London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

‘Enchanted’ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to ‘markets, calculations or individual choice’ tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.

"Bad state" can mean different things to different people. To some, it could mean that the area's been devastated by austerity and underinvestment. To others, it could mean that some black or brown people have moved into the neighbourhood.

💷 💷 💷 NEW: Polling for Compass reveals that a majority of the public support taxing the vast wealth of the UK's richest. If Labour fails to listen to the country on taxing wealth and surrenders the resources that this would unlock, a decade of national renewal is a nonstarter.

I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power. "Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome." breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...

Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to certain productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our current moment."

It's Ofcom Media Nations Day! The annual state of the nation report on the UK's media habits. This year the stand-out finding is that most kids start with YouTube. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Quick 🧵 on how the presentation of these findings is a good example of what's up with media policy

UK university staff: keep signing!

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.

‘Cora, in her work and person, always gave a unique gloss to the feminist slogan that the personal is political, which defined so much of the spirit of those heady early years.’ Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is one of those situations where having been surveyed before is really useful to interpreting survey results. My strong hunch is that: these people don't think this. But when you are answering questions, you are aware that the data is going to be interpreted! So in your head when...

Well, so many people are, right now, on their bikes delivering things without labour protection.

Look how chuffed I am with my @jcultecon.bsky.social bag Cheers @allartmarkets.bsky.social

people who receive child tax credit or universal credit are also “taxpayers”, of course

Great blog — plenty of evidence of ‘care stripping’ in our ongoing research on the social/welfare crowdfunding economy

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Today I received another email from @gofundme.com saying they were “refunding me” - aka continuing to stop starving Palestinians in Gaza from accessing one of the only ways of accessing money to pay for food. Aiding & abetting genocide, in other words. We won’t forget.

Every "smash the gangs" reference, every Starmer op-ed blaming public service collapse on the tiny proportion of refugees who come to this country, every border externalisation and offshore "returns hub" deal, is Labour running Reform's campaign for them, gratis. That they can't see this is damning.

I remember at my very first Labour branch meeting after moving to the Cotswolds, I suggested the council look at increasing council tax on 2nd homes, at which point a Labour councillor turned to me with doe eyes and woefully said “oh no, because some of us just inherited our parents’ houses”

On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along! Sign up for free here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....

Our last seminar or the semester tomorrow. London media types very welcome.

Economist James Meadway (@meadwaj.bsky.social) on how Labour is approaching growth in COMPLETELY the wrong way 👏 #Budget2025

Join us next week at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social share their work on developing collaborative methods for exploring public issues. 📅 Weds 2nd April, 16:00 - 17:30 🔗Register now at edin.ac/3DCDVEF

New polling shows overwhelming support for a wealth tax.

Call for papers Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World guest eds. @zeniakish.bsky.social and Eva-Lynn Jagoe Abstracts due April 1 Full details: lwbooks.co.uk/call-for-pap...

I wrote a thing about the unreality of the debate on disability benefits, where it comes from and how it affects us. It cost a few spoons to do it, but I think it would have cost more not to. Have a read if you're interested: www.christineberry.net/2025/03/the-...

If ever we needed conjunctural analysis it's now. WWSHD? For my cultural studies ppl.

i find this notion that public spending is illegitimate bizarre as a matter of economics but totally legible as a statement of moral economy. and as per any strict system of morality, the punishment is part of the appeal. they are punishing the american people for believing in the public good.

Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social

This was really good. Anyone interested in systems, practices, stories and feelings around redistribution at different scales across Europe should sign up to the mailing list: redigim.arts.ac.uk

Current @snsf_ch project: how different social classes use digital finance apps - and how these apps contribute to social class differences: "Social patterning of economic subjectivities and the digital transformation of retail finance in Switzerland"

Had some interesting conversations in the last week about identifying the appropriate pace for govt technology. How fast should a digital public service be? Now ofc this has several dimensions: - how easy and efficient it is for the public to use the service - the same for internal staff ++

What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025? Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series. 📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025 🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB

We’re looking forward to contributing to the CAMRI research seminar series next Thurs 27 Feb at 17.00. We’ll be talking about our research on meanings and practices of redistribution in the context of digitalization. All welcome; details in the link.

Thanks to @tgpb.bsky.social for the invite!

We’re looking forward to contributing to the CAMRI research seminar series next Thurs 27 Feb at 17.00. We’ll be talking about our research on meanings and practices of redistribution in the context of digitalization. All welcome; details in the link.

Thanks to @tgpb.bsky.social for the invite!

“It was the spectacle, not the slow accumulation of well-researched data, which brought about intense moments of transnational discussion about inequality” – @michaelvaughan.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

First post! Hello world. Ep 8 of **Public Art and the Economics of Imagination is live**🎧 I’m joined by @erosamon.bsky.social to discuss how volatile markets shape art, culture, and social media. Listen here: shows.acast.com/public-art-t...

27 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Jon Paylor and Rebecca Bramall (@rfbramall.bsky.social). On Mutual Aid in a Platform Economy. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-pl...

January 15 at 12 pm ET @alicetiara.bsky.social and I will present our early thinking and hear from people in the trenches for our report on GenAI + scams with @datasociety.bsky.social! Send me a note if you'd like to attend the workshop!

If we want an economy that meets everyone’s needs, do we all just need to pay a bit more tax? Our deputy director @hallsara.bsky.social on the @neweconomics.bsky.social podcast: soundcloud.com/weeklyeconom...

A pal with a Politico subscription has shown me the "early access" version of the AI Action Plan. No spoilers from me on the contents of the plan, but a quick 🧵 on a paragraph from the PM's introduction, which I suspect is ultimately more important. Public services should be like booking flights.

We are looking to interview women aged 23-29 working in England in a range of professions: - Teachers - Nannies - Tutors - Fashion Retail Workers - Nail Techs - Hairdressers - Beauty Therapists - Fashion Photographers - Care Workers - Healthcare Receptionists - Pharmacy/Optician Assistants - Nurses

This ‘historical’ AI generated video ‘reconstruction’ content creator is making some serious ethical decisions about what the past was like. Worth a scroll. Major red flags. If you’re a digital/heritage/history/archaeology person, this is the new frontline of disinformation vm.tiktok.com/ZGdBD5QPn/

Need to build mutual aid infrastructures aside from GoFundMe