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

When you’re desperate to get a real heavyweight French intellectual to come out swinging against Mamdani and the best you can do is BHL, the Johnny Hallyday of Philosophy.

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.

Life of a marxist

@lclaberge.bsky.social in "personal growth" section

-citizen, do you know your Gestapo from your Sipo? Your SA from your SD? Your Waffen SS from your..

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

Still interested in this...

Periodic reminder I would be delighted to teach a class on Marx or critical theory broadly construed online or in person in the New York city area.

What's with the new followers: are people jumping ship again?

I wrote a little bit about Aimé Césaire's play A Season in the Congo, written after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, for @bostonreview.bsky.social.

morgen 18–20 Uhr Patrick Eiden-Offe: Was ist Faschisierung? Einige theorie- und begriffshistorische Vorüberlegungen (hybrid) infos hier: krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation." proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

Actual journalism?? Wow

And please order it for your library when you can: brill.com/display/titl.... A cheaper paperback will be out in like March 2027.

The blurbs for my book are in. It's out March 26th 2026. Since I don't have a publicist let me know if you have any interest in reviewing it. Also more than happy to talk about it in a class, seminar series, or podcast.

BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨 We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025). The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

And we are underway! Our 10th (can you believe it!) annual conference kicks off today with brilliant panels and heated coffee break discussions as well as a brilliant keynote on insurgent utopianism by @genderhorizon.com! Old friends, new comrades, and lots of lovely radical scholarship 🥰

imagine being one of those tech idiots who paid a fortune for nft art

The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/david-mcna... If you're in Toronto, this is tonight (10/9). Space is limited so RSVP. @anotherstoryto.bsky.social

#Denmark politicians wage a #culture #war on #academia —with @roskildeuni.bsky.social as their go-to target. These attacks are assaults on #freedom, #rights and #democracy. We spoke out: @berlingske.bsky.social : www.berlingske.dk/synspunkter/... @politiken.dk : politiken.dk/debat/debati...

"The deliveries are shrouded in deep secrecy, but newly uncovered documents reveal how the Danish military helps keep Israel’s most advanced fighter jets operational during the war."

Quite a few anarchists have some bad ideas, therefore the State is an eternal necessity. I am a logician.

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today: It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering. www.versobooks.com/products/331...

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative! It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Looking forward to reading this one!

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there! Venmo: Vicky-surge Cash App: $VickySurge1312 Cawshinythings.com

Pro tip: cancel your Disney+ and pre-order this book instead. Added bonus: helping out a comrade in need

out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

let them cook

Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Federal judge, a Reagan appointee, did not hold back assessing the attempt to deport these students as attempt “to terrorize Americans into quiescence.” Trump’s attempts ruled unlawful. Some sense, finally.