Kicking off the Political Economy of Finance summer school v.3. At @lse-ei.bsky.social for the first time. Topic: “Finance and democracy”. Day 1: My co-hosts @mkblyth.bsky.social and @realbrianjudge.bsky.social in the morning, then @anninak.bsky.social, now @marionf.bsky.social.

This is about as comprehensive as things get. Would love to know what - if any - pushback it could receive from those representatives of the system itself. But maybe there aren’t any left. Even VCs would agree with much of it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“American structural power had endured not despite, but because of the doomsayers.” Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...

I'm excited to release part 3 of my series on beyond capitalism with @Autonomy_Inst. The big question people often asked about my recent work is—ok sure, but how do we get there? Please have a look at my first sketch of an answer to that question. autonomy.work/portfolio/be...

Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more. Now all online— phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...

The UK government boldly called time on drilling the North Sea, Europe’s largest declining hydrocarbon basin. I wrote @phenomenalworld.bsky.social with @freddiedaley.bsky.social on the North Sea's future and why its past shows we need more state intervention🔽 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

Organised crime suspect Daniel Kinahan arrested in Dubai ft.trib.al/gTBxBw7

If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share

I need to talk to someone about this book... I can't be the only one that's read it??

Has anyone else read this yet?

Sparked by Richard Tice's plans for fracking as 'our patriotic duty', I wrote something with George Edwards of @zetkincollective.bsky.social about the appeal of Reform's fossil nationalism for @the-breakdown.bsky.social

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

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...

With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.

Yo Yale! WTF! So many under and un-employed academics and you’re doing this for someone who already has a job and is by any measure a vacuum inside an empty suit intellectually…

As decarbonization in Europe takes the form of brutal industrial restructuring (without even providing deep decarbonization), and as traditional unions are seen as participants in this process, the danger of such far-right labour organizing will only grow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Podcast Relaunch - We are relaunching our podcast Critical Theory In Context with regular episodes, alternating in German & English, with our new regular hosts @sabinenuss.bsky.social & Jacob Blumenfeld. Unsere neue Episode über das Jahresthema des Centres: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

1/5 Chinese industrial firms now operating at a loss, per www.uscc.gov/sites/defaul...

Important to recall that the Great Depression already started in the 1920s with significant deflation of agricultural commodity prices (in a world where 50% of trade was still raw materials and most people farmers/peasants). manufacturing is today's equivalent and China is of course the epicenter.

another reason to anticipate the new one from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, out in May: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804528...

This looks fantastic (and great cover design as always from Zone)

"The struggle for a just transition is not simply about the sharp moments—confronting corporations, stopping pipelines. It is about building, in the ruins of the present, the infrastructure that will allow us to keep going when the fight stretches into months, years, lifetimes"

Extractivism, green and brown. The podcast version of our conversation with political scientist and activist @triofrancos.bsky.social is now available on all your favorite platforms.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

I've been rereading this excellent piece today - it sheds light on so many of the vital debates within Marxist and heterodox political economy in recent years. I really recommend checking it out.

Passage from a text discussing Peron's personal involvement in the 'ratlines' that brought Nazis to Latin America. Apparently two routes were used: Franco's Spain and Italy. In the latter case, Catholic clergy were instrumental. (From TE Martínez's 1984 "Peron and the Nazi War Criminals")

Manchester are advertising a number of political economy (broadly conceived) fully funded 3 year Hallsworth & Simon post-docs www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... closing date - Jan 16 2026

NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni @adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world. Listen now 👇 www.break-down.org/politics-of-...

The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life at @durham.ac.uk is hiring up to 7 (!) researchers to the role of Assistant Professor (Research) for a period of 36 months to work on: generativity; image and language; synthetic worlds; and being human. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

Really sad to hear about the passing of Asad Haider. Such a brilliant mind and such a sweet guy. And a great lover of Tiki cocktails

That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die —— new website is up: endnotes.org.uk

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition." My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is a very interesting piece, both in terms of its analysis of the Truss government and its implications for how we think about the politics of depoliticisation today.

Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning. More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

Another banger! Carla studies the most depraved neoliberal writings so you don't have to. This is a must read.

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

This is an excellent article - highly recommended.

New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)

although I only got to stay for 2 days, HM was incredible - best conference in the world

it was a great pleasure to host @alybatt.bsky.social at Durham yesterday - thank you to everyone who came! And go buy a copy of Free Gifts 📘

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

If you're in the north east, come along!

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

And here is the link to the article: brill.com/view/journal...