Will Davies

will-davies.bsky.social

16 October 2026 13:19

Reading and writing had already been colonised by cognitive psychology and numbers, long before LLMs came along. Heroic, humanistic defences of ‘difficulty’ ignore some inconvenient truths. My new piece in the Ideas Letter www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ri...

Will Davies

will-davies.bsky.social

16 October 2026 10:09

"Whereas neoliberal technocracy is an epistemic argument, grounded in claims to expertise about the market economy, monarchical long-termism is grounded in notions of private ownership" - v interesting (open access) paper from @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Duncan Bell

duncanbell.bsky.social

09 October 2026 09:08

I enjoyed talking to David about the history of transhumanism (the first of four episodes)

Nigel Warburton

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30 September 2026 07:25

Check out the cover of my new book - out May/June next year - published by Penguin in US

LSE European Institute

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24 September 2026 08:25

Are democracies too short-sighted to govern the future? In the European Journal of Social Theory, @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social traces how arguments once used to defend kings now underpin the far right's case for strongman rule, amid democratic crisis. Read more👇 www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...