Peak oil is coming, sí. Pero justo al revés de lo que profetizaba el pikoilismo: "Por primera vez en su historia, la industria petrolera tiene un competidor económicamente superior". Como es habitual en @corrientecalida.com: corrientecalida.com/sedientos-de...

No només perquè em convidaren a mi fa no tant a divagar sobre Draghi i la UE o perquè Xina siga l'objecte de bona part de la meua recerca però xapó la faena de @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social en este @margendemaniobra.net maniobra.net amb @paologerbaudo.bsky.social i @clara-garcia.bsky.social

📻 CHINA A ESCALA INDUSTRIAL ¿Qué papel está teniendo el coche eléctrico para el desarrollo industrial de China, hasta dónde está apoyando el Estado a este sector y cómo se está reaccionando desde Europa a esta realidad? @paologerbaudo.bsky.social youtu.be/JVril5Z6-aE?...

Estos dos textos de @paologerbaudo.bsky.social para @phenomenalworld.bsky.social sobre la economía política del vehículo eléctrico chino. «El Estado desarrollista del vehículo eléctrico»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/... «BYD Global»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...

Ha sido un placer debatir con @clara-garcia.bsky.social de la Complutense y @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social del Instituto Meridiano sobre la transicion verde en China - y lo que podemos aprender de sus exitos de politica industrial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVri...

📻 NUEVO EPISODIO China a escala industrial Hablamos con Clara García y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social sobre cómo la política industrial china está transformando la economía planetaria y acelerando la transición energética, cuáles son sus precedentes y cómo Occidente puede adaptarse a este escenario.

It is interesting that @thisisyourparty.bsky.social has been relatively closely following the "1-9-90" rule that @paologerbaudo.bsky.social has discussed as a characteristic of "digital parties": - 800,000 expressed support - 50,000 joined as members - 8-10,000 participating in online voting

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/euZgJ8z

Yesterday I visited the #Xpeng production plant in Guangzhou. It was an opportunity to see the production process in person at one of the emerging Chinese EV firms. The impression was one of high sophistication and a reminder that the Chinese EV world is far bigger than #BYD. 🧵

We are happy to welcome our new Senior Researcher, Paolo Garbaudo / @paologerbaudo.bsky.social!

Yesterday I visited the #Xpeng production plant in Guangzhou. It was an opportunity to see the production process in person at one of the emerging Chinese EV firms. The impression was one of high sophistication and a reminder that the Chinese EV world is far bigger than #BYD. 🧵

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/93Wo42J

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆 'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Very glad to see our new article "Transition without transformation? The strategic limits of NextGenerationEU green-digital transition plans" co-authored with Walter Haeusl, out in Globalizations! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have a 🚨 new open access paper 🚨 with @polcommjournal.bsky.social We show how platforms can simultaneously concentrate and fragment political power. We analysed Italy's Five Star Movement across 5 platforms to understand multi-platform dynamics in political organisations. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Y muchas gracias a @luisaguado.bsky.social, Cristina de Benito y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social. Las discusiones en profundidad sobre la sociología del cambio climático, los conflictos en el despliegue de renovables y la reindustrialización verde es lo que necesitamos ahora mismo. Este es el camino.

Varieties of Religious Experience: Tech Conference Variety.

fresh audio product: • Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social on the Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s rise • Andrew Hartman, author of Karl Marx in America, on the bearded one’s reception in the US www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Another exhibit of the prominence of the security frame in post-global discourse; but where the notion of security is geared exclusively towards defence. Many who find themselves in a difficult economic situation in reading this will ask: “Secure at home? Really?”

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

Protection and security have indeed become "master frames" of contemporary politics. Unfortunately less and less in the sense of social security and social protection; more and more in the sense of national defence and rearmament.

Colonialismo digital. Poder y geopolítica en la era de las plataformas Viernes 6jn 10am Un encuentro con investigadores europexs de primera línea en @CCPPySOCUCM, para pensar la autonomía estratégica y cognitiva en una coyuntura decisiva. Con @pbustinduy.bsky.social y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social.

