I don't get this. "We can end austerity and stick to fiscal rules without putting up taxes" is cakeism. Where's the alleged magic thinking in this combo?

New book! Out 15 Oct 'The Moralizing Corporation' w/ Grietje Baars, Joel Bakan, Bobby Banerjee, Alan Bradshaw, Andreas Chatzidakis, Robert Deakin, Sara Farris, Marianna Fotaki, Jo Littler, Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, Lisa Ann Richey, Rohit Varman bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-moralizi...

Today I learned that the great Wendy Liu aka @dellsystem.bsky.social has a regular column about AI industry billboards in SF in the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social. It's such a great way to examine these companies and AI culture in the valley and the Bay. I'll be reading them all now:

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

now, is it now?

The dismal tide accelerates, sweeping from Coventry through Sheffield Hallam to London South Bank. 1/2

This one's too easy if you have ever been a tax lawyer

April 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...

Love a [sic], it's so bitchy.

We’re advertising for someone with creative skills, media and communications knowledge, and data visualisation expertise to work on our historical project. It’s a part time post and we’re flexible about when and where.

It’s tomorrow! 🙌 And our report is now available in Spanish 🇪🇸 🥳 dx.doi.org/10.31009/com...

There's absolutely nothing to be gained in tinkering around the margins. We're not going to make that stuff better - we're not going to make Palantir a bit less evil by making sure the information governance works. We need different kinds of technologies, made by different kinds of people.

This is next week – we're looking forward to it! Online, free and open to all – booking link below.

Call for Papers: New Mergers of Feminism and Finance A one-day symposium at the London School of Economics 📅 8 May 2026 ⚠️ Submission deadline: 23 March 2026 Organised by former @ucl-ccs.bsky.social visiting fellows, Dr Rachel O’Neill & Dr Simidele Dosekun www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This sounds excellent and necessary. Simi and Rachel gave a preview of their work at our @camri.bsky.social seminars last year, as did their keynote @rfbramall.bsky.social. Intrigued to find out what extensions and connections are being forged through this next step. Also "mergers" is very good.

It’s been a pleasure working on this new piece for the LSE impact blog - in this we explore ‘neurodiversity’ tagged REF Impact Case Studies from 2014 and 2021 and think about what they mean for REF 2029’s emphasise on equality, diversity and inclusion.

Five years of the Feminist Futures Programme! Thank you so much to everybody @autonomy-institute.bsky.social for half a decade of hard work. Lots coming up in 2026, too. Catch our selective retrospective here: autonomy.work/wp-content/u....

Coming up in just over 2 weeks 👀 Sign up and join us! 🤗

Another day, another scare story… Once again research from a Wealth Management firm—dutifully amplified by national newspapers— is encouraging lower taxes on the rich. Here’s 3 reasons why the in‑front‑of‑the‑paywall headline & synopsis (yet again) don’t match reality. 🧵1/11

Absolute shitshow. Lose-lose situation. No winners here.

It's been nearly 6 years and I'm still jealous of the furlough. My sourdough skills are years behind where they could have been.

If you publish with us and you want us to feature your article or special issue there we’re taking pitches again…

Our slightly exhausted blog has woken up and is now updating www.journalofculturaleconomy.org

Friends! Please join me in London or online for my inaugural lecture in April. There will be wine and nibbles! You can heckle me from the back row! I've already promised some raunchy Zed from Zardoz references - other indecent shout-out requests may be considered. Booking via QR code.

We've released new polling this morning on wealth creation which sends a clear message to policymakers: Back Britain’s genuine wealth creators - and take on the extractive practices draining our communities. 🔗Read more: fairnessfoundation.com/making-or-ta...

Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK

Technology discourse is so unhinged at the moment. Just zooming out, beyond specifics, the fact that there are multiple movements to "protect" kids from smartphones at the same time as there is increased pressure to AI everything all the time is bananas

Out today @intellectbooks.bsky.social: 'Reconstructing the American Dream: Life Inside the Tiny House Nation' w/Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki & Cian Oba-Smith. Through photographic and ethnographic accounts of life in Texas tiny home communities, we examine the politics of 'going tiny' in the US today.

Wie verändern sich Vorstellungen, Ideale und Praktiken von Umverteilung durch digitale Plattformen? Einladung zur Projektpräsentation (online)!

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Brilliant, indispensable, chilling from @melindacooper.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK

This whole thing stinks. Please take action, sign & share. Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with this completely compromised US tech firm #Palantir immediately you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

stop trying to make another folk devil, we know the real problem here

“…subscription’s possible role in postcapitalist economic organization.”

The King's Fund are launching a new project about how we can reimagine the welfare state to ensure good health for everyone. If you're interested in thinking through what that might mean in practice, please get in touch with us!

It’ll take more than a leadership change for Lab to begin rectifying this. They’d need to remove most of a generation, abandon a whole concept of politics they signed up to 30 years ago & open up an inclusive & pluralist politics that goes beyond parties. Obviously that that won’t happen (5/)

A wonderful review essay by @liamstanley.bsky.social that we recently published in @newformations.bsky.social

What happened when we shared findings from the Redistributive Imaginaries project with people working in community organising, digital innovation, tax justice, social policy + local government? Read our blog about 5 workshops held in our case study countries. redigim.arts.ac.uk/news/blog-re... 1/2

What happened when we shared findings from the Redistributive Imaginaries project with people working in community organising, digital innovation, tax justice, social policy + local government? Read our blog about 5 workshops held in our case study countries. redigim.arts.ac.uk/news/blog-re... 1/2

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW #114 Race, Racialisation and Racisms Feat. @jemgilbert.bsky.social (free to download) Inna Arzumanova Brenna Bhandar (free to download) Erik Borda Sarah Bufkin (free to download) Basuli Deb Anamik Saha journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Looking forward to talking to John Clarke about The Battle for Britain! This is the book I’ve quoted more than any others over the past 2 years. Reviewed it for Soundings here too, p101 journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vo...

Before we start recording the next series of the New Economics Podcast we want to hear from you about what you think! Let us know what guests or topics you want to learn about - as well as any other feedback you have on the podcast in our short survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We’re kicking off 2026 with The Design episode! Cultural economies of design. Find out how design shapes the way businesses and platforms imagine the future. @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and me with @ulissess.bsky.social Karl Palmas KorayCaliskan @jcultecon.bsky.social youtu.be/M57gwqdwsXA

Distinct from the opportunistic ‘indigenous’ claims of the far right, and informed by the struggles of colonised Indigenous peoples, I read ‘liberal indigeneity’ as a white fantasy of ancestral belonging that attempts to negotiate the racial legacies of empire. 2/2

How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...

7) Pursue digital sovereignty: universities should collaborate to create the software and platforms they need, and not rely on the fascistic and extractive tech sector.

Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.