iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So the Pettitian republican can maintain the view’s distinctness by insisting on (and trying to defend) these ‘implausible’ parts, which is generally what I think they do

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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I thought the remaining parts were more narrowly to do with the ‘mere capacity’ condition (i.e. non-interfering masters, rather than interfering non-masters). But the overall structure of C/K’s argument is definitely that RL collapses into NL *once stripped of the implausible(-to-them) bits*

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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

That’s not my recollection: I thought they dismissed arbitrariness as implausible/moralised (for them, the justly imprisoned criminal is obviously unfree), then argued that any remaining seemingly-plausible parts of the republican account can be handled by probabilities of interference.

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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Pettit has an arbitrariness condition, which C/K reject; and he denies that probabilities matter, whereas C/K think they do. One might side with C/K on both issues, but the problem isn’t a lack of distinctness!

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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

“Women are educated—who knows how?—as it were by breathing in ideas.” (Hegel, Philosophy of Right, s. 166) The sheer scale of the self-own in that aside has killed me. I am dead.

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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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Michael Garnett @michaelgarnett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Update: Moana 2 is a solid B- Disney movie, lots of thrills, spills, songs and a few decent visual gags. But it’s entirely lacking in the wit and emotional depth that made the first one so wonderful. Overall, disappointing.

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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

Gonna get just a medium popcorn and see how far it goes (This dad joke is for my fellow Moana fans: you’re welcome)

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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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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

For an intellectually serious analysis of what’s going on with the far-right, I’m not going to look to the far-right! I’m going to look for scholars I can trust.

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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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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

The first, though it isn’t often talked about. NHS specialists I’ve seen about my own neck problems have said it’s a long term covid symptom and that they’ve seen a big rise in it post 2020. Anecdotally others I know have struggled with it too.

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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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