Tom O'Shea
@tomoshea.org
Political theorist in Edinburgh. https://www.tomoshea.org/
100 gold sovereigns for anyone who brings me the head of the bagpiper stationed outside my office throughout the Edinburgh Fringe.
buying a book by hobsbawm: fuck yeah let’s go, this guy rules reading a book by hobsbawn: even after 1820, barley production on the island continued to rise, reaching an annual average of 40 tonnes per year by 1832, and this in a period when trade conditions greatly incentivised wheat production
Still pleased with my bargain from Judd Books: £29.95 for all three volumes.
I always read the word ‘demoicracy’ in the voice of a mid-century New York urchin.
He may not dream, he may not have a favourite poem, he may well have no significant interior life whatsoever, but Keir Starmer has finally admitted to liking Worcestershire sauce crisps.
my autocratic nondescript son Choward says he won't finish his dinner because of its "ludonarrative dissonance"
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Tired of Politics? On #Political #Experience & #Oligarchic #Fatigue By @ptrommelen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Tricked into studying analytic philosophy. ‘The oldest profession’
Starmer clinging to the “conflict will always perish in the brotherhood of flags” school of rhetoric till the bitter end.
Trotsky said it best: “you are miserable bankrupts, your role is played out; go where you ought to be: into the dustbin of history!”
The End of the World as We Know It: Catastrophe Culture @profafinlayson.bsky.social & I discuss the role images of catastrophe play in our culture and politics: from fears of nuclear war to visions of environmental and social breakdown. He or in any app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/16/t...
The End of the World as We Know It: Catastrophe Culture
What role do images of total catastrophe play in our culture and politics? For notes, info and to support us, please go to:
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My longstanding Menshevik tendencies are being reinforced by Suny’s biography of the young Stalin.
Yes, I do write conflicted copy, but it is rude of Microsoft Word to add that to the filename.
I wrote about the great M John Harrison for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
M. John Harrison’s anti-philosophy of the sublime
Pascal was of the opinion that there was once, in man, a true happiness, of which all that now remains is an infinite abyss that can only be filled with
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Next Thursday I'll be in Edinburgh to talk about the book project. critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/daniel-hartl...
Daniel Hartley – Peasant Modernism (18 June)
We will be joined by Daniel Hartley (Durham) for a discussion of his new book project, Peasant Modernism: Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well. Rethinking the peasant as a f...
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Cfp: Brill JHWP Women and the Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery, Guest Editors S. Bergès and A. Coffee Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved…
Cfp: Brill JHWP Women and the Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery, Guest Editors S. Bergès and A. Coffee
Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved had always fought their condition, and a few isolated philosophers wrote against slavery, the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century saw the birth of a new way of resisting it: the social movement of abolitionism.
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