In 2021 the Japanese group Posse published the translation of my Generation Left book. Late last year they interviewed me for their eponymously named journal on how the thesis in the book had fared in the years since publication. I've just published an extract on my Substack.

Whatever Happened to Generation Left?

In 2021 the Japanese group Posse organised the publication of my Generation Left book in Japanese.

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In 2021 the Japanese group Posse published the translation of my Generation Left book. Late last year they interviewed me for their eponymously named journal on how the thesis in the book had fared in the years since publication. I've just published an extract on my Substack.

Whatever Happened to Generation Left?

In 2021 the Japanese group Posse organised the publication of my Generation Left book in Japanese.

keirmilburn.substack.com

A genuinely exhilarating conversation on Pep Guardiola and how football tactics evolve which moves through the ideas of Hegel, Koselleck, Marx, Mark Fisher, and Derrida to do so. All delivered in a warm, funny and unpretentious manner. Superb. Listen to this and buy Jon's book!

Pro Revolution Soccer@prorevsoccer.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Spectre of Pep The erudite, the eloquent, the perspicacious @jonmackenzie.bsky.social joins to discuss his brilliant new book about the rise and fall of Pep Guardiola, The Spectre of Pep. www.patreon.com/ProRevolutio...

This image depicts time on at least four completely different scales

Pete Glastonbury@peteglastonbury.bsky.social · last mo.

my friend Nick Bull used 4 cameras over 4 nights to capture the Perseid meteor shower over Stonehenge. He took 8 hours stitching all the frames together to create this stunning work!

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

I’ve written about the Mark Jenkins film Rose of Nevada as an exploration of centrist melancholy.

Rose of Nevada

On the temporality of liberal centrist melancholy

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The first hint from the government that this climate change driven, world-historic heat wave is a crisis comes with an alert on everyone’s phones that doesn’t mention climate change but merely asks for alertness against starting fires. 🔥 A 'cones hotline’ style of emergency response.

I was feeling left out so I started a Substack. It’ll bring together my practice and thinking on ecosocialist transition with my weird left preoccupations with what games, films, comics, and fiction can tell us about the conjuncture. Sign up below.

Welcome to Commonplaces

My new Substack.

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I was feeling left out so I started a Substack. It’ll bring together my practice and thinking on ecosocialist transition with my weird left preoccupations with what games, films, comics, and fiction can tell us about the conjuncture. Sign up below.

Welcome to Commonplaces

My new Substack.

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The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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Enjoying the peace of the Mediterranean Sea and reading this fantastic, stimulating book on alternatives to capitalism that go beyond the liberal concept of ‘abundance’. It’s by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and Bertie Russell

I’m glad we still have space on Novara media for a reading session on a 2000 year-old self-help book written by a Roman Emperor. This one was fun to record. novaramedia.com/2026/07/12/w...

What Does Self-Knowledge Look Like? Reading Marcus Aurelius

Get your head around the best-selling self-help book of all time.

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This was a brilliant listen, like all the acfm shows - been listening for 3 years or so and i really appreciate what you do. Always informative, interesting, and containing a million different signposts to other cool ideas ❤️

I’m glad we still have space on Novara media for a reading session on a 2000 year-old self-help book written by a Roman Emperor. This one was fun to record. novaramedia.com/2026/07/12/w...

What Does Self-Knowledge Look Like? Reading Marcus Aurelius

Get your head around the best-selling self-help book of all time.

novaramedia.com

Generation Left is getting on a bit

A new #ACFM on Resilience. Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I discuss the use of resilience in neoliberal management speak, the problems with using resilience and collapse as a framing for climate change, and ask if the sense you're part of a wider, ongoing movement can form left resilience.

Are You Resilient Enough to Face the Future?

Can humans and animals can flourish in the ruins of capitalism?

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A new #ACFM on Resilience. Nadia Idle, @jemgilbert.bsky.social, and I discuss the use of resilience in neoliberal management speak, the problems with using resilience and collapse as a framing for climate change, and ask if the sense you're part of a wider, ongoing movement can form left resilience.

