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Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our second monthly pick for September is the #OpenAccess article "Play and Counter-Conduct: Migrant Domestic Workers on TikTok" by @libertychee.bsky.social. Make sure you give it a read by following the link below!👇

This paper examines how migrant domestic workers subvert domination, exploitation and subjection through performances in TikTok videos. Through this medium, workers exercise autonomy in severely restrictive employment and living conditions, where collective action may not only be improbable but also illegal. I argue that these videos demonstrate Foucauldian counter-conduct or the “art of not being governed so much”. Counter-conduct is a form of resistance distinct to those who have limited access to the public sphere, due in part to the gendered nature of cooking, cleaning and caring. Domestic work is not normally included in labour laws, and the place of employment are private homes. This makes it difficult to organise or make rights claims. I build on literatures of everyday resistance to examine the practices and subjectivities by migrant domestic workers in Gulf countries. In so doing, so-called “modern slaves”, enact freedom, already present, as subjects of ethics and politics.

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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

💔 Do you ever feel lonely – and have you ever thought of #loneliness as political? I’m super excited about this new publication with @mlewandowsky.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, in which we examine the relationship between loneliness and voting. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Academic labour is labour. Somebody extracts economic value from it. Trust me.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21/08/2026

> One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy[:] “few philosophy departments (in the Global North at least) remain untouched by the eugenic vision of neoliberalism.” 1/n

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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…

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Max Papillon @maxpapillon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"You're just afraid of new ideas" *looks inside "new ideas"* 19th century pseudoscience

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I googled Unitree robots for the news and I find you can order one of these now for 18k 😲😲😲

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And these types like publishing in Intelligence 🥲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

writerlyinwormer.substack.com/p/a-woman-of... A woman of colour from the Global South in elite spaces in the Global North is a sign of progress or decay, depending on one’s politics. More on my Substack.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All you have to do is find things that cue up the bigotry you want to promote, and make them salient - preferably, while avoiding the same for context that would complicate your intended narrative (in a distracted, low-participation political culture, the last bit comes practically for free). 8/

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Substack post writerlyinwormer.substack.com/p/on-the-use...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When the declaration of GenAI use is the longest part of the title page 🥲

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 29/07/2026

“All forms of technological innovation in the past have been used to diminish the power of labor. So whatever else happens with AI, we are absolutely certain to see the further diminution of the power of labor.” davidharvey.org/2026/07/inte...

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Interview: David Harvey on Marx and Capitalism

Doomscroll Podcast with Joshua CitarellaWhitney Museum of American ArtJuly 28, 2026 The Story of Capital is available now from Verso Books.

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 30/07/2026

Today my book on the Dutch neoliberal turn is officially out with Verso Books! Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @quinnslobodian.com, @mkonings.bsky.social, Stephanie Mudge, Niklas Olsen and @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social. Will be presenting the book in september. More info below

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No Nonsense

In the 1980s, Dutch politics underwent a neoliberal turn overseen by the Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers. It formed part of an international trend, famously spearheaded by Reagan and Thatcher. What w...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

time.com/article/2026... This show is a stark reminder that in Epstein's world, you can't pronoun your way out of patriarchy. So good. And it will make you furious.

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Hulu’s Riveting Revenge Thriller 'Furious' Is Going to Haunt You

The creator of 'Dying for Sex' interrogates the psychology of victimhood and the justice system's most cherished myths

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Francesco Nicoli 🇪🇺 🎓 @francesconicoli.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today, our prime team (myself, Brian Burgoon and David van der Duin) brings you some important scientific evidence, open access, on the politics and political feasibility of #climate_change #mitigation, on top journal Energy Research & Social Science. 1/x lnkd.in/dq5QEkZe

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/07/2026

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - How to Upend America in 100 Days: Unilateral Power at the Outset of Trump’s Second Term - cup.org/4fJDRly - @aaronchildree.bsky.social #FirstView

The image features a large "PS" on a blue background to the left. To the right, silhouettes of people walking with backpacks are set against a cloudy sky. The text "#OpenAccess" is at the bottom.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I felt bad for the Cyclops. Was just minding his business making artisanal feta. I felt very, very bad for Circe. And at the end of the film, I was devastated for Troy.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Dear Authors, we can see when you rip off other people's MA theses and PhD dissertations.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/07/2026

In case you're counting, the planet is now on day 6 reaching a global surface temperature above 17.0°C. The only other years reaching 17.0°C since records began in 1940, and likely in the last 120,000 years, were 2023 and 2024. Next year will be much hotter.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New book: "Dutch Church Politics in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan" link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Issue 3 of 2026 now in-print, incl. Special Section on 'Asian Platform Capital', edited by Adrian Athique and Akshaya Kumar, plus 5 papers on rubber in Malaya, trafficking in the Med, the environmental state, consultancy and development, digital entrepreneurship www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

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Economy and Society

Volume 55, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

youtu.be/5Ol1K0-LZ1E?... Probably the best review of #theodyssey I've seen so far is from a Greek archeologist! Now I feel like seeing it again for a third time ☺️

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I Saw Nolan's THE ODYSSEY as a Greek Archaeologist...

YouTube video by The Greek Mythologist

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The Manila Times @themanilatimes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

THE Philippine Council for Foreign Relations (PCFR) condemned the artificial intelligence (AI) video posted by China Daily last week that depicted a Filipino as a monkey. READ more: mrf.lu/2T-Py

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"The creation of robust human-curated scientific literature has never been more crucial. The propagation of AI slop in the scientific record and generally on the internet is making science less trustworthy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/06/2026

Before Recognition by Maria Birnbaum Explores how colonial and epistemic formations shaped religion as a category of governance in global politics and international order. 📚 cup.org/3QcSK71

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

How could Odysseus have gotten lost? Either they drifted down to Africa or wildly overshot past Ithaca and ended up where? Italy? 🤔 #theodyssey #Nolan

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Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“[L]iterature gives us a picture of life – not the picture that science gives and not a picture that is actually (historically) true, but a picture that has its own kind of truth – a 'truth' that includes important elements that science, from its very nature, is forced to leave out.”

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Run soundtrack the past couple of weeks has been @thedigradio.bsky.social brilliant new series, Nusantara, on the 20th-century history of Indonesia. A hard listen at times because of obvious reasons, but it’s fantastic. Give it a listen: thedigradio.com/Nusantara/

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 15/07/2026

Did you know U.S.'s conservative power broker Leonard Leo got a $1.6 billion gift to back right-wing anti-climate groups? Now he's influencing Europe. Read DeSmog's latest. buff.ly/7Dmw3jS #GeoffDembicki #FederalistSociety

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Leonard Leo's Anti-Climate Network Makes a European Debut

Leo-linked operatives were among a who's who of the international right that gathered for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in June.

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Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 14/07/2026

Japan to expand research grants, seeking 20,000 Ph.Ds a year Tokyo also looks to send more young scholars overseas trib.al/3EgaQsV

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great article on methodological pluralism that articulates exactly my thinking about the relevance of different kinds of research in times where so much emphasis is placed on causal inference journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Coen van de Ven @coenvdven.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet.' www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Egypt let's gooo. CAF still out here

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/07/2026

The Brussels Bubble by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Anabel Eggeling. A rare, behind-the-scenes look at how digital technology and crisis are reshaping global governance and international diplomacy in Brussels. 📚 cup.org/4eW8tQb

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