'Who can afford to work at scale?' I ask at @artreview.bsky.social. Featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social artreview.com/the-inequali...

@badaude.bsky.social new one is an excellent companion piece in showing how we got here; also published by @versobooks.bsky.social, who are brilliant for this kind of analysis. Two of the year's best for me 🙏 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Bonus extra event in Paris. Thursday 20th (the day before my own Paris launch, also at @after8books.bsky.social) I'm launching Jaqueline Feldman's brilliant Precarious Lease (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) the story of Le Bloc and other Paris squats. Please come! Info: after8books.com/precarious-l...

saying you're 'delighted' might be an online cliché but I really was delighted to be invited to talk to artist and Girl Online Molly Soda about Amateurs! mollysoda.substack.com/p/interview-...

thanks for the interview - really lovely evening!

Please help a TCD posgrad couple looking for a LGBTQ+friendly apartment or apartmentshare/houseshare in/near Dublin. They've stayed at my place and I can vouch for them 100% Please pass around all your networks. Message me to be put in touch. (image just so you'll notice this post, right?)

Tonight! If you're in Lisbon, please come!

la commune is one of my favourite films ever & you can watch Universal Clock, a documentary about his methods with footage of la commune's making here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7v...

i love this!

tonight!

Benjamin Noys (expertly) jumping up and down on 'the corpse of accelerationism' repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/the-corpse...

James Gleick at @nybooks.com calls Amateurs! an 'insightful... philosophical investigation'! Anyone who reads my book will find that that the people I write about are far from all the 'same age & class' but the book is reviewed alongside Cory Doctorow & Tim Berners-Lee & I'll take that).

another @minorincident.bsky.social mention, this time from @badaude.bsky.social 's AMATEURS! ( @versobooks.bsky.social )

A+ book delivery ft many of my favorite things (and authors): Amateurs! Tacos! Reasons! Feelings! And PAYBACK. Bwahahaha. (Also ordered the new [!] V. Woolf but it’s back ordered womp womp.)

El Putnam talks to Joanna Walsh about her book Amateurs: How We Built lnternet Culture and Why It Matters as part of a seminar on Digital Intersections: Exploring Art, Language and Resistance @maynoothuniversity.ie

Coming up, 19h on Thursday 13th at Well Read Bookshop, Calçada de Sant'Ana 92/94, 1150-305, Lisbon!

reading tonight at @desperatelit.bsky.social Madrid! Details here: desperateliterature.com/events/

12th November - Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social) at Livraria Trama Porto, Portugal!

@artreview_magazine double whammy: online I ask, "when, (if ever) should we work for free?"; and, in the mag, "who can afford to work at scale (and how)?" (featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social) artreview.com/is-it-ever-o...

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tonight!

Join Dr Joanna Walsh for her book launch of 'Amateurs!' in conversation with Dr El Putnam, this Thurs, 6th Nov. in MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas, from 1-3pm. Presentations by Prof. Triona Ni Shiochain (University of Galway) and Diaa Lagan (MU/IADT) chaired by Dr Jeneen Naji. All most welcome!

leaving for Berlin…

coming soon at Well Read Lisbon wellread.pt!

Berlin book launch for Amateurs! At the HQ of the great @spikeart.bsky.social 4 November Spike Berlin Goebenstr. 22 10783 Berlin 7-10pm Tell your Berlin friends! Reserve a free ticket here spikeartmagazine.com/events/book-...

I wrote an essay for Mirror Lamp Press about living through a summer of political rot, in which governments failed to act against genocide It was extremely difficult to write but there was nothing else I could write, and I guess difficulty is a thing writing is for www.mirrorlamppress.com/issue-12

AI reviewed a review of Amateurs! & it reckons I look like an ad for life insurance

Wine! Cheese! Fruit! Knowledge! What more could you want? Amateurs! at @maynoothuniversity.ie, the institution that supported my work on the book, with my excellent colleagues @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social and @jeneen.bsky.social 6 November, 1pm, open to all!

Dublin launch for Amateurs! at Beta Festival Dublin at 2pm on Saturday 8 November, @thedigitalhub.bsky.social - more info and tickets here - please come! (& feel free to repost :) 2025.betafestival.ie/conferences/...

so nice to have these from Winter Editions...

nice reviews for Amateurs! at @bookforum.bsky.social and @readlux.bsky.social I particularly like the way Michelle Santiago Cortés gets why I worked with c20 left art theory Bookforum here: www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i... Lux here: lux-magazine.com/article/inte...

I'm now writing a monthly column for @artreview.bsky.social Works of Art looks at the intersections between art, labour & finance & asks how artists of all kinds are able (or not) to sustain creative practice. If there's s'thing you'd like to see covered, message me. artreview.com/can-we-ever-...

At @praxisunion.bsky.social we took in the Dept reports and interviews, listened to members, have had discussions with people from Basic Income Ireland, and hope we are making a good case for a moderately maximalist approach. Full text here www.praxisunion.ie/the-case-for...

Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!

lolcats @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social !

i was part of this class action against anthropic ai & it worked. in a landmark ruling, creators will now receive around $3000 for each eligible work used to train anthropic (more difficult to claim if like me you're outside the us). more here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...

3 lovely reviews of Amateurs! from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @washingtonpost.com & @publisherswkly.bsky.social! lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol... www.publishersweekly.com/9781839765391 www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

tonight!!!

Pre-ordered as soon as this went live, came today, devouring it already. @badaude.bsky.social a great guide for this journey. Fuck it makes me sad tho, thinking about The Internet That Might Have Been and How It Was Online In the Old Days. Brilliant so far. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

"Sprawling and theoretically rich, Amateurs! is a passionate and provocative account of this online amateurism." @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/prol...

Tomorrow at Wivenhoe Books Colchester ! www.wivenhoebooks.com/events/amate...

Out this week, looks like a belter from @badaude.bsky.social - just got the email from @versobooks.bsky.social to say mine's on the way 🙏✊️ www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

In her new book on internet culture, @badaude.bsky.social discusses the use of photography as facial recognition technology during the Paris Commune. It reminded me of Schäublin’s exceptional film Unrest, following Kropotkin’s 1877 visit to a Swiss village transformed by capitalism and anarchy 1/3

excellent launch last night - full house @burleyfisher.bsky.social for Amateurs! (@versobooks.bsky.social) photo c/o @athanasioslazarou on instagram

We have three new titles out this week, including an exposé of the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy from @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social and a philosophical history of the internet by @badaude.bsky.social

this is a MUST read.

published today by @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/2862-amateurs (discount on @blackwells.bsky.social just saying... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...)

I have an extra ticket to this if anyone needs it - get in touch!

Tonight!

Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'Who Can Stop Artwashing?' by Joanna Walsh for @artreview.bsky.social. The problem with artwashing and how the widespread defunding of the arts has made it more pervasive.