Nick Bernards

@nickbernards.bsky.social

Critical Political Economist -- Author: A critical history of poverty finance (http://bit.ly/3pEV7Cf); Fictions of financialization (http://bit.ly/3PUWzdR) -- Reader in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick. Views mine.

My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

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Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.

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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

Nick Bernards@nickbernards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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/...

Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.

Trump’s Pentagon Budget is a human, economic, and environmental disaster

The new $1.5 trillion request implies 267 megatons of carbon emissions, and could fund massive social spending instead

climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com

In what should be a surprise to no one, the US and Israeli attack on Iran has serious climate consequences. Our new analysis, covered in @theguardian.com this morning, tallies the climate costs of the first two weeks of the attacks.

US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows

Exclusive: War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

theguardian.com

Reminds me of this classic, wherein Michael Hardt sought to persude George W Bush not to invade Iraq because ... his book Empire had a more rational vision for how global power should work? (If your analysis doesn't fit reality - persuade reality). www.theguardian.com/comment/stor...

Michael Hardt: Folly of our masters of the universe | Guardian daily comment | guardian.co.uk

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Rob Knox@pashukanist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anti-imperialism is when you ring up Trump and tell him that he's not doing it very rationally.