I "made" @birdmichael.bsky.social come to the Western Treatment Plant with me on a workday to look for brolgas and orange-bellied parrots so I could write this article

Faculty Writing | @alybatt in @nplusonemag with an excerpt from her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature | buff.ly/GWjl851

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

The little Meanjin collection that I helped bring into the world as editor. Just a fragment of its 85-year catalogue. What an act of bone-stupid arrogance to kill it.

excited to see this essay out in the RRPE Special Issue on Climate and Change I am co-editing with some other great scholars. This essay in particular, on the calculation debate and climate change, is super interesting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Cora Diamond on Marx

Workers Rally for #Palestine: 1pm, State Library, Weds 10 Sept. Last week hundreds of NTEU members joined thousands of fellow unionists at Trades Hall who then joined tens of thousands of Victorians to demand an end to the genocide in #Gaza. Let's keep the momentum going!

In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

New paper, “Adorno and Hegel on Subject and Object,” now out in the OUP Handbook of Adorno www.academia.edu/143573230/Ad...

Join NTEU members this Sunday 24 August at marches across the country in solidarity with Palestine. Find out where it’s happening in your city 👉 nteu.info/24 @nteuact.bsky.social @nteuvictoria.bsky.social

NTEU is proud to support the National March for #Palestine this Sunday, 24 August. Meet up with our official NTEU Victorian Division contingent at 11am outside Trades Hall, Carlton, to join the State Library march from midday. Bring union gear and purple flags! www.nteu.au/News_Article...

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..." whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Coming up on Friday - The Encampments at Cinema Nova - screening plus Q&A. Telling the story of how the US student protest movement erupted from college campuses with worldwide impact. Get tickets: events.humanitix.com/the-encampme... Proceeds go to support charities working in #Palestine.

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...

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Join us on Saturday 30th August in Northcote for the launch of the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus. Hear from VS union activists, link up with other workers in your industry, and talk about what we can do to rebuild our trade unions as a genuine fighting force for change.

Is Marx a degrowth communist and does he advance a conception of "ecological freedom"? The video of Kohei Saito's talk and the conversation w/ Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Khurana at Volksbühne is online: cpkp.net/event/freedo... @ktbberlin.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @tbheinze.bsky.social

Knights Without Amour, Jack Hynes, Arena, March 2025: 'RAM is one ex of the increasing tendency for far-right & fascist grps to use gyms to mainstream their political ideas, attract new members & advance reactionary politics.' In AUS, see: National Socialist Network. arena.org.au/knights-with...

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

Essential reading for the defining question of our times: is true freedom freedom from scarcity or from domination by others? Great essay by Battistoni

Proud to stand with @nteunion.bsky.social comrades, Canberrans, and visitors from interstate today for the Convergence On Canberra rally to oppose genocide, occupation, and crimes against humanity in Palestine. ✊

Huge congrats to the rank and file ticket that just won the CPSU VIC election!

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Solidarity with Palestine Action and all Palestine solidarity activists in the UK facing extreme repression at the hands of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. As the saying goes "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty".

For those who read and appreciated my medium post six weeks ago on the mounting catastrophes in Australia's oceans this year: Here is an update on the after effects of the SA algal bloom. Oh holy fuck. This one is not for the faint of heart.

👀 Australian Financial Review has outlined the staggering cost of #ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop. 💰 The Chancellor famously described staff as "inefficiencies". @nteunion.bsky.social members think we should instead get rid of the ANU Perth Office - and its occupant.

Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.

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Universities are pubic institutions, operating for the public good. Or should be. Instead, university leaders grind staff and erode student education, while cashing up themselves and their friends. Australia deserves better: betterunis.nteu.au afr.com/policy/healt... #HigherEducation

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Have a full podcast of @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social in conversation with @leninology.bsky.social a few weeks ago, not sure if this is relevant to anything going on? www.3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasar...

The violence in Khan Younis adds to a string of attacks that have killed hundreds of desperate people seeking food.

At least 300 killed by Israel at aid centres since late May - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-300-killed-israel-aid-centres-late-may

Check out @abenanav.bsky.social on AI for @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

“Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Andreas Malm, interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König on his recent book, “Overshoot” (from @versobooks.bsky.social), written with Wim Carton. Malm spoke to Protean on the “unique” case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming "The Long Heat," and more. proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...

Palestinian Red Crescent details medic’s account of 15 colleagues’ slaughter

As thousands gathered on Sunday, seeking aid to feed their families, Israeli forces opened fire, killing more than 30.

TEQSA toughens-up on universities underpaying staff. futurecampus.com.au/2025/06/03/t... #Universities #HigherEducation #auspol

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy is out today! Available from Verso via the link below, or from your favourite bookseller www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

"The Albanese government will launch a lobbying campaign in a bid to reverse a Unesco recommendation that an ancient rock art site in Western Australia can’t go on the world heritage list until damaging industrial emissions linked to a controversial Woodside gas development are stopped."

“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.” Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.

Excellent review by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social of the excellent book 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Exclusive | Palestine advocate Nasser Mashni called for sanctions on Israel in an interview on the ABC. Now, the interview appears to have been taken down. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.

When RMIT decided to junk a rare, $160k weaving loom, a group of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. The story of this loom felt like a snapshot of everything that’s wrong with how we treat arts and crafts in tertiary education, so I wrote this: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Great speech by Stella winner Michelle de Kretser discussing the censorship around Gaza. Deeply strange its contents were only reported by The Age. Neither ABC nor Guardian write ups of the event mention her powerful comments at all. stella.org.au/2025/05/mich...

Did you know that leadership of the Victorian CPSU hasn't changed since Jeff Kennett was in power? By my count, that is approximately 10,000 years ago. Check out this campaign to shake things up: avfm.au

'Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating & lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Calling all international lawyers, legal scholars and practioners, please sign this urgent call in support of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the (ongoing!) siege of Gaza: forms.gle/fUmT7QG4ZAP2...