Political philosopher (they/them) working on critical theory, technology, and labour. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University. Genderfluid 🏳️⚧️
Tim Christiaens
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Saw a photo exhibition of Letizia Battaglia this weekend in The Hague. Really worth a visit. Battaglia became famous as photo journalist of maffia violence in the 1980s, but she also depicted everyday life in Palermo, Sicily.
Tim Christiaens
Excited to report that "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" has been published online. It introduces the forthcoming special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" that I co-edited with @s-msorentino.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/1462...
Job alert 🚨2-year post-doc position in the Tilburg philosophy department on linguistic justice with a focus on online hate speech that is amplified by AI technologies.
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We might elect human politicians to Parliament, but actually the corporate hivemind speaks through them.
Anyone who believes French theory or philosophy can only be dry and pretentious, clearly hasn’t read Preciado’s Testojunkie. Philosophy can also be funny and pretentious!
I feel like we’re living through an “après nous, le déluge” society where people have just stopped questioning whether the status quo is sustainable in the long run, and just keep business as usual assuming that the future doesn’t matter anymore anyway.
On holiday with some true beach reading: Marx’ 1861-1863 Economic Manuscripts.
For those blocked by the paywall, this is the part I contributed.
Nancy Fraser on Gaza and philosemitic McCarthyism in Europe and the US: “anti-woke war against the universities—and against civil society more broadly—came straight from McCarthy’s playbook, painting campuses as incubators of intolerance, where ‘Marxist professors’ oppressed conservative students.”
Wrote a piece for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social about the recent Canvas hack and what we Europeans should learn from it. With more hacking capabilities on the horizon (Claude Mythos), we should invest in digital sovereignty and technodiversity to avoid US-dominated technological monoculture.
The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the ...
