Teaching day! First up *Race, Class, Gender* (third-year undergrads) and second up *Social Foundations of Capitalism* second-year undergrads, all 240 of the latter. Drawing inspiration from Hilary Mantel to indicate that neoclassical econ is "like trying to return mayonnaise to oil and egg yolk"

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel - Available now

Available episodes of Hilary Mantel

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Revisiting some reading and thinking on a theme that’s still not clear in my thoughts. But latest books received include a return to Louis Althusser and Stuart Elden. With appreciation to @stuartelden.bsky.social for a copy of *Mapping the Present* and its lovely dedication. Thank you! 1/

A focus from @abieler.bsky.social on his New Political Economy article and the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the labour movement broadly defined

Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’ - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

A focus on the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the la...

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Superb to receive confirmation that this co-authored article with @chrishesketh.bsky.social has now been accepted for publication in Progress in Human Geography #totality Thanks to all those who gave feedback as well as the peer reviewers and editors. @proghumgeog.bsky.social

A good editing day @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Details for the 2026 Wheelwright Lecture, the marquee event of the year for Political Economy, at the University of Sydney with Geoff Mann on *Climates of Uncertainty* @geoffmann.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @mkonings.bsky.social @clairerhiannon.bsky.social

2026 Wheelwright Lecture | Geoff Mann | Climates of Uncertainty - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What can the ways we wrestle with uncertain futures—like climate models, prediction markets, high-tech promises, or reactionary revanchism—tell us about a world without a “normal”?

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Just come across this thanks to the research process of @jordantcamp.bsky.social consulting the Stuart Hall archive and discovering this speech of his on Walter Rodney from 1974. It is timely for me as I am about to embark on a second semester teaching a course "Race, Class, Gender" 1/

When We Are All Enemies of the State

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’

The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...

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Wonderful to welcome new colleague Dr Aditi Dixit to the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. From the fun of reading group involvement, to setting up new course design, it has been a pleasure to welcome her to Sydney. The future is very bright with such a calibre scholar.

For teaching, I have updated my tips on essay writing, which now includes 11 things to look out for in designing essays. The addition addresses the "slop" of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what students should (and should not) do when approaching the perils of #AI.

11 Things to look out for about essay writing - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Across several of the political economy courses, or units, I teach at the University of Sydney the one set of issues often repeated to my students revolves around essay writing best practice. Rather t...

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New collection on Henri Lefebvre focusing on space, rhythmanalysis, the rural, autogestion, the state and violence that push Lefebvre into new areas such as time, phenomenology and the environment, edited by Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson @anthempress.bsky.social

The Anthem Companion to Henri Lefebvre | Anthem Press

Explore more about this title.

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Over the past 10 years, especially, much of my shoe leather has been expended toing and froing between office and library to loan this book out. On my third attempt, I finally got lucky in sourcing an affordable secondhand copy of @stuartelden.bsky.social classic text, which arrived today!😎

My first publication in Spanish! Co-authored with @monicaclua.bsky.social for a 💥💥💥 volume on critical theories of the state, class and power. A great collection of essays.

New article on "Social Formation and Mode of Production" by Jörg Nowak in Science & Society @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Social Formation and Mode of Production: Peripheral Capitalism, Non-capitalist Relations, and Forms of Labor in Contemporary Capitalism - Jörg Nowak, 2026

The debate on how to theorize the coexistence of several relations of production, forms of labor, and various modes of production in a given society has a longe...

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Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, @dukepress.bsky.social, July 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o... Introduction available open access at this link

The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory

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Over @ppesydney.bsky.social we are celebrating Martijn Koning's new book *The Bailout State* with this interview on state theory, the Minsky “moment”, the Keynesian revolution, Modern Monetary Theory and so much more @politybooks.bsky.social @mkonings.bsky.social

The Bailout State - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?

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‘Popular revolutions have no more bitter enemies than those they have trained themselves’ — Balzac, *Les Paysans*

My new opinion piece on our departments blog, the pitch: there is some very old-school economic thinking behind Japan's 'new' arms industry.

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The brilliant @lucianocarment.bsky.social on the paradoxes of Japan's arms trade. Is this old state capitalism at the centre of the “new” state capitalism? @iliasalami.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

The brilliant @lucianocarment.bsky.social on the paradoxes of Japan's arms trade. Is this old state capitalism at the centre of the “new” state capitalism? @iliasalami.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

Japan’s New Arms Exports Double Down on a Broken Economic Model - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What are the paradoxes at the heart of the "new" Japanese arms trade?

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Isabel Karremann ed. Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama - @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, 2024, paperback December 2026 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespea...

Shakespeare / Space

Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual sp…

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Frank Stilwell, @garethbryant.bsky.social and I co-edited a special issue of JAPE all about teaching political economy. If you teach political economy, IPE or heterodox economics I think this issue will make for great reading and could be a valuable resource for your own practice. Check it out!

New Issue of JAPE: Teaching Political Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The usual focus of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is research – its framings, its findings, and the implications of the knowledge that the research generates. This issue of the jou...

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Kojin Karatani, The End of Modern Literature: On Permanent Revolution – eds. Jonathan E. Abel, Yoshiki Tajiri and Hiroki Yoshikuni – @versobooks.bsky.social, August 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The End of Modern Literature

What comes after the death of literature? Kojin Karatani, winner of the 2022 Berggruen Prize, examines the corpse, investigates the cause of death, and offers glimpses of an afterlife from various the...

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An island of heterodoxy in the form of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) is to close at Goldsmiths University of London. Will Davies reflects on its achievements

Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre

The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

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Finishing one project this month involved reading and revisiting Pierre Macherey, which has led me (of course) to the fine work of @stuartelden.bsky.social on Georges Canguilhem!! Arrived today.

Absolutely brilliant to wrap up some reading and then find this blog post by @stuartelden.bsky.social than is intellectual gold in summarising Louis Althusser's lecture course on the philosophy of the scientists 1/

Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars …

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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...

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Having read all volumes of Capital and Grundrisse together, now it’s time for the highest of the ‘luminous summits’

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Revving up for this next text as part of the collective intellectual labour that is the Past & Present Reading Group . . .

Revving up for this next text as part of the collective intellectual labour that is the Past & Present Reading Group . . .

Next Past & Present Reading Group Text - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Details on the "when" and the "where" for the commencement of our collective reading of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (Part I), the so-called fourth volume of Capital.

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On the Past & Present Group’s reading and writing on Evgeny Pashukanis’s classic book *Law and Marxism* from @ppesydney.bsky.social @legalform.bsky.social

Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism: A General Theory - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What is the inner connection between the form of law and the commodity form to produce a commodity-form theory of law?

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All the commentaries on the 35 books read, so far, in the Past & Present Reading Group are available here. We are excited to be reading, next, Karl Marx, *Theories of Surplus Value*. Commencing Part I of the "fourth volume" of Capital in a few months!!

Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

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