On Wednesday, November 19 at 5:00 pm ET on WPRB... THE NIGHT IS YOUNG RETURNS! Three hours of Neil Young + Crazy Horse reimagined by a wide mix of musicians, including many of your superb recommendations. If you want to suggest a cover or record one yourself, please send my way by next Monday.

Incredible case of easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams on the new Marxism: ‘This is precisely why it is important not to conceptualise material interests as transhistorical categories existing outside of specific social conjunctures.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social). Full episode here: www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #FutureHistories #Podcast

It seems more likely that they are not hung up, they’re triangulating

Ezra Klein sucks up so much oxygen

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism. @jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023. strangematters.coop/chasing-home...

Couldn’t be happier that the Nobel has gone to Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Back in 2012 I tried to astroturf a movement claiming him as the Next Big Thjng but it didn’t take off because he’s too difficult www.theguardian.com/books/2012/j...

One of my very favorite books. The writing matches the subject of extraordinary brilliance and beauty at the center of each chapter

Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...

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Read this right now please.

This is excellent

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This weeks 9/6 Sounds of the Caribbean #Reggae Radio Podcast Ep. 918 is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & on Podbean www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ne87n-... The show can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audacy, Mixcloud, & TuneIn. Subscribe, Download, Stream, Listen & Enjoy! #ReggaeSky

this is good maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...

Is there any mainstream climate projection that isn't too conservative by a mile?

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

Timeline cleanser. 0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

Sameer Project's daily updates tell us all we need to know about how Palestinians continue to fight for their existence and dignity in this genocide. Dr. Al-Farra at Nasser Hospital Pediatric ICU continues to save the lives of babies. 1 can Ensure = $28.25 Donate: chuffed.org/project/1368...

I really don't post because I'm not at all good at posting and I don't think it does me or anyone else any good. But I've got several projects piling up (thanks to the fascist assault on science and higher education) and I'm procrastinating.

The contemporary idiot personifications of capital cannot articulate this (I hesitate to say that they do not understand it). The intolerable idea that humanity should be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust is only side-stepped by the AI delusion and planetary escape fantasies.

“Since capital can only function by way of contradictions, it both creates the family and destroys it; both produces the economically independent young generation with its ‘youth culture’ and undermines it; both generates the conditions of potentially comfortable old age,

From the 1970s through the mid-1990s, István Mészáros saw capital confront a truly structural crisis. For the first time, capital could no longer displace it's contradictions and supersede it's barriers, however temporarily, to put itself on new productive footing.

I think a lot about the documentary, The Act of Killing, especially as imperial violence boomerangs back at us. Some groups can just die en masse and there’s little or no justice.

This weeks 8/23 Sounds of the Caribbean #ReggaeRadio show is up at www.soundsofthecaribbean.com & on Podbean www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hjtnb-... The show can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Audacy, Mixcloud, & TuneIn Subscribe, Download, Stream, Listen & Enjoy! #ReggaeSky

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

I’m fortunate enough to have insurance and good friends who are there for me, but I could definitely use some support. Please pitch in or share if you can.

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

Just finished this and started Peter Weiss's The Aesthetics of Resistance. Also started listening to the Jameson Tapes episodes of American Vandal with a lot of great insight from Kornbluh. Jameson wrote a forward for The Aesthetics of Resistance. Of course there are a lot of through lines here

take heart in this fab essay and forthcoming book: archaeologists find that when empires fall, the powerful fare badly but the commoners fare better! people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us. aeon.co/essays/the-g...

Did not know that Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is so funny

Miller: …I do my best thinking on the bus. That's how come I don't drive, see. Otto: You don't even know how to drive. Miller: I don't want to know how. I don't want to learn. See? The more you drive the less intelligent you are. ~Repo Man (1984) www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...

Fuck Larry Summers.

Help the Sameer Project keep doing incredibly important mutual aid work on the ground in Gaza!

Jenny Erpenbeck, Not a Novel, p.92

“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler”

The wonderful @mqudsi.bsky.social launched this site gazadirect.com so you can easily find fundraisers who need help the most

Today’s good news is that Peter Greenaway’s delightful documentary Act of God, about lightning strike survivors, made for Thames TV’s Take Six strand in 1980 is on YouTube youtu.be/Ruuxxdq4v4Y?...

I’ve been off social media a while and I can’t come back without mentioning the genocide in Gaza, which is more devastating each day. So please also read Tareq Baconi in the same issue www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

MLK, too, was like “nah, I have many critiques of capitalism.” Periodic reminder that Prophet of Discontent is freely available open access. ugapress.manifoldapp.org/projects/pro...

It’s clear why Bhattacharya is Trump’s NIH director. Frankly embarrassing and irresponsible interview.

Abundance

I wrote a bit about The Settlers a couple weeks back. it’s now available to stream in the US (worth watching!)