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We can help to insulate the American people from the cost of the collapse of the AI bubble by changing bankruptcy laws so as not to protect private equity from their failures deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-simple...
The Simple Way to Stop the Hidden AI Bailout: Rewrite Bankruptcy Law
It's still capitalism with less PE friendly bankruptcy laws
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I signed this after watching Four Corners last night. Please sign too: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fa...
Legislate NSW Labour Hire Licensing
This is not about the businesses who are trying to do the right thing. It’s about making the playing field level so that good businesses aren’t being undercut by bad faith actors operating in these sp...
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"The answer is that immigration has always been a distraction from the real story. Over the past three decades, governments transformed housing from a place to live into a financial asset. They relied on the private market to solve a problem it had strong incentives to make worse"
House prices are cooling, exposing a stubborn political narrative for what it is
After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, house prices have begun to moderate. For aspiring home buyers, that will come as welcome relief. But it should also prompt journalists to ask whether they ...
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And Liz and Melinda said very nice things about it which is lovely.
ICYMI: "The Philosopher and the News: The Philosophy Behind Palantir" Moira Weigel and Anthony Burton in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou on Silicon Valley Ethos, the Frankfurt School, and fascism. Please like and share on our channel! #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCC...
The Philosophy Behind Palantir: Moira Weigel and Anthony Burton w/ Alexis Papazoglou
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Annie McClanahan's Beyond the Wage is available from Zone Books/ @princetonupress.bsky.social . press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Beneath the Wage
Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated
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Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...
Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.
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Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers.
Alan Greenspan Was a Faithful Servant of the Ruling Class
Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers.
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In New Political Economy, @melindacooper.bsky.social offers a historical typology of factions of asset-based capitalism.
Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology
Recent US election cycles have revealed a startling bifurcation in the political allegiances of finance capitalism. The current configuration of alliances places one faction of finance capital, con...
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Coming up: Mon. June 15 ~ 10am ET / 3pm UK LAUNCH EVENT for our new issue: "Towards a Critical Theory of Finance" Melinda Cooper, Radhika Desai, and Stefan Eich with Paul North Finance turned Marx upside-down; we need new theories to understand this. www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/towar...
Launch event for our new issue: Towards a Critical Theory of Finance
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Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out: Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!
Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2mo agoIncredibly happy and relieved that our special issue Asset Struggles co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social is now accepted for publication at NPE! More on the issue soon. For now: a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been involved in this over the past few years – you are the best!
+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social
Seminar on Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (2026) and Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards (2025). June 2 at 9am (Sydney time). Discussion by Henry Maher, Melinda Cooper and Brendon O’Connor; followed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff. Zoom link: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85780579138
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Ein sehr interessantes Interview mit @theobourgeron.bsky.social (ALT-FINANCE). Ganz ähnliche Überlegungen wie in OBEN RECHTS @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.tni.org/en/article/f...
In der @woz.ch bespricht heute auch @raulzelik.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de @lhaffert.bsky.social @tbiebricher.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social @moiraweigel.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2620/sachbuc...
Sachbuch: Polarisierung nach Gutsherrenart
Ein neues Buch nimmt das rechtspopulistische Unternehmertum ins Visier – und hinterfragt gängige Deutungen der autoritären Wende.
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By my quick in the lockup calculation- the cut to the NDIS was roughly 10% in real terms. Absolutely brutal.
Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates
Building a Bridge to Bolsonarism: Construction Entrepreneurs and the Shaping of the Consolidation State in Brazil Hugo Fanton Ribeiro da Silva doi.org/10.1177/0094...
Building a Bridge to Bolsonarism: Construction Entrepreneurs and the Shaping of the Consolidation State in Brazil - Hugo Fanton Ribeiro da Silva, 2026
This article analyzes the changes in the political stances adopted by businesses in Brazil’s construction industry and housing sector during the 2010s. It pays ...
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DOSSIER [Eng] This week, download the PDF dossier accompanying our interview with Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social, a Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University.
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
You can now buy signed copies of “The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy” from the @resident-music.com in Brighton, England if you order online! www.resident-music.com/product/wood...
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A.J.A. Woods - Resident Music
"Cultural Marxism" is one of the far right's favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the term are rarely investigated. This book uncovers the bizarre story of the cult...
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Einen etwas längeren Auszug aus ihrem Beitrag gibt es derzeit als nachträglichen Vorabdruck im Neuen Deutschland: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199...
Familienkapitalismus gegen »woke Konzerne«
Hinter der Rechten stehen nicht Arbeiter, sondern ein »Familienunternehmertum«, das nach patriarchaler Wirtschaftsmacht strebt.
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Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.
detailed account of racist NSW police violence against people who comprehend that it is wrong to be feting the Israeli president as Israelis incinerate people across the region they occupy - and what you can do >> www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted
Police are raiding the homes of the protesters they attacked during the demonstration against the genocidal Israeli president, arresting and charging them with criminal offences
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University council stacked with consultants: ‘I believe that there's an intended infiltration of our governing boards by consultancy firms. It's all the mates looking after each other and seeing these consultancy costs balloon right across the…sector’ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
'Shockingly high': Unis spend $1.8b on consultants and contractors
Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.
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john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)
Last Thursday I was anxiously watching the petrol prices go up in Morisset as I was preparing to take my stepson to his Employment Plus appointment - that they cancelled just before we were about to leave.
Rishworth must stop Centrelink penalties in face of fuel crisis
People in poverty cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment
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REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM. Our conversation with Melinda Cooper @melindacooper.bsky.social, professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University is now available in podcast on your favourite platforms.
