The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...

Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.

The ISS will be deorbited in 2031, handing over space station operations to private companies. How befitting for NASA to have paid SpaceX almost $1 billion to develop a vehicle that will strike the final death blow, dumping the ISS back into Earth. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. It reminds me of the weekend I rented all nine hours of The Human Condition from the video store and watched it over three nights. youtu.be/624BjiOiVt4?...

One need not be a CCP apologist to be able to see that this is an incredible achievement for humanity as a whole and that increased belligerence towards China is at least partly motivated by hatred toward a state that can achieve things other than AI bubbles www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

#BOOKGIVEAWAY Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social then reshare & reply to this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book. T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #eastgermany #GDR #DDR #Berlinwall @DDROnline.bsky.social @GermanAtPompey.bsky.social

Just began working on organizing the blog & converting to shareable PDFs, & it’s going to be a big project! For life reasons, it’s going to be harder for me to keep going now, so any support would be crazy appreciated! & thanks for reading & sharing Substudies! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow. Will be streamed on Youtube 8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST (link in replies)

Here it is! Contra Paulum (1944), Adorno’s draft for a critique he planned to write with Horkheimer of Paul Tillich’s ‘43 program for religious socialism. Conceived as a defense of revolutionary socialism from the materialist POV of their work on Dialectic of Enlightenment! 🔗⬇️

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Thrilled to share that my book The Interpreters is out! It explores how Britain engaged with the politics of Southeastern Europe—national questions, federations, and minority rights—and how those debates echoed from the Balkans to Ireland. 🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526160133/

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert is now available online, as a database heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/ffl_...

A US tech bro corp in the US has decided the night sky should go away. They've made that decision for everyone on Earth. Naturally they've named the first searing orbital array (many times brighter than the moon) after Eärendil, the light bearer, from Tolkien's work www.space.com/space-explor...

New book: In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis, by Samezō Kuruma amzn.to/46WZrhN

Existential challenge: "None of the 45 global climate indicators analysed in the report are on track for 2030"

Trump confirmed the US is preparing land strikes amid expanding regime change operations against Venezuela. Available in EN and ES.

About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.

Israel accused of 80 Gaza ceasefire violations killing 97 people - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-accused-80-gaza-ceasefire-violations-killing-97-people

fantastic book, now in English divided.online/all-books/bo...

working on a translation of Julius Schaxel’s “Das biologische Individuum” (1930) on the natural-historical emergence of ‘the individual’ & the possibility of thinking its concept—by distinguishing it from individuality & dissolving the individual back into its constituent relations & movements!

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

Hygge Marxism takes material form ❤️✊

meanwhile, every second person who i know in london right now has covid... dry cough everywhere, no one is masked, it's the start of university term. good luck everyone.

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance www.sup.org/books/middle...

At least 48 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-48-palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-dawn

🚨 Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla. Communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed. This is an attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and int'l institutions to demand their immediate safety and release

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

Couldn't ask for a better person to undertake this adventure with 🥰

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

A few weeks into our one year of funded Mandarin language study in Taiwan! We feel extremely blessed to be given the chance to learn a language that we've yearned to acquire, all while living and breathing it in a very special place. To a year of Chinese, tea, and badminton!

I interviewed Flint Taylor, Fred Hampton's & the Chicago Black Panther Party's, lawyer who helped uncover the CPD/FBI's role in his execution and the execution of other members. We discussed historical & present day policing issues in this piece: truthout.org/articles/50-...

In a piece for @verfassungsblog.de I critique a recent Hamburg court decision that Marx is an enemy of the German constitution. (English translation out soon)

Israel is conducting airstrikes on Gaza City. Earlier they targeted an internet distribution site there and are trying very hard to prevent news from getting out.

here’s the full discussion on the tasks of literary criticism! on a paper of Leo Löwenthal’s—ft. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Schachtel, Pinthus, Soudek 🔗 ⬇️

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/models-of-...

It's kind of an insane example to make, given the centrality of the wool and silk trades to European economic integration and industrial development. Even if you wanted to be a philistine about the value of historical scholarship, you could at least be competent at it.

Handing over the hosting of @iliasalami.bsky.social from USyd - thanks to @garethbryant.bsky.social - to UQ - thanks to @shaharhameiri.bsky.social and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social with this piece of his on state capitalism as your catch up reading.

'Today, the opacity of the mechanisms by which sanctions work secures the impunity of those who impose them' - Jessica Whyte (2023)

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!