JB @cominsitu.bsky.social shoutout alert at Kohei Saito’s talk in Vienna this eve (on the issue of not accelerating progress, but managing decline, as I understood it) - “As JB beautifully said…” (🙌)
Geoff Aung
@rgnhardliner.bsky.social
Usually writing about logistics, about the circuits of this earth, about un/making this world • Myanmar, inter-Asia, the transpacific • omnia sunt communia
Have been in Paris to keynote (!) the annual conference of the Myanmar Institute, hosted at the EHESS. They pretty much tolerated my Myanmar/Palestine/fossil empire/militarism thing fortunately. Planned to visit the old PCF headquarters today but no time alas
Comrades: I have a new piece up for Historical Materialism in which I argue quite directly, thinking with Malm, that the destruction of Palestine is the destruction of Myanmar. Please read, share, etc. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/the-...
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar - Historical Materialism
The question of Palestine in Myanmar is overdetermined by religious affiliation and communal ties. But it doesn’t have to be. There is another way of plotting the links, connections, parallels, and, i...
historicalmaterialism.org
Me and the fellas thinking back on our poststructural days
May Day is for care, militancy, and submitting your abstracts to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies
Danish Society for Marxist Studies@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoDeadline tomorrow!
Get in lads we’re doing a good David Lynch movie at the Wanda Metropolitano tonight
Hey, I’m sorry I can’t meet you at Flanagan’s for the Arsenal match later. I’d rather have my mental breakdown at home
Folks, I am closing in on the end of the Books of Jacob and feeling kinda emotional about it ama
When they ask me after the talk where my ideas come from
Ok, listen up. Who’s writing the counter-logistics piece on the Strait - ??
Me sledding (downhill) with the five year old in my lap Me pulling the sled (back uphill) with the five year old in it
Cold Palmer is running crazy PR. They’re saying he’s 12 itw but the whole thing is like - despite a “curious year” he’s still pretty good actually. Gtfo
Everyone knows that if you write a book about capitalism that gets panned in the NYer it’s either BAD bad or actually good - but probably bad bad in this case
I cheated and read two unserious novels in a row (both Le Carre, obviously) so now I have to read something big serious, should I finish Books of Jacob or do V2 of Aesthetics of Resistance
“Whoever writes about slavery writes about freedom” D McNally 🫡
Social reproduction at HM, or the question of where the nearest Pret is at any given time
Ravelmaxxing and Bergmogging at the Musikverein send Tweet
“That’s the lady who sometimes at Spar is” (tfw the increasingly not-that-small daughter has absolutely nailed German word order - and is transferring it to English)
Comrades! In a few weeks - during the midday Sunday slot at HM London (12:00-13:45), I’ll be speaking about Palestine, Myanmar, and the forces of fossil empire. Come by if you’ll be around. 🧨🛠️🔫
Resisted for ages and ages but am finally on here jfc you guys
This conference was so good I had to finally get on this site to feel some of the after vibes with the comrades 🫡
Danish Society for Marxist Studies@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 10mo agoTHANK YOU 💕💕 Our 10th conference is done and dusted and we couldn’t be happier. A huge thank you from the organisers to everyone who presented, listened, discussed, laughed, and raged about the state derivation debate 🫶 Keep an eye on our channels for information about next year’s conference!!
