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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 4d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...

www.thedigradio.com

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 4h

“Trumpian authoritarianism is not… a return to classical fascism organized around the figure of the paternal Führer ruling over a primal horde. It is something more chaotic and insidious: a politics that affirms and intensifies the fracture of shared reality.”

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Governing the Miracle

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 1d

“If the AI-driven US economy dives, so will the rest of major economies. Time is not on the side of the Magnificent Seven. Indeed, adoption of AI technology by companies remains low and is even falling among larger companies.”

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/t...

The AI bubble and the US economy

The US stock market continues to hit new record highs; the bitcoin price is also close to highs and the gold price has rocketed to all-time highs. Investors in financial assets (banks, insurance co…

thenextrecession.wordpress.com

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

«Video generators allow people to experience ideas or beliefs as content without their having to invest their imagination into making them real, into ‹really› believing in them and coming to terms with the implications of their beliefs.» @robhorning.bsky.social on Sora Slop Feeds

There are too many waterfalls here

Sora slop feeds

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 1d

“The more ‘extreme acts of violence from young fighters’ also seemed to emanate from ‘an inner moral conflict’: the atrocity that momentarily obtunded shame also deepened the sense of shamefulness that was to be metabolised through further transgression.”

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The Atrocity Exhibition: On Perpetrators - Salvage

The automation of death has been a goal of the US military since 2004. The aim has been to progress from ‘man-in-the-loop’ technology, where a human decides what the technology does, to ‘man-on-the-lo...

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 7d

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.

Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 7d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 3d

“An empty tech-industrialism pioneered in the countryside now radiates out toward the yawning, depressed gaps of our post-industrial cities. In this sense, the data centre is the architectural typology of our time”

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William Harris, Alien Future — Sidecar

Grain silos and data centres.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 4d

“I can’t imagine any kind of corporate board or any other decision-making body where that kind of behaviour would be acceptable.”

Tim Moore on the mounting stories of poor governance on Australia’s university councils. satpa.pe/Hy9vWQQ

Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector

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Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social · 5d

Faculty Writing: Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "Isfahan Tableaux" for Late Light | An early and yet all too timely preview from issue 2, written in Spring 2024, on Orientalism, imperialism, aesthetics, and American & Israeli aggression against Iran | buff.ly/WuvOpR1

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 5d

“This is not balance, unless we accept a world where truth is balanced by lies.”

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

New:
Censorship by any other name.
The National Press Club cancelled a speaker, Chris Hedges, who planned to address the mass killing of journalists in Gaza. The mainstream press didn’t report it.
nickfeik.substack.com/p/censorship...

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 11d

New article!! I have some incredibly exciting news to announce: I'll be writing a book next year for Verso about the TESCREAL ideologies, Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism, eugenics in the tech world, and the AGI race. More details are included here: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-right-...

The Right Time for a Realtime Roundup!

Here are the fun topics we covered over the past two months!

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 6d

a wonderful book!

The Royal Institute of Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social · 9d

"Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World" by @petergs.bsky.social (published by William Collins) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 7d

"50 % of profits went to the wealthiest 1 % of individuals, predominantly through direct shareholdings and private company ownership. In contrast the bottom 50 % only received 1 %."

It was a cost-of-living crisis only for the many.

#Inequality

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality

The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…

www.sciencedirect.com

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 8d

“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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Grist @grist.org · 14d

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

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#BookSky #Climate #Capitalism #Business #Tech #Politics

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 8d

Take part in a groundbreaking workplace psychosocial safety census of all university staff in Australia, run by Pyschosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory. This an independent survey from University management and only open to staff.

Start here: nteu.info/census (takes 5-6min)

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 13d

MUA member Hamish Paterson has been sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla that has reportedly been intercepted by Israeli forces. NTEU’s National Council members express our strong solidarity with all the courageous activists.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13d

At least six vessels in Sumud Flotilla unlawfully intercepted by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-six-vessels-sumud-flotilla-unlawfully-intercepted-israel

At least six vessels in Sumud Flotilla unlawfully intercepted by Israel

<article data-history-node-id="429511" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-six-vessels-sumud-flotilla-unlawfully-intercepted-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-six-vessels-sumud-flotilla-unlawfully-intercepted-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least six vessels in Sumud Flotilla unlawfully intercepted by Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least six vessels of the Sumud Flotilla have been unlawfully intercepted by Israel, Middle East Eye can confirm. </p> <p>The vessels include the Deir Yassine, Huga, Spectre, Adara, Alma, and Sirius. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 14d

doi.org/10.1080/0969...

SPECIES-BEING AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

What is it to take ourselves as natural? This paper clarifies this question by drawing on resources from Marx and from some contemporary naturalist and humanist philosophy. I argue that for Marx ou...

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve an article out in Angelaki this week. It reconstructs Marx’s notion of species-being in light of contemporary naturalism. It argues his thought differs from McDowell et al as he thinks achieving naturalism is a practical task requiring social revolution. It’s open access - link below!

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Chris Shambaugh @hylomorphic.bsky.social · 17d

My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.

Marx's Concept of Life

This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork ...

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Mathew Abbott @mathewabbott.bsky.social · 16d

heading to Berlin next week for a fellowship at the @cpkp.bsky.social. Looking forward to connecting with other scholars working across intellectual divides in philosophy!

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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 23d

I "made" @birdmichael.bsky.social come to the Western Treatment Plant with me on a workday to look for brolgas and orange-bellied parrots so I could write this article

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24d

‘A mythical place’: how a Melbourne sewage farm became a haven for 300 species of birds

The abundance of birdlife amid the grassy plains, marshlands and 200 lagoons of the Western Treatment Plant rivals Kakadu – and is a magnet for birdwatchers * Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now In a gully between the dirt road and a field of softly waving grass, a brolga stands, straightens its elegant grey neck and gazes at the two four-wheel-drives crawling to a halt a short distance away. In the centre of a lagoon on the other side of the road, a second brolga sits atop a tiny island, its orange head bowed. Brolgas are common in northern Australia but are endangered in Victoria. One of the most reliable places to see them, though, is here: in the wide grassy plains, ponds and marshlands of Melbourne’s largest sewage farm, the Western Treatment Plant. Continue reading...

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