I had great fun speaking at the Ilkley Literature Festival on the weekend about my two books with about my @politybooks.bsky.social. Prof. Sally Johnson was a fantastic interlocutor and the audience questions were great.
Luke Brunning
@lukebrunning.bsky.social
Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
Lovely to read this review of The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships by Georgie Malone: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Have just learned a lesson, so for the benefit of others: if you are contacted by a reporter for a media outlet, before you respond to their questions, ask whether they will be writing the piece themselves or whether their AI assistant will be writing it (if that matters to you).
Here’s a growing list of the philosophers on Bluesky who work on intimacy. go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS
It’s sexual health week 2026 and @brookcharity.bsky.social asked me to write about AI companions. They might be seductive, but what do we stand to loose in putting chatbots before messy human conversations? www.brook.org.uk/blog/ai-and-...
AI and connection: do we still need analogue intimacy? - Brook
For #SHW26, we’re exploring how we can champion connection in an increasingly individualised world. In this blog, Dr Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics
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It’s sexual health week 2026 and @brookcharity.bsky.social asked me to write about AI companions. They might be seductive, but what do we stand to loose in putting chatbots before messy human conversations? www.brook.org.uk/blog/ai-and-...
AI and connection: do we still need analogue intimacy? - Brook
For #SHW26, we’re exploring how we can champion connection in an increasingly individualised world. In this blog, Dr Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics
brook.org.uk
Imagine the government responce if these people were climate activists or protesters marching for Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions
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SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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My take on heteropessimism and Wicker in this article by Meg Walters: www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/relatio...
Move Over Regular Men and AI Boyfriends, The “Wicker Husband” Has Arrived
What our obsession with homemade hotties says about modern masculinity
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I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
Why is academia the only industry in which people who know nothing about it yet hate it get to represent it and opine about it in the media? The fossil fuel industry and weapons producers get friendlier coverage in the MSM than universities. It’s wild!
I’ve written for the Times today on what Jason Arday’s rise and fall from grace tells us about the chunks of modern academia that have become places that prize midwitted groupthink, and people parroting idiotic ideologies to remain in with their mates. www.thetimes.com/article/b3e4...
In the print edition of the Guardian today alongside @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Adam Peacock. Also here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I’m thrilled to have been able to get so many fantastic people to come and talk about breakups! Check it out 👇🏻
Breakups hurt, upend our lives, and change how we relate to each other but have been curiously neglected by philosophers. Our workshop next month aims to look closer at this often messy part of life. Here is the fantastic line up.
My take on Bumble’s recent decision to drop their unique selling point: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?
Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ grows
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This guide to the eclipse has been written with such care www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
How and when to see the solar eclipse - BBC News
What you need to know about the UK and Europe's best eclipse in 27 years
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Tomorrow is the final day for PhDs and post-docs to express interest for this workshop on breakups.
One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
We have a swanky new website! As part of our website update, we asked @lukebrunning.bsky.social to explain who CLSR are, what we do, and why you should get involved⚡️ Follow the link in our bio to see an updated list of all our old and upcoming events, exciting news, publications, members and more💕
Got a post-doc application in the works? Interested in philosophy, love, intimacy and relationships? Then consider applying to research alongside us. 👇
Want a @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doctoral fellowship with us? We'd love to mentor philosophers with projects on intimacy, love, and relationships. More information here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
This is your periodic reminder that if you’re interested in love, sex, or relationships in all their diversity then follow @clsrleeds.bsky.social - there is a great bunch of people doing good work on every aspect of these topics.
This is your periodic reminder that if you’re interested in love, sex, or relationships in all their diversity then follow @clsrleeds.bsky.social - there is a great bunch of people doing good work on every aspect of these topics.
Look at this amazing conference on intimate injustices that our PhD researchers have put together!
We’re buzzing to share with you the programme for our upcoming workshop at MANCEPT, Intimate (In)Justices. Looking forward to a great few days of varied and important discussions of political and ethical issues in the intimate sphere ❤️
"Emotional Outsourcing" with @agholdier.bsky.social is out in The Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print on philpapers for anyone interested. academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...
Emotional outsourcing
Abstract. Prompting a chatbot to write an apology or a love letter on your behalf is a form of emotional outsourcing—an act in which a person gives over a
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Out now in Contemporary Political Theory, my review of Federica Gegoratto’s Love Troubles: a philosophy of eros. This is a fantastic book about what eros is, why it matters, and how it might change our lives and society. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Love troubles: A philosophy of eros - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
Breakups! Our next event is on philosophy and the end of relationships. 💔👇🏻
Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
My The Conversation article, exploring some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy, has been translated into French: theconversation.com/quand-lia-si...
Quand l’IA s’invite dans nos relations, la véritable intimité tend à disparaître
La banalisation de l’IA sape la curiosité de soi et l’envie de prendre des risques, nécessaires à la construction d’une véritable intimité et de relations qui ont du sens.
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Our blog is now on Substack - come find us if you’re interested in applied ethics: open.substack.com/pub/ethicsun...
Ethics Untangled | Substack
Click to read Ethics Untangled, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.
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