James Muldoon Reader in Management, Essex Business School Joint PhD, University of Warwick/Monash University james.muldoon@essex.ac.uk Employment University of Essex, Reader in Management 2023 – Present University of Exeter, Senior Lecturer in Political Science 2021 – 2023 University of Exeter, Lecturer in Political Science, 2017 – 2021 L’institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po), Lecturer, 2015 – 2017. Education University of Warwick/Monash University, PhD, 2013 – 2016. Dissertation: Hannah Arendt and Council Democracy Monash University, MA, 2012. Dissertation: The Concept of the Drives in Hegel’s Philosophy The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Laws (Hons)/Arts, 2009. Publications Books Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (Canongate/Bloomsbury, 2024). Why Climate Tech Won’t Save Us (manuscript). Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech (London: Pluto Press, 2022). Building Power to Change the World: The Political Thought of the German Council Movements (Oxford University Press, 2020). The German Revolution and Political Theory (eds., with Gaard Kets) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2018). Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (eds., with Lise Herman) (London: Routledge, 2018). Hegel’s Philosophy of Drives (Aurora, Colorado: Noesis Press, 2014). James Muldoon 1 1 January 2024 Articles “Empowering Digital Democracy” Perspectives on Politics (co-author with Roberta Fischli) (2024) “A Typology of AI Data Work” Big Data & Society (co-author with Callum Cant, Boxi Wu and Mark Graham). “The Poverty of Ethical AI: Impact Sourcing and the AI Supply Chain” AI & Society (co-author with Callum Cant, Funda Ustek and Mark Graham). “Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power” Philosophy & Technology (co-author with Boxi Wu) (2023). “‘Neither work nor Leisure’: Motivations of Microworkers in the United Kingdom across Three Digital Platforms” New Media & Society (2023) (co-author with Paul Apostolidis). “Reimagining the Digital Economy” Renewal: A journal of social democracy (2023). “Data-Owning Democracy or Digital Socialism?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2022). “Algorithmic Domination in the Gig Economy” European Journal of Political Theory (2022) (co-author with Paul Raekstad). “Socialist Democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s Challenge to Democratic Theory” Philosophy & Social Criticism (2022) (co-author with Dougie Booth). “‘Aux Ouvrières!’: Socialist Feminism in the Paris Commune” Intellectual History Review (2022) (co-author with Mirjam Müller and Bruno Leipold). “Institutionalizing Radical Democracy: Socialist Republicanism” New Political Science (2021). “Conceptualising Party-Driven Movements,” British Journal of Politics and International Relations (2020). “After Council Communism: The Post-War Rediscovery of the Council Tradition,” Intellectual History Review (2020). “Luise Kautsky: The Forgotten Soul of the Socialist Movement” Historical Materialism (2020). James Muldoon 2 1 January 2024 “A Socialist Republican Theory of Freedom and Government,” European Journal of Political Theory (2019). “Arendtian Principles,” Political Studies, vol. 64, no. 1 (sup) (2016). “The Origins of Hannah Arendt’s Council System,” History of Political Thought, vol. 37, no. 4 (2016) pp. 761-789. “Arendt’s Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Between Constituent Power and Constitutional Form,” Constellations, vol. 22, no. 4 (2016) pp. 596-607. “Lazzarato and the Micro-Politics of Invention,” Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 31, no. 6 (2014) pp. 57-76. “Foucault’s Forgotten Hegelianism,” Parrhesia vol. 21 (2014) pp. 102-112. “The Lost Treasure of Arendt’s Council System,” Critical Horizons, vol. 12, no. 3 (2011) pp. 396-417. Book Chapters “Social Dividend Socialism: Labour Autonomy in a Participatory Planned Economy,” in Creative Construction: Planned Economies in the 21st Century and Beyond (eds. Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg) (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024) (forthcoming) (with Dougie Booth). “The ‘Forgotten’ German Revolution,” The German Revolution and Political Theory (eds., with Gaard Kets) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). “The Birth of Council Communism,” The German Revolution and Political Theory (eds., with Gaard Kets) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). “Populism in the 21st century: From the Fringe to the Mainstream,” Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (with Lise Herman) (London: Routledge, 2018). “There’s Something about Marine: Strategies against the Far Right in the 2017 French Presidential Elections,” Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Mainstream Democratic Politics by Far-Right Populism (eds., with Lise Herman) (London: Routledge, 2018). “Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics” in Muldoon (ed.), Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (London: Routledge, 2018). James Muldoon 3 1 January 2024 “Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils,” Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (with Gaard Kets) (London: Routledge, 2018). Reports “Written submission to Select Committee on ‘Governance of Artificial Intelligence’” Nov 2022 (with Prof Mark Graham, Dr Matthew Cole, Dr Callum Cant, Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda). “Written submission and oral evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence” House of Lords, Oct 2022. “A Basic Income for Cornwall” (edited). 