Daniel R. McCarthy
@drmccarthy.bsky.social
Associate Prof in IR at The University of Melbourne
Interests: STS, IR, Tech, Utopia, American National Security and Foreign Policy
Series Editor, Technology, International Relations and World Order, Routledge
Interests: STS, IR, Tech, Utopia, American National Security and Foreign Policy
Series Editor, Technology, International Relations and World Order, Routledge
Reposted by Daniel R. McCarthy
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Can't recall if I shared this before but this article is a very important corrective to contemporary views of technological change and disruption
'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Can't recall if I shared this before but this article is a very important corrective to contemporary views of technological change and disruption
'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
'Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Has there ever been a study about the age at which 'Cartesian dualism' starts?
My kids are always talking about what they do and what their body does like two totally separate entities.
My kids are always talking about what they do and what their body does like two totally separate entities.
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Has there ever been a study about the age at which 'Cartesian dualism' starts?
My kids are always talking about what they do and what their body does like two totally separate entities.
My kids are always talking about what they do and what their body does like two totally separate entities.
Thanks to a great team of contributors:
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thanks to a great team of contributors:
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
William Scheuerman, Marija Antanaviciute, Kamilla Stullerova, Shannon Brincat, Emma Christie, Jonato Luciano Dos Santos, George Lawson and Catherine Hirst, Jens Steffek, Duncan Bell, Daniel Deudney, Aysem Mert and Lauren Horn.
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Submitted manuscript 'Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations' edited with @mattfluck.bsky.social to Bristol Uni Press yesterday - forthcoming in 2026
#utopiainIR
#utopiainIR
IR utopianists - article on Carr, Zimmern and Utopia in International theory 👇
Will also be of interest to scholars of the interwar period in IR's intellectual history
#utopianIR
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Will also be of interest to scholars of the interwar period in IR's intellectual history
#utopianIR
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E. H. Carr and Alfred Zimmern: utopia, reality, and the twenty years’ crisis | International Theory | Cambridge Core
E. H. Carr and Alfred Zimmern: utopia, reality, and the twenty years’ crisis
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October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
IR utopianists - article on Carr, Zimmern and Utopia in International theory 👇
Will also be of interest to scholars of the interwar period in IR's intellectual history
#utopianIR
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Will also be of interest to scholars of the interwar period in IR's intellectual history
#utopianIR
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Australian pen aficionados:
The Melbourne Pen & Stationary Show is this weekend.
Details 👇
I may suggest to the organizers that they offer a 6-7% discount for the under 18s
melbpenshow.com.au
The Melbourne Pen & Stationary Show is this weekend.
Details 👇
I may suggest to the organizers that they offer a 6-7% discount for the under 18s
melbpenshow.com.au
The Melbourne Pen & Stationery Show 2025
Pens, ink, notepads and paper at the largest pen show in the Southern hemisphere
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October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Australian pen aficionados:
The Melbourne Pen & Stationary Show is this weekend.
Details 👇
I may suggest to the organizers that they offer a 6-7% discount for the under 18s
melbpenshow.com.au
The Melbourne Pen & Stationary Show is this weekend.
Details 👇
I may suggest to the organizers that they offer a 6-7% discount for the under 18s
melbpenshow.com.au
QOTD:
'Reading Outline of a Theory of Practice was like trying to read the Bible in Latin.'
'Reading Outline of a Theory of Practice was like trying to read the Bible in Latin.'
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
QOTD:
'Reading Outline of a Theory of Practice was like trying to read the Bible in Latin.'
'Reading Outline of a Theory of Practice was like trying to read the Bible in Latin.'
Reposted by Daniel R. McCarthy
⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
Balloonomania! Disruptive Technologies, War, and the Amnesia of the Moment - Frederik Carl Windfeld, 2025
Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
⏳ Excited to share my new piece, published in @millennjournal.bsky.social! I explore how imagined futures of emergent and disruptive tech loop back to shape present-day politics of war - and how the early history of military ballooning (1783-1907) shows us this recursive logic at work.
