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Michael Garnett

@michaelgarnett.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London, interested in personal, social and political freedom.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 10/09/2026
Submitted my book to the publisher!
Contents page of a book:

Contents


Acknowledgements

Introduction: At Their Will

PART 1: REPUBLICANISMS

1.	Radical Republicanism

2.	Against Oligarchy

PART 2: ECONOMIC DOMINATION

3.	Power at Work

4.	Domination: From Interference to Needs

5.	Structural Domination

PART 3: ECONOMIC FREEDOM

6.	Reclaiming Economic Liberty

7.	A Socialist Republican Economy

8.	Governing the Socialist Republic

Conclusion: Can’t Get There from Here?
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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...
kcl.ac.uk
Lecturer in Ethics and/or Political Philosophy | King's College London
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Leytonstone, London, 14th September 2025
A red cross spray-painted onto a brick wall, with “I ❤️ refugees” added onto the middle of it
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Amy Shefrin @amyshefrin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Continued:
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Amy Shefrin @amyshefrin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The cross cultural conversations happening on RedNote are something to see. For example:
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"I used GenAI to research this topic" The research:
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 09/12/2024
I can only conclude that this will wash an infinite amount of dishes
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his protectedness: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.” Adorno
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants.” — Hegel, who for some reason I am still reading
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today I get to teach one of my favourite philosophical arguments: G.A. Cohen on ‘freedom tickets’
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
To be clear: this isn’t a side-effect of current government policy, but one of its central aims.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Eighty-three universities are now making redundancies. That number will rise to 90 and then 100+ during 2025. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 29/11/2024
Educators are rightly worried about AI threatening student writing. But there’s also dangers to reading with a new generation of AI summary tools, with students relying on abridgements rather than working through the details of difficult texts.
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Family ticket booked for Moana 2 tonight and I can report that the excitement levels here are extremely high. My kids also seem to be looking forward to it.
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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is important. It's no big deal to me that Bluesky totally ripped off everything Twitter is because that place now sucks so bad. But we don't need a new word for a micro-post of a nature we all understand to be a thing. Like podcast started from iPod, tweet is now just a generic. This is a tweet
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Rousseau by a mile.
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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
my two cents on the echo chamber discourse (with a very outdated title) 1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices 2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities
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Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better Than Facebook
Online Environments Social media has the potential to expand our epistemic horizons, connecting us with a wider range of people and more information and analysis than ever before. But it comes with…
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Counterpoint: seeing fascist memes from people called things like @cuckfuhrer18 is, in fact, unlikely to deepen my understanding of politics and society
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Every day I curse the series of life choices that led to my sometimes having to teach people about Hegel
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 21/11/2024
Every time I see this ad on fb my first thought is “omg they put a Death Star in Moana 2”
Fb ad for Moana 2 with a thumbnail of Moana saying “that’s no island”
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is the longest autumn I’ve ever experienced.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 14/11/2024
Guys I'm not calling them skeets. Get fucked 😂 if Twitter has given up on the word tweet then it's ours now
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I think that at this point “tweet”, “retweet”, etc. should be considered as generalised terms (like hoover, wellington or sellotape) and not as platform-specific
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
When I last visited X, several weeks ago or longer, it had the feel of an abandoned shopping mall in a dystopian B movie.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
i refuse to use the terms “skeet”, “reskeet”, “repost”, “quoteskeet” or any such woke nonsense. nothing less than the full afc wimbledon treatment is demanded here. everyone knows it’s a tweet. stop lying to yourselves. musk has relocated the IP to milton keynes. I’m taking his 1988 fa cup
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
These are symptoms of past covid infection www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
theguardian.com
Back and neck problems driving major UK health crisis, say medical leaders
Exclusive: Obesity and remote working among causes of surge in cases, as official data shows almost a million cannot work
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Advance notice of this decision was, I suspect, the real reason Braverman was sacked. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
theguardian.com
Supreme court rejects Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
Judges uphold appeal court ruling over risk to deported refugees and deals blow to PM’s ‘stop the boats’ strategy
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I went there for a ponytail extension because my hair needed a synthetic posterior
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Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 15/11/2023
How your email finds me.
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Gonna tell my grandkids this was Kant, according to Nietzsche.
I'm too embarrassed to explain, but it's a package for some bondage gear with the caption 'binding suit', 'voluntariness', 'autonomy'.
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
JOB at KCL — Early Modern / Modern Philosophy. Permanent position, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Closes 8th Jan. Please help spread the word! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...
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Pessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Temptation update: currently trying to resist calling the thing ‘Bad Idea, Right?’
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Today I’m working on temptation. Hoping to avoid having to do any fieldwork.
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Forget ‘analytic’ vs ‘continental’. There are basically two types of philosophers: those who illustrate their points with concrete examples, and those who don’t.
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Pastry time
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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia 18/10/23 Riot police in the Riau Islands province practise for clashes with protesters Photo: Yuli Seperi www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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Drew Baird @drewbaird.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
“Subsidized clout farmer” is now my term for the absolute worst academic personality type.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Ethics publishing a paper on collective bargaining and unions. Albeit in 1932, co-authored by Dewey. Wonder if there’s been one on the topic since?
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Düzce, Turkey 17/10/23 Orphaned baby squirrels are held by an official from the Düzce department of nature conservation and national parks after their mother was found dead Photo: Anadolu Agency www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Milan, Italy Last Generation activists block traffic Photo: Stefano Porta www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
See you there!
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
“Search it up” is an incorrect locution
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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
New Jersey, US People wearing witch costumes line up on stand-up paddleboards to take part in a Halloween flotilla in Spring Lake Photo: Lokman Vural Elibol www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...
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