Ian Bruff
@ianbruff.bsky.social
Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Does populism challenge the status quo? Understanding transgression and subversion in contemporary politics' by Sebastian Ronderos & @emmyeklundh.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/3eLRCnY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Broerstraat 5 | Mensen zijn niet zo verschillend als we denken. We delen onze aard als biologische soort – en we delen de crises vanuit het verleden 🌏 Inanna Hamati-Atayi (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) zoekt naar antwoorden om onze wereldcrises te kunnen begrijpen 👇 www.rug.nl/alumni/magaz...
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Tories next local elections leaflet ‘We want Nazis putting out your bins’
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12h agoThis is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
My daughter’s university scrutinizes each essay for evidence of AI. The goal is to get a 0% score. This AI-hunting is done by… AI. A recent essay scored 17%. She questioned what the AI thought was AI, since she hadn’t used it. The answer: the uni-issued cover page showing student ID, faculty etc. 🤦🏻♂️
An outstanding UG dissertation I supervised in 2021-22 has formed the core of a newly-published journal article on a semi-autonomous model for organising gig-economy workers, based on an authoethnography in Denmark. A great piece! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Based on the report we published before the World Cup, which draws from findings in the book, we have published this short piece in the Morning Star today - morningstaronline.co.uk/article/foot...
Football’s fossil fuel roots run deeper than the World Cup
NO SOONER was a ball kicked in the 2026 Fifa World Cup than many observers began to highlight the numerous controversies blighting the event. Whether it be ticket prices, US immigration policies or th...
morningstaronline.co.uk
I've started a Substack where I'll write occasional, free-form, essays and notes about my work. The blog is meant as a way for me to organise my thoughts as I start a new project, but I hope others will find it useful. open.substack.com/pub/thesecon...
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
theguardian.com
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
Now out online: my attempt at addressing the "big question"--the ontology of space for IR--via the philosophy of Watsuji Tetsuro. rdcu.be/fuc4D
Towards an ontology of space for international relations
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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi...
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’
The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
andreasbieler.blogspot.com
My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.
A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space
cambridge.org
@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...
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Good to see my book, 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy', is now published in the US with @CommonNotions (UK release August). Link below👇 Would love to hear from potential reviewers or anyone who can facilitate a talk or book launch. Neil.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
My first publication in Spanish! Co-authored with @monicaclua.bsky.social for a 💥💥💥 volume on critical theories of the state, class and power. A great collection of essays.
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, for a summary and access to my new article in New Political Economy, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi... @nottspolitics.bsky.social @sperishefuni.bsky.social
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’
The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
andreasbieler.blogspot.com
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
*Farage removes all his clothes in public and takes a dump on the floor* Chris Mason: "some might say this is not the act of a PM in waiting but others note in today's politics the public appreciate authenticity."
you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.
With the likely change in leadership to Andy Burnham and eyes on "Manchesterism" and the way municipal govt can contest privatisation, this is a good time to read our new paper on: How places are contesting the privatisation of local public services academic.oup.com/cjres/articl...
it is 2056. Britain's GDP per capita is now below Albania. The front page of the Mail demands that Brexit finally be delivered properly.
New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial
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None of the mainstream coverage of Starmer's fall treats as relevant the fact that he went out of his way to alienate several hundred thousand of the most politically engaged people in the UK (Labour members) who all have friends, family, neighbours, social media accounts.
