The good people @muftah.org had me and @dbessner.bsky.social on to talk the "Fascism Debate"! Even w/ a lot on the cutting room floor, and so much more to cover, it's a pretty deep dive. I hope generative at addressing this question and why it's important, analytically and politically...

The good people @muftah.org had me and @dbessner.bsky.social on to talk the "Fascism Debate"! Even w/ a lot on the cutting room floor, and so much more to cover, it's a pretty deep dive. I hope generative at addressing this question and why it's important, analytically and politically...

This is an excellent dissection of the fabled ‘fascism debate’ in America, India, Israel, and beyond featuring two voices whose critical disagreements offer much needed clarity. From @proteanview.muftah.org

This brilliant article by @materialistjew.bsky.social lives rent-free (ha ha) in my head during discussions like this. Living within American borders does not necessarily mean you're not part of the colony. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-e...

I've been offline for health reasons but in light of today's unequivocal, and wholly unjustifiable act of American imperialism against Iran, I wanted to reshare this piece which is sadly still timely two years after it was written...

I've been offline for health reasons but in light of today's unequivocal, and wholly unjustifiable act of American imperialism against Iran, I wanted to reshare this piece which is sadly still timely two years after it was written...

Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

There is no defense of Syracuse's actions and no excuse to not support Sultana's full exoneration and reinstatement. Proud to have signed this early and easily.

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | Composition! Color! Characterization! Colonization! And more. | buff.ly/LBvGC7P

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 19: Ghost of Yotei – A Specter is Haunting Ezo | buff.ly/LBvGC7P

A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions

A lot happening but this drops tomorrow and also features (from a listener question) a capsule review of One Battle After Another from Isi in the first segment. The Ghost of Yotei discussion is I think pretty unique in 'the discourse' and excited to hear people's reactions

@materialistjew.bsky.social latest song I wrote inspired in part by your work www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/s...

Writing about the climate crisis can tend toward abstraction or comforting techno-optimism. “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” does anything but. @materialistjew.bsky.social talks with @triofrancos.bsky.social about the knotty problem of the energy transition.

In great company among the initial 300+ signatures to this effort to pressure the NYTimes to live up to the barest standards of journalistic integrity in their coverage of Palestine. You can be too by signing here: boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?

What's your favorite relatively recent books, authors, articles, (aesthetics, media theory, visual studies, etc) which advance or are at least adjacent to Benjamin and concepts like the"optical unconscious"?

rare masahiro sakurai fail...

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

The next episode of BISR's (Pop) Cultural Marxism records Friday on... Ghost of Yotei! If you have questions or topics you want to hear me, Isi, and Joseph address drop em below (or reach out and let us know...)

I watched Southland Tales per @williammparis.bsky.social's recommendation last night and, as promised, it was completely unhinged and I loved everything about its radical commitment to being totally incomprehensible and baffling. art is so cool I love human beings

I revisit this piece -- on Doom 2016, by @materialistjew.bsky.social -- at least once a year. it has become bedrock, and only more relevant lareviewofbooks.org/article/doom...

And you can listen here or wherever you get podcasts www.dw.com/en/grief-a-c...

Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Teaching this course again after 3 years - still a few spots left! Scholarships available. Come learn about the political and social dimensions of cancer research, and why after more than fifty years of the War on Cancer, victory is still elusive. Sign up at the link below.

This was a super fun and fascinating interview with Thea on her new book and the many thorny but vital issues it raises...

"we have been zealous for bad causes"

Zionists prepare for Yom Kippur by doubling down on as many crimes against humanity as possible. Then repent their inability to fit in just a few more.

Shanah tovah! You can still repent and forswear Zionism, atone for a sin against both god and man, begin remediation for the unfathomable crimes against the Palestinian people, and turn away from this chilul hashem, possibly the darkest in the history of the Jewish people.

This is really good.

In “Extraction,” @triofrancos.bsky.social examines the politics of lithium mining in South America—and the complexities of the energy transition. @materialistjew.bsky.social spoke with her about imperfect trade-offs and the nature of democracy.

Starting November 12, I'll be teaching a course at BISR on how a tragic anti-colonialism was developed—in theory, practice and dramaturgy—by a range of writers, from Lorraine Hansberry to Frantz Fanon, from C.L.R. James to Anna Seghers, from Aimé Césaire to Ghassan Kanafani.

Shanah tovah! You can still repent and forswear Zionism, atone for a sin against both god and man, begin remediation for the unfathomable crimes against the Palestinian people, and turn away from this chilul hashem, possibly the darkest in the history of the Jewish people.

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 18: I Don’t Know What You Did Last Summer | buff.ly/VwT9Ob5

Paramount/Skydance and the Free Press-ification of news media! The fallout of the Charlie Kirk assassination (&.. Helldivers II?)! Westerns, adaptions, recent games and tv and more! @isilitke and I catch up on the somewhat bleak state of the culture industry...

(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 18: I Don’t Know What You Did Last Summer | buff.ly/VwT9Ob5

Ppl at my BPL lecture on 21st political aesthetics will see how perfect an example this is. Pete Hegseth's Crusader Kings tattoo, Houthi One Piece videos, IDF CoD scenes, Hamas/Metal Gear, Gosar Attack on Titan videos... Helldivers II is basically like if Paul Verhoeven made an extraction shooter..

"Political violence has no place in this country." Political violence is engraved in our society and has been happening to the marginalized every day for DECADES. Ask the civil rights movement. Ask Malcolm. Ask Newton. Ask Jackson. Ask Hampton. Ask any of the ones who died for politics.

The outpouring of grief by liberals abt the shooting of a man who would have rejoiced in their deaths is class consolidation. They do not care if Palestinians or migrants or poor people die. Bc they don’t fear such violence! But they fear what happened to Kirk could happen to them, and so they cry.

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Trevor Jackson's review of ABUNDANCE (Klein/Thompson) alongside OVERSHOOT (Malm/Carton) is very, very good.

"Some contemporary Marxists call this salvage communism. Contemporary capitalists call this lateral thinking with withered technology.” @materialistjew.bsky.social in convo w @aguaspoints.bsky.social for @unwinnable.com unwinnable.com/2025/08/29/a...

Something different.

When I asked my students if they wanted to talk more about AI policies after I did a short rant or about their favorite cyborgs, not a single person wanted to talk about AI 😅

Highly highly recommend you read this

I really like this interview!

New 🚢 ✍️: The Steering Committee of the Global Sumud Flotilla Releases Statement on Weather Delays and the Steadfastness of the Convoy’s Mission and Crews:

saddest story ever told