Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure interviewing @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @princetonupress.bsky.social for @jhideas.bsky.social: “Class rule consists in the power to produce the environment itself"

Entering the blue sky with my new Constellations article co-authored w/ Udeepta Chakravarty   We inquire the “essentially oligarchic character” of the US Constitution, making Trump its illiberal radicalization Part of forthc. Oligarchy Special Issue 1/10 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...