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I'm happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
Duncan Bell
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Duncan Bell
@DrDuncanBell
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Writing a book on transhumanism
- My daughter just described my book manuscript as "hundreds of pages of boringness" and I think I have a new blurb for the back
- connecting to eduroamname something harder than this😭
00:00 - There’s a fascinating story to be told about how Oxford became the (very well-funded) intellectual epicentre for a cluster of techno ideologies - existential risk, effective altruism, transhumanist bioethics, longtermism
- I wonder if the University of Waterloo will promote Donna Strickland to full professor now that she has won a Nobel Prize
- I’m delighted to say that I’ve been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Congratulations to all the other new fellows! @Dept_of_POLIS @cambridge_cpt @christs_college @BritishAcademy_Congratulations @DrDuncanBell on being elected a Fellow of @BritishAcademy_. We very much look forward to working with you to harness the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-briti…
- My lockdown hobby is buying books I don't have time to read
- Daughter (6): "why don't you read all those books you keep buying, rather than looking at twitter and other boring stuff" 🔥🔥🔥 (not wrong tho)
- Delighted to say that I’ve signed a contract with @PenguinUKBooks (Pelican) to write a book on Transhumanism. I’ll be exploring the history, theory, and politics of human augmentation, from the late c19 to now Looking forward to working with @hanateraiewood & @ChrisWellbelove
- Very little indeedWhat can the Athenian historian Thucydides tell us about the risks of a US-China war? @gilliantett investigates on.ft.com/3HP1Lu0
- I'm delighted to say that Dreamworlds of Race has won the annual Transatlantic Studies Association/CUP Book Prize. 🍾🥳🍾 @TransAtStudies @PrincetonUPress @Dept_of_POLIS @cambridge_cpt
