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do 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...
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The Bristol Political Philosophy Manuscript Workshop 2027
The 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...
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The AI lords don’t want to slow down to regulate the tech. They want to make sure they control what ‘regulation’ means.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I 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?
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Next month at Edinburgh Uni - 'Conflict on Campus': www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conflict-o...
Speaker lineup
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kinda cute how we’re debating writing nerdy papers with AI when the main purpose of the technology is making autonomous doomsday machines.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What are the odds that the AI Amish (c) will manage to drag the world back to 2022 and keep it there?
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It'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...
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If democracy is dying, isn't it time political theorists thought of something else?
European Consortium for Political Research
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Friday at ALTR: www.altrlab.org/latest/strat...
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Strategy workshop on direct action — AMSTERDAM LAB FOR TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH
Worshop on 4 September
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What 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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Arday affair is a lot like the Dreyfus affair—except Dreyfus was innocent.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We have the word “insular” for a reason
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gordon-arlen.bsky.social @gordon-arlen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thrilled 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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This 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...
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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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The Björnen formerly known as Beelzebjörn @beelzebjorn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sitting 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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Speech 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.
AfD poster with what looks like nazi salutes
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One 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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I 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.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
People 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...
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Conceptualizing Academic Freedom
Academic 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...
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Correct take, though it may be that UGhent’s ethics code falls short of guaranteeing academic freedom
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If 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...
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Guest post by Pieter Beck: Why I believe Nathan Cofnas violated Ghent University’s Code of Ethics - Science for justice - NL
Dr 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 ...
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Nolan 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.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
100 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
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Back 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.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
97% 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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Political 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.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Basic 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?
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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
“The Logic of Direct Action” abstract
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Germany: 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
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How 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.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What’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?
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It 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.
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well 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?
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Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Kudos 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/...
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If 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..
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A 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 🙏
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tell me again how free speech is a right wing thing
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Academia is too much like this website, and vice versa
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Reminder: today at our Department
Lecture by Sam Moyn
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
There is a special place in hell for the academics who mark refereeing invitations as spam. Yes, they exist.
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Digressionsimpressions @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.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Radically Realistic View of Human Rights Justifications - Jus Cogens
Jus 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...
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Basically why Marxism and political economy more broadly are being revived in academia
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Biblical
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I hate that we’ve been semiotised by you-know-who into calling everything “a deal”.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Right wing cancel culture, again
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yikes (everything) Phew (polisci) lol (ed)
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