This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Talking to one of my heroes Hito Steyerl about contemporary art and the effort of the US empire to rule through difference. carrier-bag.net/video/world-...

The keynote by @abenanav.bsky.social from our planning conference last December is now online. Enjoy! youtu.be/_fOKi05_Ddo

My colleague Ryan Lee and I been working for the past 6 months on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. Our first working paper, "Choice under value pluralism," is below. Please read, share, and comment! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162

New article! 🎉 I argue that only labor-power produces economic value, even though, economically, it's just another commodity, and ecologically, it's just another source of energy. What makes it special? Its unique capacity to refuse the transition from ecology to economy. doi.org/10.1177/0191...

In Behind Our Backs, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsion. New: @histmat.bsky.social hosted a book discussion with Amy De'Ath, Colleen Lye, & Chris Nealon #ReadUP

btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Excited to share this thoughtful review of Absolute Ethical Life by Charles Barbour in Review of Politics:

The video recording of the panel with @triofrancos.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, and myself, is now available on Youtube Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_h...

Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.

Episode 17: Palestine ‘Resisting Erasure’ authors Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah joined to discuss their mini masterpiece. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

This I think is a big part of the appeal of AI to the oligarchs. Not that it will replace labor or raise profits in general, but that it will specifically replace the labor whose autonomy impinges on them personally.

just namedropped @cominsitu.bsky.social at the bookstore

🚨new publication🚨 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025. Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art." - I have a new essay out, read it here: www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...

"My decision is not primarily driven by fear of experiencing even a fraction of the humiliation that thousands of so-called 'illegal immigrants,' 'criminals,' or political dissidents—wrongly branded as 'terrorists'—have suffered over time. It is, above all, a political decision" Some excerpts 🧵

Sasha on Joshua, a terrible beauty @sashafrerejones.bsky.social

I didn't know Josh Clover well, but we did get to do a panel together a couple years back. He said sth then that stuck with me, which is that we should resist analogies with the past to understand the present b/c we need to be open to what's radically new about the now...

There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise." I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.

So is Carney gonna call in any airstrikes on the illegitimate junta ruling the restive former colonial outpost just across his country’s southern border? Surely a few well-placed smart bombs will alleviate the destabilizing threat of cross-border skirmishes and territorial encroachment.

anyway here is my four-hour Sun Ra playlist

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

will do this again today

L’arbre indique que tout est vie. Jacques Camatte 1935-2025

Paul Mattick: “It is economic decline, ongoing (through cyclical ups & downs) since the mid-1970s, that limits the welfare spending that it simultaneously makes more necessary, while emptying the globalized economy of its promise of advancement for all.” Lesenswert: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiel...

Went to see Adam Hanieh talk today. He relayed an anecdote about watching a basketball game in China and being struck by the Saudi Aramco adverts on the sidelines… a real world-spirit on horseback moment for me…

this is how i’m perceived by my peers

I went to see Raresh DJ last night and spent most of the evening talking about Adam Tooze.

‘Son seems compulsively driven to invest larger and larger sums so he can call himself the biggest, most significant, most visionary investor in the world.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on SoftBank and its leader, Masayoshi Son: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

a couple of different looks at some stairs I built

hope one of the more morally complex warlords will have need of minor bureaucrats. the kind of patron who writes anguished poetry about the bloodshed. i can probably keep pretty good accounts.

Billy Harper - Trying to Get Ready

Climate Lenin is a beautiful name for a girl

You're saying the billionaire's operation is like an octopus? An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?

"Money is a metaphor that demands to be taken literally. Like language, money does not merely represent reality but constitutes it." -- Stefan Eich, The Currency of Politics Just started this, and it's so lucid, clear and thought-provoking. Thanks to @tobiasbunde.bsky.social for recommending!

gotta disagree with jeremy deller, I believe karl marx would’ve understood house music

I went to the hidden abode of production and nobody knew you?

One should think for oneself and read texts about economy and related matters — youtu.be/FMfjdWuQCL4?...

was in my quite large group chat of dudes talking at length about Jacques Camatte today