Mark R. Wilson - American War Machine The US Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Trump À paraître en mai aux Princeton UP

📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...

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‘Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre’ by Chris O’Kane reviewed by Jacob Spenser Wilson

For those steeped in value-form theory, who have read the third section of chapter one so many times they dream in coats and linen, who are acutely aware of the debates concerning value’s necessary fo...

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my wonderful colleague in the historical sociology working group wrote a brilliant book on how imperialism shaped the german state, go read it 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

A Nation Forged by Empire

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - A Nation Forged by Empire

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Our forum "Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe" in Journal of Modern European History is out journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905–1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" is coming out with Liverpool UP in two weeks. I am in talks with an Indian publisher to release a South Asian version as well. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire

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very cool stuff 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/service...

it's wild that there seems to be no conversation whatsoever between this and recent (global) economic histories of the soviet union

endnotes century@ruthlesskritik.bsky.social · 2w ago

libcom.org/article/cloc... It's good. I'm looking forward to reading your book

libcom.org/article/cloc... It's good. I'm looking forward to reading your book

A Clock without a Spring: Epitaph for the USSR - Chris Arthur

Analysis of the nature of the Soviet economy and the works of Hillel Ticktin and István Mészáros by Chris Arthur. This text forms chapter 10 of Arthur's book [I]The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital[I]...

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Coming soon www.premierparallele.fr/livre/manuel... @premierparallele.bsky.social

«Langfristig gehe es … um die Frage, wem das gesammelte Wissen eigentlich gehöre … Der Börsenverein befürchtet, dass vergriffene Fachbücher und wissenschaftliche Titel zum exklusiven Rohstoff der Rechenzentren einiger weniger Konzerne werden könnten, während die öffentliche Wissenskultur verarmt.»

KI-Anbieter kaufen Antiquariate leer und lassen Bücher zerstören

KI-Konzerne kaufen für das Training ihrer Sprachmodelle antiquarische Bücher. Der Börsenverein sieht einen massiven Verstoß gegen deutsches Urheberrecht.

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The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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On Saturday, our community and the world lost Dr. Sarah Knuth, one of the foremost thinkers on energy, climate, and just transitions. She was the driving intellectual force behind so much of CCI’s research. We will miss her desperately.

Sean Fleming - Anti-Tech The Ideas and Influence of the Unabomber À paraître en décembre aux Cornell UP

Drought now seriously affecting European electricity systems. Hydro and nuclear are getting knocked out, and its their baseload that usually make high level of renewables possible. Gas is being used increasingly as backup.

Two attractive positions at the German Historical Institute in Washington. Interesting i.a. to historians of Empire: www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

"There are three main rules that such a project must abide by... no mass market books ... comply with takedown requests... and don't allow any money near the project." Fresh gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The race to collect every book ever written

When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution

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Thiago Krause@thiagokrause.bsky.social · 2w ago

Extraordinarily interesting story about “shadow libraries.”

Extraordinarily interesting story about “shadow libraries.”

The race to collect every book ever written

When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution

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In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Wrote a review essay of four new-ish books on Soviet energy and resource history for @kritikajournal.bsky.social. They're different in terms of scope, archival depth, and the extent to which they take the materiality of resources into account – but I enjoyed them all! muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic...

gripping, forgotten gem of a labor history of energy technology (long before that field even existed)

'is it just greed?' asked my swabian father when we talked about the decline of car manufacturing in the region. and i guess the answer is closer to 'yes' than i thought.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Exceptionally illuminating @adamtooze.bsky.social today. The chart, from a 2025 @somoamsterdam.bsky.social report, says it all: European carmakers went on a sellers' inflation binge at the worst possible moment (i.e., the moment Chinese competitors geared up to lower prices and take market share).

gripping, forgotten gem of a labor history of energy technology (long before that field even existed)

French followers, what should I read about these 'Robin Hood actions' of French energy workers? Interested to read more about how exactly they do and organize it, how they understand themselves, whether this has a longer tradition. Can be in French. brooklynrail.org/2023/04/fiel...

Letter From Paris | The Brooklyn Rail

In France, the feeling that the public services are being gradually destroyed has driven a growing part of society to revolt. What is called the “social state”—what the workers think of as a guaranto...

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Es ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc

Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)

Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen

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Les opérations « Robin des bois » au sein de la CGT Énergie

Quand la cause des chômeurs et des « sans » contribue à la redéfinition de l'action syndicale

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French followers, what should I read about these 'Robin Hood actions' of French energy workers? Interested to read more about how exactly they do and organize it, how they understand themselves, whether this has a longer tradition. Can be in French. brooklynrail.org/2023/04/fiel...

Letter From Paris | The Brooklyn Rail

In France, the feeling that the public services are being gradually destroyed has driven a growing part of society to revolt. What is called the “social state”—what the workers think of as a guaranto...

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From the current issue: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*

Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod

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