@melindacooper.bsky.social on the far-right’s new family values: “Epstein’s case is more instructive than Musk’s because it combines the two economies of sexual property that Freud discerned in the primitive unconscious – fratriarchal and patriarchal.” www.equator.org/articles/eps...

“The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional by the day.” @melindacooper.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Our collection of articles on emancipatory sabotage is coming together. My contribution “Domination and Sabotage” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Don’t sleep on this battle royale: @abenanav.bsky.social x @leifw.bsky.social x @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on AI and socialism ⚔️💾 www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Along with return of "new conglomerates" (@nsrnicek.bsky.social) in Big Tech, shift from publicly-traded to privately-held companies pointed out by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social is major shift of 21c capitalism.

asset manager society 🤝 asset manager capitalism

The collapse happened Wednesday due to heavy rains at the rebel-controlled Rubaya mines. Congo is a major supplier of coltan, which contains a key component in the production of smartphones. n.pr/4rhM2JY

Demand for lithium and other minerals is booming — reshaping landscapes, supply chains, and geopolitics. On this episode of Terra Verde @kpfa.org, political scientist and author @triofrancos.bsky.social talks about the hidden costs of "clean energy." www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...

“Under the banner of market reform, state assets have been transferred to parastatal conglomerates. Under thepressure of sanctions, access to trade, fi nance, and infrastructure has been monopolized by institutionsshielded from oversight… www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

“La Unidad de Búsqueda confirma el hallazgo del cuerpo del cura guerrillero Camilo Torres, ícono de la izquierda colombiana” elpais.com/america-colo...

Desde el Seminario Nacional de Historia del Tiempo Presente nos sumamos a las exigencias por la aparición con vida de Leonardo Escobar, profesor colombiano de la IBERO-Puebla.

Out now: International Law and Architecture Edited by @renskevos.bsky.social, @sofiastolk.bsky.social and @miriambakmck.bsky.social Free - read the Introduction on Elgaronline: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Available in print through our website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Later today!

Extraction, by the brilliant @triofrancos.bsky.social, is my book of the year. Mining for the green transition is… a minefield of contradictions. Thea reveals their contours, layer by layer, w stories & political economy. The journey’s revelatory. To navigate the polycrisis, read this book.

“I can also remember the phrase he liked to use when he was heading off to the the Bibliothèque Nationale ; ‘I'm going to check whether people at that date were saying what they should have been saying!’”

It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

“Overall, the article aims to understand the uneven neoliberal transition of recent years and reflect on how workers can, through sabotage, turn infrastructure into ‘technologies of dissent’ to defend public ownership”

Drum roll ... Our final Issue of 2025 is a very Special Issue on (Post-)Growth Infrastructures, edited by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. This was one of two winners supported by funding from our Special Issue Competition. www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Towers, who is not a social scientist, does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers

End of history, anthro, and soc majors at New School ⚰️

The first published article, and it’s a powerful one, in a special issue breaking ground on how to theorize infrastructural sabotage with (hopefully) an essay from me as well

Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more

Scandalous self-dealing by New School trustees

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

What's happening at the New Schoool is not just budget cuts. It's a wholesale scrapping and selling NSSR and Lang off for parts.

New on our blog: a wide-ranging interview with HPE grantee @benchansfield.bsky.social on their monumental book, Born in Flames www.hpeproject.org/blog/firestorm

New interview! Andrew Anastasi and I discuss the emotional logic of insurance and how racial capitalism is being misconstrued in the present -- as made manifest in some reviews of my book. Grateful for this partnership between @hpe-project.bsky.social and @lpeblog.bsky.social!

And the 0.001% are oblivious to the suffering they create and don't give a crap about it. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Terrific essay. The leftist student leader turned president Gabriel Boric had a great line—”Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it wI’ll also be its tomb.” Statist experiments in copper, lithium and green hydrogen… how are they going? What can others learn? www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/lit...

The New School has long protected dissenting thought and critical scholarship. It is painful to watch an institution with such an intellectual lineage treated as a budgetary problem. At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever! #AcademicSky

New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽

In the 1980s, The New School faced an institutional crisis, including the loss of accreditation for some of its programs. The admin response then was to hire renowned academics like Louise Tilly and Charles Tilly

New School has been one of the most important humanities and social science universities in the world for the past 70 years. The humanities are collapsing at all of the pillars, and it won't be long until less prestigious institutions feel validated to call open season upon a number of departments.

You're getting a LOT of asks today - I am too. But as US imperialism in Latin America ramps up once again, we need @nacla-report.bsky.social more than ever. We're trying to raise $5K today. You can donate here: nacla.salsalabs.org/2025EoYDonat...

Electricity is the new price of eggs. Voters need your political position on the price of electricity and utility bills. A real solution? Publicly-owned utilities. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

The story of Rockefeller bankrolling the establishment of the University of Chicago is fascinating (he paid for everything). He generally abstained from meddling but somewhow the one guy who got fired was a political economists who advocated for ... public ownership of the energy infrastructure.

What role do state corporations play in capitalism’s past and present, reshaping our view of the state? South Africa offers insights. — my (short) review of Faeeza Ballim’s Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technology Ambivalence thenewcntxt.com/05-issue-07-1

The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

I was faculty at The New School for almost 19 years; I worked across several of these departments — many of which are central to the institution’s unique (and truly remarkable) legacy and continued strengths. Such a tragedy.

Wow, this is grim. blogs.newschool.edu/community-me...

Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here

The New School for Social Research pauses PhD student admissions for the 2026 cycle 🥀 t.co/KOXleLT680

I woke up to find that Flatbush Avenue is now called Karl-Marx-Allee:

“And perhaps in one of my favorite examples illustrating the historical obsession with measurement in organizations, Fourcade and Healy unearth how the division at Ford responsible for surveilling workers was named the 'Sociology Department.'”

Just published: my review of @brettchristophers.bsky.social's excellent "The Price Is Wrong," in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...