Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
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Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Race in Marshall's Economics | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Race in Marshall's Economics
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My "Race in Marshall's Economics" is now available, and open-access!
Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess
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Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess
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So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April.
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On Bullshit Engines’ Politics_Preprint
This is a pre-print of the following chapter: Williams, Damien P., “On Bullshit Engines’ Politics”, published in Arrangements of Power: Tracing Langdon Winner’s Legacy Within and Beyond the P…
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February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April.
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this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it
February 2, 2026 at 11:47 AM
this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it
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Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
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I realize Mandelson has a reputation for ethical shortcuts, but I'm still kind of stunned.
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
February 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
I realize Mandelson has a reputation for ethical shortcuts, but I'm still kind of stunned.
This is who runs this account.
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
This is who runs this account.
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Sorry for the LI grab but
February 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Sorry for the LI grab but
So happy to see Max resting! When his back trouble flares up, as it did yesterday, he paces about for hours because it hurts to lie down. So he's mending for now.
February 1, 2026 at 5:12 AM
So happy to see Max resting! When his back trouble flares up, as it did yesterday, he paces about for hours because it hurts to lie down. So he's mending for now.
Eugenics is an elite project by definition, but a century ago it was very public. This latest release of files shows that Jeffrey Epstein bent the ear of everyone around him about eugenic white supremacism, and it functioned within his circle as a shared secret enthusiasm.
January 31, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Eugenics is an elite project by definition, but a century ago it was very public. This latest release of files shows that Jeffrey Epstein bent the ear of everyone around him about eugenic white supremacism, and it functioned within his circle as a shared secret enthusiasm.
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Myth and ritual
2. Probability
3. Greek lyric poetry
4. French revolution
5. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
1. Myth and ritual
2. Probability
3. Greek lyric poetry
4. French revolution
5. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Architectural Studio
2. Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations
3. Modern Dance Workshop
4. Ancient Greek Theatre (in Ancient Greek)
5. History of Physics
1. Architectural Studio
2. Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations
3. Modern Dance Workshop
4. Ancient Greek Theatre (in Ancient Greek)
5. History of Physics
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
January 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Myth and ritual
2. Probability
3. Greek lyric poetry
4. French revolution
5. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
1. Myth and ritual
2. Probability
3. Greek lyric poetry
4. French revolution
5. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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New book: Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights, by István Hont
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amzn.to/4qGtNy0
January 30, 2026 at 11:20 AM
New book: Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights, by István Hont
amzn.to/4qGtNy0
amzn.to/4qGtNy0
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Triumph of the won’t.
January 30, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Triumph of the won’t.
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Roger Luckhurst, Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead - @princetonupress.bsky.social, October 2025
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Graveyards
From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials
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January 30, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Roger Luckhurst, Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead - @princetonupress.bsky.social, October 2025
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Suckers who believe LLM output, loafers who think they can use LLM output if they just "check it," and incompetent bosses who trust AI detection tools.
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Suckers who believe LLM output, loafers who think they can use LLM output if they just "check it," and incompetent bosses who trust AI detection tools.
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Hendrick Bogaert, A Man Dancing with a Dog, oil on panel, 26.5 cm × 22.3 cm, c. 1655-c. 1665 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
January 28, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Hendrick Bogaert, A Man Dancing with a Dog, oil on panel, 26.5 cm × 22.3 cm, c. 1655-c. 1665 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities - University of Georgia Press, March 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
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Spaces of Anticolonialism
Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. It pioneers a spatial ...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities - University of Georgia Press, March 2025
www.ugapress.org/978082036785...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
newbooksnetwork.com/spaces-of-an...
www.ugapress.org/978082036785...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Saumya Dadoo
newbooksnetwork.com/spaces-of-an...
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István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx:
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
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Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
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Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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January 27, 2026 at 8:03 AM
István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx:
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link
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He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.
January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.
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Patch alert! He must have made a New Year’s resolution to swim laps to lose weight. Made it across and back twice. Keep at it, bud.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Patch alert! He must have made a New Year’s resolution to swim laps to lose weight. Made it across and back twice. Keep at it, bud.
The nose is all you're gonna see of Max right now.
January 25, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The nose is all you're gonna see of Max right now.
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Unbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
January 25, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Unbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Made a makeshift cat shelter for the alley cats during the storm. Hope it helps
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Made a makeshift cat shelter for the alley cats during the storm. Hope it helps
Worth reading to the end. Students have a stake in this! Otherwise the cynical minority shapes policy.
Also given that the landscape changes, students know stuff we don't. Almost makes me want to un-retire.
Also given that the landscape changes, students know stuff we don't. Almost makes me want to un-retire.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 23, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Worth reading to the end. Students have a stake in this! Otherwise the cynical minority shapes policy.
Also given that the landscape changes, students know stuff we don't. Almost makes me want to un-retire.
Also given that the landscape changes, students know stuff we don't. Almost makes me want to un-retire.