.@bellaterraedicions.bsky.social has translated @marxinhell.bsky.social's wonderful study into Spanish. It's an essential work for understanding the role of republican ideas in Marx. I'm delighted that it can now reach a much broader audience!
David Guerrero
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republicanism, free speech, political economy of communication, political theory, intellectual history… | miembro de www.sinpermiso.info
Wow I am tired of writing detailed human feedbacks on AI generated texts
El meu fill (5é) està fent la hidroesfera i això és el que els han donat com a dossier. Trec foc pels queixals. Abandonar els llibres de text va ser un error No hi ha ni un puto nom de riu bé No sap escriure glacial Els va dir "té faltes perquè ho he fet amb gemini" AGHHHHGGHHHH
Some (ultimately optimistic) musings about the AI scare in the humanities: crookedtimber.org/2026/05/12/t...
The text is not the product — Crooked Timber
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
I’m sorry but “why is a lit review needed?” is a where the for-profit motive of trade book publishing meets the anti-humanist capitalist slop of the robots. Scholars do their work. The rest are charlatans.
🗣️"Rather, than lose the proverbial forest through the trees, researchers can ask more important questions, such as: why is a review needed, and where does it aim to take a field?" #AcWri #PhDchat
📖 #Newbook curated by EMoDir members This interdisciplinary volume examines free speech and religious expression in early modern Europe, showing how freedom and its limits shaped religious life from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment. 🔗 brill.com/edcollbook/t... #EarlyModern
The long shadow of the New World Information and Communication Order—the sibling of the NIEO
Debates about satellite broadcasting from the 1980s hold lessons for today’s debates over digital sovereignty and AI governance, writes Emrys Schoemaker. They suggest how we negotiate matters as much as what we negotiate, he says. buff.ly/6L5Fucr
On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/
The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.
Essential reading for historians of European political thought - Istvan Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx (2026) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Next week a crew from Barcelona will be dropping into a Helsinki that’s averaging 0°C and getting about six hours of daylight. Not out of masochism, but for a conference with dozens of intellectual historians — which, admittedly, isn’t that different. I’ll try to bring back a Rudolph on the way home
My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Radical Feminism and the Politics of Desire
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On the Pull of Transitional Despotism on the Plebeian Left. McCormick and Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli, Agathocles & Glory (with a shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On the Pull of Transitional Despotism on the Plebeian Left. McCormick and Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli, Agathocles & Glory.
John P.
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Look, this is an abomination, void of any grasp of humans or humanity. Kalshi should not exist (which is why there are lawsuits in 11 states against Kalshi for illegal gambling etc. this alone should spook investors 🤷♀️). But let's not forget: all venture capital is about making bets & wagers. 1/
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
Croquetas a todas luces congeladas, chistorras y morcillas del Mercadona, bollo precocinado, huevos fritos mal hechos (yema rota, cuajada, puntilla tamaño enaguas). Y sin cubiertos porque se conoce que usar tenedores es de maricones. Tanta pasta para comer peor que un estudiante.
We live in a funny world - this little book is now apparently "out", though I haven't seen physical copies or so. Instead, I was alerted by a Mastodon bot written by a colleague that notices new publications by our faculty members. Well, there it is :) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Politics and the Economy
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Politics and the Economy
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Workshop on Freethinking and Democracy at Jyväskylä on 13 December—come join us if you're around & interested!
CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University. The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'. Deadline: December 30 www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
El jurado propuso otorgarlo ex aequo a David Guerrero Martín “Reframing expressive freedom: free speech libertarianism, republicanism, and the political economy of communication” (dirigida por @davidcasassas.bsky.social y @lisamherzog.bsky.social)
On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth. open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth.
During the last 24hrs my review of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason by Katherine Brading and Marius Stan (Oxford University Press, 2024) appeared at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (here)...
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Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
For socialism and freedom: the life of Eugene Debs | Aeon Essays
How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom
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🎉 @david-guerrero.bsky.social, doctor en Sociologia per la Universitat de Barcelona i en Filosofia per la Universitat de Groningen, ha estat reconegut amb dos prestigiosos premis internacionals per la seva tesi sobre la llibertat d’expressió. Enhorabona!
Due to Academia(.)edu licensing agreement, which permits the use of your likeness, voice, and publications in any manner they choose, I, like many others, have decided to leave the platform. You can now find my research on ResearchGate instead.
Thanks to the warnings by my colleague Titus Stahl (who is really well-versed in these things), I've just deleted my academia.edu account. Their new terms and conditions are horrible in terms of data use. If you're on that platform, reconsider, or at least read the new conditions carefully...
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Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:
Talked to Jim Rutenberg at the NYT about whether there were any historical precedents in the U.S. for Trump's frontal assault on our media, especially this kind of FCC intervention focused on silencing dissent, directly violating free speech, etc. Could think of none: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
Congratulations to #CAISfellow David Guerrero! He received the Sir Ernest Barker Prize (PSA) and Leo Strauss Award (APSA) for his 2024 dissertation: research.rug.nl/en/publicati... @david-guerrero.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Hot of the press, new article "Three Concepts of Freedom of Assembly: Liberal, Associative, Radical" co-authored with @bpoppmadsen.bsky.social, and available Open Access from Politics and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/3
De vez en cuando creo que está bien recordar la somanta que le dio Joaquín Reyes a Soto Ivars sobre el tema de la cancelación youtu.be/a-59YwvuvZM?...
MAGISTRAL Joaquín Reyes ante Soto Ivars "CANCELACIÓN: ANTES HABÍA UN CONSENSO: SER RAC1STA ESTÁ MAL"
YouTube video by Politikeo UM7BJ
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