I bet he can’t wait to start looting our state the way Trump is doing over there

On my way to the Beyond Neoliberalism conference. Anyone from in here going? beyond-neoliberalism.org

Consumo se une a una iniciativa internacional para luchar contra el ecopostureo de las aerolíneas. Vía @publico.es

We are witnessing live how an hegemonic power shoots itself in the feet. US universities have always been a key instrument of US international projection and scientific power. This administration is seriously harming them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Two days of insightful discussions on sovereignty, its dispersion and mobilisation, in times of global disorder with amazing colleagues. Really glad to be part of the @alameda.institute community!

Trump is going to destroy the global economy again to prove he isn't a wuss

Day II of the Alameda Convergence Workshop on sovereignty, crisis, order & transition. @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @parismarx.com @belizboni.bsky.social @benjaminfogel.bsky.social @gabrieltupinamba.bsky.social @annacomdoisenes.bsky.social

Two days of insightful discussions on sovereignty, its dispersion and mobilisation, in times of global disorder with amazing colleagues. Really glad to be part of the @alameda.institute community!

Chinese University invites Harvard int’l students. As the US squanders its hegemonic power and sees its scientific advantage eroding China is putting itself forward as the alternative.

Trump's Golden Dome and Stargate (not to speak of Musk's deranged Mars ambitions) alongside China's mega-infrastructure projects (high speed rail etc) are proof that we are not just in a time of MAGA, but also of MEGA. Megalomania, a typical trait of "high modernism", is coming back BIG time.

Trump appears to have no qualms about undermining the foundations of US cultural and scientific leadership. If this continues, it is not far-fetched to imagine a future where China’s top unis particularly those in the C9 League - become more appealing to int'l students than Ivy League institutions.

It would be surreal if Vietnam gets a bullet train before the US.

BYD continues making strides in Europe while Tesla founders. A new global industrial empire is in the making. www.ft.com/content/53ec...

🎉 Thrilled to share that I’ve signed a contract with Stanford University Press for a new book on social media and emotional manipulation in the age of online hate, AI propaganda, “outrage hooks”, “fear seeding”, and “empathy bait”.

Leseempfehlung für das Wochenende: @paologerbaudo.bsky.social's Essay zur neuen, von China gebauten Weltordnung, dessen Aushängeschild BYD ist. www.surplusmagazin.de/byd-china-ha...

Vamos a defender los derechos de los consumidores en todas partes y ante quien haga falta. Ninguna empresa, por grande o poderosa que sea, está por encima de la ley.

👑️How can we regain #DigitalSovereignty? IIPP's @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, @cedricdurand.bsky.social , Edemilson Paraná, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & @parismarx.com have contributed to a recent paper outlining key proposals for enhanced digital sovereignty. ✍️Read it here: buff.ly/gQ6z2q6

A 60% tariff on China and a 10% tariff on everyone else seems like a great way to increase China’s global economic linkages through outbound FDI, unless the US manages to enforce detailed content/origin requirements for every trading partner? open.substack.com/pub/sankaran...

Chengdu Aircraft Company shares up 40% because the first face-off between "modern Chinese warplanes, replete with missiles and radars untested in battle, and advanced western hardware" went ... very well. Few thoughts more distressing than that high-tech militaries need regular battle testing.

🎤To answer these pressing questions, IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes panelists, academics, and scholars: @ibalilebali.bsky.social, Carla Bonina, @mattcole.bsky.social, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social , @faustogernone.bsky.social, Edemilson Paraná, @roserpujadas.bsky.social, and Ana Valdivia

US‘s “Polar Watch,” 1957

Hace 80 años, Alemania se rindió incondicionalmente a las fuerzas aliadas. Se le derrotó en el campo de batalla, y se aplicó una vacuna en la posguerra: el Estado social. Con sus contradicciones, buscaba evitar que los oligarcas y sus lacayos políticos sembrasen odio y conflicto. Toca revitalizarlo.

"A staggering 44 percent of all Chinese foreign direct investment in the European Union goes to Hungary and BYD is completing construction of a large plant in Szeged, close to the border with Serbia and Romania." @paologerbaudo.bsky.social on the international expansion of Chinese electric vehicles

This is the battle we’ve going to have here too. Do we want a society where we work for and help each other, or one where we focus on ourselves and loathe the other