Finally got copies of my book, ARTISTIC LABOUR OF THE BODY which you can buy for your libraries ✨ from @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social Thanks to the @histmat.bsky.social book series - paperback out next year with @haymarketbooks.org

#OtD 28 Dec 1931 Guy Debord, revolutionary Marxist writer, filmmaker and cofounder of the Situationist International, was born in France. The SI were to become extremely influential following the May 68 rebellion in the country. Learn more about him here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):

This year has been, I think, an important one in terms of my intellectual production and political interventions. So for those of you who are interested, here's a breakdown of my 2025:

Fellow academics, don't forget to report your side-hustles to the proper authorities

Totally random fact I learned today: the IRS asks you to report income from bribes, drug dealing and theft

20+ items added to my reading list!

"Le Danemark n’est pas un cas isolé", @lemonde.fr reports on Roskilde University, where our management shut down a master’s programme to appease the Danish prime minister and her far-right constituency. Great to see my student Amir speaking truth to power: www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

‘Suddenly the inner thoughts of power are projected onto the screen in everyone’s hand – all the drivelling banalities, the selfishness, the contempt for others, the lack of interest in anything the world has to offer except personal gain.’ T.J. Clark on Trump. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

the (not yet so) long (art) downturn

we occupied the new school over and over again back in the day, demanding a new provost, cheaper tuition and the abolition of time, sorry we didn’t go far enough

Honored to have been able to join Jasper Bernes and M. E. O'Brien in conversation last month. Here is part one of the transcription of our convo. Both Jasper and M. E. offer incredibly valuable thoughts on revolutionary speculation and organizing www.e-flux.com/notes/678342...

And here's part 2 of the convo with Jasper Bernes and M. E. O'Brien www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...

"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully. "Lovely", Frog replied.

I guess i can always count on the Danish comrades to hype my book 🥹 And it just so happens that @versobooks.bsky.social is having their end of year sale! 🎄

A sparrow flew down. "Excuse me", said the sparrow. "Have you read Dominique Routhier's seminal work, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation?"

A few days late but: I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...

🚨 for everyone interested in the state of Italian political thought today, you can now pre-order our book An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. Coming soon in early 2026. And it’s even for a reasonable price! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/introduct...

Just got the proofs for this academic handbook, The Aesthetics of Machine Vision, which I co-edited with some colleagues during my postdoc, which feels like a million years ago. Out in September 2026! with @mitpress.bsky.social

"not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious"

👀👀 www.e-flux.com/notes/678342...

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...

Intense levels of Danish Marxism heating up cold Toronto tomorrow:

❄️tomorrow at U of T❄️

Please follow Pinko on this app! It's a wonderful magazine I'm very proud of. As a member of the editorial collective, I just took responsibility for the Bluesky account and it has no followers and I have many. If you like Pinko, please QT the post below encouraging people to follow Pinko.

Applications are open for MIR Summer Seminar 2026 on the theme of Marxist Internationalism! See the call for applications: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Open to all non-faculty University of California affiliates (undergrads, grads, staff, lecturers). App deadline Jan. 16. Please share!

NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.

Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social

So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.

Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property. proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...

'Contrainte Muette' is out now from @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social. Thanks to @prada-meinhof.bsky.social and Camilla Brenni for the excellent translation, and to Léa Gallon for the beautiful design 💙

I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.

🚨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...

Truly and deeply honoured x.com/DeutscherPri...

The 2025 water bottle riot

Parution le 14 novembre : @sorenmau.bsky.social ⤳ CONTRAINTE MUETTE ⬿ “Par une analyse exigeante et implacable, ce livre ouvre des perspectives pour comprendre le présent, nourrir les luttes à venir – participer à l’abolition nécessaire de ce jeu dont nous ne pouvons écrire les règles.”

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In happier news: for Critical Inquiry, I reviewed @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer’s WHY WE FEAR AI, which has just lately been catching some deserved hotness. 🔥 Read my take here: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...

Dominique la police?

Hi I'd like to sign up for new name like this one in @nplusonemag.com

100 percent this guy beats the shit out of his dog

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

buying three of these, one for each of my kids

"A 'hooligan pedant' with muscle could probably use it in place of a cobblestone to throw from behind a barricade" Came across a new review of TJ Clark's book in The Nation www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Long overdue, "Criticism LTD" has a stand-alone webpage with working links to every episode bibliography, etc.

Historians of Haiti: does anyone have digitized copies of La trouée: revue d'intérêt général? Asking for a student! Thank you! cc: @soccerpolitics.bsky.social @juliagaffield.bsky.social etc

Taking notes is the best part of doing research

I am on the same book table as David Brooks and Bill Belchick; the sky truly is the limit, folks.