How can "green industrial policy" empower the working class in the Global South and the Global North? Our hidden gem of the week sketches a blueprint for movements seeking a truly just world. By @isabelestevez.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social at @cplusc.bsky.social buff.ly/reAxWtp

Recasting capitalism as a legal regime that privatizes collective infrastructures to monetize future expectations, our book of the week unpacks why a law-made order eludes legal control. By Katharina Pistor on @yalepress.bsky.social buff.ly/hwc7KCO

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Classicism fuels ethnonationalism by granting certain groups exclusive claims to antiquity. This panel exposes how Eurocentric narratives weaponize “the classical” to uphold white supremacy and erase Muslim histories. Feat. @dzuck.bsky.social, @curtisdozier.bsky.social et al.

After the Civil Rights era, racism became legally defined by explicit intent, allowing systemic violence to hide behind insurance “risk” assessments. This piece argues that Ansfield’s "Born in Flames" exposes this racial capitalism. @charlotteerosen.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

JPMorgan Chase spent years shielding Jeffrey Epstein despite glaring red flags, as this investigation details. The bank’s top executives defended Epstein even as internal teams flagged his suspicious cash withdrawals. By @davidenrich.bsky.social et al. in @nytimes.com

Workers face new, unprecedented data risks as workplaces digitize, but as this paper details, existing laws largely fail them. Privacy and data protections built for consumers don’t fit employment’s power imbalances or collective stakes. By Halefom Abraha at @ilo.org buff.ly/OXejSfu

A frenzy of AI hype fuels trillions in spending on costly compute infrastructure. This piece details how real profits and transformative applications lag, revealing a bubble driven less by innovation than by capital reallocation and speculative excess. By @edwardongwesojr.com buff.ly/LBy7HyO

The attempt to financialize psychedelics has collided with the unruliness of these substances both as therapeutic assets and as vectors of cultural resistance. Our article of the week traces the rise and fall of commercial psychedelics. By Sandy B. Hager in @finandsoc.bsky.social buff.ly/7QsCdDI

This conversation explores a new economic vision that puts people and democracy at its core, shaking up how we create and use technology. This approach champions technology that serves real human needs and fosters inclusive innovation. With @abenanav.bsky.social on @techwontsave.us buff.ly/bFH9xHQ

Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's theory of bullshit, our video of the week argues that AI chatbots are engineered for persuasive effect rather than truth, and that both utopian and dystopian visions of AI distract from current material consequences. Feat. @randomwalker.bsky.social buff.ly/PAbUneB

TikTok’s rise is cast as a high-stakes battle over who controls the world’s most addictive attention engine in this article. Zhang Yiming’s algorithm changed how we consume information, pulling us in with uncanny precision. By @ebakerwhite.bsky.social on @macmillanaus.bsky.social buff.ly/574Rfqf

The field of international relations has always relied on the intellectual labor of women. Yet as our podcast of the week shows, misogyny, racism, and marginalization worked to systematically exclude women’s contributions. With @whitproject.bsky.social & @javiermejiac.bsky.social buff.ly/2a027uQ

Placing the rise of AI in the long history of Taylorist labor organization, our French pick of the week examines how, rather than empowering workers, technological change intensifies deskilling and corporate domination. By @jscarbs.bsky.social in @usbeketrica.bsky.social buff.ly/mU6Bp0j

From El primer año’s raw enthusiasm for land reclamation to La batalla de Chile’s dialectical analysis of class war, our essay of the week considers Patricio Guzmán’s Chilean documentaries as a cinematic record of the revolutionary process. By Kaleem Hawa buff.ly/2vkGM9N

Far from the ideals of free expression and self-fulfillment, digital platforms have transformed creativity into monetized, precarious labor. Our hidden gem of the week views the creator as a quasi‑gig worker governed by opaque algorithms. By @xiyin_tang at @law.ucla.edu buff.ly/IUlHmer

Across antiquity, escaped slaves and religious sects carved out quasi-anarchic practices at the margins of empire. Our book of the week journeys in search of communities that resisted state power in the Graeco-Roman world. By @cbzeichmann.bsky.social on @plutopress.bsky.social buff.ly/2xaoXY6

