Six years after the ‘Be Water’ rebellion, in 'Forever Hong Kong' Ching Kwan Lee interrogates the historical conditions and precedents that precipitated the 2019 revolt, reinterpreting Hongkongers’ political resistance as acts of decolonial defiance. A conversation with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social.

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

I have an essay in The BREAK-DOWN: "Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame" - go subscribe (it's free) and read it (and all the other great stuff that's already there 🔥)!

Check out my essay "Welcome to the age of Longevity Capitalism" now open access in @finandsoc.bsky.social Thank you @aminsamman.bsky.social for endorsing the project, and to @jvtk.bsky.social for our great conversation on these ideas. Picture credit to Harald Bergauer visual interpretation

Politics without Guarantees by Asad Haider, RIP thepointmag.com/politics/pol...

Asad Haider, my goodness will we miss your voice and your scholarship making sense of this cursed world of ours.

Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.* To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?

RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

Sorry to hear that Paolo Virno has passed. I was engaging with his work a lot 10 or so years ago. publicseminar.org/2015/02/virn...

I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan. You can read it here:

"the Fed's primary concern is the systemic threat that [firm or sector risk] poses – even if stabilising measures benefit the too-big-to-fail constituency first & foremost. The administration ... is more interested in a discretionary, patronage-based approach." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

China’s achievements at scale are undeniable—but scale is not system. Responding to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social’s call to judge by delivery, @messingschlager.bsky.social argues that durable performance depends on independent measurement, contestable feedback, and system integration, not size alone.

This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance, reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.

And tomorrow, we'll be on general strike again #blocchiamotutto #globalsumudflotilla #freepalestine #generalstrike

#BLOCCHIAMOTUTTO #freepalestine #marghera #portodivenezia #scioperogenerale

#blocchiamotutto #scioperogenerale #freepalestine

Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand! It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.

#Venezia | Si è svolta questa mattina davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di #Venezia82 la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera”, in programma sabato 30 agosto al Lido. www.globalproject.info/it/in_movime...

Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: “Stop a genocidio” https://www.europesays.com/it/78257/ Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità…

Puntiamo i riflettori della Mostra del Cinema sulla Palestina! I comitati di Possibile del Veneto aderiscono al corteo di sabato 30 settembre al Lido di Venezia, con partenza alle 17:00 da Santa Maria Elisabetta. Vi aspettiamo numeros3!

‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’ Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’ Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We asked Pete Hegseth if women should have the right to vote. The answer was unsettling.

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

Know your parasites For a healthier society ;)

The biological transhumanism and digital eugenics promoted by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley amounts to pro-extinctionism, @xriskology.bsky.social‬ writes. www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Another SI contribution now out! Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale. The academic life can actually prevent intellectuals [from] doing serious intellectual work. —Stuart Hall

“Over the past two decades, the self-avowed libertarian’s melding of genetic pronouncements with bootstrapping family-values talk has served as the bridge spanning divergent factions of the racialist right, from its IQ-obsessed, DEI-hating Silicon Valley wing to its white nationalist fringes.“

No space for Bezos Venice strikes back #venice #bezos #nokings #nospaceforbezosl

No Kings No Besos Amazon = Cazzon

NO KINGS IN VENICE @no space for bezos @mttpsq.bsky.social

NO KINGS in venice !

Venetians preparing for Bezos’ wedding in their city. #venice #taxtherich #venezia #bezos

#nospaceforbezos #venice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘No Space For Bezos’: Venice Locals Protest Billionaire Jeff Bezos As Italian Wedding Looms

Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos is set to marry in a lavish celebration in Venice as some residents protest his presence by hanging anti-Bezos banners.

#Venezia | Jeff Bezos vuole affittare Venezia per le sue nozze da miliardario, ma la città risponde: non siamo scenografia per oligarchi. Venerdì 13 giugno, un’assemblea pubblica per dire NO allo sfruttamento turistico e alla svendita della città. www.globalproject.info/it/in_movime...

www.facebook.com/share/r/1CAB... #nospaceforbezos

‘Seventy-seven years later, Palestinians are still being displaced and burned alive in tents. The Nakba was not a one-off expulsion, but continues.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

Extremely proud to bring COLLAPSE FINANCE to the world — with an unbelievable set of participants. Full announcement via e-Flux, Inc. lnkd.in/eHBWTbsx June 10-11. Hosted by The New Institute and organised together with @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and Till Wittwer. www.e-flux.com/announcement...

Beyond excited to co-organize Collapse Finance with @ariskomporozos.bsky.social — it's shaping up to be a breakthrough event!

TRAILER - Saison #1 Observatoire de la droitisation du monde, Diagrammes propose des entretiens avec des chercheurs, des journalistes et des activistes à la croisée de cinq programmes. [Lancement le 27 mai 2025]

Watch Wendy Brown deliver the 2025 Tony Judt Memorial Lecture, "Listening for Political Freedom," from March 11th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_DI...

Blue bonds introduce a genuine abundance agenda, not the diet Reaganism currently on offer by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/b...

Had the privilege of interviewing @naomiaklein.bsky.social about Trump's unique "shock doctrine," and how Americans can stand up to the apocalyptic worldview of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...