More than 1,000 people in Gaza have been killed since a US-brokered 'ceasefire' between Hamas and Israel was agreed https://aje.news/dqxtwq

Great few days in Glasgow - which made London’s climate feel tropical in comparison - where I absorbed as much as I could from people researching infrastructure across Eurasia

Officially lived in the UK long enough to be relieved when it starts raining

I've always been a bit wary of conjunctural analysis (for various reasons), but this paper by @apiletic.bsky.social makes an evocative, erudite and painfully accurate case for its importance by centering the horrific urbicide of Gaza. Well worth a read.

Aleksandra Piletić@apiletic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new paper is out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fantastic new paper by Aleksandra Piletic

Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

My new paper is out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com