Atticus Carnell is a fourth-year PhD candidate in political theory. He’s interested in what we owe to each other in communicating, the nature of respect, recognition, and authority, and the moral foundations of democracy. He’s also interested in social theory, particularly in how new forms of technological mediation complicate received models of social reproduction. His dissertation deals with all these topics, developing a respect- and recognition-based account of the value of democracy and the informal distribution of democratic voice, revising some social-theoretical canon for the digital age, and applying this work to develop some design principles for traditional and social media. He has a BA in politics from Bowdoin College and an MPhil in political theory from Balliol College, Oxford. He spent a year as an AmeriCorps Climate Action Fellow in Portland, ME before starting at Princeton.