I stopped writing about cybernetics, surveillance, recognition, and control society after the last two books and 4 articles because at this point Labour teaming up with Palantir via Oswald Mosley's grandson to build a panopticon says enough. The only rational thing to do with such toys is break them

Out now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

Seen that the Indendent Schools Council has a fluff piece in The Times about steps like this being needed to stop 'brain drain' as private school children go to the USA. Elite education working in lockstep to preserve privilege as other instutions deskill through embracing AI. Class war as ever

There's a kind of leftwing common sense vulgar geopolitics which says the US just invades wherever has oil. We need to pay attention to political economy and history. That the Bolivarian Revolution nationalised the oil is crucial here. Smash & grab extractivism is often anti-communist foreign policy

As with Palestine, the western press quite clearly values some lives more than others. Beyond repugnant.

This is a fantastic listen in the context of America's imperialist aggression against Venezuela. It also puts paid to claims that America is tacitly accepting 'spheres of influence' for Russia and China. The Trump-roe doctrine is the development of the coming decade's global foreign policy.

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 11 DOWN BELOW THE BORDERLINE: THE MONROE DOCTRINE We look at the geospatial order of the Western Hemisphere, James Monroe’s 1823 SotU address declaring the end of European colonialism in the Americas, and why Latin America continues to tremble in the shadow of his doctrine.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

The lives of Venezuelans must be sacrificed to the Yankee bomb for the glorious return of the oil reserves to private ownership. it's not a dead cat, it's not a distraction. this is the bare and revealed truth of American capitalism. Complete and total disregard for life and decency for profit

The Imperialists will not stop until they're stopped. There is no norm or law which can tame total impunity. Impunity has no conscience. It has no need of one. The only way to stop them is ultimately for the apparatuses of impunity to be broken and their commanders' power nullified.

Decided to get my Dad to watch the new Mark Fisher documentary today, feeling christmassy obviously. Was not expecting the @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social jump scare

Some recent second hand purchases

We're here! #Marxism #Disability

Green Capitalism was never a *good thing*. It also never meant an end to fossil fuels. It’s important to understand the transition economy is both a tendency within capitalism and a class fraction. The listed green economy has an annual revenue pool of US$5 trillion in 2023.

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rania. Rania has two tiny children, Khalid and Maria. Before the war she was an educator. Her house was destroyed, Maria is suffering from malnutrition and her husband Muhammed has injuries that he needs help treating.

Noticing a suspicious lack of third worldist energy on here

Going to try using this place more. To start my article on rejecting economistic framings of climate justice, and affirming its anti capitalist and anti colonial foundations was recently republished by Green Agenda (without my knowledge) Please read and share! greenagenda.org.au/2024/09/not-...

Just submitted an article that cites Deleuze 10 times and Marx only once. What happened to me ? I’m a Marxist, I swear.

The day that I stop reading “I’m OOO today” as “I’m object oriented ontology today” and start reading it as “I’m out of office today” is the day it’s all over. At that point I will consider going to grad school.

The UN, WHO and MSF have all lost all contact with their Palestinian staff.

Trying to explain to my friend why they shouldn’t take a SWP leaflet and then being asked about the difference between the SWP and some other newspaper distributer and just breaking down

Hearing there were 300,000 of us in London today. Free free Palestine!!

Having umbrellas at a protest makes an interesting difference, so much harder for the media cameras to capture faces That being said, why are so many protesters not masked and filming each other!

The sickos are eating well tonight Tsukamoto and Herchell Gordon Lewis 😌

Historical distance gives people the cover to insist they are more radical than they are. If you can't support Palestine now you wouldn't support the ANC in South Africa, the Algerian revolution, the slave revolts, or the Hatian revolution. You'd be a figure of disgust in a history book

Where else would a Moral Philosopher like Singer be, but using the actions of Hamas to obscure, naturalise and ultimately excuse the background violence of the settler colonial project.

Tariq Ali on some context for the situation in Gaza. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

From the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

This is the whole point of AI. It’s not to actually replace humans. It’s to change your title from “head writer” to “assistant AI technician,” not credit you, and pay you half of what you were paid before

At a family thing and everyone has somehow misremembered me being a communist as me being a pacifist but because it’s a funeral I am behaving myself and just nodding

Watching Stalker (1979) on Mosfilm’s YouTube and having the subscribe animation come up during the credits is really kinda horrific, it really is so over

Almost all carbon offset projects are junk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The group chat is talking about those AI spiral pictures and I’m trying not to be too rude but it’s very hard ngl

“The greater amount of property at risk in rich countries would counter balance the greater bodily risk of death and injury in poorer countries” (Not from Cripps) like wtf is that, the colonial arrogance of this discipline my GOD

I love reading academic environmental justice literature because it’ll get so fucking close to a critique of the limitations of current moral philosophy and then say shit like “the link between liberalism and capitalism can be weakened” like what are you on about Cripps ?!?

I think there’s a critique of degrowth that links it’s very particular definition of capitalism to its GND style politics and (perhaps) reification of employment. However, this is very good in so many ways and really should put to bed the standard ‘left’ critiques of degrowth

"No political program that promises to analyze and resolve the ecological crisis can hope to succeed if it does not also simultaneously—that is, in the same stroke—analyze and resolve the social crisis. Attempting to address one without the other will ultimately give rise to monsters."

Swear this has moved a little to the right ever time I pass it

Seeing asshole podcasters on the time line and discovering that my poor financial abilities are actually me doing Girl Maths, I like it

Stalin may have led the USSR, but Trotsky got me saying hitler particles detected, so it’s hard to say who came out on top in the end

The interview I did with Zero/Repeater Books and Acid Horizon is now on youtube. youtu.be/YdSmhLmAjJw?...