new piece by Richard Seymour www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/all...

All You Fascist Liberals — Parapraxis

On Political-Libidinal Doubles Richard Seymour

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What’s happening in our oceans right now will affect every one of us. I wrote a long-read article in Forbes explaining why. If you want to understand what the graph below really means for your future, I recommend reading it. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

"The solar geoengineering techno juggernaut rolls on, with what seems to be a complete disregard for what the damage might be to the planet, and despite several important assessments from leading scientific academies." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | Raymond Pierrehumbert, Julia Slingo, Michael Mann and Valerie Masson-Delmotte

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

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The Neoliberal Counterrevolution Against the Social Wage

On Melinda Cooper and Elizabeth Humphrys

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NTEU members at Federation University have kicked off their bargaining campaign for fair pay, job security and a real say in decisions that impact staff.   When staff have a voice, universities work better for everyone. Sign up to be part of bargaining at your university: betterworkplaces.nteu.au

“The final trick of OR is that it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language.” Grace Roodenrys reviews Toby Fitch, brilliantly.

Transubstantiations: Toby Fitch’s Or - Overland literary journal

The final trick of Or is that in the end it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language, the maybe-hopeless pursuit of those “very exceptional c...

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“The flaws with Miéville’s argument have less to do with his engagement with idealism than his leap into metaphysics, which does open the door to the mystification of the natural and historical world that modern scientific theory has done so much to counter.” spectrejournal.com/naturalized-...

Naturalized Dialectics – Spectre Journal

In response to China Miéville's argument for metaphysical idealism, Joshua Nicholas Pineda articulates an antireductionist and naturalistic view of materialism.

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Thanks @jacobinmag.bsky.social for this lovely review- "Renton is as secular as they come [yet] ...we can trace back Renton’s desire for a culture of forgiveness, the repair necessary to radically change our world, to a particularly Jewish notion about what is necessary to truly right our wrongs"

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

D. K. Renton’s new book tackles the thorny subject of revolutionary forgiveness. Few can accept preemptive forgiveness of their persecutors: we have to have some faith in the future, that there will be a little less pain when we build the world to come.

“those with power in society are deeply intolerant of any space in which exceptions are possible, in which something could happen” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Very interesting review that explores Muskism as a "global class project"

Jules@catholicclod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...

New episode out! Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeQ...

On radical Kant in the 1960s: "It's hard to conjure these leftwing students’ fascination with the arch-bourgeois Prussian philosopher except to say that theirs was no ordinary Kant, but the Frankfurt School’s Kant—a Kant mired in contradictions, whose unpacking promised to disclose something true"

Angela Davis and Critical Theory, from Kant to Abolition | Polity: Vol 56, No 2

This article recovers Angela Davis’s archived dissertation project, “Towards a Kantian Theory of Force,” from 1969, and places it in conversation with her mature work on prison abolition. It begins by...

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A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

A recent review for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of AJA Woods' book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West. The book is really quite good and I think should be read by anyone who takes culture seriously.

Red Specters and Right-Wing Fever Dreams | Los Angeles Review of Books

A. J. A. Woods’s new book explores how the Right’s obsession with Cultural Marxism emerged from the backlash against the 1960s.

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My attempt at thinking through climate repair as a latent possibility emergent within (but by no means guaranteed by) the overshoot conjuncture, in issue 3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social

annasturman.bsky.social@annasturman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excuse me, have you taken a moment to appreciate the beautiful mind of @natashaheenan.bsky.social recently? Well, do I have just the thing for you: www.break-down.org/producing-th...

The keynote by @abenanav.bsky.social from our planning conference last December is now online. Enjoy! youtu.be/_fOKi05_Ddo

Aaron Benanav: "Rational Choice in a Multidimensional Economy"

YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin

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Treasury modelling shows Morrison's job-ready graduates program means one in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans. It also increased the amount of debt held by the gov that will never be repaid www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I missed this a few days ago: "On Friday, May 1, 2026, Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee officially declined an invitation to attend the 14th International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, delivering a forceful critique of the Israeli state and its intellectual community." iol.co.za/entertainmen...

Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee withdraws from Jerusalem Writers’ Festival over Gaza crisis

Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee has declined an invitation to the Jerusalem Writers’ Festival, citing the ongoing Gaza conflict as a reason for his withdrawal.

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If you'll permit me, a thread: On the weekend, former Age editor Michael Gawenda had a crack at @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social via The Australian. Jeff's supposed crime was organising and publishing an anti-genocide letter in 2023 while editor of Overland and senior lecturer in journalism at UniMelb.

UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation [APR 27] www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...

UQP staff urge university to reconsider “Bila” cancellation | Books+Publishing

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Nancy Fraser: “This form of philosemitism barely conceals its underlying antisemitism. Far from accepting Zionist Jews as genuine fellows, it converges in the end with the open antisemitism of those who marched at Charlottesville in August 2017.” newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

Nancy Fraser, Gaza as World Event, NLR 158, March–April 2026

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the ...

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My book is now available online for those of you who have institutional access to such things brill.com/display/titl...

@karenkyng.bsky.social reviewing @vcwills.bsky.social 's Marx's Ethical Vision ( @academic.oup.com ) for Constellations. bit.ly/41KTpPi

New episode of the @ktbberlin.bsky.social podcast CRITIQUE OF AI - featuring @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social @mttpsq.bsky.social and introduced with @robin-c.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/podcast/p...

“Musk’s business model is built not around steady production or long-term profitability, but around the continuous projection of outsized promises—of technological breakthroughs, planetary salvation, financial windfalls. These claims generate asset price inflation through the harvest of attention.”

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 4mo ago

@bentarnoff.com and I went long on the Muskism-Fordism comparison, drawing on the Regulation School to ask what social settlement is being offered alongside the Big Tech regime of accumulation and whether they aren‘t perversely harmed by the absence of counterparty. lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

My paper on metabolic rift is out in @histmat.bsky.social! The piece develops the notion of self-consciousness implicit in the concept of rift. Against Moore & others, I argue that overcoming dualism requires accounting for human distinctiveness, not relinquishing it: brill.com/view/journal...

I hope I’m not snitch tagging the wonderful @omarsakr.bsky.social into more controversy by sharing his excellent poem on this topic, ‘Bluey in the Genocide’.

This looks interesting (not out yet):

The Political Wittgenstein

Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century Philosophy - The Political Wittgenstein

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There's a graphic in the new Ember report showing what happens if current demand and clean power growth rates continue: fossil fuels plateau by 2030. I think it highlights something kind of important, but probably not what you think