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Who needs advice?
Read more: Who needs advice?Margaret Mullet investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.
COVID, Class and Digital Labour in the Neoliberal World
by John Michael Roberts It is generally agreed that the crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed society in the present and for the foreseeable future. In particular, there is great concern among politicians, policy-makers and the general public…
Calling All Dissenters, Calling All ‘Woke’
by Stuart Sim The right to express political dissent is supposedly integral to democracy, but it is coming increasingly under threat from authoritarian governments. The danger this poses to the liberal democratic community is the subject of my latest book,…
From Gelopolitics to Geopolitics: The Case of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Patrick T. Giamario Just over three years ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t yet president of Ukraine; he only played one on TV. In Servant of the People Zelenskyy portrayed Vasyl Holoborodko, a high school history teacher who unexpectedly wins the presidency…
7 Principles of Space Warfare
by Bleddyn E. Bowen To mark the release of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics in paperback, this blog post is an edited extract of the book, summarising the seven propositions of spacepower theory from the book to guide critical…
New journal launch: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy
By Paul Patton, editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (JSPP) is an exciting new venture in collaboration with the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University, one of the leading universities in China.…
Putin and the high tension in Ukraine: can unreturned love for one’s brother unleash a war?
by Pål Kolstø More than a hundred thousand Russian soldiers have marched up to the Ukrainian border and the world is waiting in trepidation: what will happen next? What is Putin up to? Is this a prelude to war? Why…
How ISIS Fights: New Books in National Security
In this great interview from New Books in National Security, Omar Ashour, author of How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt, talks to host Jeffrey Bristol about his work. They discuss the origin of Ashour’s study…
Q&A with Anne Sofie Schøtt, author of Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark: Supporting the Struggle in Syria
In this interview, Anne Sofie Schøtt, author of Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark: Supporting the Struggle in Syria, discusses the process behind her new book. Can you tell us a bit about your book? The book is about how the…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 4)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Have you read Part 1 – 3? Part 1Part 2Part 3 Graham Harman: Another influence on your book is the appeal to “multinaturalism” that we find not only in Bruno Latour, but also in those concerned with…