Elsa Kugelberg
@elsakugelberg.bsky.social
Political theorist at the University of Oxford. Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College. Affiliate, mintresearch.org, Australian National University.
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Elsa Kugelberg
@elsakugelberg.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere
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New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies.
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We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Pratar maktkoncentration, upphovsrättsintrång, och techbubblor i P3 ID. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/del-...
Del 2: Sam Altman – maskinernas framtid, mänsklighetens dilemma - P3 ID
Han har blivit AI-kapplöpningens ansikte utåt men anklagas för att vara alldeles för riskbenägen. Det här är andra och sista delen om Sam Altman.
www.sverigesradio.se
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Pratar maktkoncentration, upphovsrättsintrång, och techbubblor i P3 ID. www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/del-...
My friend Kal thinks you should vote everyday 🗳️🤔🕒 :) This is an unusually creative piece of theory and a fantastic paper
My paper defending a new electoral system out now at Free & Equal!
Every Day an Election Day
Voting occurs on Election Day. In the history of electoral democracy, this fact has been closely identified with the practice of elections. However, I argue the temporality of election time generates ...
freeandequaljournal.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My friend Kal thinks you should vote everyday 🗳️🤔🕒 :) This is an unusually creative piece of theory and a fantastic paper
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Our new issue drops soon!
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our new issue drops soon!
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My new article, 'Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration', is now available (open access) in APSR
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup.
@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Very excited to share this year’s Ronald Dworkin Colloquium lineup.
@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
@ucl.ac.uk has been running this series in legal & political philosophy since 1998, when Dworkin founded it. Still going strong.
Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Hallvard is in @ethicsjournal.bsky.social !!! Feasibility, Sandven argues, is superfluous or moralised in normative discourse 🤔🤔 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
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Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical “Catalogue of Exploits” - Avshalom M. Schwartz, 2025
Among the surviving Funeral Orations, Pericles’s is the only one that does not mention the mythical Catalogue of Exploits. To explain this anomaly, this paper s...
journals.sagepub.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm happy to share that my latest article, "Risk and Quietness: Pericles’s Funeral Oration and the Mythical 'Catalogue of Exploits,'” is now published in Political Theory! You can find it here, and please feel free to reach out if you'd like a copy #poltheory
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
philpapers.org
August 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...
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"A long-needed revisionist history, the book follows on from a previous multi-year project that culminated in two collections on women’s international thought." Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review "Erased." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-active-project-of-exclusion/
August 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"A long-needed revisionist history, the book follows on from a previous multi-year project that culminated in two collections on women’s international thought." Geertje Bol and Jan Eijking review "Erased." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-active-project-of-exclusion/
My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper on politics and intimacy is featured in Political Science Today @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in a great piece by Ewa Nizalowska 💫🔭
July 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper on politics and intimacy is featured in Political Science Today @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in a great piece by Ewa Nizalowska 💫🔭
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
Yesterday we celebrated @jowolff.bsky.social remarkable career. Hard to put into words, so here’s a glimpse of the standing ovation that closed the day. Love, admiration, philosophy at its best. Days like this remind me why we do what we do.
July 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Yesterday we celebrated @jowolff.bsky.social remarkable career. Hard to put into words, so here’s a glimpse of the standing ovation that closed the day. Love, admiration, philosophy at its best. Days like this remind me why we do what we do.
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
Very happy that my first book “A World From Nowhere: Expert Politics and the Technocratic International” is now going to be under contract with OUP 😊
May 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Very happy that my first book “A World From Nowhere: Expert Politics and the Technocratic International” is now going to be under contract with OUP 😊
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In a recent @apsrjournal article, @ElsaKugelberg asks what it would mean for dating app corporations to serve the interests of their users.
The Politics of Online Dating
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Elsa Kugelberg,University of Oxford, "Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere." With around 350 million yearly users, online dating apps have revolutionized romance in the modern age…
politicalsciencenow.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In a recent @apsrjournal article, @ElsaKugelberg asks what it would mean for dating app corporations to serve the interests of their users.
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire.
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I thought I'd just slide away into retirement. But others, especially @shaiagmon.bsky.social to whom I'm incredibly grateful had other ideas. So he's assembled an extraordinary cast of philosophers to make sure I actually do retire.
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/publi...
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So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
April 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
April 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
So honoured my @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper was chosen by the APSA Public Scholarship Programme. Excellent summary of this piece by Ewa Nizalowska at Cornell’s Government Department. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
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My article with Ayelet Banai is now available (open access!) in @polstudies.bsky.social ! We ask what are the limits on the state's right to include new citizens, and argue that, surprisingly, the principle of self-determination supports such limits.
April 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My article with Ayelet Banai is now available (open access!) in @polstudies.bsky.social ! We ask what are the limits on the state's right to include new citizens, and argue that, surprisingly, the principle of self-determination supports such limits.
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
For over a decade, the Israeli centre dominated the opposition—and squandered its moment. It promised to safeguard democracy, restore unity, and bring stability. It delivered none. My new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social.
There are lessons here beyond Israel.
There are lessons here beyond Israel.
Centrists have long promised Israeli liberals moderation and stability. But as they’ve taken their place as the dominant opposition to the right, Israel has descended into its most extreme era yet.
@shaiagmon.bsky.social on the complicity of the Israeli center:
@shaiagmon.bsky.social on the complicity of the Israeli center:
Israel’s Complicit Center - Boston Review
Its parties have have embraced the fantasy that conciliation to the far right is the best way to weaken it.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
For over a decade, the Israeli centre dominated the opposition—and squandered its moment. It promised to safeguard democracy, restore unity, and bring stability. It delivered none. My new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social.
There are lessons here beyond Israel.
There are lessons here beyond Israel.
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Reposted by Elsa Kugelberg
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.