Special Issue of JIPT 👇 will be of interest to IR folks looking at utopia in world politics
#utopiainIR
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Global crises and utopian hope: An introduction - Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-Ojeili, 2025
As humanity faces the prospect of imminent civilizational catastrophe, the aspirational sense that the future contains the potential for better ways of living a...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Special Issue of JIPT 👇 will be of interest to IR folks looking at utopia in world politics
#utopiainIR
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#utopiainIR
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Piece on postcolonial cosmopolitanism 👇 is an interesting effort to retain ethical/moral universalism from a grounded and context-sensitive approach
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Postcolonial cosmopolitanism: rethinking global politics
In the debate on cosmopolitanism around the turn of the millennium, postcolonial and decolonial studies have sharply critiqued liberal-democratic cosmopolitan models for their Eurocentrism, univers...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Piece on postcolonial cosmopolitanism 👇 is an interesting effort to retain ethical/moral universalism from a grounded and context-sensitive approach
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting article from a Gramscian perspective in hegemony and post-growth 👇 - argues that the future will not be easily understood in traditional left-right terms
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Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Growth hegemony and post-growth futures: A complex hegemony approach - Volume 50 Issue 5
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September 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Interesting article from a Gramscian perspective in hegemony and post-growth 👇 - argues that the future will not be easily understood in traditional left-right terms
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For an extended discussion of world government proposals see 👇 , The Universal Republic: A realistic utopia?, by Matthias Archibugi.
Caveat: eye watering price by OUP
#polisky #utopianIR
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Caveat: eye watering price by OUP
#polisky #utopianIR
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
For an extended discussion of world government proposals see 👇 , The Universal Republic: A realistic utopia?, by Matthias Archibugi.
Caveat: eye watering price by OUP
#polisky #utopianIR
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Caveat: eye watering price by OUP
#polisky #utopianIR
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Can't remember if I shared this before, but an interesting article from ISQ on global attitudes towards world government
#polisky
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#polisky
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Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment
Abstract. Amidst multiple transnational crises, global governance has retaken center stage in academic and public debates. While previous generations of th
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September 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Can't remember if I shared this before, but an interesting article from ISQ on global attitudes towards world government
#polisky
academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
#polisky
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The Centre for Human Security and Social Change Director Lisa Denney will speak on this webinar on 10 September:
Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis
Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis
Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The Centre for Human Security and Social Change Director Lisa Denney will speak on this webinar on 10 September:
Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis
Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis
Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The examples to trot out would be legion. Syrup bottles. Beer ads. Latte-sipping liberals. 'Hummus' as a password.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The examples to trot out would be legion. Syrup bottles. Beer ads. Latte-sipping liberals. 'Hummus' as a password.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...
Came across a reference to Croce's 'creative misreading' of Hegel in his work. I think my new favourite conceptual move will be to claim a 'creative misreading' in all my work.
With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting
With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Came across a reference to Croce's 'creative misreading' of Hegel in his work. I think my new favourite conceptual move will be to claim a 'creative misreading' in all my work.
With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting
With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting
Reposted by Daniel R. McCarthy
📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks.
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
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#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
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Details - Assistant or Associate Professor, Global and Public Affairs - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs | University of Denver
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August 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
📣 We are searching for a tenure-line assistant or associate professor with a focus on the intersection of technology and global and public affairs @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social — please share across your networks.
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
#polisky #psjobs #poliscijobs Apply by September 15.
jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...
Utopianists: Check out 👇 Special Issue on Far Right Utopias in Practice
#polisky
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Introduction to special issue: exploring far-right utopias in practice
Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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August 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Utopianists: Check out 👇 Special Issue on Far Right Utopias in Practice
#polisky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
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If 'blueprint' utopias had never existed scholars of utopianism would surely have needed to create them.
Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?
Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?
August 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If 'blueprint' utopias had never existed scholars of utopianism would surely have needed to create them.
Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?
Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?
I increasingly watch a lot of dystopian films for research purposes.
This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes
This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes
August 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I increasingly watch a lot of dystopian films for research purposes.
This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes
This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes
Reposted by Daniel R. McCarthy
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds
New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3
Reading up a little on temporality today and found the best reference ever in a scholarly work!
Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018
Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣
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Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018
Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
a man is on a treadmill and says " it gets the people going "
ALT: a man is on a treadmill and says " it gets the people going "
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August 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reading up a little on temporality today and found the best reference ever in a scholarly work!
Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018
Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018
Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Interesting article developing socio-technical imaginaries perspective, applied to future of 'low carbon' war in the UK 👇
#polisky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
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The UK Ministry of Defence, “Low-Carbon Warfare,” and the struggle to construct novel sociotechnical imaginaries of future war
Why do defence organizations take some imaginaries of future warfare more seriously than others? In this article, we use the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to chart the struggle of a vangu...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Interesting article developing socio-technical imaginaries perspective, applied to future of 'low carbon' war in the UK 👇
#polisky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#polisky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....