Jeff Whyte

Luca, I thought about you *specifically* this week

That perverse feeling of excitement when the bad thing you study happens

*tapping forehead, knowingly

But think of how many Sun Tsu/Clausewitz style strategic geniuses he will have created

Western Civilisation: the ultimate parasocial relationship

🪙 Join our SPIN Panel Session to hear more about the research underpining two chapters in our forthcoming SPIN volume. Ana Flamind on 'Secrecy and the Politics of Transgression' and Jamie Johnson and Owen D Thomas on 'Sense-Making at the End of Liberalism'

11 Feb | 15:00 | Online

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He is the Republican Diane Feinstein

I take this to mean that he literally, at that moment, believed he was a farmer

Make your time

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Greg Bovino is a more and better Pynchonian name than Steven Lockjaw

The complaint is difficult reading, but if you need a condensed timeline of events in Minneapolis... I think I missed this incident entirely:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72132...

“Better dead than red” but talking about myself

We need to start normalising the slur ‘toaster’ to talk about AI, like in Battlestar Galactica

Some guys have all the luck

BORN the king of angels???

Jesus Christ: nepo baby

honestly I think we specifically need to ban chatbots for this specific generation of extremely wealthy elderly academics

The definition of these grievance conservatives to me is, guys who can't do whatever deal they claim only they can do, and blame everyone other than themselves for this. That's Sarah Palin, that's shitty stand-ups, that's Bari Weiss, it is a through line through all of them. They bring nothing.

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything

ABSTRACT How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share!

‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess.

This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Come to my book talk this Wed (Nov 19) at 3pm GMT! I'll be talking about my research on the political history of 'psychological war,' how we came to think about 'wars of ideas,' and how psywar has often justified rather than replaced traditional forms of military violence.

Details in link!

No two countries with Hard Rock Cafes have ever gone to war

Did Hard Rock Cafe ever get around to saving the planet?

Next Wednesday, join us for a talk by @jeffwhyte.bsky.social on his latest book - The Birth of Psychological Warfare (OUP). Of interest to those researching and studying US military conflict and history, propaganda, intelligence operations and post-truth politics. Join us! See link for details.