Antonia Alksnis
@antoniaalksnis
Political theory PhD candidate, UC Berkeley polisci | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle BA University of Toronto 🇨🇦 Save OSAP !!
8 years ago today I first laid eyes upon one of the greatest works of art ever made. Under-appreciated masterpiece.
This guy felt comfortable dying in here and leaving his corpse for possibly hundreds of years. Shameful library behaviour.
Library etiquette back in the day was just awful. Someone straight up took a chomp out of this page smh
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struck the space key by mistake, making a strangely poignant typo
New in Political Theory, by me: Does this guy's chain look like a necklace to you? ↓ Scholars have treated it as a necklace. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely!
guys I think I'm finally figuring out the regime types in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
💪 $32.24 definitely compensates for lost privacy I can never get back
Abba's "take a chance on me" is a mood for academic job market season
throwback to when one of Berkeley's mandatory cybersecurity trainings used stock images of the Jealous GirlfriendTM
When you're trying to optimize your article title for search engines
“Amazon healthcare” is among the most ominous phrases I’ve seen lately
Last call to apply for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) Keynote: Alison McQueen (Stanford) @aejm.bsky.social Deadline: January 10 Date: May 3 Submission form: forms.gle/AEzA3CoMNTNh... More info 👇 Please circulate widely!