#ACFM examines the Future. @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I ask, did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? With music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs. novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/w...

Love is Resistance: a collection of 77 posters from Michael Rakowitz, Aya Haidar, Brian Eno, Dima Srouji, Emily Jacir, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg, Jeremy Deller and other artists standing in solidarity with Palestine www.loveisresistance.art

The 1971 Bariloche Model challenged Limits to Growth by prioritizing basic needs over resource limits. It’s a good reminder that planning models aren’t neutral and encode values www.e-flux.com/architecture... via @eflux.bsky.social

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published. If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jason W. Moore (@binghamtonu.bsky.social) about socialism in the web of life. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast @versobooks.bsky.social

> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining. White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association). abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...

Gains in productivity should serve the working class. We need a reduction in the workweek to 32 hours, at full-time pay.

“I think people often twist ‘no ethical consumption under capitalism’ into a free pass for moral relativism; the idea that if the whole system’s broken, then nothing is off-limits.” www.itsnicethat.com/features/is-...

Look here, @cyberlyra.bsky.social is at it again!

Here is yesterday's #BuildAndFight Formula 8: People’s Assemblies and Planning Councils with @coopjax.bsky.social p www.youtube.com/watch?v=53jJ...

What do unions do? On average they make the members about $870k more wealthy over time, new findings at Social Forces show.

Happy Labor Day! We labor too much! I wrote on the beauty of not working. jacobin.com/2025/09/we-d...

Owen Hatherley on the leftist avant-garde publisher Rab-Rab Press: 'The books take an oblique approach to revolutionary history and the various attempts at creating a socialist culture, resurrecting it in select fragments.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media. Me for @newpublic.org

Whoop, whoop! Future Histories Guests starter pack! go.bsky.app/NH23BtR

#OtD 22 Aug 1862 Claude Debussy, French radical impressionist composer heavily influenced by the Symbolists, was born. The son of a Communard, Debussy was influenced by the Parisian anarchist milieu and contributed to its press. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9446...

Marx for kids

#OtD 15 Aug 1845 British artist and socialist Walter Crane was born. He sought to bring art into the daily life of all classes, depicting international working class solidarity, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in his work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8643...

"A form of the imperative mandate may become more viable with digitalization and thus ability to circumvent intermediation done by MPs... With electronic voting (and thus an equivalent of imperative mandate), one could get rid of the MPs and register popular votes directly." 💯

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀 Design by Sara Sukhun Photographs by Gauri Gill longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

Since its founding in 1984, Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has grown into one of the world's largest social movements. Our book of the week shows how MST thrives through the tension between utopian ideals and counter-utopian pragmatism. By Alex Ungprateeb Flynn buff.ly/uHzMWKe

Sérgio Ferro on how design maintains conceptual purity while built on layers of invisible labor

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Anna Kornbluh (@annakornbluh.bsky.social) about why we need Climate Counteraesthetics. Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

What would "The New Industrials" movement look like if we put people over profit? www.fastcompany.com/91374974/sof... cc @fastcompany.com

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

Cash App now supports pooling funds techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/c...

In the field of UX, I am a well-known pessimist. But only because everyone else was doing it wrong for the past 20 years. The end of the ZIRP age devastated the industry, but it also flushed out two generations of grifters. The people who know what they are doing are already seizing the moment.

For decades, many leftists dropped talk of economic planning due to its association with Soviet bureaucracy. But both the climate crisis and the reality of massive state intervention in capitalist economies have made democratic planning inescapable.

Come help build tools for social impact! Two new roles open on our engineering team. - Senior full-stack product engineer - Front-end focused product engineer (can be less senior). (Using Next, Tailwind, TypeScript, Postgres) Read here for more details: tinyurl.com/ydcvtpe2 #civictechsky

This looks like a beautifully designed account of how labor activism and experimental publishing intersect via the Yugoslav typographic workers, told through risograph prints www.rabrab.net/titles/optic...

Unmasking the Assault on #Unions and the Black Working Class with Kali Akuno of @coopjax.bsky.social on @democracyatwork.bsky.social @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social #capitalism #educate #agitate #organize #economics #politics #buildandfight #resistance #strike

“…what we are left with is a structure of feeling that is now a part of AI as an artifact, the aspirations pinned to its potentials, which are directing its adoption into spheres of intellectual inquiry where it may have little or even nothing to offer.” www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Ownership of social media platforms by tech oligarchs like Musk and Zuckerberg has become a decisive force shaping content governance. Our hidden gem of the week shows how individually-owned firms enable direct ideological and political instrumentalism. By @pjleerssen.bsky.social osf.io/bzxs2

a reminder that this is how closely right-wing billionaires and conservatives on the Supreme Court work together

"In any case, it was clear to both of us that one of the main obstacles preventing access to a new politics was precisely the remnants of the Marxist parties (not of Marx!) and the labor movement, unwitting accomplices (the former knowingly) of the enemy they believed they were fighting."

Some visual notes from my conversation with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson for their running Build & Fight series. Full talk can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOr... cc @coopjax.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social

DSA vibes in Portland are strong 💪

New report from the Autonomy Institute: 'Their Capital at Risk' Is #AI becoming a major corporate risk? 🚨 Our latest analysis shows 3 in 4 of America’s largest companies now cite AI as a threat in their official filings 📈 Here’s what we found 👇 buff.ly/AW4izj5

AI as the ultimate hyperstition engine—in some of the worst ways via @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...

Check out the most recent #BuildAndFight Formula Part 6: Social Digital Infrastructure with Kali Akuno of @coopjax.bsky.social Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvS...

🎨Call for Art Submissions: 250 Years of Resistance Portland Jobs with Justice's 2nd Annual Art Exhibition & Auction Be part of our weeklong gallery show at One Grand Gallery in September! Submissions can be made by August 15th via our online form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The latest Hito Steyerl book is harrowing

NLR 153 is now online. Featuring Zhang Yongle, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav, Michael Burawoy and Michael Lieven. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153 Subscribe now!

I'll be joining Kali Akuno from @coopjax.bsky.social shortly to discuss how emerging tech and democratized AI can support new possibilities in democratic planning and economic democracy www.youtube.com/live/TOOrym6...

🧵Ch. 1 of The People's Academy, Internationalism and National Liberation, has ended. We explored key questions in the internationalist tradition: Why did the revolution begin in the periphery? And how did Marxism's engagement with anticolonial struggle reshape our theories?

"Values are not fixed inputs. What a society values is discovered in practice. Coordination proceeds through composition— holding multiple aims together within constraints to determine what can be pursued+in what form." nice turn to formal deliberation + formal composition in new Benanav (NLR)