Daniel R. McCarthy
@drmccarthy.bsky.social
Associate Prof in IR at The University of Melbourne Interests: STS, IR, Tech, Utopia, American National Security and Foreign Policy Series Editor, Technology, International Relations and World Order, Routledge
Utopianists - check out this interesting article on Soviet temporalities, the home, and revolutionary time 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Time at Home: The October Revolution and Soviet Temporalities
The October Revolution ushered in a radical, future-orientated political agenda. Almost immediately, through the press, advice literature, activism and avant-garde planning, a lively discourse on dom...
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This is going to be great! Please do join us in Fiji next July
Daniel R. McCarthy@drmccarthy.bsky.social · 3d ago📣OCIS 2027 Conference has just been announced 📣 The Oceanic Conference on International Studies will take place in Suva, Fiji, jointly organized by ANU and the University of the South Pacific Great conference - check out 👇 @georgelawson.bsky.social @anubellschool.bsky.social ocis.org.au
📣OCIS 2027 Conference has just been announced 📣 The Oceanic Conference on International Studies will take place in Suva, Fiji, jointly organized by ANU and the University of the South Pacific Great conference - check out 👇 @georgelawson.bsky.social @anubellschool.bsky.social ocis.org.au
2027 OCIS
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On AI, Trust and American Civil Military Relations 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A “journey to trust” for AI: Civil–military relations and epistemic authority in American socio-technical imaginaries of artificial intelligence
The adoption of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) by the militaries of liberal democratic states has the potential to alter civil–military relations. In Samuel Huntington’s influential dis...
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“Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics” is now out. To my knowledge, this is the first book that considers how instructors can teach about autocracy in a university setting. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tea...
Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics
‘This is a terrific and thoughtful book about a question our field has overlooked: how to teach the politics of authoritarianism well. Filled with creative ideas and practical tools, it will be invalu...
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Not going to lie - I'd watch this.
Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · last wk.why is everything
Interesting article 👇 on Adorno and catalytic vs. concrete traditions of utopianism This is part of a larger set of reflections on this divide beginning to populate work on utopia muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/articl...
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My book WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING will be released on August 18! It is now available for pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/what...
Presidential address that could have been an email.
Reading on utopia from Education Studies should be of wider interest to utopianists - makes the case for concrete utopias that take on aspects of 'blueprint' utopias (🤯) Cuts against grain of catalytic tradition in helpful ways www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Where’s the vision? The concept of utopia in contemporary educational theory
This paper explores the way in which the concept of utopia is employed within contemporary educational theory. Confronted with the relentless marketisation and managerialisation of education, ther...
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Clayton Chin @unimelb.edu.au writing in Pursuit 👇 about Hanson's exclusionary and divisive view of monoculturalism in the context of other parties failure to develop effective multicultural policies over the past two decades pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/pau...
Pauline Hanson is thriving in Australia's 'belonging vacuum'
One Nation's vision of a monocultural Australia is unworkable and exclusionary, but the harder truth is that no major party has offered a shared national story that all Australians can identify with, ...
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Folks in IR - we need to stop saying that 'drawing on STS, we will analyze X technology' Science and Technology Studies is a field. It's a bit like saying 'Drawing on International Relations I will study war' STS - big field, lots of different and often incompatible perspectives in it.
New book review published advance access. Christopher Hill reviews "Contaminated Country: Nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia" by Jessica Urwin (University of Washington Press, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/0308... @uwapress.uw.edu
Contaminated Country: nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Late to the party of Piketty's 2100 utopian vision Interesting to see concrete set of proposals - while utopian theory has moved towards the education of desire reports this like and the work of Rutger Bremen show place for defined visions #utopianIR globaljusticeproject.wid.world
Global Justice Project
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It also throws in an old canard about incentives required for innovation. That property rights incentives (a) often forestall innovation and (b) basic research innovation occurs in collaborative environments not mentioned - always the 'myth of the lone inventor' in the background (Lemley 2012)
Daniel R. McCarthy@drmccarthy.bsky.social · 2mo agoEconomist really Economisting on this one 👇 I'm not sure, at the moment, whether those folks who are advocating for things like more affordable housing or decent wages should be labelled really 'dangerous', but the esteemed publication disagrees. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
Economist really Economisting on this one 👇 I'm not sure, at the moment, whether those folks who are advocating for things like more affordable housing or decent wages should be labelled really 'dangerous', but the esteemed publication disagrees. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism
The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity
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On tech oligarchies and future imaginaries of outer space 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Utopianists: Kim Hutchings on feminist pacifism and social theory 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Forever failing: Feminist practices of peace in war/violence - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025
This paper explores different ways in which the nexus between peace, utopia and failure can be understood, drawing on examples of feminist peace activism. The p...
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Article on SciFi and Tech oligarchy 👇 will be of interest across disciplines, part of a wider forum on the 'Californian Ideology' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Annual message for the kids: Please don't use AI to write your assignments. Save it for fun cat-fighting shark vids. Thank you.
Buff Cat vs. Shark: Epic Ocean Battle
ALT: Buff Cat vs. Shark: Epic Ocean Battle
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Tony Blair, Zombie PM. The ultimate horror movie.
One man utopian IR bluesky operation keeps going: Currently reading on politics of nuclear weapons and utopia. Lots of really good work out there often under-cited and missed by 'mainstream' IR. Check out 2 e.g.s 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... and www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Bit of criticism of Bruno Latour and his place in studies of infrastructure in IR offered below - reupping this piece www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory - Volume 50 Issue 4
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Utopianists in IR - stumbled across an old article on utopian production from ISQ which I've missed in previous searches. Interesting to consider its potential overlap with world literature studies Check it out 👇 www.jstor.org/stable/26005...
Structural Roots of Visions of the Future: World-System Crisis and Stability and the Production of Utopian Literature in the United States, 1883-1975 on JSTOR
Kriss A. Drass, Edgar Kiser, Structural Roots of Visions of the Future: World-System Crisis and Stability and the Production of Utopian Literature in the United States, 1883-1975, International Studie...
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ABC 7.30 Chalmers: We changed our mind after realizing initial policies would not meet the challenge Ferguson: Why did you change your mind? Chalmers: Because we learned over time Ferguson: But you changed your mind. Why did you change your mind?..... 🤦
Utopianists and dystopianists - just found out about this book on dystopia that looks quite interesting: Thx to @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the tip! press.umich.edu/Books/F/Fear...
Fear the Future
After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian fict...
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