Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 18/09/2026This cat does not live here. Nor does it appreciate the finer details of rationalist conceptions of liberty. 041
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 18/09/2026My book has a subsection about property-owning democracy called ‘Escape POD’, but I should have gone with ‘Equity Punks’. 031
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 10/09/2026Restorative creatures. Hope you'll be able to make it to the festival in a few weeks. 010
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 10/09/2026Thanks! You and Ruth are important interlocutors in chapter 8. 110
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 10/09/2026Thanks! I'm currently experiencing the weirdly flat affect that comes with the end of every writing project, but eventually that should pass. 120
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 10/09/2026I promised 82,000 words on 10th September 2026, and by God I delivered them. 3120
Reposted by Tom O'SheaNick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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.worldWar Memoirs: PowerBars and Notebooks — The DialWhat are war correspondents for? 125
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 08/09/2026A 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. 070
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/09/2026When someone develops a cough, it’s important to refer to them as ‘the sick man of Europe’. 010
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 03/09/2026Read 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 050
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 03/09/2026Lots of people who think they are Leninists are actually vulgar Kantians. 010
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 02/09/2026Too many people employed to understand culture are too earnest to understand culture. 040
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026‘P but Marx did not believe that P’ is not actually a paradox. 020
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026Described one of my intellectual critics as 'dyspeptic' today, which is a pleasingly arch rebuke. 000
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026This has now reached the furry community, which invites a somewhat unexpected reading of Richard Scarry’s illustrations. 0131
Reposted by Tom O'SheaBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 01/09/2026Just got a copy of my book in paperback. Available from 6 October! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... 1233
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 01/09/2026Hard to imagine how it could not be all-consuming. I can see the need to set things down somewhat publicly when your sense of reality is coming under attack and there’s not much support from elsewhere. 000
Reposted by Tom O'Sheacayce @cayce.zone · 30/08/2026shoutout to yourself and others, two of the classic things to which you can be a danger 0518
Reposted by Tom O'SheaFart Vision @slugworlds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026our main food should be a mineral we mine from the earth called nutrium 1064688
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 30/08/2026I am an expert in my field. It's mainly grass, mud, and puddles. Sometimes they give me a sugar cube. 061
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 26/08/2026Solidarity 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 👍”. 010
Reposted by Tom O'SheaBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 26/08/2026who, because of notorious sins, 054
Reposted by Tom O'SheaSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026That one homie who is likely a syncretic combination of multiple figures, both historical and legendary 11708150
Reposted by Tom O'SheaJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Everyone 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 1729
Reposted by Tom O'Sheauel @greaterrealityarea.net · 08/05/2023FORBIDDEN CHESS PIECES: The Prophet, who is aware of the hands which move the pieces. The Crows, placed on the board after the final turn. 526461
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 21/08/2026One 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. 070
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 21/08/2026If 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. 060
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 20/08/2026My week writing the book: «The bone of his own forehead obstructs his way; he knocks himself bloody against his own forehead» — Kafka (Diaries) 050
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 20/08/2026We 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. 170
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026Ah, that makes more sense, as much as I think the civil service should employ you to teach them philosophy! 000
Reposted by Tom O'SheaMatt Bennett @mattpbennett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Imagine 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 122
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026John McCormick, ‘Machiavellian Democracy: Controlling Elites with Ferocious Populism’ Think you might struggle to generate discussion with Foucault or even more historical texts with non-specialists. But perhaps I am underestimating civil servants. Congrats on the job! 101
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026Alex Gourevitch, ‘Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike’ Kate Manne, ‘Threatening Women’ and ‘Ameliorating Misogyny’ Iris Marion Young, ‘Five Faces of Oppression’ Samuel Arnold, ‘Capitalism, Class Conflict, and Domination’ Nancy Fraser, ‘Struggle Over Needs’ 101
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026Tommie Shelby, ‘Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto’ Guy Aitchison, ‘Fragility as Strength: The Ethics and Politics of Hunger Strikes’ Elizabeth Anderson ‘Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress’ Amia Srinivasan, ‘The Aptness of Anger’ Candice Delmas, ‘Uncivil Disobedience’ 111
Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 19/08/2026Here's a longlist that is reasonably accessible: Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government Jo Wolff, Ethics and Public Policy Iris Marion Young, ‘Structure as the Subject of Injustice’ Jeremy Waldron, ‘Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom’ Martha Nussbaum, ‘Adaptive Preference and Women’s Options’ 121
