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Uğur Aytaç

@uguraytac.bsky.social
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Political philosopher, Utrecht University | Interests: democracy, legitimacy, power & domination, ideology, resistance

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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper forthcoming in the Journal of Business Ethics! 📢 📢 In our paper (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar), we bring together political philosophy and organization studies to ask what counts as effective worker resistance. We argue that realist ideology critique can capture
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Marx totally had ADHD. The dude hardly ever finished anything, and his critique of capitalism is basically "don't make us do things that don't give us dopamine hits".
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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New paper: philpapers.org/archive/KURS... Part n of me slowly realizing how complicated science-based policymaking in a democracy is.
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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
WOinActie heeft met afgrijzen kennisgenomen van de plotselinge aankondiging van het College van Bestuur van de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social om de Engelstalige bacheloropleiding Economics & Business Economics per 2029 te stoppen. 1/ @dubnieuws.bsky.social students.uu.nl/nieuws/engel...
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Engelstalige bacheloropleiding Economie stopt op termijn
De Engelstalige track van de bacheloropleiding Economics & Business Economics aan de Universiteit Utrecht zal op termijn moeten stoppen. Dit is op zijn vroegst in 2029 het geval. Dat heeft het College...
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A good day for preparing my slides for next week's conference presentation on the democratization of the workplace, and Robert Michels' iron law of oligarchy, and plebeian democracy. Looking forward to seeing @uguraytac.bsky.social and @tatianallaguno.bsky.social. More info: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2
Cover of the most recent issue (2/2025) of the Journal of International Political Theory.
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Amadeus Ulrich @amadeusulrich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Excited to share that my article “Ideology and Suffering: What Is Realistic about Critical Theory?”has just been published (open access) in EJPT. I bring radical realism into dialogue with Adorno, exploring both productive common ground and instructive tensions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Today we concluded the ERC project "The Business Corporation as a Political Actor" with its final conference. End of an era!
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Fantastic paper by @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social!
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Looking at the tariff debate and I reckon it's excellent that we managed to preserve normative theory in polisci, and that we still think about the fact-value distinction. Economists make moral & political judgments and pretend they're just scientific predictions, or mix predictions and politics.
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Shame on you for instrumentalizing an autocrat's self-coup to make a point. Millions are fighting against brutal state violence and a regime where one man controls the media, judiciary, and law enforcement. We are not your rhetorical toy!
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today the Dutch Higher Education Relay Strike happened in Twente. Once more, a massive turn-out and strong protest against the announced budget cuts that are unnecessary, illegitimate, unjustified, and irrational. #WOinActie #Doehetniet
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Transition to full authoritarianism is inevitable unless this attack on free elections is reversed through large-scale resistance from a broad coalition.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Garbage. Utter garbage.
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Join us for a lively discussion on our work-in-progress (co-authored with Ozan N. Alakavuklar). What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than giving me a hard time with tough questions?
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 07/03/2025
Good discussion at @uguraytac.bsky.social's talk in Barcelona this afternoon.
Poster for Ugur's talk with cartoon figures holding placards and the title, "Justifying a labour right to counterpublics".
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Foucault basically reinvented Hume on artificial virtues [ducks for cover]
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Happy to share that my paper "What is the Point of Social Media?" is available online in Philosophy & Technology! In it, I offer a new normative lens to think about Big Tech reform, proposing to transform the corporate purpose of social media companies. doi.org/10.1007/s133...
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What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization - Philosophy & Technology
This paper proposes a new normative framework to think about Big Tech reform. Focusing on the case of digital communication, I argue that rethinking the corporate purpose of social media companies is ...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Last two days for submissions! Join us at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki in August 2025. @tatianallaguno.bsky.social and I are convening a panel on how digital tech transforms work and the economy. Submit your abstract to us by Dec 15.
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Day two of the strike!
Picket line at UvA PCH
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Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A lot of "civilisationism" flying around left and right: where politicians use gender equality, gay rights and anti-Semitism to discredit cultural others, particularly Muslims. Politicians on the Right, and the their advisors, have admitted to using this strategy as a weapon against the Left 🧵
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Reflecting on randomness in human life is likely to transform our agency and how we relate to society. Our sense of efficacious agency can be undermined by the pervasiveness of luck as much as hard determinism. The question is "how should we do an ideology critique of beliefs about causation?"
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Come join us in Thessaloniki this summer!
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Workers should have a labor right to protected in-group communication and information sharing as a means of securing more foundational labor rights such as the rights to strike and unionization.
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now that I'm back on here, let me share two of my latest papers. 1- In this @thejop.bsky.social piece, I defend democratizing Big Tech's algorithmic powers through Citizen Boards of Governance to promote the autonomy of the digital public sphere. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Big Tech, Algorithmic Power, and Democratic Control | The Journal of Politics: Vol 86, No 4
This article argues that instituting Citizen Boards of Governance (CBGs) is the optimal strategy to democratically contain Big Tech’s algorithmic powers in the digital public sphere. CBGs are bodies o...
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Come join us in Thessaloniki this summer!
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We marched in The Hague with some 20,000 colleagues and students today. Stop these politically motivated cuts on higher education!
Various photos from the demonstration
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Enzo Rossi and Uğur Atcay with a message. #WOinActie #StopDeBezuinigingen #EppoCiao
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Den Haag, 25.11.2024 #StopTheCuts #WOInActie
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