Caroline Ashcroft

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Caroline Ashcroft

Caroline Ashcroft

@CSAshcroft

20th century political thought @hmcoxford @lmhoxford. Author of Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (Edinburgh, 2024)

London, England Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Max Skjönsberg
Max Skjönsberg@MaxSkjonsberg·
My review of Istvan Hont, "Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx" (CUP, 2026). "Istvan is relatively unknown in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, he is considered one of the great intellectual historians of his generation." @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/book-review/bu…
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Geoff Shullenberger
Geoff Shullenberger@g_shullenberger·
Lewis Mumford argued that a quasi-religious faith underlies our culture’s embrace of technology. The AI revolution is the latest reminder of the value of this insight: compactmag.com/article/ai-and…
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Or Rosenboim
Or Rosenboim@OrRosenboim·
My new article on Barbara Ward's global thinking is out open access. It's part of a really fascinating special issue on geographical imaginaries edited by @Ant_FdO and Luke Ashworth @GSQ_Journal. Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward academic.oup.com/isagsq/article…
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John Tasioulas
John Tasioulas@JTasioulas·
The most dangerous AI con is not that machines are like humans but that humans are like machines.
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Caroline Ashcroft@CSAshcroft·
Delighted to see this superb piece by Callum Barrell published in History of European Ideas today - notionally a review of 'Catastrophic Technology' but so much more! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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New Left Review
New Left Review@NewLeftReview·
Cédric Durand (@cedric_durand) on what comes after the AI boom: ‘No one should doubt that this is Big Tech’s strategy, and that even a cascade of failures in the AI business will not make them deviate from it.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110·
Congrats to my MIH colleague Duncan Kelly on his forthcoming book—a highly anticipated intellectual history of World War I that dives into its origins and political aftermath: global.oup.com/academic/produ…
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King's Political Theory Research Group
Ph.D. students in the PPE research group at KCL are organising the "PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference" on November 26th, 2025. See the details here: tinyurl.com/5n7xv5cr Please consider applying if you are a Ph.D. student and help us spread the word.
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