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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 18/09/2026

This cat does not live here. Nor does it appreciate the finer details of rationalist conceptions of liberty.

Cat behind a pile of books, including Sen's Rationality and Freedom.

Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 18/09/2026

My book has a subsection about property-owning democracy called ‘Escape POD’, but I should have gone with ‘Equity Punks’.

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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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Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I wrote about war correspondents, past and present, especially the great Vasily Grossman, for @thedialmag.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

thedial.world

War Memoirs: PowerBars and Notebooks — The Dial

What are war correspondents for?

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 08/09/2026

A friend is helping to home the books of a keen bibliophile and stalwart of the Edinburgh left who died last year. I was grateful to be able to pick these out of the collection. Particularly looking forward to reading Adorno's study of horoscopes, which I've been meaning to get for years.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/09/2026

When someone develops a cough, it’s important to refer to them as ‘the sick man of Europe’.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 03/09/2026

Read the foreword to English Questions last night, so it’s time for another edition of Perry Anderson Dictionary Corner. clamant: loud oblomovism: apathetic indolence bon ton: fashionable

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 03/09/2026

Lots of people who think they are Leninists are actually vulgar Kantians.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 02/09/2026

Too many people employed to understand culture are too earnest to understand culture.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026

‘P but Marx did not believe that P’ is not actually a paradox.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026

Described one of my intellectual critics as 'dyspeptic' today, which is a pleasingly arch rebuke.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026

Post your favourite image of Marx.

Marx in formal attire as a magician levitating a woman in a white dress.

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 01/09/2026

Just got a copy of my book in paperback. Available from 6 October! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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cayce @cayce.zone · 30/08/2026

shoutout to yourself and others, two of the classic things to which you can be a danger

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Fart Vision @slugworlds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

our main food should be a mineral we mine from the earth called nutrium

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laura @lauracreature.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

vitamins gf minerals bf

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 30/08/2026

I am an expert in my field. It's mainly grass, mud, and puddles. Sometimes they give me a sugar cube.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 26/08/2026

Solidarity is a foundational concept in modern political thought. Yet, the nature of solidarity remains deeply contested. After a gruelling multi-year online ethnography, I can, however, reveal its true meaning: “sending good vibes — best of luck 👍”.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

who, because of notorious sins,

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That one homie who is likely a syncretic combination of multiple figures, both historical and legendary

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Everyone who works harder than me is guilty of romanticizing their academic calling. Everyone who does less work than me is a lazy hack. Only I know the exactly correct balance between being exploited and phoning it in

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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i'm always saying this

photograph of two shop signa that say, respectively, "Triumph" and "sloggi"

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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 08/05/2023

FORBIDDEN CHESS PIECES: The Prophet, who is aware of the hands which move the pieces. The Crows, placed on the board after the final turn.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 21/08/2026

One way you can tell that I am the peer-reviewer of your paper is that I will complain about your use of abbreviations and initialisms, which affront my delicate humanist sensibilities.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 21/08/2026

If you're wondering how our industrial dispute is going, I've had too many occasions this week to send pictures of bin fires to my colleagues.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 20/08/2026

My week writing the book: «The bone of his own forehead obstructs his way; he knocks himself bloody against his own forehead» — Kafka (Diaries)

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 20/08/2026

We welcome submissions at the new Journal of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Medicine, Engineering, Divination, Cryptozoology, Necromancy, Phrenology, Theosophy, Alchemy, and Chiromancy. Article processing charges may apply.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026

come with me and you'll be in a world of purest indignation

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Matt Bennett @mattpbennett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Imagine you're running a political philosophy class for civil servants, specifically those joining UK gmnt policy teams. What's on your reading list? Bonus points for - diversity across the political spectrum - cultural, historical, and class diversity - anything specific to R&D policy

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026

I strongly feel that I shouldn't have to worry about botulism in this day and age.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026

Dr Jart's Intensive Sleep Mask may induce prophetic dreams and visions.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026

The early worm waters the egg.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 14/08/2026

I actually like having the world’s largest arts festival near where I live but someone playing a grotesquely soulful cover of Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out while I’m trying to write might be the last straw.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 13/08/2026

I feel that bees, collectively, are preparing to sting me.

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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Was really happy to write this for @aeon.co about Shere Hite’s contribution and REAL TALK about SEX!

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Government communications should address us as "Citizen"

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DB 📉 @konvolutj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ozu Times Two: utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/ozu-times-...

utopiadeferred.substack.com

Ozu Times Two

Re-viewing, re-living

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/08/2026

Listened to an enraptured American attempt to explain meal deals today to some bemused compatriots.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/08/2026

Going for the world record of Verso books cited in an academic monograph.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/08/2026

Guys, you have to try Edinburgh’s new viral bakery, Sainsbury’s Local. The almond croissant is so flaky! Can get busy in there but definitely worth the wait.

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john h @heliolithic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

who up adapting their preferences

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tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's within my power to become a perfect sphere

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 03/08/2026

100 gold sovereigns for anyone who brings me the head of the bagpiper stationed outside my office throughout the Edinburgh Fringe.

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