Mamdani is barely visible in Austria, as if it didn’t happen…

The issue is far from comprehensive and offers nothing like a complete survey, but aims to provoke debate about some of the contemporary stakes of this contradictory yet hopefully generative idea. Everything is open access and freely available.

Rose-Anne Gush (@rsenne.bsky.social), Angela Harutyunyan, Eunsong Kim (@aestheticspolitics.bsky.social), Daniel Spaulding, Kerstin Stakemeier, Josefine Wikström, and myself. We have also written something of a genealogy of the term and an interpretation of its ‘three waves’ – 1930s, 60s–70s, now.

Just published… Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …

Important piece - Memory and Glue - by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum now up on the @thediasporist.bsky.social thediasporist.de/memory-and-g...

Some isotopes from the Otto Neurath (knowledge for all) exhibit in Vienna

Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here:

This is WILD. Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out! We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.

I tried a sourdough stollen recipe - it turned out mostly great but perhaps a tiny bit too bread-ish. Made with fermentation, no shop yeast…

Stellt euch dasselbe Posting mit „Juden“ statt „Muslimen“ vor.

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

Here’s the lecture, with references: alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral. folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...

What kind of thought, what kind of art, does censorship produce? An important question posed here

Now watching the livestream of Der Grosse Kanton- ✨ linked here dergrossekanton.ethz.ch

At the end of October we held a conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt, titled, "What Is Infrastructural Critique?" Frida Sandström wrote one account of this beautiful, sad, and joyful event (yes - all at once) for the Dutch publication, @metropolism.bsky.social

i took all my work down from academia dot edu since they said they will sell or give it all to AI, and I have now joined Knowledge Commons instead: hcommons.org

For anyone in Graz tomorrow (18.11.25) Sami Khatib will give a public lecture at IZK, titled: Capital, History, and the "Tradition of the Oppressed" 18:00 HS1, Alte Technik - All welcome izk.tugraz.at/events/capit...

For anyone in Graz tomorrow (18.11.25) Sami Khatib will give a public lecture at IZK, titled: Capital, History, and the "Tradition of the Oppressed" 18:00 HS1, Alte Technik - All welcome izk.tugraz.at/events/capit...

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

a vintage year, as said by a friend

The Marxism and Culture stream is the biggest it has ever been, and the biggest stream throughout the conference. Excellent papers and panels – on Jameson, Müntzer, the avant-garde, etc. etc. – programme should be available shortly.

FASCISM

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

Proofs arrived ✨

Anyone who speaks of 'legitimate concerns' is in cohorts with this pack of braindead fascists, its as simple as that.

and the owners of Tanbreez (Greenland) are flirting with Trump/Lockheed Martin et al., to supply the US defence industry with heavy rare earths like Gallium that China has banned as export. The story of how clean energy morphs into militarism

Fascism

Wie die Hungersnot in Bengalen dank Bilder bekämpft wurde und was Adorno über die soziale Kälte zu sagen hat, die von uns angesichts Kinderfotos aus Gaza eingefordert wird, in meiner neuen Kolumne in @ndaktuell.bsky.social

I received the first ~and very generous~ blurb for my book, a strange experience I will not get used to

Welche Architektur ist emblematisch für den Neoliberalismus? Der Historiker Christian Welzbacher zeigt, welche Räume in einer Gesellschaft entstehen, die nicht nur Elend hervorbringt, sondern dieses Elend auch noch profitabel macht.

very happy to see this announced in reality, and really looking forwards... save the date, register and join us in October What Is Infrastructural Critique? A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt @eflux.bsky.social

finally arrived at the point of my covid where i am awake for 70% of the day. hurray

very happy to see this announced in reality, and really looking forwards... save the date, register and join us in October What Is Infrastructural Critique? A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt @eflux.bsky.social

<<When We Are All Enemies of the State>> A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT! White supremacy = this. Genocide = this. NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

What is to be expected from the country that let Annalena Baerbock get away with her "Feminist" (Genocidal) Foreign Policy and then awarded her with a top UN job? Furthermore, where is the response/resistance from German feminists in academia to this event and, more broadly, to the militarization?

Clear from day one, that if left unchecked, this Israeli government will not stop at anything

Absurd, bonkers and racist go hand in hand

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

I must say, Austria is an absolute shit-show, made up of a majority never-denazified beneficiary-society, which to this day persecutes anti-fascists at memorials for Nazi atrocities, and then bits of the media blames them for not being bourgeois enough… incredible

They are saying very clearly what they intend to do.

"paves the way for people who spend their entire lives in the United States to be deported to countries in which they’ve never stepped foot, or to be condemned to the limbo of statelessness"

This history, of „putting Palestinians on a diet“ since 2006, here published in the @theguardian.com is basically absent from the German speaking discourse and forms part of the background and context for today’s starvation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Eine Hungersnot trifft immer zuerst die Schwächsten, also kranke Kinder. Die Welt muss JETZT hinsehen, nicht erst wenn ein Massensterben beginnt. Auch das Cover des Stern steht nun im Zentrum einer unsäglichen Debatte. Mein Gastbeitrag dazu aus der heutigen FAZ ohne Paywall: