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Rolf Skoglund @rskog.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter Meeuwsen @petermwsn.bsky.social · 2d

Algiers, Third World Capital:Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 2d

What are you reading this weekend?

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 2d

What are you reading this weekend?

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 3d

Harvey is one of the best.

Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3d

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

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The Marxist Restless Analyst

Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

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Land and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · 2d

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social interviews @wimcarton.bsky.social co-author of “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” written with Andreas Malm and published by @versobooks.bsky.social

Listen to the episode:
www.landclimate.org/...

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3d

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

The Marxist Restless Analyst

Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

www.versobooks.com

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3d

The celebrate the publication of their new book, The Long Heat, authors Wim Carton and Andreas Malm have curated a list of their favorite Verso titles.

Save 30% on any of their selected titles with the purchase of The Long Heat!

The celebrate the publication of their new book, The Long Heat, authors Wim Carton and Andreas Malm have curated a list of Verso titles. Save 30% on any of the selected titles with the purchase of the...

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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 3d

*ON SALE NOW*

ANDREAS MALM in conversation with ADRIENNE BULLER

Marking the release of his book 'The Long Heat', Malm leads this vital discussion on the climate crisis and how we can act and come together for change.

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TICKETS 👇

Andreas Malm in Conversation with Adrienne Buller | Barbican

Best-selling author and activist Andreas Malm leads a vital discussion on the climate crisis, exploring how we can act and come together with hope for change.

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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 3d

Had a great time yesterday in the panel organized at the University of Sarajevo discussing Road to October 7 (@versobooks.bsky.social) and the future of Palestinian Islamism!

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 3d

Book talk on Against the Crisis,
Thu 16 oct, 13.00 - 15.00, at KTH in Stockholm.

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Book Talk with Ståle Holgerson "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" | KTH

In this next entry in our book talks series, Human Geographer Ståle Holgerson will present his book Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso).

www.kth.se

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 5d

“Overshoot ideology came packaged in a peculiarly Californian business ethos in which unhinged entrepreneurialism was elevated to a cultural form.” New online: Wim Carton and Andreas Malm on recent experiments in geoengineering.
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Overshooters | Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

It was not the underprivileged who took the initiative. It was one Luke Iseman, merchant of hardware and software, founder of multiple companies, former director of a “tech incubator,” builder of art ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday, 18 October!

www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 5d

UK universities claim to be reckoning with their imperial and colonial pasts, but refuse to see their implication in the genocidal settler colonialism of the present – so how serious are these exercises? wrote about this for @versobooks.bsky.social blog

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Race Reports

In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published a wide-ranging ‘Review of Race and History’ that attempts to confront its legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Four months earlier, the Universi...

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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 4d

First time for everything, interview on Bosnian television in Sarajevo about Road to October 7 (@versobooks.bsky.social)

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 5d

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope

Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 5d

Out today - The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state, now published with a new preface

The Idea of Israel

Ilan Pappe’s pioneering work, first published in 2014, is a devastating critique of the conceptual foundations of the Israeli state. Divorced from material and political realities, blind to the violen...

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 6d

essential reading

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 6d

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 5d

The Long Heat is a necessary intervention, defining climate politics when it's too late.

For a taste of the book, we have just published an extract: www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 5d

Out today - Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

This is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. These works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people.

Gaza

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction i...

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 6d

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

The Long Heat

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

www.versobooks.com

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 9d

Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries. I started it last weekend and am totally engrossed. It doesnt hurt that I'm going to Frankfurt in just over a week for the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 9d

What are you reading this weekend?

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 9d

What are you reading this weekend?

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10d

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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samwise ✨ @aridadne.bsky.social · 10d

so pumped-- hold everything dear by john berger is a beautiful text, excited for More

Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10d

Three new books have entered our Essential John Berger series!

ART AND REVOLUTION
A SEVENTH MAN
FROM A TO X

"Any book by John Berger is an event." – Times Literary Supplement

Shop the series on our website today!

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