Reposted by Josh BowsherDan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 21hThe Tenderloin plays such an important role in the economic and symbolic logic of American tech culture 121
Reposted by Josh BowsherOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...nonsite.orgTriumph of Capital, Crisis of DemocracyWe argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b… 420257
Reposted by Josh BowsherTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy. 5833221
Reposted by Josh BowsherHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It is with immense sadness and grief that we share the news of the death of our comrade, friend and long-standing member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board Peter D. Thomas. We are still processing the news but wrote a short text in tribute to his life and work.historicalmaterialism.orgRemembering Peter D. Thomas (1973–2026) - Historical MaterialismIt is with immense sadness and grief that we share the news of the death of our comrade, friend and long-standing member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board Peter D. Thomas. Peter passed awa... 02212
Reposted by Josh BowsherDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Announcing our critical philosophy of AI seminars for 2026-2027: ‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ cpct.uk/2026-2027/ Each week pits a philosophical text and a technical document against each other to interrogate presuppositions and provoke radical reflections.cpct.uk2026/2027‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ Image: UBahn station in Essen, Germany, artwork by anonymous students at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste, 2026 Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 p… 12413
Reposted by Josh BowsherHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...theguardian.comThatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved onlineProject lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture 5237153
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Easily done!! I appreciate that we were able to chat about it. So thanks for that. 100
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I completely agree with you that there is clearly an incompatibility between antisemitism and left wing values. As someone probably considerably further to the left than you, and with lots of friends at the "far left" I think it would be a big mischaracterisation to suggest antisemitism is endemic 110
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And you don't see the slippage between your first claim "leftists" are antisemitic (all of them, or some of them, a representative number or outliers?) and the fact that some particular leftists might be. I wonder if maybe a bit more care was perhaps needed in the OP. 110
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sorry but this is a massive generalisation and I think you really ought to clarify what you mean before you make general accusations about "leftists". 110
Reposted by Josh BowsherUCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Raucous, joyouse scenes at the demo of the UCU workers and students of Dundee and Edinburgh University, protesting the cuts to thousands of jobs: "Management has already pushed through hundreds of hidden redundancies, with some classes doubling in size over the past couple of years as a result." 12510
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I can only set aside my feelings about Amol Rajan for a very very short time. Hoping for good news in the next 24 hours 020
Reposted by Josh BowsherUniversity of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Strike action begins this week! Wednesday: meet on the steps outside Portland at noon to collect and then distribute flyers. Thursday: picket from 8:30-11:30 on University Park's West Entrance and then walk to a 12 PM Rally at Trent's South Entrance. See you there and solidarity. 1138
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Solidarity with everyone going on strike at Edinburgh today. All of us in UCU are with you. 040
Reposted by Josh BowsherThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 23/09/2026Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.tcnv.linkEmily Robinson wins The Conversation Prize for writers 2026 for her entry on the lost medieval island of Ravenser OddEmily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026. 02713
Reposted by Josh BowsherKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Exceptional Postdoc here in Law @uoe-sps.bsky.social Edinburgh: "how do we wish to live with and alongside algorithmic technologies?" I love the phrasing. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comPostdoctoral Research AssociateWe are seeking to appoint a talented researcher to the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (LCAL). LCAL is a major new interdisciplinar... 0108
Reposted by Josh BowsherTor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The London Review of International Law Lecture: Climate Change and the Future of the State Professor Anne Orford Thursday 1 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pm LSE, Room MAR 1.04, Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX www.lse.ac.uk/law/events/p...lse.ac.ukClimate Change and the Future of the State 011
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My RG undergrad degree was already calling them modules when I arrived in 2007. 020
Reposted by Josh BowsherLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare youwkyt.comUK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence hallsThe University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings. 391125391
Reposted by Josh BowsherJosh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm really pleased to be able to share that my article 'The Human-as-Sensor: Instrumentality, Situatedness, and Human Rights Counter-investigations' has been accepted for publication by Theory, Culture, and Society. 193
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The article tries to think critically about the ways human sensing is increasingly put to work within digital and computational infrastructures. It deploys the concept of Situatedness as a strategy for critique in contexts where humans are articulated as sensing "components". 020
