León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
@leoncastjan.bsky.social
international law and arms trade. working on the b sides leoncastellanos.com
"what became possible for other people because you were there? [...] what would remain if you disappeared tomorrow?" blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Universities measure almost everything – except leadership - LSE Impact
Research leadership is often measured through proxies, could narrative approaches create a clearer picture of what good academic leadership is like in practice?
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Apropos the Pentagon's Autonomous Warfare Command announcement, not sure whether someone has re-upped Haraway recently, who saw this coming, but with a twist: cyborgs are militarism's illegitimate offspring, but such offspring often betray their origins: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donn...
A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 1985
theanarchistlibrary.org
Edgy stuff: "A feudal institution reformed along rigid German lines... the university confronts an environment of instant communication and collapsed categories, defined by a deafening cacophony of voices and a near-infinite supply of information." www.freetheinquiry.com/p/the-univer...
The Modern University Barely Needs Students Anymore
With the arrival of the digital tsunami, universities have lapsed into a crisis of authority
freetheinquiry.com
"Scientists publish one paper after another because that’s how they advance in their careers. Journalists breathlessly chase the latest, flashiest studies...Meanwhile, hardly any of us spend time trying to make sense of what the world already knows" aeon.co/essays/the-l...
The life-saving scientific knowledge hiding in plain sight | Aeon Essays
Humanity produces a staggering amount of new knowledge every day. The question is how to make sense of it all
aeon.co
"There is much to salvage from The Rouse, and I expect the community of readers to come will leave my initial impressions in the dust very shortly. It’s a daunting, difficult book but one of ragged glory, fitting for our dark times." lareviewofbooks.org/article/chin...
Decolonizing the Dead | Los Angeles Review of Books
China Miéville’s first solo novel in over a decade is part Lovecraft, part le Carré—and quintessentially weird.
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Dutch universities sign letter of intent aiming to strengthen cooperation with Netherlands Ministry of Defence. The National Student Union opposes the collaboration. www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/actueel/nieu...
Universiteiten en Defensie versterken samenwerking in onderzoek
De Nederlandse universiteiten en het ministerie van Defensie gaan hun samenwerking op het gebied van onderzoek verder versterken. Vandaag ondertekenden staatssecretaris Derk Boswijk en UNL-voorzitter ...
universiteitenvannederland.nl
"we will soon be living in a world where expert peer review persists mostly at the top of the knowledge food chain, while the knowledge-production machines controlled by commercial entities chip away at actual human practices from below." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
AI Slop Coming to University Library Near You (opinion)
Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.
insidehighered.com
"Many years ago, a colleague said, “Finally, my paper got a resting place in a top journal.” ... The paper was entombed, embalmed with prestige, featured as a line on an academic CV and forgotten." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Faculty Productivity Metrics Fuel Integrity Crisis (opinion)
Our metrics for measuring faculty productivity are fueling a crisis in scientific integrity.
insidehighered.com
“The education budget is being cut to shreds while so much extra funding is being put into the army” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Fires, fury and hundreds of arrests as France gripped by student protests
Government struggling to deal with worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by massive demonstrations
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To capital, we're not even customers anymore. McKenzie Wark on Poliks & Trillo's Exocapitalism via @e_flux: www.e-flux.com/journal/165/...
Lifted AF - Journal #165
McKenzie Wark reviews Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo.
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Turnitin on the ropes? "Universities need to act now, reviewing their Turnitin account settings...commercial firms shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce assessed work beyond assessment without meaningful, explained, opt-in consent." wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...
A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays
Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question
wonkhe.com
"To reduce hostility in public spaces and increase the chances of constructive conversations, it is not only sufficient but also most effective to simply express your own opinion. For example: “I agree with that.” Or: “I have a different opinion on that.”" csh.ac.at/news/how-to-...
How To Respond To Hate Without Fueling It
Following three elections in Germany in September, much has been said about increasing political polarization and divisions within society. CSH's Mirta Galesic...
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"As a historian, Ginzburg is best known as a pioneer of microhistory, a movement that came to prominence in Italy in the 1970s that focused on individual events, locations, or people, often those on the margins of society." thebaffler.com/latest/carlo...
Carlo Ginzburg, 1939–2026 | Emma Claire Foley
Carlo Ginzburg’s work centered and subverted the very idea of insignificance.
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Mark Lilla’s preface to the new edition of Judith Shklar’s “The Liberalism of Fear” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
From Fear Set Free | Mark Lilla
Humankind cannot bear very much uncertainty; to our dying day, we are all afraid of the dark. And so we perceive the world selectively, exaggerating the
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if you believe in yourself you can work within the existing constraints imposed upon you to, in some cases, accomplish a subset of your dreams www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
Here's a gift link to the article, where you can learn more.
How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids’ Classrooms
Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?
bloomberg.com
China was an international law scholar once upon a time and his PhD-based monograph is still epic www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
The Rouse by China Miéville review – a mighty achievement from the ‘new weird’ author
Twenty years in the writing, this paranormal epic of cold war espionage and family tragedy is a quantum leap in terms of ambition and moral seriousness
theguardian.com
"Economics has spent the last three decades celebrating what it calls a credibility revolution...The discipline now prides itself on answering questions with facts and evidence, rather than theory and assumptions." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...
The Dismally Obedient Science
Carolina Alves warns that empirical research in economics is displacing investigation of underlying causes.
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This week's long read: “It was end times for the postliberals in Budapest, even if they didn’t know it yet.” www.thedriftmag.com/the-last-day...
The Last Days of the Danube Institute | A Report from Postliberal Budapest
By Brian Goodman. In the wake of Viktor Orbán’s defeat, Budapest’s postliberals face end times.
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"Where are, after all, in mainstream discussions of justice and reparation – which, Liu would argue, focus myopically on identity politics – the acknowledgements of the 2008 financial crisis?" artreview.com/traumatized-...
What is Catherine Liu’s Problem with ‘Trauma Culture’?
Can a concept of trauma be returned to the working class, the abused and the exploited? Is it too late? Does anyone even care anymore?
artreview.com
Accelerationist ed: "The storied venture-capital firm is investing $35 million in an unaccredited San Francisco-based two-year alternative to traditional college for students ages 16 to 22." www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | The Tech Elite Is Funding an Alternative to College
The venture-capital firm is spending $35 million to back the two-year academy, with other Bay Area tech giants on board.
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Struck by how this report openly acknowledges root causes like tick-the-box learning models that sapped critical student engagement before AI came along: aiandeducation.mit.edu
AI and Education – Report of MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
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"arms control has inadvertently neglected uncertainty management—the ability to acclimate to the unknown." www.sup.org/books/politi...
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"Normally, capital owners can live quite contentedly – indeed, very contentedly – with government debt." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Wolfgang Streeck, Who Will Pay — Sidecar
Fiscal crisis and firewalls.
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Great listen on the crisis on the left & the limits of utopian thinking: open.spotify.com/episode/3UNM...
Dipesh Chakrabarty on the Second Decline of the West
Future Histories International · Episode
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“Will AI transform science? Certainly. Will it replace scientists? Certainly not.” — @saraimari.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-death-of...
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
noemamag.com
New Grégoire Chamayou on the data centre cooling crisis : "such crises recur whenever the drive to expand technical capacity generates, at some threshold, the thermal conditions of its own arrest" www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/ther...
Gregoire Chamayou · Thermal contradictions of electronic capital: The second Jevons paradox and the prehistories of the Data Centre Cooling Crisis (2026)
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