Moving on to chapter 2 on temporalities and geographies of gender in my chapter-by-chapter summary of Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. 1/7

Just finished Kevin Anderson’s new book on colonialism, gender, and non-Western postcapitalism from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s great! I used to do book summaries on Twitter, but Bluesky doesn’t seem to encourage that stuff. Would there be interest in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the book?

Up for chapter 1 of my summary of Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. On precapitalist, communial social formations and their history among native Americans, ancients Greeks, Germans and Romans, Russians, precolonial Algerians, and the Irish. 1/7

Starting with a chapter-by-chapter summary of Kevin Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads pbulished by @versobooks.bsky.social earlier this year. First up: the introduction, where Anderson lays out the reception history of Marx's late notebooks.

Just finished Kevin Anderson’s new book on colonialism, gender, and non-Western postcapitalism from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s great! I used to do book summaries on Twitter, but Bluesky doesn’t seem to encourage that stuff. Would there be interest in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the book?

“If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and China and growing by 15 per cent a year. By 2027 scams are expected to cost the world $27 trillion a year.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Reading on Robert Michels’ critique of popular democracy and its roots in French syndicalism. Quite a fascinating yet alarming world with socialists supporting Mussolini, anarchists championing Malthusianism, and trade-unionists calling for eugenics to enhance the class warfare potential of workers.

I know several of the wonderful people who have contributed/edited this forthcoming beast. Promises to be fantastic. #MetalSky #MetalStudies #PhilSky #FeministStudies 👏🏻🫶🏻🤘🏻

Altijd leuk om bekende namen tegen te komen in de boekenwinkel in Utrecht. Hier het nieuwe boek van @simontruwant.bsky.social .

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

Reading about the history of business ethics lately and its political meaning is quite clear: urging business school students to act responsibly once they become managers so that the business community can avoid government regulation and socialist revolution.

“If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and China and growing by 15 per cent a year. By 2027 scams are expected to cost the world $27 trillion a year.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Read the letter:

Just heard that Paolo Virno had died. So sad, his Grammar of the Multitude was formative for me. One if not the best philosopher among the workerist Marxists. www.repubblica.it/politica/202...

What is it with experimental philosophy and the desire for dirty hands? I demand a psychoanalysis of experimental philosophy now. Or at the very least some hand soap.

You feel entering the domain of academic schizophrenia when you’re supervising student theses on holidays in social theory, Lefebvre on alienation, psychoanalysis in Guattari, and the business ethics of climate change, while working on your own paper on community-building among platform workers.

The insidious danger of managerial jargon: repackaging horrible decisions in buzzer-heavy fluff so that nobody notices just how damaging their decisions are.

Teaching today about Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and the dangers of securitization and the state of emergency.

Waiting for the rain to stop with Yukio Mishima’s Life for Sale. And yes, the contents are as disturbing as the cover art.

The university is not a skills machine and neither should politicians think of themselves of oiling the gears of economic performance. Politics is not just about adapting populations to fit labour market demands.

'My name is Fozziemandias, king of kings; Look on my wocka wockas, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Reading Sally Haslanger’s introduction to Resisting Reality, a book on ideology critique, race, and gender. I wonder whether Quine would have been happy with being the main source of inspiration for left-wing academia.

Here @graceblakeley.substack.com carefully laying out how the UK state operates as a parasitic network where private companies leech on to the state apparatus to channel taxpayer money into their own businesses. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/democracy-...

If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?

Teaching the cybersecurity students today about Ulrich Beck and the politics of risk with social media content moderation as our case study. How are risks framed? Whose risks are worth consideration? How are risks shifted from one group of stakeholders to another?

Nicolas Cage teamed up with the monk from the Da Vinci Code. That's the only explanation that makes any remote sense.

If you were to walk into a bookstore and see the title “Hell is other cameras”. Would you pick up the book? What would be your thoughts about its contents?

Researching Christopher Lasch. What impresses me today more than the contents, however, is his stylistic ability to connect widely different phenomena without sounding unhinged. If I talk about Freud, disaster movies, workplace culture and mass media on a single page, people would be concerned.

For those students interested in both philosophy and digital transformation, we now have a BA at Tilburg University that combines philosophy with basic training in computer science and a focus on philosophy of technology. Cool stuff if you ask me. www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/onderwijs...

Rowan Atkinson’s satire of the tories is now actually elected in Parliament. To turn Marx on his head: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.”

I know clicking on op-eds from ragebait robots is basically feeding the machine. But oh my, it’s infuriating to just read such opening lines. Evidence-based research from UN experts is just on a par with online conspiracies apparently … My personal ethics of non-clicking is being tested.

Book acquisitions while on holiday. I read Despentes on the way back but obot terribly interesting tbh. Still looking forward to Mishima, though.

Back on the train from Denmark to the Netherlands with some nice memories of the 10th (!) edition of the Danish Marxist Society conference. Looking forward to next year with @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

When you receive yet another email about how to use AI in your teaching.

New book on the many political afterlives of Gilles Deleuze.

Spending the day studying Mikhail Bakhtin on popular culture and the carnivalesque.

Why can’t we have any nice things anymore? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thanks to the Danish Marxist for another great conference!

On the train towards Aarhus for the @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference. Will be talking about why to put AI under public ownership without fostering an AI-driven state bureaucracy. But mostly looking forward to see friends again! marxistiskestudier.com/2025/09/26/1...

When reading management literature on introducing AI at work, Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man is still convincing. Management scholars value worker constructive critique to optimize AI implementation (“co-design” is the buzzword), but the question of whether to have AI at all is unimaginable.

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

“Universities have existed as partial exception to demands for complete intellectual loyalty from presidents, bosses, executives, financiers. […] But Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.” www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

My paper is out on The Entrepreneurship Paradox in Platform Work 🥳 How can we explain platform workers’ sometimes enthusiastic embrace of entrepreneurial identity? I argue that postcolonial theories of informal labor offer some good suggestions. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Protesting for Palestine yesterday with 250.000 others (!) in Amsterdam. 🍉

Univers, the university paper at Tilburg University, interviewed me about the use of AI chatbots to acquire voting advice and why that’s a terrible idea. They accidentally called me full professor, so I am expecting an e-mail to confirm my promotion any day now 😅 universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

When criticizing Kantian liberalism, remember: “Nothing but ad hominem abuse is more than nothing.” From Raymond Geuss’ Philosophy and Real Politi