Amsterdam, we’re coming to you next! On Thursday, 5 November, we’re launching our new book The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism at the University of Amsterdam, in conversation with Max Fenner.
William Callison
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
Argentina’s government is pairing Palantir’s surveillance tools with laws that open labor, land, and data to private extraction. Our essay of the week explores Javier Milei's “extractive state." By @williamcallison.bsky.social & @veronicagago.bsky.social in @verfassungsblog.de buff.ly/RBqDkCY
Our very own Jacob McLean appeared in an excellent mini-doc by @breachmedia.ca about the attack on bike lanes and the "war on cars" in Toronto. Drawing on our book, The Great Driving Right Show (@versobooks.bsky.social), Jacob places this in the global context of far-right climate obstruction.
Brilliant coverage of the Battle of Bloor Street, drawing on the essential work of @zetkincollective.bsky.social to reveal the global power dynamics at play in local contests over the distribution of public space.
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · last wk.Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests. @breachmedia.ca dove into the politics of cycling, and debunked some myths along the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCz...
Should Bolsonaro defeat Lula, Brazil’s future can be studied in Argentina: williamcallison.bsky.social and veronicagago.bsky.social on how Milei and Peter Thiel turn Argentina into an “extractive state” – a laboratory for Silicon Valley and finance capital. verfassungsblog.de/thiel-argent...
Finally, in our Culture section, Stuart Jeffries charts how the populist right planted its flag on the bonnet of the humble automobile. Read his review of the @zetkincollective.bsky.social’s latest book: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7512...
Look out for the latest front in the culture wars
The populist right has planted its flag on the bonnet of the humble automobile
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The @zetkincollective.bsky.social's Great Driving Right Show is the book we all need to read to fully understand our moment.
Anoosh Chakelian@anooshc.bsky.social · last mo.When I visited a nearby village where the men had stopped off on the night before the Dover protest – parking their cars all over the main road and blocking spaces at the butcher and village hall – locals told me it had quickly become clear what they were planning to do.
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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And I’ve more episodes coming this fall on platform publishing, deliteracy, and close reading for the present!
William Callison@williamcallison.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt was a joy to be on "Less Worse", alongside @aprilanson.bsky.social, to discuss what's bad at present and speculative futures in which things might be less... bad. (Ecofascism and fossil fascism are... bad!) Many thanks to @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and Andrew Fitzgerald for hosting us at RPI!
It was a joy to be on "Less Worse", alongside @aprilanson.bsky.social, to discuss what's bad at present and speculative futures in which things might be less... bad. (Ecofascism and fossil fascism are... bad!) Many thanks to @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and Andrew Fitzgerald for hosting us at RPI!
Check out this stunning new masterpiece from my comrades in the @zetkincollective.bsky.social. *The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism*, OUT TODAY, on @versobooks.bsky.social. Please order a copy or two, and share the excellent news!
The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
[SHORT] - Fr ⬇️ 👉 EXTRACT 3 « So Ernesto Guevara is living in small town Argentina. He's 8 or 9 years old. And when Spanish Civil War breaks out, he gets kind of obsessed with it. youtube.com/shorts/c_mU1...
[SHORT - Fr⬇️] 👉 EXTRACT 1 “Honestly, the thing that I’m most interested in actually across all the work that I’ve done is how do people think of themselves in historical time. How people situate themselves as part of lineages, as part of practices, traditions? youtube.com/shorts/_0bGW...
I'm starting a podcast called LESS WORSE. It's about why the future sucks and how the humanities can help make it better. For the first episode, I interviewed @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social about their work on eco- and fossil fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ecofascism & Fossil Fascism w/ April Anson and William Callison
Podcast Episode · Less Worse · May 6 · 1h 34m
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For @diagrammes.bsky.social, I had a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social on the history of denial from the Cold War to the present climate crisis, on agnotology, on Trump 2.0 and much more. Link to full interview including many portraits and historical sketches (French and English) ⬇️
The Manufacture of Denial - DIAGRAMMES
“If you take away the agencies that play a crucial role in measuring climate change, you don't even have to deny science anymore. You just destroy it. There is something particularly aggressive and tr...
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Naomi Oreskes@naomioreskes.bsky.social · 11mo agoHappy to post this interesting set of conversations (including one with me on #climatedenial about contemporary affairs: www.diagrammes.fr/en
Happy to post this interesting set of conversations (including one with me on #climatedenial about contemporary affairs: www.diagrammes.fr/en
DIAGRAMMES
DIAGRAMMES
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this May, I sat down with the philosopher Michel Feher, an exception interlocutor, to talk about the Wall Street Consensus, for the project Diagrammes www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNv...
DANIELA GABOR - LE CONSENSUS DE WALL STREET
YouTube video by Diagram[me]s
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Une version écrite de notre entretien vidéo avec le politiste @joelowndes.bsky.social Par @williamcallison.bsky.social et @michelfeher.bsky.social pour @aoc-media.bsky.social
AOC, un quotidien d'idées@aoc-media.bsky.social · last yr.« Le Parti républicain suit toujours cette stratégie en deux étapes où ils poussent la suprématie blanche d’un côté, et ouvrent la porte aux groupes de couleur de l’autre. » Par William Callison et Michel Feher. aoc.media/entretien/20...
« Le Parti républicain suit toujours cette stratégie en deux étapes où ils poussent la suprématie blanche d’un côté, et ouvrent la porte aux groupes de couleur de l’autre. » Par William Callison et Michel Feher. aoc.media/entretien/20...
Joe Lowndes : « Face à un autoritarisme croissant, la démocratie dispose de très peu de ressources » - AOC media
Dans ses travaux récents, le politiste Joe Lowndes étudie les liens entre le conservatisme et l’extrême droite aux États-Unis depuis le début des années 1990 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, avec le second…
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Very happy to see my latest article, “Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism,” in the pages of @apsrjournal.bsky.social!
American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · last yr.From our latest issue, Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism by Lucas G. Pinheiro: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Mal wieder ein Re-Post dieses tollen Essays von @veronicagago.bsky.social und @williamcallison.bsky.social - auch weil der Text so gut zu Söders neuester Gillamos-Rede zu "Tofu-Terror" passt, dem widerlichen "Unterleib-Interview" und anderen Performances passt. Unbedingte Leseempfehlung!
Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · last yr.From the U.S. to Argentina, El Salvador to Ecuador, the wager of the resurgent right is that spectacles of revenge—trolling the zurdos, owning the libs—can mask or compensate for dispossession. How long the wages of cruelty can substitute for real wages remains to be seen.
From the U.S. to Argentina, El Salvador to Ecuador, the wager of the resurgent right is that spectacles of revenge—trolling the zurdos, owning the libs—can mask or compensate for dispossession. How long the wages of cruelty can substitute for real wages remains to be seen.
The Chainsaw International - Boston Review
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
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📹 Verónica Gago @veronicagago.bsky.social, intellectuelle et figure majeure du féminisme latino-américain, analyse l’Argentine de Milei comme un laboratoire du néolibéralisme mutant. Face à lui, elle mise sur la potencia feminista : le désir de tout changer. Entretien en ligne 👉 buff.ly/SMQHjdw
LE LABORATOIRE ARGENTIN - DIAGRAMMES
"Javier Milei s'est présenté comme le résultat final de la crise de représentation du système."
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