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Elsa Kugelberg

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Political theorist at the University of Oxford. Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College. Affiliate, mintresearch.org, ANU. Columnist and contributing writer, Dagens Nyheter Kultur. https://elsakugelberg.com

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Jan 31

New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies.
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Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 9h

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 12d

Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup.

@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 12d

Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Avshalom Schwartz @avshalom.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
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Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits” - Avshalom M. Schwartz, 2025

Among the surviving Funeral Orations, Pericles’s is the only one that does not mention the mythical Catalogue of Exploits. To explain this anomaly, this paper s...

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Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social · Aug 11

Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

"A long-needed revisionist history, the book follows on from a previous multi-year project that culminated in two collections on women’s international thought." Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review "Erased." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-active-project-of-exclusion/

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Jul 31

And my paper 💕📱https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F83AAEFB7DEA94FA4179369A004CEEC/S000305542400128Xa.pdf/dating-apps-and-the-digital-sexual-sphere.pdf

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here’s the link to Ewa’s text www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Jul 31

My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper on politics and intimacy is featured in Political Science Today @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in a great piece by Ewa Nizalowska 💫🔭

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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yesterday we celebrated @jowolff.bsky.social remarkable career. Hard to put into words, so here’s a glimpse of the standing ovation that closed the day. Love, admiration, philosophy at its best. Days like this remind me why we do what we do.

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · May 22

Ja det hoppas vi!

Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · May 21

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DN Debatt. ”Katastrofen i Gaza är ett politiskt val vi gör”

DN Debatt. Ylva Jonsson Strömberg, Läkare utan gränser, professor med Johan von Schreeb om ett Gaza som förvandlats till en massgrav och svält.

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · May 14

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · May 13

Very happy that my first book “A World From Nowhere: Expert Politics and the Technocratic International” is now going to be under contract with OUP 😊

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Eli Cumings @elicumings.bsky.social · Apr 24

a little piece of my phd project has found a home in one of my favourite journals! it’s the product of long, sad thinking about some perennial research interests: providential punishment, bodily legibility, and the limits of empathy. link below if you care to read :)

The first page of a journal article, with black text on a white background. The first line of text says “Eli Cumings”. The second line of text gives the title “Famine in Faeryland”. Beneath this, the following abstract is presented in a block:

Emaciated bodies appear frequently in Edmund Spenser’s Legend of Holiness, and indeed throughout The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). This tendency is typically attributed to the poet’s traumatic memories of the Munster famine, vividly memorialized in A View of the Present State of Ireland (ca. 1598). This article instead proposes reading Spenser’s allegorical engagement with emaciation in the context of broader textual traditions that interpreted starvation as a providential punishment, a just outcome of legitimate warfare, and a laudable expression of piety. Both within and beyond the poem world, I argue, starvation—often violently enforced—is presented as both consequence of and remedy for moral inadequacy. Crucially, the alleged pedagogic and spiritual value of starvation determines not only how human affliction and suffering are interpreted and responded to but also how violence itself is understood and justified.

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Apr 4

In a recent @apsrjournal article, @ElsaKugelberg asks what it would mean for dating app corporations to serve the interests of their users.

The Politics of Online Dating

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Elsa Kugelberg,University of Oxford, "Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere." With around 350 million yearly users, online dating apps have revolutionized romance in the modern age…

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Apr 16

I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire.

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Apr 8

So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?

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Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Lior Erez @liorerez.bsky.social · Apr 2

My article with Ayelet Banai is now available (open access!) in @polstudies.bsky.social ! We ask what are the limits on the state's right to include new citizens, and argue that, surprisingly, the principle of self-determination supports such limits.

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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · Mar 25

For over a decade, the Israeli centre dominated the opposition—and squandered its moment. It promised to safeguard democracy, restore unity, and bring stability. It delivered none. My new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social.

There are lessons here beyond Israel.

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Mar 25

Centrists have long promised Israeli liberals moderation and stability. But as they’ve taken their place as the dominant opposition to the right, Israel has descended into its most extreme era yet.

@shaiagmon.bsky.social on the complicity of the Israeli center:

Israel’s Complicit Center - Boston Review

Its parties have have embraced the fantasy that conciliation to the far right is the best way to weaken it.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 24

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

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WIRED @wired.com · Mar 20

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.

Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

www.wired.com

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