Reposted by Tim ChristiaensPeter Lamb @peterlamb1.bsky.social · 9hImportant contribution to democratic theory, making the case that an active role for workers is crucial to the success of workplace democracy, but also that the latter can only go so far without real economic democracy, which requires capitalist control of society to be restricted effectively. 063
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensPolitical Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 10hCan workplace democracy exist in practice or do democratic organisations inevitably devolve into new hierarchies? @timchristiaens.bsky.social argues channels for plebeian contestation from below are needed to withhold the formation of new hierarchies. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/c0RacFk #polsky #polscibuff.lyPlebeian cooperativism: Reconciling workplace democracy with the iron law of oligarchy - Tim Christiaens, 2026Worker cooperatives are often lauded as the ideal institutional form of workplace democracy. While the traditional firm subjects workers to hierarchical authori... 062
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 11hPaperback of Citizen Marx published today. Now available for the (slightly) more reasonable price of $29.95/£25.00 (+30% off with code PUP30) 🙂 2247
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13hI am still amazed how journalists never ask those academic “freedom of speech” bros about the suppression of Palestine support. Promoting racial eugenics is fine, but criticizing a genocide is “too controversial”. 040
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Fitting metaphor. If he takes one more step into the "future", he jumps of a cliff. 030
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026EM Forster quickly becoming one of my favourite authors ever. With here a page from Room with a View, where a father is worrying about his son’s melancholy and the need to say yes to the universe. 030
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law” 1278
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I need more cis people to notice what is happening in the UK. I need the cis people who notice to speak up and tell other cis people. It feels like the majority of the country have no real idea what is happening, which is systemic, top-down efforts to make trans lives unliveable in the UK.growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 050
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can report that it was amazing. She showed the fascist implications of liberal freedom and offered an ecological and social notion of freedom to replace it. I am free only if all are free! 2192
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are clearly some people in the world who have never genuinely suffered or witnessed any injustice, so they have to invent “social justice puzzles” to sound relevant. www.404media.co/someone-tort...404media.coSomeone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI YetThe "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." 030
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Discovered some of Gemma Anderson-Tempini’s work last summer in the UK. It’s pretty cool and heavily inspired by the beautiful drawings you find in historical science books. 010
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Most EU countries are failing to meet the deadline for the Platform Work Directive. @benwray1989.bsky.social explains why. thegigeconomyproject.substack.com/p/why-govern...thegigeconomyproject.substack.comWhy governments are not worried about missing the deadline for Platform Work Directive transpositionNewsletter + report from Platforum in Gdansk 162
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensSonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not now ancient sheep virus 12912
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies? 1106
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Preparing my talk for the Danish Marxist Society Conference. Will be talking about Silvia Federici, climate change, and political ecology in the history of Italian Marxism. @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social 0163
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Preparing a new course on the Frankfurt School and critical theory. 3211
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is really crucial evidence on Uber’s dynamic pricing model. Using data analytics to maximuze its cut on every single fare and ignoring collective labour agreements when lack of government enforcement allows it. Just shows how good regulations are not enough without proper control. 062
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies? 1106
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Will be presenting my new book on Italian Thought soon in Amsterdam. People around Amsterdam on 9 December more than welcome! ash.uva.nl/content/rese... 041
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensPolitical Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can workplace democracy exist in practice or do democratic organisations inevitably devolve into new hierarchies? @timchristiaens.bsky.social argues channels for plebeian contestation from below are needed to withhold the formation of new hierarchies. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/c0RacFk #polsky #polsci 033
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is really crucial evidence on Uber’s dynamic pricing model. Using data analytics to maximuze its cut on every single fare and ignoring collective labour agreements when lack of government enforcement allows it. Just shows how good regulations are not enough without proper control. 062
Reposted by Tim Christiaensclaudia-cristalli.bsky.social @claudia-cristalli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026❗️A bunch of really cool papers that puts the discourse on values in science in historical perspective. Étienne Raduly and myself wrote chapter 10 on the philosophy of Charles W. Morris: “Value as Meaning and as Behavior” 🦫🦫🦫 054
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Preparing a new course on the Frankfurt School and critical theory. 3211
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensAnnie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have a new piece--"Labor Organizing in the Age of Service Work"--in New Labor Forum and it's open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comLabor Organizing in the Age of Service Work - Annie McClanahan, 2026 0205
