“Les auteurs assument [...] un pari. Soumettre la fiction utopique aux contraintes de la hard SF et de la théorie anti-utopique pourrait « attirer des gens vers le projet révolutionnaire »...” www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/05/26/l... @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social @dfmanufracture.bsky.social

Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme : Le communisme tangible - En attendant Nadeau

Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez écrivent contre les imaginaires communistes qui contournent la production dans Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme.

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à propos de Fabrique et forêt. Science et fiction du communisme : “Le communisme ne peut donc pas être pensé comme un supplément moral appliqué à une infrastructure intacte ; il suppose une réappropriation simultanément sociale et technique des moyens de production existants.”

Read the Issue 3 editorial here: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

Editorial: On Communism, Drawing Lines, and Being Ecumenical | Heatwave

We attend to ecumenical practice not only because it is generative, but because difference is inevitable. Within fragmentation we must develop the capacity for cohesive communication and action.

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this is a real problem for people who are programmers but don’t also do other things. do other things.

John Harrold@abumirchi.com · last mo.

On a slightly related note. When I started using Claude Code I was talking to a friend who is a programmer and I asked him: Is this what cocaine feels like? After a while you start to think: I can build anything with this.

New essay on technical expertise, its occlusion to the majority of the human species, and the contours of its appropriation in any future project of communist construction. Read it online now, or in print in @htwvmag.bsky.social Issue 3 (link in reply below)

Why does it feel so weird to talk about exercise and left politics? Want to get beyond the dichotomy of overly optimistic lifting for the rev and overly pessimistic rejection of all exercise as social domination?

Great new essay from @dfmanufracture.bsky.social on revolution and expertise

The Black Box of Production | Heatwave

The material world, made and re-made in the image of capital, looms large over humanity's future.

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How are things made? Who knows how to make them? How is this knowledge distributed? @DFManufracture demystifies the riddle of technical knowledge and its relevance to communist construction in "The Black Box of Production," available on our website ahead of Issue 3 heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

My review of Eswar Prasad's Doom Loop, a book that isn't very good but vividly shows how and why economists are thoroughly washed. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Are Economists Going the Way of the Dinosaur?

In Eswar S. Prasad’s The Doom Loop, he attempts to defend a profession that failed to foresee the crisis of the post-liberal world.

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Just found out about Peter Damerow. This guy was cooking wtf

New preface for Forest and Factory, titled "The Immortal Science," to inaugurate the French edition is available (in English) to read now. Links in replies. Special thanks to @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social for the translation and to my coauthor Phil Neel.

Disponible en librairie ! Fabrique et forêt. Phil A. Neel et Nick Chavez 128 pages 10 euros

le 7 mai en librairie @editionssanssoleil.bsky.social

prada meinhof@prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 9mo ago

FABRIQUE & FORÊT -- Science & fiction du communisme -- Phil. A. NEEL & Nick CHAVEZ Sans soleil | Collection µV Traduction : Julien GUAZZINI Date de parution : 03/04/2026 www.hobo-diffusion.com/catalogue/97...

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming "Every Acre Every Factory" documentary from LabournetTV featuring a series of interviews including of yours truly

Anatarah عنترة@damashummus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The goat @dfmanufracture.bsky.social speaks about Forest and Factory in this new video!

Doctorow has coined some widely-used concepts, but his arguments have always felt elusively shallow and anemic to me, and this really snaps the reason into focus: It's because they're always and entirely focused on the consumer.

tante@tante.cc · 6mo ago

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

this is absolutely right. i got flack for not going into climate policy in depth in Endgame, but we have a degenerate economic system that makes rational government all but impossible and in fact is destroying government as we knew it. the very idea of ‘rational policy’ is a non sequitur

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 7mo ago

I always learn from watching @adamtooze.bsky.social but I think he's right when he says in the Q&A that climate/energy is a "nerd's" dream topic. It presupposes rational government—one reason it can feel like a limited lens for understanding the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...

Issue 2 is in the mail! Be on the lookout for your copy!

The new @endnotesjournal.bsky.social website looks fantastic. In particular I love the footnotes now appearing on the side of the screen. Reading on the site itself is better than ever. www.endnotes.org.uk

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striking baristas 🤝 union drivers

Forthcoming F&F Français translation will feature bonus content (new foreword)

prada meinhof@prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 9mo ago

FABRIQUE & FORÊT -- Science & fiction du communisme -- Phil. A. NEEL & Nick CHAVEZ Sans soleil | Collection µV Traduction : Julien GUAZZINI Date de parution : 03/04/2026 www.hobo-diffusion.com/catalogue/97...

still no updates here

Running a low-latency platform for instant comms capable of carrying millions of concurrent audio/video calls requires a pre-built, planet-spanning network of compute, storage and edge presence that requires constant maintenance, significant electricity and persistent attention and monitoring. 4/

It's like they're trying to turn her into a 21st century Lenin by the time she's middle aged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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utah police wisely choosing not to show the bullet casing that says ‘if you read this you are gay’ bc they know it would instantly turn the country gay

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment

A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle. illwill.com/theory-of-th...