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm really pleased to be able to share that my article 'The Human-as-Sensor: Instrumentality, Situatedness, and Human Rights Counter-investigations' has been accepted for publication by Theory, Culture, and Society. 193
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That's right. Never give to the powers of state regulation what might be achieved by a quasi-fascist militarised software company. 000
Reposted by Josh BowsherDr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tomorrow - @merltech.bsky.social host the launch of AID & ID. Practitioners will discuss the future of identity governance in humanitarian aid. Join us! Book copies are £10 and all proceeds go to the asylum charity SASS. Order here: www.lulu.com/shop/margie-...lulu.comAid and ID: Making People MatterHumanitarian aid is undergoing a profound transformation. As budgets shrink, institutions retreat, and digital systems take on ever greater responsibility, identity management has quietly become one o... 021
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hmm a culture shift that looks and smells like reheated neoliberal shite, then. Great stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'Culture shift' needed in how UK does business, Andy Burnham urgesBurnham has said those who take risks should be backed by government, but his government has been criticised for increasing business costs. 000
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Inspired by the von Mises Institute no doubt: mises.org/mises-daily/... Right is wrong, good is bad, let me show you with some economic analysis.mises.orgScrooge DefendedHis business benefits his employees, society, and himself. 000
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I have not said much about the Jason Arday affair (it goes without saying f**k white supremacy and whoever gives it safe harbour) but it strikes me that Stuart Hall's famous essay 'Spectacle of the Other' remains important and instructive www.scribd.com/doc/24858034...scribd.comClient Challenge 110
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hey sorry just seen this. It's this place but it's more of a restaurant than a bar balkanyodkuchni.plbalkanyodkuchni.plKarczma Bałkany od Kuchni - Odbiór osobisty 110
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Quick! Someone run the numbers before I get on the plane! Lives are at stake! 010
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Since i travelled to the ESA an interesting cultural figure has died every day. Thinking of coming home early just to end this madness. 110
Reposted by Josh BowsherSol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Some pretty telling demographic differences in those supporting ghent University's move against cofnass and those opposing it (and supporting him). ghent-letters.pages.devghent-letters.pages.devTwo letters: an academic divideThe academics behind competing open letters about Ghent University’s suspension of Nathan Cofnas. 021
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Paper done. Cherry ale in. An excellent day in Warsaw so far #ESA2026 220
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I feel like I just potentially got a MAGA infection from close contact 020
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you're an American in Poland definitely don't be extolling the virtues of British colonialism and proudly exclaiming you've never read Marx but he's a piece of shit FFS 120
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As the great David Gray once sang: post away post away 010
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I might sign a problematic public letter just to send you over the edge, Des 010
Reposted by Josh BowsherNiki Cheong @nikicheong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My Dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year fixed term role ahead of the new academic year my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...my.corehr.com 132
Reposted by Josh BowsherFast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 044
Reposted by Josh BowsherTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026🚨 New paper out 🚨 “Plebeian cooperativism: Reconciling workplace democracy with the iron law of oligarchy” in @polstudies.bsky.social Grassroots democracy at work is oft criticized for creating new hierarchies, but I argue that contestation from below can arrest the tendency for democratic decline.journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 0115
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Among the many, I have discovered a new kind of academic wound: when a journal editor tells a scholar to basically ignore your review of their manuscript 😶🌫️ 110
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Great reporting by @404media.co on Amazon's involvement in buying up and shredding books for AI. The logo for the Amazon bookshredder department has a very unsubtle semiotics. It's definitely giving "are we the baddies?" www.404media.co/we-tracked-a... 021
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Looks like a brilliant addition to my module next year 000
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Me, an idiot: you know, since I became a parent I don't really get hangovers because I'm just so tired I always feel hungover. Also me: [pained and incoherent rambling] 010
Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The world is burning but this exists ... youtu.be/4Qpq6OWrMYs?...youtu.beSnail Mail - "Light On Our Feet" (Official Lyric Video)YouTube video by Snail Mail 000
Reposted by Josh BowsherMiriam Tedeschi @mitede.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Critical Legal Conference 2026 - Registration Details criticallegalthinking.com/2026/08/10/c...criticallegalthinking.comCritical Legal Conference 2026 - Registration DetailsConference Information Update Registration, Plenaries, and Accommodation deals are now live on the CLC2026 website. Please 011