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Harsh review of Negri and Hardt’s legacy as authors of Empire.jacobin.comHardt and Negri’s Empire Got Everything WrongMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist int... 020
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A great piece on Deleuze’s thinking about Israel and Palestine. When political theory meets political reality. illwill.com/forbidden-de...illwill.comThe Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide • Ill WillFor Pasquale Liguori, Deleuze's pro-Palestinian writings offer a paradigm for political individuation. 065
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Showcasing the ridiculousness of the academic grant hustle 👇 everyone is losing and yet you have to compete or … you still lose. 0237
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026As the greatest metaphysician of all time, Douglas Adams, wrote: 051
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I guess we will be waiting a long time for the hand dryer in the men’s toilets at the Crown and Treaty pub, Uxbridge, to be moved to a more sensible position. @countbinface.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensSander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3) 518654
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Having fun writing a little piece on progressive politics and black metal. Also quite amusing to have my only citations to song lyrics from Witch Club Satan, Zeal and Ardor, Mgla, Mayhem, etc. 060
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...prometheus-mag.comA Review of "Workers and the World" - Prometheus MagazineNate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair. 04722
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026E.M. Forster’s Passage to India is an incredible delight to read. The descriptions of nature sublime, character interactions subtle yet incisive, the style impeccable. 041
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great interview with @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social on the dangers of AI and why we should nonetheless take the stories about AI apocalypse with a grain of salt. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...derstandard.atKI-Experten: "Hinter der Vermenschlichung von KI steckt wahnsinnig viel Ideologie"Der Journalist Christo Buschek und die Philosophin Eugenia Stamboliev warnen davor, KI zu vermenschlichen – und vor den Risiken, wenn der Prozess der Wahrheitsfindung automatisiert wird 041
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensCouncil Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 17/09/2026It’s not enough to say you stand in solidarity with Macklemore. It’s not even enough to drop out of a tour in support of him and Gaza. You have to call out the Zionist control of our institutions, otherwise this problem just isn’t going away. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/why-do-we-...councilestatemedia.ukWhy do we let Zionists decide what we can and can’t say?It’s been a problem for the longest time. 15223
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My paper on agonistic workplace democracy has recently received a home in the latest issue of Review of Social Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 0162
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...direct.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasAn interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, 0149
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensWilly De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Must-read for @etui.bsky.social? @andrewwatteu.bsky.social @ppochet.bsky.social 031
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My paper on agonistic workplace democracy has recently received a home in the latest issue of Review of Social Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 0162
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT 6409101
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026E.M. Forster’s Passage to India is an incredible delight to read. The descriptions of nature sublime, character interactions subtle yet incisive, the style impeccable. 041
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...direct.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasAn interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, 0149
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This really is a great review of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics book and one of the best defenses of liberal democracy I recently read. Would be of interest to @mattpolprof.bsky.social . 162
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026"Essentially, he argues it’s not fascism unless it comes from the Bavarian region of Germany in the 1920s, otherwise it’s simply sparkling Bonapartism. This is one of several tediously pedantic observations Jäger makes stemming from a doctrinaire Marxism that checkmates him out of his own argument."liberalcurrents.comThe End of History and the Final GirlAnton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties. 23911
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My review of Lorenzo Feltrin’s Workers and the World just appeared in @theoryculturesociety.org . If you ever wanted to know how to update Hardt and Negri’s Empire for the age of economic polycrisis and counterrevolutionary stagnation, Feltrin’s book is a good start.theoryculturesociety.orgReview: Lorenzo Feltrin, ‘Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public LifeReviewed by Tim Christiaens 0133
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My review of Lorenzo Feltrin’s Workers and the World just appeared in @theoryculturesociety.org . If you ever wanted to know how to update Hardt and Negri’s Empire for the age of economic polycrisis and counterrevolutionary stagnation, Feltrin’s book is a good start.theoryculturesociety.orgReview: Lorenzo Feltrin, ‘Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public LifeReviewed by Tim Christiaens 0133
Reposted by Tim ChristiaensÉditions La Découverte @edladecouverte.bsky.social · 04/09/20264 septembre 1926 : Naissance d’Ivan Illitch, penseur critique de la société industrielle, enseignant nomade, théologien iconoclaste. Une nouvelle édition de notre Repères à l'occasion du centième anniversaire de sa naissance ! 133