Wow a New Year and more new @itspetergabriel.bsky.social - the track Been Undone is stunning. Thank you!

To commence 2026 on @ppesydney.bsky.social we start the year with Kevin Gray reviewing @alfnilsen.bsky.social *Southern Interregnum* published with @manchesterup.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/review-of-so...

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, online first (open access). brill.com/view/journal... @morton.bsky.social

My "novel" reading in 2025 - always loosely defined - with a nod here in the list to @criveragarza.bsky.social who's literary archive was acquired this year as part of the fabulous Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at University of Texas, Austin www.lib.utexas.edu/about/news/b...

Latest book drop!

The next text to start 2026 in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social has been announced @plutopress.bsky.social

Jamie Morgan on Money in the 21st Century

What another “mainstreaming” of Marxist critique!? Mark Carney proves he’s environmentally-friendly by recycling Giovanni Arrighi - on the variable geometry (of imperialism) 1/2 @versobooks.bsky.social

Revolutions are Back! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades. Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇

All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

Clearly not dancing the dialectic with Bertell Ollman - Dialectic investments in The Economist (15-21 November 2025)

My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* @springer.springernature.com @springernature.com

Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com

This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social

Now out! Although not got to Volume II yet and reckon I need to go back to reread the first in the trilogy to do it all justice @ianbruff.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social

Why the past, present and future struggle for political economy is so important, by Evan Jones @albomp.bsky.social

Nearly finished on this set of books.

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... @morton.bsky.social

Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...

Second forum post on "Cultivating Socialism" by Kyla Sankey that engages with Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, discussing issues of class and dependency 1/2

JOB! Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas - Springer, 2025 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... book launch in Sydney with @morton.bsky.social gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with @brisunipress.bsky.social! I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko

Just received! Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽 gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-... @stuartelden.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social

Fascinating little-known story of an Australian man who fought and died supporting Jakob Marengo's uprising against German colonial rule in Namibia in 1905: namibian-studies.com/index.php/JN...

Now out: Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City Environment and Planning F Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social and many more!

“At a time when self-declared Nazis are using the internet to mobilise, new information systems are rapidly transforming the nature of work and traditional models of communication are crumbling, properly resourced sociology departments are what the public desperately needs”.

A fantastic opportunity to discuss economy and space in the literary work of David Ireland with Brett Heino @gleebooks.bsky.social on 31 October. Register here👇🏽 gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared? Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social

Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025

Turbocharging the sex trafficking trade @sarameger.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*

What a brilliant read this was with its focus, from the Vermont landscape to the wider American west of the twentieth-century, on the inequality and dispossession of capitalism. The hell scape appears “crimson as the landscape seen through the red cellophane strip on cigarette packs”.

The two articles are summarised here: www.ppesydney.net/all-that-has... The writing of this, among many things in my life, was inspired by @ultha.bsky.social

"Whilst many of the reflections that follow this preface will touch on Political Economy’s colourful past, we should not neglect its value to us in the present and its importance to our nation in the future" -- Anthony Albanese, as one of the voices of former Political Economy students 👇

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al (CUP, 2024) see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/07/poli... @morton.bsky.social

University life as grant grubbing, less ivory tower more pyramid scheme, site of super-exploitation and management bullying - perfect material for a novelistic descent into the demonium of academia today 1/2

Announcing the 2025 Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Raewyn Connell: "Should we abolish universities?" www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...

Edited by Frank Stilwell, the latest issue of Journal of Australian Political Economy celebrates 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as a discipline. More events later in the year!

Come and join all of us and the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, @garethbryant.bsky.social as host of the 18th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture that will be given by Raewyn Connell | 10 September 2025 | Sign up for the free lecture in the link below

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.

Sorting out, as Marx put it, this “shitty rent business”, has been a long and winding road. Out soon with @plutopress.bsky.social is Matthew Costa's new book, which is set to vivify new rounds of debate on rent theory. @j0eb0gan.bsky.social

Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”

“Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy” with @davidaviles.bsky.social is now out in Volume 57 Issue 5, of @economyandspace.bsky.social and Open Access 👇🏽

What a superb book

From my research on the Monument to the Revolution, here are four postage stamps. My assumption was that there was just one, the far right one from 1934. But here are more. My favorite is the far left one on the XVI International Congress of Planning & Housing (1938). More here👇🏽 shorturl.at/VdYt6