After a brutal 2023 drought exposed Montevideo’s vulnerable water supply, this piece shows how activists rallied against the project’s environmental hazards, soaring costs, and legal violations. By Meredith Jackson in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Israel’s role in Africa is a neo-colonial project disguised as development aid. This piece examines how it exploits African nations by exporting a model rooted in settler colonialism, masking its true mission: undermining Arab unity. By Mehdi B. Barka

Exposing how teaching Palestinian and Arabic literature today clashes with political repression and censorship amid ongoing genocide, this dialogue highlights how universities and institutions silence honest dialogue, punishing those who resist. With @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social buff.ly/XBq3YeR

James Mason’s newsletter "Siege" transformed Neo-Nazi violence from isolated acts into a rebellious counterculture. This conversation exposes how this deadly ideology morphed into a stylish, viral movement fueling modern far-right terror. With @transform6789.bsky.social buff.ly/1YL4r9H

To fight for markets, faith, and supremacy, Cold War lawmakers in the US expanded federal reach while denouncing bureaucracy. Our open-access article of the week traces the postwar rise of anti-statist state-building. By Elisabeth S. Clemens buff.ly/a2rKXae

Focusing on 1492 as a global starting point erases Africa’s rich histories and ongoing struggles with coloniality. This conversation challenges this Eurocentric timeline, exposing how it traps modernity in a colonial frame and hinders genuine decolonization. With Zubairu Wai buff.ly/8tb53YK

Gustave Caillebotte's passion for yachting finds its parallel rise in Chicago. Our video of the week examines how the new elite remade both Parisian riverbanks and Chicago’s lakefront into spaces for their own recreation. Feat. Gloria Groom et al. at @artinstitutechi.bsky.social buff.ly/EVgj58P

Capitalism has turned the human body—especially the female body—into a factory for profit. Yet as this dialogue shows, this isn’t new; controlling female bodies has long been a core goal of capitalist systems, pushing exploitation deeper. With Silvia Federici buff.ly/cbhHJ2m

Framing the 1955 Bandung Conference through Richard Wright’s experiences, our podcast of the week charts the trajectory of Third Worldism from a radical project of “anticolonial worldmaking” to its systematic demolition by Western imperialism. With Pranay Somayajula buff.ly/kSv3d69

In 2018, Christie's sold, for the first time, an AI-generated artwork for $432,000. Our Portuguese pick of the week explores AI's impact on the visual arts and what it holds for the future of human creativity. With @todoprosa.bsky.social on @radioescafandro.bsky.social buff.ly/wuTIj6n

Popularized by Adam Tooze, "polycrisis" serves as therapy-speak for elite paralysis. Instead, our essay of the week proposes "polytunity" not as breakdown but as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for deep transformation. By Yuen Y. Ang buff.ly/ffQsZQ9

In demystifying the cloud’s material hunger, our hidden gem of the week shows how the Global North’s voracious energy demand for AI externalizes immense environmental costs on the backs of the Global South. By Lydia Powell & Akhilesh Sati buff.ly/5yIOinB

Logistics—the subtle choreography of goods, data, and labor—is not just an economic function but the foundational logic of contemporary power. Our book of the week unpacks how the mandate for frictionless flow has remade society. By @susanzieger.bsky.social on @ucpress.bsky.social buff.ly/99uroUf

Science thrived not just on data but on open exchange—a truth Harry Hess fought for. This talk details how decades of Navy classification hid vital oceanographic data, stalling plate tectonics research despite vast funding. Feat. @naomioreskes.bsky.social at @rigb.org

Far from female-only chatter, gossip is a vital social tool shaping communities. This talk traces its roots from medieval midwifery to modern workplaces, arguing that gossip conveys early warning and even resistance where formal channels fail. Feat. Kathryn Waddington

Casting Trump’s bid to police the Smithsonian as a narrative war in which state power weaponizes funding to sanitize history, this dialogue argues the South “won the narrative” after the Civil War; without reckoning with slavery, today’s wealth gaps endure. With Bryan Stevenson

The American West haunts everything from Hollywood Westerns to tourism ads. This piece contends that even revisionist works like "Killers of the Flower Moon" or "Deseret" can’t fully escape the melodrama that distorts history. By Nicholas Russell in @clereviewbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/eJoKHkc