2022. Covered in BBC, Cornwall Live. “Rise and Grind: Microwork and Hustle Culture in the United Kingdom.” Autonomy. 2022. (co-authored). Covered in The Guardian, The Observer, City AM, Mirage News, MSN, SIA, Phys Org. “A Future Fit for Wales: a Basic Income.” Autonomy. 2021. (co-authored) Report delivered to the Welsh Future Generations Commissioner following a competitive tender process. Wales Online, Mirror, ITV, The Independent, Labour List, The Llanelli Herald, The Big Issue, North Wales Live, Gov.Wales. “Piloting a basic income in Wales: principles, precedents and feasibility”. London: Autonomy, 2021. Covered in Wales Online, BBC, Express, ITV, and Western Mail. “How to Launch a Food Delivery Co-operative”. London: Autonomy, 2021. “Supporting Food Delivery Co-operatives: A guide for policy makers”. London: Autonomy, 2021. Platforming Equality: Policy Challenges for the Digital Economy (ed.) (London: Autonomy, 2020). Book Reviews and Review Essays “Scaling Platform Coops to a Digital Cooperative Commonwealth” Verso Roundtable on Trebor Scholz’s Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Help Build a Democratic Internet. Jan 2024. “Book review: Cloud empires: how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control by Vili Lehdonvirta” LSE Blog. 9 November 2022. James Muldoon 4 1 January 2024 “Review of Paris Marx, Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation and Ben Tarnoff, Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future. Jacobin. 8 May 2022. “Is There an Alternative to Algorithmic Capitalism?” Verso Roundtable on Justin Joque’s Revolutionary Mathematics. 21 March 2022. “Review of Steven Klein, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State.” Political Theory. 5 May 2021. “Fully Decelerated Carbon Neutral Luddism” Verso Roundtable on Gavin Mueller’s Breaking Things at Work. 26 April 2021. “Review of Jamie Woodcock, The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy,” LSE Book Reviews. 17 March 2021. “Review of Simon Tormey, The End of Representative Politics,” Contemporary Political Theory vol. 15, no. 2 (2016) pp. e26-e28. “Machiavelli and Democratic Theory,” Theory & Event, vol. 16, no. 2 (2013). “Review of Jon Simons (ed.), From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical Theorists,” Critical Horizons, vol. 13, no. 3 (2012) pp. 433-436. “Review of Judith Revel, Dictionnaire Foucault,” Foucault Studies, vol. 8 (Feb 2010) pp. 192-195. Translations Maurizio Lazzarato, “Multiplicity, Totality and Politics,” Parrhesia, vol. 9 (2010) 23-30. Research Grants and Awards AHRC Networking grant: “The Climate Crisis and Democratic Reform” £45K grant. ESRC New Investigator grant (PI): “Platforms without Borders: Examining Migrant Labour on Global Labour Platforms” Principal Investigator on a £284K grant. 2023-2026. EPSRC Not Equal Award: Social Justice through the Digital Economy. Principal Investigator on a £40K grant. Sep 2020. Research England: Strategic Priorities Fund – Policy Engagement Fund: “Democratising the Digital Economy: Improving Policy Outcomes for Platform Co-operatives” £10K. Feb 2020. ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA): Knowledge Exchange Fellowships: “The Future of Working Time” £15K. Feb 2020 ADR Award: “The Future of Work” Workshop. £1,500. Jan 2020. James Muldoon 5 1 January 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award, shortlisted, University of Exeter, 2021. Inspirational Teaching Award, shortlisted, University of Exeter, 2020. Best Teacher/Academic, shortlisted, University of Exeter, 2019. Best Personal Tutor, shortlisted, University of Exeter, 2019. Most Innovative Teaching, University of Exeter, 2018 and 2019. Monash University Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal (best PhD thesis), 2016. 2016 Faculty of Arts Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis, $5000. Monash Postgraduate Publication Award, 2016. ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation’ Co-Applicant, winning $30K for a Warwick-Monash Alliance Research Project 2014-2015. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, 2013-2014. Monash Graduate Scholarship, 2013-2016. Australian Postgraduate Award, 2011-2013. The Rufus Davis Memorial Politics Honours Dissertation Prize, 2010. The School of Political and Social Inquiry Honours Prize, 2010. The Doug Muecke Prize for Best Thesis, 2010. Teaching “Power & Democracy,” University of Exeter, 2022/23. “Platform Politics: Technology, Power and the Circuits of Social Struggle,” University of Exeter, 2021/22. “Writing to Change the World,” University of Exeter, 2019/20. “Modern Political Thought,” University of Exeter, 2018/19, 19/20. “Political Campaign Strategy,” University of Exeter, 2018/19, 19/20, 20/21, 22/23. “Sparking Social Change,” University of Exeter, 2017/18, 18/19, 19/20, 20/21. “Contemporary Political Theory: Race, Class and Gender,” University of Exeter, 2017/18, 18/19. “Foundations in Political Thought,” University of Exeter, 2017/18. “Themes in North American Political Thought,” Sciences Po, 2016/17. Languages English French German native fluent in reading fluent in reading References Associate Professor Andrew Schaap University of Exeter a.w.schaap@exeter.ac.uk James Muldoon Professor Paul Apostolidis London School of Economics P.Apostolidis@lse.ac.uk 6 Associate Professor Jeanne Morefield Oxford University jeanne.morefield@politics.o x.ac.uk 1 January 2024