‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more. Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️

"Entretien (par @reminoyon.bsky.social). Le philosophe Paul Guillibert est l’une des figures françaises de la pensée écomarxiste, qui connaît un regain d’intérêt à mesure que les températures augmentent et que s’éloignent les espoirs d’une transition énergétique tranquille."

At the Natural History Museum in London — the "cathedral of nature" and of "empire". As Kautsky remarked in 1910, on the decline of the American bison, the “extermination of animal species [is] caused by the pursuit of profit” — a capitalist 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘣𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵.

At this year's HM conference, I will give a talk on Karl August Wittfogel's marxist critique of geopolitics as a naturalist ideology of the age of empire (Thursday morning) and will discuss Joel Wainwright's great new book on Marx and Darwin (Friday morning).

Berliners: come to the book launch of "Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon" with editors Daniela Russ (@ueberdruss.bsky.social) and Thomas Turnbull, followed by a talk by the historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Today at Spore Berlin, 4pm spore-initiative.org/en/programmi...

👋 Demain, 10h, ne manquez pas Aurélie Windels, journaliste et co-fondatrice de @diagrammes.bsky.social invitée au micro de @ostpolitik.bsky.social sur le live Twitch de @mediapart.fr. ⌨️ Venez poser vos questions en direct ! Pour regarder le live 👉 www.twitch.tv/mediapart

"Work, Bad Infinity, and Habit" is finally out! I’ve been thinking about some of these ideas since my dissertation, and had the pleasure of pursuing them further with Lisa Herzog during my postdoc. Here’s our take on Hegel as a helpful ecological thinker 🦉🌿 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social). Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

🚨Workshop Announcement🚨 THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING: RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav December 4-5, 2025 Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

essential reading

"uncanny combination of the intelligent and the stupid that is the mark of AI writing"

wow Italy www.reuters.com/world/europe...

RIP Claus Offe 😔 He wrote a lot but this is by far one of the best texts written about trade unions, their structural position and limitations. www.hwiesenthal.de/publik/hw/2l...

Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today! www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...

My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...

Special Issue by @prokla.bsky.social on geoeconomics! www.prokla.de/index.php/PR...

Voici le lien www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202509...

@reminoyon.bsky.social dans le @nouvelobs.com à propos du renouveau écomarxiste en France, avec un clin d'oeil à @triofrancos.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, à l'ouvrage d'Alexis Cukier et de Paul Guillibert ainsi qu'à notre Repères sur Le marxisme écologique à paraître en 2026 DM for PDF

Soviet economist T. S. Khachaturov, "Economic problems of ecology", 1978 "It must be taken into account that the increasing consumption of fossil fuels causes growing atmospheric pollution (with sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dust), 1/

Quel avenir nous réserve le solaire ? Pour Bill McKibben, la révolution énergétique est en train d'advenir grâce à la chute des prix des panneaux solaires. Pour Thea Riofrancos, le marché du lithium permet de comprendre les dessous du capitalisme vert. 420ppm.substack.com/p/lavenir-se...

Currently translating for @histmat.bsky.social. This summary of Kautsky's 1910 book on population builds on Marx (“every mode of production has its own population law”) and Spencer (“more complex organisms have lower fertility”) against Malthus’ universal law and its influence on Darwin.

new book out next week: System Crisis: Legitimation in Green Capitalism www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp...

Though Habermas’ left-Weberian state theory was refuted in the state derivation debate (and by J. O'Connor), his early reading (1973) of the Club of Rome is striking: ‘Capitalist societies cannot limit growth without abandoning their organizing principle.'

📹 Verónica Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social, intellectuelle et figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, analyse l’Argentine de Milei comme un laboratoire du néolibéralisme mutant. Face à lui, elle mise sur la potencia feminista : le désir de tout changer. Entretien en ligne 👉 buff.ly/SMQHjdw

jetzt erschienen: „Klasse als moralische Verletzung“ Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 73, no. 2, 2025, pp. 246-263 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“As Otto Neurath recognized, this means that the institutions of a multi-criterial economy should be designed not to suppress disagreements but to articulate them as intelligible alternatives and to structure the choices among them.”

Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes" Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor. shs.cairn.info/revue-critiq...

As Karl Kautsky put it, electric socialism needs to replace coal and oil by “the energy of running water, tides, wind, and the rays of the sun”. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... By Bill McKibben

People seriously think that the problem with fossil military Keynesianism in Germany is that tanks won't be electric? www.bundestag.de/resource/blo... By Tom Krebs

now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️ KORSCH/SCHMITT - including 7 new translations, and 2 interpretative essays endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/kor...

My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle

Une étude récente établit l’hypothèse que le néolibéralisme en France s’est construit comme un capitalisme d’État chargé d’assurer la prospérité du capital. Une vision qui permet de mieux comprendre les débats budgétaires actuels. Par @romaricgodin.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

Big thanks to the organisers, panelists, and comrades who came out for the Against the Crisis book launch at HM Paris ’25. Really a fantastic conference 🙏 @lucienoyer.bsky.social @mbickhardt.bsky.social @histmat.bsky.social @hm-paris.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to write this timeline based on @triofrancos.bsky.social‘s forthcoming book. Stay tuned!

My two contributions to @hm-paris.bsky.social starting tomorrow: -Thur June 26 , 9h-10h45, "Marxism, Geopolitics and Ecology: Karl Wittfogel vs. Friedrich Ratzel" -Sat June 28, 14h-15h45 I will discuss, together with F-X Hutteau, @holgersen.bsky.social' new book "Against the Crisis"

Looking forward to discussing Against the Crisis at @hm-paris.bsky.social on June 28. With @mbickhardt.bsky.social and @lucienoyer.bsky.social. @versobooks.bsky.social @histmat.bsky.social

The 1970s were a wild intellectual moment, with reactions to the Club of Rome by thinkers as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Ernest Mandel, Barry Commoner, and Herbert Marcuse appearing alongside those of Herman Kahn, Paul Ehrlich, Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, and Aurelio Peccei. www.dbnl.org/tekst/oltm00...

Next Monday at the CMB in Berlin, 6pm. I will be discussing the politics of ecological planning with Cédric Durand. The event will be held in English. cmb.hu-berlin.de/fr/agenda/ev...

The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Am 24. Juni um 19 Uhr im nd-Salon @ndaktuell.bsky.social: Alberto Toscano on "Late Fascism. A black radical theory perspective".

In Berlin, Friday, June 13, 8:00 pm, I will speak about my book *The Slave Ship: A Human History* at the Schwarze Risse Bookstore, sponsored by my German publisher, Assoziation A, who published *The Many-Headed Hydra* and will also publish *Freedom Ship*. Join us! kontrapolis.info/15884/

It's beyond imagination. "The Arctic is warming at a rate three to four times faster than the rest of the world—and Greenland’s ice sheet lost 2.5 million liters (over 660,000 gallons) of fresh water per second last year." time.com/7271481/clim...

In »Kritik der Demografiekritik« schließt Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social an die PROKLA 219 an und untersucht die Bevölkerungstheorie nach Marx und Malthus: prokla.de/index.php/PR... 8/13

New article in German for PROKLA ⤵️ prokla.de/index.php/PR... GER: Kritik der Demografiekritik: Bevölkerungstheorie nach Marx und Malthus ENG: The Critique of Antidemographic Reason. Population Theory After Marx and Malthus PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 55(219).

The deadline for abstracts for our Land Question Conference is in two days! More info on our website.