More than just a business practice or neoliberal tactic, entrepreneurism has grown into a full-fledged ideology. Our article of the week shows how risk-taking, disruption, and self-optimization have colonized politics, governance, and social life. By Christina Lubinski et al. buff.ly/O4Vttsb

AI-generated videos are crafting larger-than-life portraits of African military leaders. But as this piece warns, this flood of viral propaganda risks normalizing authoritarianism and rewriting what leadership can and should be. By Kwangu Liwewe in @newlinesmag.bsky.social buff.ly/XBDFYZv

Situating Argentine struggles within a genealogy of neoliberalism and resistance, our video of the week insists on feminism as a counter-power: a force that politicizes reproduction, debt, and joy as terrains of struggle. Feat. @veronicagago.bsky.social at @diagrammes.bsky.social buff.ly/7HgJXZo

dOCUMENTA has mutated from a postwar act of reckoning into a sanitized spectacle that shields Germany from confronting its current complicities. This piece shows how it now functions as cultural camouflage for state violence. By Mohammad Salemy in @the-new-centre.bsky.social buff.ly/pUoLo2d

Our podcast of the week reframes the Frankfurt School’s later turn toward abstract cultural critique not as a depoliticized retreat, but as a strategic pivot born from concrete political defeat. With @jamescrane.bsky.social et al. on @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social buff.ly/vymFkap

By foregrounding the continuities between historic colonialism and contemporary platform capitalism, our German pick of the week insists that technological power cannot be understood apart from questions of extraction, dependency, and domination. By Franziska Meister in @woz.ch buff.ly/9PySdMv

From IBM’s christening of the ordinateur to today’s platforms, our essay of the week highlights how datafied feedback loops sort, score, and steer people into an "ordinal society" that fundamentally alters our social life. By Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co in @aeon.co buff.ly/g9wd9Sx

Guns don’t just enable violence; they produce the “shooter” as a durable social identity. Our hidden gem of the week details how the collapse of corporate gang governance and social media’s permanent archives turn youth violence into lifelong stigma. By @mkang.bsky.social buff.ly/98uFxpT

Black speculative thought must be read not as a subgenre of sci-fi but as an African world-making practice born of slavery, colonialism, and resistance. Our book of the week traces the evolution of Afrofuturism. By @reynaldoanderson.bsky.social on @ohiostatepress.bsky.social buff.ly/PQjOMI8

By framing China as an existential threat, this conversation explores how policymakers recycle discredited Cold War myths, fueling militarization, inequality, xenophobia, and global instability. With @mbrenes.bsky.social on @amprestigepod.bsky.social

Online & IRL, we overpathologize, categorize, and weaponize sexuality. This essay argues that the internet’s culture of surveillance and judgment has corroded our sense of erotic and emotional privacy, entangling desire with fear of exposure. By Kate Wagner in @readlux.bsky.social

Through "managed decay" and a master plan, this piece shows how Highgate Cemetery maintains its mystique, embodying the fragile interplay between history, nature, and our need to memorialize. By @ohhiralphjones.bsky.social in @longreads.com

While tech behemoths are empowered to build AI systems, this conversation examines how the administration is aggressively clamping down on what it calls “woke AI” and seeking control over speech that supports its political ideology. Feat. @annalenhart.bsky.social at @boell.de buff.ly/I7kVUFt

By dissecting Project 2025, this conversation lays bare the political maneuvering that threatens decades of progress in racial representation and justice within U.S. bureaucracy, endangering a fair and inclusive democracy. With Kimberley S. Johnson buff.ly/P7nXWHn

Rejecting a rigid demarcation between science and pseudoscience, our open-access article of the week explores how fringe theories reflect structural weaknesses in scientific authority, public discourse, and institutional power. By Adam T. Tuboly buff.ly/4wHe7KM

Like a real-life Gatsby, this piece details how America’s first Black private detective, Sheridan Bruseaux, achieved greatness while hiding behind elaborate fictions, ultimately leaving a legacy as complex and conflicted as the times he lived in. By Matthew Wolfe in @atavist.com buff.ly/LviJoMC