Tim Christiaens
@timchristiaens.bsky.social
Political philosopher working on critical theory, the digitalization of work, platform capitalism, and workplace democracy. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University.
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An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought
Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…
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🚨 for everyone interested in the state of Italian political thought today, you can now pre-order our book An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. Coming soon in early 2026. And it’s even for a reasonable price!
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Just heard that Paolo Virno had died. So sad, his Grammar of the Multitude was formative for me. One if not the best philosopher among the workerist Marxists.
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È morto Paolo Virno, filosofo militante e tra i leader di Potere Operaio. Aveva 73 anni
Addio al docente di Filosofia del linguaggio, semiotica ed etica presso l'università di Roma Tre
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November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just heard that Paolo Virno had died. So sad, his Grammar of the Multitude was formative for me. One if not the best philosopher among the workerist Marxists.
www.repubblica.it/politica/202...
www.repubblica.it/politica/202...
What is it with experimental philosophy and the desire for dirty hands? I demand a psychoanalysis of experimental philosophy now. Or at the very least some hand soap.
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is it with experimental philosophy and the desire for dirty hands? I demand a psychoanalysis of experimental philosophy now. Or at the very least some hand soap.
You feel entering the domain of academic schizophrenia when you’re supervising student theses on holidays in social theory, Lefebvre on alienation, psychoanalysis in Guattari, and the business ethics of climate change, while working on your own paper on community-building among platform workers.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
You feel entering the domain of academic schizophrenia when you’re supervising student theses on holidays in social theory, Lefebvre on alienation, psychoanalysis in Guattari, and the business ethics of climate change, while working on your own paper on community-building among platform workers.
The insidious danger of managerial jargon: repackaging horrible decisions in buzzer-heavy fluff so that nobody notices just how damaging their decisions are.
Coming to a university near you:
"By aligning our employing entity structure, we're taking another important step towards fully integrating into the broader business, which will enable us to leverage greater synergies and opportunities across the organisation."
"By aligning our employing entity structure, we're taking another important step towards fully integrating into the broader business, which will enable us to leverage greater synergies and opportunities across the organisation."
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The insidious danger of managerial jargon: repackaging horrible decisions in buzzer-heavy fluff so that nobody notices just how damaging their decisions are.
Teaching today about Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and the dangers of securitization and the state of emergency.
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Teaching today about Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and the dangers of securitization and the state of emergency.
Waiting for the rain to stop with Yukio Mishima’s Life for Sale. And yes, the contents are as disturbing as the cover art.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Waiting for the rain to stop with Yukio Mishima’s Life for Sale. And yes, the contents are as disturbing as the cover art.
The university is not a skills machine and neither should politicians think of themselves of oiling the gears of economic performance. Politics is not just about adapting populations to fit labour market demands.
This is a pretty significant and welcome move by the EU. Starmer and his education team are going the other way - a total disaster for research/knowledge and democracy.
Universities will not become ‘skills machines’, EU warned share.google/DhbpW02PWdLA...
Universities will not become ‘skills machines’, EU warned share.google/DhbpW02PWdLA...
Universities will not become ‘skills machines’, EU warned
Leading European institutions warn of ‘risk of instrumentalisation’ and say they should be allowed to determine their own role in bloc’s agenda
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The university is not a skills machine and neither should politicians think of themselves of oiling the gears of economic performance. Politics is not just about adapting populations to fit labour market demands.
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'My name is Fozziemandias, king of kings; Look on my wocka wockas, ye Mighty, and despair!'
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
'My name is Fozziemandias, king of kings; Look on my wocka wockas, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Reading Sally Haslanger’s introduction to Resisting Reality, a book on ideology critique, race, and gender. I wonder whether Quine would have been happy with being the main source of inspiration for left-wing academia.
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reading Sally Haslanger’s introduction to Resisting Reality, a book on ideology critique, race, and gender. I wonder whether Quine would have been happy with being the main source of inspiration for left-wing academia.
