This looks amazing!

When reading management literature on introducing AI at work, Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man is still convincing. Management scholars value worker constructive critique to optimize AI implementation (“co-design” is the buzzword), but the question of whether to have AI at all is unimaginable.

That’s really cool 🤩 congratulations! And see you soon.

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social

Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

“Universities have existed as partial exception to demands for complete intellectual loyalty from presidents, bosses, executives, financiers. […]
But Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.”

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My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Protesting for Palestine yesterday with 250.000 others (!) in Amsterdam. 🍉

Let’s be honest. I would definitely listen to a Taylor Swift black metal album, though.

Univers, the university paper at Tilburg University, interviewed me about the use of AI chatbots to acquire voting advice and why that’s a terrible idea.

They accidentally called me full professor, so I am expecting an e-mail to confirm my promotion any day now 😅

universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

When criticizing Kantian liberalism, remember: “Nothing but ad hominem abuse is more than nothing.”

From Raymond Geuss’ Philosophy and Real Politi

‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’

— @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Calling it a “race” suggests that you should want to win. But my inner luddite is saying: “Do we really want to spend all this money and effort on traveling to the moon?” Traveling to a sunny beach sounds much nicer and feasible, to be honest.

Verschijnt deze winter!

Een Inleiding in Het Kapitaal van Karl Marx
door Michael Heinrich

Nog altijd de beste korte inleiding in Het Kapitaal.

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Maybe. Though I’m not sure homeopathic representation in parliament with one seat is truly helpful + one could also pursue new views as a radical flank within a larger party (though I admit that’s difficult as we’ve seen with Corbyn or Sanders).

It gives parties some real bargaining power as you would have fewer parties with more seats. And it attenuates the Dutch tendency for celebrity politics. A politician becomes famous on talkshows and immediately forms their own party with nothing but their personal brand to hold it together (see NSC)

5% thresholds wouldn’t generate two-party systems like first-past-the-post does in the US/UK. But it would deter ideologically similar parties with just different branding. After 4 years in NE, I honestly still don’t understand the fundamental difference between some parties apart from marketing.

But it would avoid the formation of new parties in the first place + encourage parties with basically the same ideology packaged in different branding to merge.

I know of very few arguments as good for a 5% voting threshold as the Dutch electoral system.

Thanks!

I know 😳 bought a Kamel Daoud novel just before stepping on the train home, but still …

Petit prince 😎

It was Vrin 🙂