Elsa Kugelberg
@elsakugelberg.bsky.social
Political theorist at the University of Oxford. Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Affiliated researcher mintresearch.org/ and @ki.se Global & Sexual Health Research Group. https://elsakugelberg.com
Heading over to @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social to present my work at the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group later today www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Institutional Power and The Sexual Sphere
Dr Kugelberg, Nuffield College, will present her paper "Institutional Power and The Sexual
law.ox.ac.uk
Varför får vissa 4 000 likes på Tinder och andra inte en enda? Hur kommer det sig att en falsk anmälan kan stänga ute en användare för gott, och varför vägrar appföretagen berätta hur deras algoritmer fungerar?
Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
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Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
etc.se
Was interviewed by @etc.se about my research on online dating and the demands of justice we can and should place on digital platforms www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
Filosofens krav för bättre dejtingappar: ”Kan skapa rättvisa i den sexuella sfären”
Internetdejting får skulden för allt från sjunkande födelsetal till manlig ensamhet – men kan apparna i själva verket vara lösningen på våra problem?
etc.se
@henrikdku.bsky.social and I are excited to be presenting our work on the Digital Private Sphere at @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social Center for Philosophies of Markets later today. www.hhs.se/research/cen...
Center for Philosophies of Markets
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In our new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social , Geertje Bol and I turn to Tory feminists who use flattery between the sexes to challenge our assumptions about what flattery is, in what environments it flourishes, and the dangers it poses to politics. doi.org/10.1017/S153...
From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
From Courtiers to Courtship: Tory Feminism and the Political Dangers of Flattery
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Exciting news! UCL’s Institute of Law, Politics & Philosophy is partnering with Law and Philosophy to launch the annual Ronald Dworkin Lecture. We’re delighted that Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) will deliver the first Inaugural Dworkin lecture in May 2027. More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ucl-ins...
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More happy news! @henrikdku.bsky.social’s and my other project, on the politics and normative significance of the pace of social and technological change, was awarded 6M sek by Formas Research Council. www.vr.se/english/swec...
Swecris – search for Swedish research projects
Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental...
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More happy news! @henrikdku.bsky.social’s and my other project, on the politics and normative significance of the pace of social and technological change, was awarded 6M sek by Formas Research Council. www.vr.se/english/swec...
Swecris – search for Swedish research projects
Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental...
vr.se
Some exciting news: mine and @henrikdku.bsky.social's project on the 'Digital Private Sphere' has been awarded 4.9M SEK by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social!! www.vr.se/english/appl...
Research project grant within humanities and social sciences
The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded project grants within humanities and social sciences 2026. Our total grant amount for 2026-2030 is nearly 473 million SEK.
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Elsa Kugelberg's paper on dating apps and the digital sexual sphere is discussed in a recent episode of major Swedish politics and culture podcast, Cafe Bambino. Listen here: https://tinyurl.com/y8ctpb8s Also hear Kugelberg on Swedish public service radio yesterday: https://tinyurl.com/6j2eabxd
Fick prata om min forskning om den digitala sexuella sfären i P1 idag: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...
Fick prata om min forskning om den digitala sexuella sfären i P1 idag: sverigesradio.se/play/avsnitt...
PPRF in Politics Elsa Kugelberg comments in @theguardian.com on online dating and argues that it has become too entrenched in daily life to fail:
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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In today’s episode of Scandinavia’s best and smartest podcast @cafebambino.bsky.social Tone Schunnesson & @karinp.bsky.social discuss my @apsrjournal.bsky.social on the digital sexual sphere and dating as a social institution and explain it better than I ever could😭 open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
Elsa Kugelberg om dejtingappar som social institution
Café Bambino · Chapter · 12m
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I @cafebambino.bsky.social pratar Tone Schunnesson och @karinp.bsky.social om min artikel i @apsrjournal.bsky.social om dating som social institution och vilka krav man kan ställa på politiken och på plattformarna. Extremt bra förklarat och kontextualiserat här: open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
Elsa Kugelberg om dejtingappar som social institution
Café Bambino · Chapter · 12m
open.spotify.com
I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion, here: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... Come for Guy Verhoefstadt's Locke tweets, stay for the (unsung) significance of William Popple for so-called "Lockean" toleration...
What Locke Knew About Elites
How liberals learned to stop worrying and love the establishment.
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A really great essay @aeon.co by Geertje Bol, on the case for righteous zeal:
Polite debate has privilege. The marginalised need zealotry | Aeon Essays
Early feminists like Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay refused their male peers’ advice to remain polite in debate. Why?
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In the print edition of the Guardian today alongside @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Adam Peacock. Also here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Our paper on self-driving cars and AI dilemmas is featured in @efn.se Vetenskap! @henrikdku.bsky.social efn.se/ai-behover-f...
Forskarna: Sluta jaga AI:s värsta scenarier
Ny studie: Moraldilemman har fått för stort fokus
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In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
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Practice-dependent governance of AI doi.org/10.1007/s105... Paper in Journal of Business Ethics by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @elsakugelberg.bsky.social and Associate Member @henrikdku.bsky.social
I’m honoured to announce that I have been awarded Best Paper by @apsa.bsky.social's Foundations of Political Theory Section for my paper ‘Utopia and the History of Yiddish Political Thought’!
In this now published paper @henrikdku.bsky.social and I argue for domain-specific theorising, and against the use of abstract thought experiments: autonomous cars are more like participants in the institution of traffic and less like trolleys, for example. 🚗🫧 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Practice-Dependent Governance of AI
link.springer.com
Geertje Bol with an excellent new essay on liberalism and centrism in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
Asking international organisations to “just follow the science” sounds great – not least in response to “anti-expert” pushback. But that defence fundamentally misrepresents how expertise and IOs relate. My new book asks: where does expert-centred international governance actually come from? 🧵1/7
Next Wednesday, @elsakugelberg.bsky.social will be talking to use about institutional power and the sexual sphere!
Presenting my work on institutional power and the sexual sphere at @manchester.ac.uk Centre for Political Theory today! This is part of my book project on what justice in this domain requires beyond mere noninterference
