The 24th Biennale of Sydney has a well-curated cocktail menu, including a gin x vermouth aperitif.

Bravo to the curators of both the exhibition and the bar 🎨🍸

Down with the technopatriarchy.

An excerpt from the Bitch Mutant Manifesto makes an appearance at the Biennale of Sydney.

#24thbiennaleofsydney

An anecdote passed down to me: once when the New School was occupied by students, members of the grad faculty met in a hotel room to decide what to do. When the police were mentioned, Hannah Arendt said, *in German*—'you never call the police.'

A lot of people keep referencing Rosa Parks, so can we please tell the Rosa Parks bus story properly? It’s actually more telling that way. She DID NOT try to sit in the front of the bus. What actually happened might be more telling for how power is used and wielded. /1

Why are disruptive protests good for democracy?

Some answers from democratic theorists:
1) Nicole Curato: they can redistribute voice and visibility, attention, and agency which, in turn, can lay bare the weaknesses of dysfunctional deliberative systems.
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The UNDP Human Development Report is out now and includes a section on deliberative assemblies. Pleased to see a nuanced discussion of the power and limits of deliberative mini-publics, reflecting the ethos of our team's collaboration with the UNDP.

hdr.undp.org/content/human-…

Colombia's itinerant citizens' assembly demonstrates the power of sequential deliberation.

Learn more about this design in this podcast featuring Felipe Rey Salamanca of iDeemos and #GloCAN in conversation with Annelise Riles of Foreign Policy.

open.spotify.com/episode/5XYmkn…

Join our team! Acta Politica is looking for a a new co-Editor and a new Book Review Editor. Details below 👇 the deadline to apply is 15 May.

Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Lafont and Urbinati describe the 'lottocratic mentality' as a form of 'technopopulism' which normalises anti-democratic assumptions.

Fascinating edited collection advancing critiques of citizens' assemblies 🧐 Imprint Academic

Putting on a #Filipiniana outfit requires transnational female solidarity 💅✊🏾

Thank you to the competent women of DelDemUCan - Adele Webb Selen Ayirtman Ercan Wendy Conway-Lamb Olivia Mendoza

Shame on everyone who authorized this, cheers on, and stays silent about what's being unleashed on students

📺 At the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Katharina Esau and Adele Webb from DelDemUCan recently ran a great APSA Australia workshop on Future-Proofing the Public Sphere - as part of which I was able to continue my conversation with fellow Laureate Fellow John Dryzek. Video of our chat is now online:

In Australia, a lot of things can kill you. But one group of killers is not like the others.

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'What does deliberation look like when it gives appropriate room not just to our arguments but also to our personal lives?'

A powerful piece by Markus Holdo & Zohreh Khoban on why deliberative democrats should not only talk the talk but walk the walk.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

We are thrilled to announce that Seyla Benhabib will deliver the Constellations Spring 2024 Lecture

The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: The Globe as World, Earth, and Planet

May 4th, 2024 Saturday 3:00 pm (EDT)

Venue: The New School and Online

event.newschool.edu/constellations…

More reviews encouraging slow listening to fully appreciate #TTPD .

'Swift’s album demands time to be fully appreciated. It cannot be devoured at the speed of TikTok.'

edition.cnn.com/2024/04/26/ent…

One of the vexing things about being embedded within the development policy apparatus is the degree to which powerful people feel the need to listen to western academics with no experiential knowledge of the global south largely to boost their lack of intellectual heft. And - the…

My Brazilian gin collection is growing! Muito obrigado Lucas H. N. Veloso & Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça ☀️

To friends in Canberra 📢

Our brilliant postdoctoral research fellow Adele Webb is presenting her latest work on democratic ambivalence at ANU School of Politics & International Relations

Info here: politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/events/two-min…

“Can you call the Philosophy Department and tell them I’ve been arrested?

I’m Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department.”

#EmoryUniversity