omg our new redesigned Phenomenal World website is here! Did you know we are a tri-lingual publication in English, Spanish, Portuguese? Read and share our first 1st Issue: AMERICAN POWER phenomenalworld.org

great discussion between @triofrancos.bsky.social and @meadwaj.bsky.social about what happened to the Green New Deal moment and what underappreciated openings exist in the current often chaotic shift to state capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFHh...

1.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d...

A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

"The ships, the trucks, the loading docks: these are containers of immiserated labor, and so they are also containers of revolutionary potential," says @charmainechua.bsky.social.

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

🚨 Just published in Socio-Economic Review! 🚨 @sasemeeting.bsky.social The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate finance By Benjamin H. Bradlow and Aishwarya Swamidurai The article is available open access at the following link. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

15% cuts across faculty and staff at The New School 😢

Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

I'll be having a live online conversation about it with her for @equatormag.bsky.social next Thursday. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

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CFP SSHA March 1 is the deadline to submit an abstract for papers & paper sessions at the 51st annual Social Science History Assoc meeting in Atlanta Nov 19-22. The meeting brings together scholars in history & the social sciences in 20 thematic networks, each of which organizes its own sessions.

“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”

@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...

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...

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.” 👇🏽