On Monday at #ISA2025 I talk about how the design of (cloud) computing infrastructures shapes the organizational infrastructures of the UN. And on Wednesday, we discuss the contribution of @digital_objects philosophy of technology to International Relations theory
Never read the harrowing account of writing the first 3 Southern Reach novels, over at @TheAtlantic? Now's a good time to catch up, w/ the 10-year anniversary editions out and a fourth novel, Absolution, on October 22. @mcdbooks@fsgbooks@PicadorUSA
https://t.co/LCgCs0UMYy
🎈IR & Theory folks: @AdrianCalmettes and I are planning a #isa2025 panel on relations of technology and political universalism, drawing on @digital_objects concept of cosmotechnics. If you're interested in acting as discussant or contributing a paper, please get in touch!
Primatologist Frans de Waal (1948–2024) "spent his career, as both a scientist and an award-winning science writer, shrinking the distance between humans and animals."
Read more about his life in a new #ScienceRetrospective: https://t.co/32VlhN9mvU
Happy to announce that my next monograph will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2024. It is the third and the last of the trilogy starting with Recursivity and Contingency.
@XiaoAlvinYang@gloria_novovic There's the concept of 'polycrisis' that's gained traction lately, might be interesting seeing what theories and evidence used by those writing from that framework. From my understanding, multiple interacting crises invites less solutions, more experimenting with policy trials.
#ISA2024 I've a couple papers looking for a home on panel proposals relating to culture and technology:
1) Sinophone intellectuals and how technics inform their view of political action
2) Relational/@GIRS_ISA Global IR and theorizing technological relations
DM me if interested!
"We are all connected through our stories"
CPD is hoping to curate one or more roundtables for #ISA2024 specifically inspired by L.H.M. (Lily) Ling's work to de-centre ‘Westphalian’ hegemony in the production of knowledge and the making of world politics. See below for details:
Globalizing Sociology in a Multi-Polar World? Abstracts are welcome! One of the sessions I'm organizing at the Sociology of Knowledge Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association
May 29 – June 2, 2023, in #Toronto#GlobalSociology#GlobalIR
https://t.co/Rx2KsGAm2i
Stoked that my article “A Relational Approach to Gift-Giving: #China's Aid Exchanges in the Global South” is now out in @GSQ_Journal as part of a special issue curated by the most amazing @FisherOnar and Emilian Kavalski. Can’t wait to read all the pieces https://t.co/nQBZ7L2iK9
To understand Chinese politics in long duree, a good place to start is sociologist Dingxin Zhao’s The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History (Oxford 2018). Our scholarly collective, @THiS_TheHisSoc, is to hold a panel discussion on Nov 20 at 8pm (ET), 1/3
Our paper on decolonizing economics teaching is finally out!
@SurbhiKesar & I surveyed 498 economists to evaluate possibilities and challenges associated with efforts to decolonize economics.
As you may imagine, the results are not super encouraging...🧵
https://t.co/ULA5u4Nk9t
Presenting a critique of #GlobalIR from a global political economy perspective tmr. Global IR and Asian Worlds: Politics and Knowledge in Transition Panel. Looking forward to discussing with @LBenabdallah, @jhming89, @priyankchn, @MayFarid_HM, @ferranpeme, Yuqian Cai and Hui Li