Matthew Slaboch

I have interests in political theory and comparative politics. Courses taught include: Intro. to Pol. Theory; Modern Pol. Theory; Comparative Pol. Theory; Nationalism; West European Pols.; Russian Pols.; and Model EU Website: denison.academia.edu/MatthewSlaboch Book: upenn.edu/pennpress/book…

@rafkhach Cool! Share pic, plz.

@MatthewSlaboch I have one (replica) hanging in my office

As a Chicagoan interested in narratives of progress, I would like this poster. Anyone with an extra $15,000 in a giving mood? 🙏

Just back from a great workshop co-hosted by @rootsofprogress and @SNFAgora. Thanks for organizing, @jasoncrawford. And thanks for moderating the discussions, @simondhalliday.

All I did was look up a quotation from Alexander Herzen. 🤦‍♂️

@paul_jkrause Same, among works of fiction.

War and Peace is my favorite book, what’s yours?

Using an out-of-context line from Seneca in my automatic out-of-office reply to emails.

I'm not the one who needs this training. Share it with the good folks at Canvas.

no grade complaints, no grade complaints, no grade complaints

"wild," "disheartening" potayto, potahto

@sjmmcd Last semester I taught a course called "Progress & Power," and at the end a student asked for suggestions for further reading. He ended up doing guided study with me this semester, and just last week he reminded me that I had recommended your book to him, which he said he loved.

Always a lovely time chatting with Nathan, we talked about the 5,000-year connection between growthism and progress narratives; the simultaneous glorious-past and glorious-future propaganda of fascists; gross vs net progress; and envisioning utopia without teleology

i hope the hackers shut down outlook and gmail next. i don't want to hear from anyone about anything.

@ChozangNoyb Thanks! I will check it out. 🙂

@MatthewSlaboch If you have nothing to do one day, and you want to see the kind of things techies talk about, there's thedailywtf.com .

If Canvas is down, can we use Discord instead? Or a Slack channel? Or Substack? (I don't know what these things are; I like VHS.)

@ChozangNoyb And I'll never see those comments! 😅

@MatthewSlaboch You are the kind of prof techies talk about on their forums. 😄

Still mad.

@AndreaCepova Byl pozdní večer – první máj – večerní máj – byl lásky čas.

1 May = 🇨🇿 Valentine’s Day rdv beneath the statue of Karel Hynek Mácha. Poet of spring, youth and nature! Petřín, Prague ♥️

@AndreaCepova 🤔

We need new philosophers to reinvent the meaning of work (and leisure), work and #AI. And perhaps revisit what progress, social progress means really:

@AndreaCepova Jsem opravdu Čech. 😌

@MatthewSlaboch Quite. Negative, pessimistic too:)

From an informal perspective and speaking anecdotally, I've seen a lot of negation. A very negative people, the Czechs.

@ChozangNoyb Use of fake quotations. Or real quotes, but from chapters that I did not assign (or editions/translations that we didn't use). I grade low and say "if you provide the reference information for the sources you consulted, then I can raise your grade."

@MatthewSlaboch Do you have any way of detecting it clearly enough to punish it when you do?

Should we use AI to write our papers in "Great Ideas of Politics and ETHICS"? 😩