New open access article on @antipodeonline.bsky.social with @nickbernards.bsky.social and Laura Quinteros. We look at green fintech to show how green finance works as fictitious capital. Builds on @cedricdurand.bsky.social

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New article! @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital. Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article! @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital. Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Epstein Family Values The sociologist Melinda Cooper and talks to the historian Quinn Slobodian about the revelations of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and about the obsessions of the new American elite. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr7O...

Epstein Family Values

YouTube video by Equator Media

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"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...

Cédric Durand (University of Geneva) - Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics

YouTube video by ERC project AIMODELS

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.@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Timothy Mitchell's Alibi of Capital a "paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy." Out next Tuesday, March 10th.

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell

Political theorist Mitchell (Carbon Democracy) offers a paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern econom...

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Fabian Muniesa - 'Finance, technology, and fascism today' @ UC Berkeley 26/02/2026 besi.berkeley.edu/event/financ...

Six years after the ‘Be Water’ rebellion, in 'Forever Hong Kong' Ching Kwan Lee interrogates the historical conditions and precedents that precipitated the 2019 revolt, reinterpreting Hongkongers’ political resistance as acts of decolonial defiance. A conversation with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social.

Forever Hong Kong: A Conversation with Ching Kwan Lee

Six years after the spectacular ‘Be Water’ rebellion that rippled across national borders, Forever Hong Kong asks: What historical conditions and precedents precipitated the citywide revolt in 2019? H...

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I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

I have an essay in The BREAK-DOWN: "Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame" - go subscribe (it's free) and read it (and all the other great stuff that's already there 🔥)!

The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"As old systems fail...the question that matters is how we live in the shadow of collapse, and what forms of care, solidarity and resistance can emerge." Mikkel Krause Frantzen writes on care and survival in the 'climate endgame' 👇

Check out my essay "Welcome to the age of Longevity Capitalism" now open access in @finandsoc.bsky.social Thank you @aminsamman.bsky.social for endorsing the project, and to @jvtk.bsky.social for our great conversation on these ideas. Picture credit to Harald Bergauer visual interpretation

Politics without Guarantees by Asad Haider, RIP thepointmag.com/politics/pol...

Politics Without Guarantees | The Point Magazine

In the early years of our century I ran across the name of Stuart Hall, though I don’t remember where. I came to him by a circuitous path involving politics and theory but which, as I would eventually...

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Asad Haider, my goodness will we miss your voice and your scholarship making sense of this cursed world of ours.

Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.* To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?

What Can Politics Make of Nature?

Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…

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RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

Sorry to hear that Paolo Virno has passed. I was engaging with his work a lot 10 or so years ago. publicseminar.org/2015/02/virn...

Virno and History - Public Seminar

“Hear the sound, not the music, hear the speech, not the words. Death is the imminent thing. My fire is...Read More

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I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan. You can read it here:

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes

Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

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"the Fed's primary concern is the systemic threat that [firm or sector risk] poses – even if stabilising measures benefit the too-big-to-fail constituency first & foremost. The administration ... is more interested in a discretionary, patronage-based approach." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar

Trump and the Federal Reserve.

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China’s achievements at scale are undeniable—but scale is not system. Responding to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social’s call to judge by delivery, @messingschlager.bsky.social argues that durable performance depends on independent measurement, contestable feedback, and system integration, not size alone.

Scale Is Not a System: Learning from China without Mimicry

A reply to Kaiser Kuo that weighs China’s achievements against the limits of performance legitimacy and the value of democratic institutions.

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This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance, reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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And tomorrow, we'll be on general strike again #blocchiamotutto #globalsumudflotilla #freepalestine #generalstrike

#BLOCCHIAMOTUTTO #freepalestine #marghera #portodivenezia #scioperogenerale

#blocchiamotutto #scioperogenerale #freepalestine

Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand! It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.

TESG (Journal of Economic and Human Geography)@tesg-journal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Congratulations to @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, winner of the TESG Best Paper Award 2025 for her article “Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand: How Green Finance Leverages Past Infrastructures for Future Returns”. Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Venezia | Si è svolta questa mattina davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di #Venezia82 la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera”, in programma sabato 30 agosto al Lido. www.globalproject.info/it/in_movime...

Venezia: conferenza stampa davanti al Red Carpet, sabato 30 agosto grande corteo “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera” | Global Project

Si è svolta questa mattina, mercoledì 27 agosto, davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – ...

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Puntiamo i riflettori della Mostra del Cinema sulla Palestina! I comitati di Possibile del Veneto aderiscono al corteo di sabato 30 settembre al Lido di Venezia, con partenza alle 17:00 da Santa Maria Elisabetta. Vi aspettiamo numeros3!

‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’ Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation

From the late Middle Ages all the way to Pasolini’s 1971 film, Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably...

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‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’ Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the lesson...

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We asked Pete Hegseth if women should have the right to vote. The answer was unsettling.

We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling.

We really, really didn't expect this.

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A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

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Know your parasites For a healthier society ;)