Here @graceblakeley.substack.com carefully laying out how the UK state operates as a parasitic network where private companies leech on to the state apparatus to channel taxpayer money into their own businesses.
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Democracy for Sale
A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britain’s political and economic elites are entangled.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Here @graceblakeley.substack.com carefully laying out how the UK state operates as a parasitic network where private companies leech on to the state apparatus to channel taxpayer money into their own businesses.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/democracy-...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/democracy-...
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If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?
Teaching the cybersecurity students today about Ulrich Beck and the politics of risk with social media content moderation as our case study. How are risks framed? Whose risks are worth consideration? How are risks shifted from one group of stakeholders to another?
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Teaching the cybersecurity students today about Ulrich Beck and the politics of risk with social media content moderation as our case study. How are risks framed? Whose risks are worth consideration? How are risks shifted from one group of stakeholders to another?
Nicolas Cage teamed up with the monk from the Da Vinci Code. That's the only explanation that makes any remote sense.
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nicolas Cage teamed up with the monk from the Da Vinci Code. That's the only explanation that makes any remote sense.
If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?
Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.
For those students interested in both philosophy and digital transformation, we now have a BA at Tilburg University that combines philosophy with basic training in computer science and a focus on philosophy of technology. Cool stuff if you ask me.
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Digitale Technologie, Ethiek en Samenleving | Tilburg University
In de track Digitale Technologie, Ethiek en Samenleving kijk je kritisch naar hoe digitale technologie onze wereld beïnvloedt. Van wetenschap en politiek tot werk, persoonlijke relaties en het dagelij...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For those students interested in both philosophy and digital transformation, we now have a BA at Tilburg University that combines philosophy with basic training in computer science and a focus on philosophy of technology. Cool stuff if you ask me.
www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/onderwijs...
www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/onderwijs...
Rowan Atkinson’s satire of the tories is now actually elected in Parliament. To turn Marx on his head: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.”
October 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Rowan Atkinson’s satire of the tories is now actually elected in Parliament. To turn Marx on his head: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.”
I know clicking on op-eds from ragebait robots is basically feeding the machine. But oh my, it’s infuriating to just read such opening lines. Evidence-based research from UN experts is just on a par with online conspiracies apparently … My personal ethics of non-clicking is being tested.
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I know clicking on op-eds from ragebait robots is basically feeding the machine. But oh my, it’s infuriating to just read such opening lines. Evidence-based research from UN experts is just on a par with online conspiracies apparently … My personal ethics of non-clicking is being tested.
Book acquisitions while on holiday. I read Despentes on the way back but obot terribly interesting tbh. Still looking forward to Mishima, though.
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Book acquisitions while on holiday. I read Despentes on the way back but obot terribly interesting tbh. Still looking forward to Mishima, though.
Back on the train from Denmark to the Netherlands with some nice memories of the 10th (!) edition of the Danish Marxist Society conference. Looking forward to next year with @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Back on the train from Denmark to the Netherlands with some nice memories of the 10th (!) edition of the Danish Marxist Society conference. Looking forward to next year with @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
When you receive yet another email about how to use AI in your teaching.
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When you receive yet another email about how to use AI in your teaching.
New book on the many political afterlives of Gilles Deleuze.
En partie tributaire de l’actualité politique des années 1960, la pensée deleuzienne est désormais mobilisée aussi bien par des penseurs progressistes que par certains courants néoréactionnaires. Quels usages pouvons-nous en faire, aujourd’hui ?
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Deleuze aujourd'hui
En partie tributaire de l'actualité politique des années 1960, la pensée deleuzienne est désormais mobilisée aussi bien par des penseurs progressistes que par certains courants néoréactionnaires. Quel...
laviedesidees.fr
October 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New book on the many political afterlives of Gilles Deleuze.
Spending the day studying Mikhail Bakhtin on popular culture and the carnivalesque.
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Spending the day studying Mikhail Bakhtin on popular culture and the carnivalesque.