just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Happy new year to the Crown Melbourne workers taking industrial action x

Now reading. Best handbook yet for the AI hysteria era. Laser-focused on question of profitability and value capture instead of personality and projections, on enterprise instead of chatbots. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’ Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In an essay in the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Nate Holdren elaborates three levels of analytical abstraction at which intellectual historians invoke the term "political economy," turning our attention to the way that capitalism structurally conditions ignorance of the social totality.

With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure trove of knowledge theconversation.com/with-every-e...

'Grief can be incredibly isolating. Once you see the tear in the fabric, the scribbling of the dieback on the tree trunk, the endless lines of grey dead trunks, there is no going back to being oblivious to the reality of the collapse happening around us'. themountainjournal.com/2024/10/11/m...

This is an astonishing thing to delete. On what grounds was it complained about, other than being actively opposed to reconciliation and actively support of hate and bigotry?

A surprise Xmas gift, my article on the Anthropocene and self-consciousness is out! The article develops an eco-Marxist interpretation of the discovery that Earth is an integrated system, a discovery we have made in grasping our own role in shaping it. It’s open access: doi.org/10.1177/0725...

Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted @nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...

Please share and sign this petition from the Jewish Council of Australia: we will not be divided after Bondi. jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

“Organising rests on the insight that… what is sometimes needed to become the sort of subject who feels empowered to stand up to the boss or the police or the state, is simply to act, in some small way, as if you already were that sort of subject” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I agree w/ this and the replies. I also think what's really going on, at least in part, is that for some academics writing is what it also is for a lot of students - something done instrumentally to avoid a penalty. In important respects they don't want to be intellectuals. I think this reflects a

Interesting Morozov critique of @abenanav.bsky.social on the challenge of the non-neutrality of generative AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

Wrote something for @OverlandJournal about the scapegoating of the Palestine solidarity rallies overland.org.au/2025/12/on-t...

This is the way #Meanjin ends — not with a bang but a whimper. New FOI story from me for @crikey.com.au: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/m...

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni @adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world. Listen now 👇 www.break-down.org/politics-of-...

After breakthroughs over wage theft, university governance and much more this year, NTEU members had cause to celebrate a big year. If you missed the party at Trades Hall become a member and make 2026 even bigger! Join NTEU: nteu.info/joinnteu #HigherEducation @vthc.org.au #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Union members at the State Library are fighting job cuts. Library workers provide invaluable public services to the community, from research support to children's programming to free computer access. Join their rally outside the library at 12:30pm on Sat 13th December!

If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

who could have guessed it, there's no money to be made in capturing carbon

My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I reviewed every individual chapter of Kevin Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads. It's a great book for everyone interested in versions of Marx relevant for feminism, antiracism, or decolonisation. Anderson shows that Marx himself was already on the right track! bsky.app/profile/timc...

AI usage: 87% of executives use AI for work; 57% managers; 27% of employees. This is both easy to believe and easy to misinterpret. AI is *genuinely* useful if what matters is FORM. Terrible at SUBSTANCE. If useful for your job = your job just form. A 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/executives-a...

we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now

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) ⬇️

'In the absence of growth, no party can offer a credible programme capable of sustaining an electoral majority. The outcome has been a new configuration of political struggle'. In NLR 155, Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner reply to critics. newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

As the U.S. uses sanctions and tariffs against those who seek to hold Israel accountable for genocide, @shahdhm.bsky.social and I have organised this panel on economic and physical coercion with an excellent group of speakers: twailr.com/webinar-geno...

so interesting for an old like me to see the early marx returned to but now in relation to domination in Capital

In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples

🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Excited for this one! ✨ with keynotes by John O’Neill and @abenanav.bsky.social For the first days we will read classic texts by Otto Neurath and Friedrich Hayek. Sign-up ist not required - the texts can be accessed following the link below ⬇️

I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...

Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql Must read! Find the two episodes here: Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3

Here's an excerpt from The Long Heat on how the promise of carbon removal is being swept away in the logic of carbon offsetting. Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for publishing it 🙏 lithub.com/carbon-offse...

A huge thanks to all the participants in the 2025 Historical Materialism London conference. The conference was a huge success with over 900 presentations and 1400 participants. The biggest Historical Materialism London Conference ever!

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

A labour history that explores an ‘untraditional’ working class may be helpful to contemporary organizing efforts among migrant workers, service workers and precarious workers in a ‘gig economy’ which, it turns out, is not so novel after all. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

MEDIA RELEASE: The Jewish Council of Australia condemns the antisemitic Nazi stunt held yesterday outside NSW Parliament. W refuse to be intimidated by these pathetic media stunts. We stand with all Jewish people impacted by today’s racism and with all those experiencing bigotry and hatred. 1/5

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning. More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

New book: “Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx” Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025. www.sup.org/books/politi...

Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.