Rakesh Bhandari
postdiscipline.bsky.social
Rakesh Bhandari
@postdiscipline.bsky.social
Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Studies and Senior Lecturer at Cal. Have acted as Director for many years. Twisting Marx to make capitalism stronger since I got a mortgage. But don't ask me what my field is, I'm not a donkey.
A petro state seems to engage in the equivalent of book burning and library destruction that we associate with a fascist state. Perhaps there is something to Andreas Malm’s anticipatory category of “fossil fascism”
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Umm, she's the daughter of the play-by-play analyst, not the color analyst. She's Pat Summerall's daughter, not John Madden's daughter. But this will do.
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
How can Zuckerberg not be brought before Congress for this? Again.
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I take up chapter 5 with simple equations on pp. 47ff. docs.google.com/document/d/1... I would love to hear David's or anyone else's comments.
Marx (Reitter trans.) notes
Study notes for Paul Reitter’s translation of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 Rakesh Bhandari Fall 2025 What is Marx’s Capital about? It is a book that offers historical accounts of the struggle over the ...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So, we're waiting on what the S. Ct. will do with Birthright Citizenship, which just ruled that since the District Court didn't just show that the GOP could've achieved a more partisan pro-GOP redistricting without a racist gerrymander, it engaged in normal politics, not racism
December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So, we're waiting on what the S. Ct. will do with Birthright Citizenship, which just ruled that since the District Court didn't just show that the GOP could've achieved a more partisan pro-GOP redistricting without a racist gerrymander, it engaged in normal politics, not racism
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
So, we're waiting on what the S. Ct. will do with Birthright Citizenship, which just ruled that since the District Court didn't just show that the GOP could've achieved a more partisan pro-GOP redistricting without a racist gerrymander, it engaged in normal politics, not racism
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I think so. Against the backdrop of what just yesterday was considered secular stagnation--low long-term yields & the search for yield lift--people wanted to converge on the next big thing. Green capitalism couldn't get off the ground. Trump sabotaged it. AI has its hucksters. People want to believe
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Unlike GPUs, solar cells/wind turbines/hydroelectric transformers wouldn't have depreciated so quickly to make investments in renewables unprofitable, taking the whole economy down. Strand some fossil fuel assets, maybe. Behold the rationality of private investment!
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Unlike GPUs, solar cells/wind turbines/hydroelectric transformers wouldn't have depreciated so quickly to make investments in renewables unprofitable, taking the whole economy down. Strand some fossil fuel assets, maybe. Behold the rationality of private investment!
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Unlike GPUs, solar cells/wind turbines/hydroelectric transformers wouldn't have depreciated so quickly to make investments in renewables unprofitable, taking the whole economy down. Strand some fossil fuel assets, maybe. Behold the rationality of private investment!
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Unlike GPUs, solar cells/wind turbines/hydroelectric transformers wouldn't have depreciated so quickly to make investments in renewables unprofitable, taking the whole economy down. Strand some fossil fuel assets, maybe. Behold the rationality of private investment!
Talking With Paul Kedrosky
So, about this AI thing ...
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think the majority may be saying that because the District Court did not show the GOP legislature could have more favorably redrawn the redraw the districts for its strictly partisan purposes without a racial gerrymander, the District Court did not prove the GOP attempted a racial gerrymander?
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What is this bit about the District Court failing to draw an adverse map?
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Externalities dominate, positive and negative.
December 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Make your own lists and read posts on them. Don't read the "For You" feed.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So Trump has been telling these people that he was going to deport them back to Afghanistan despite having asylum where they would be put to certain death by the Taliban, and he and his fellow genius Stephen Miller are caught off guard that one of these brutal killers did a brutal revenge killing.
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Great analysis of Congress, the administrative state, and institutions in civil society. I can only hope the across-the-board electoral GOP losses embolden opposition in Congress and by the universities, courts, media, etc.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM