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@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 21:25:36

Good ol' Roger Williams makes it into the London Review of Books! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/le

Democraticall Colin Kidd asks if any 17th-century philosopher can really be said to belong to the ‘liberal canon’ (LRB, 4 January). There is a case to be made, avant la lettre, for Roger Williams. Protégé of Edward Coke, and a Puritan émigré to New England, Williams outraged the Massachusetts theocracy by claiming that the state had no role in religion and that Native Americans had title to settler-occupied land. Expelled by the Boston authorities, he negotiated with the Narragansett for land f…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-09-24 06:21:35

Our #prediction series is announced, Mattering Press 2025 👋.
There is power in prediction. In the first volume of the Predictions series, a set of #sts authors makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of prediction. From speculative ethnography to sci-fi.