Are You Resilient Enough to Face the Future?

Can humans and animals can flourish in the ruins of capitalism?

novaramedia.com

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

"It’s an old story: the finger on the monkey’s paw curls, the wish is granted. It’s a good metaphor for capitalism too a machine, the workings of which are completely opaque but gives you more of what you want without ever requiring you to confront the humanity of the people affected"

“Obsession” and the Horror of Treating People Like Products

In director Curry Barker’s hit indie horror film, we can see the fundamental ghastliness of consumer society.

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An #ACFM episode reading Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Giving @jemgilbert, @NotJustYouHere, and I an angle into modern debates around the nature of Fascism, LLMs, NFTs, and how we might democratise art. novaramedia.com/2026/06/07/w...

What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin

Join our close reading of a foundational text of 20th century media theory.

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An #ACFM episode reading Walter Benjamin's classic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Giving @jemgilbert, @NotJustYouHere, and I an angle into modern debates around the nature of Fascism, LLMs, NFTs, and how we might democratise art. novaramedia.com/2026/06/07/w...

What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin

Join our close reading of a foundational text of 20th century media theory.

novaramedia.com

With less than a week to go before the 2026 World Cup, we’ve unlocked this classic bonus episode on the iconic 1990 tournament. @kmilb.bsky.social joined us to talk about the cultural impact of Italia 90. www.patreon.com/posts/italia...

EasyJet in takeover sights of US private equity (PE) firm. PE has no long-term interests in businesses. A successful buyout would be followed by high debt, staff/wage cuts, asset-stripping, profit shifting, tax abuse. How long before PE will find new ways of fleecing travellers? archive.ph/WHJLb

EasyJet in takeover sights of US private equity firm

Castlelake, which has $36 billion in assets under management, confirmed it was in the ‘early stages of considering a possible offer’ for the Luton-based airline

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An #ACFM on Shock. With energy and food price shocks on the way, and a Trump presidency ruling via chaos and shock @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I examine the political uses of shock on both an individual and societal level while asking how we can build shock absorbers into Left strategy.

Who Still Has the Power to Shock?

From macro economics to modern art to punk rock, how shock has shaped the past century.

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An #ACFM on Shock. With energy and food price shocks on the way, and a Trump presidency ruling via chaos and shock @jemgilbert.bsky.social, Nadia Idle, and I examine the political uses of shock on both an individual and societal level while asking how we can build shock absorbers into Left strategy.

Who Still Has the Power to Shock?

From macro economics to modern art to punk rock, how shock has shaped the past century.

novaramedia.com

I'm speaking at this day-long event of talks and discussions in Todmorden tomorrow (Saturday 16th May). Looks like a really interesting day. Come along if you can. www.eventbrite.com/e/common-kno...

Common Knowledge 2026

Join us in Todmorden for a day of talks and discussions for a world in crisis

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Great podcast on boredom from @jemgilbert.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social and nadia idle (is she on here?)... loving that my main experience of boredom is doing housework, which listening to podcasts such as this one whilst doing it totally alleviates that boredom: share.google/BHSATHlfnLwx...

ACFM Trip 58: Boredom

Play ACFM Trip 58: Boredom by Novara Media on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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An #ACFM on New British Weird. With renewed interest in megaliths, folklore, and seasonal festivities, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and I discuss the history of British weird asking if its revival is a search for a mythological grounding for a non-imperial/royalist England novaramedia.com/2026/05/10/a...

Are We Living Through a New Era of British Weirdness?

Ley lines, weird walks, standing stones: a vision of modern Britain?

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An #ACFM on New British Weird. With renewed interest in megaliths, folklore, and seasonal festivities, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and I discuss the history of British weird asking if its revival is a search for a mythological grounding for a non-imperial/royalist England novaramedia.com/2026/05/10/a...

Are We Living Through a New Era of British Weirdness?

Ley lines, weird walks, standing stones: a vision of modern Britain?

novaramedia.com