Sara Hill

Great to talk to the wonderful @mirandaioss.bsky.social about this article - ecofascism and the banal NGO aesthetic legitimising populist narratives - appears in more places than you think...

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Two boxes, the larger with a yellow background and the smaller with a red background sit in a wooden table. They are the game Billionaires and Guillotines and expansion pack, Reform or Revolution. The covers feature exaggerated and comedic illustrations of famous billionaires (on the yellow box) and a rat with a pitchfork and pet dog (red box)

My @plutopress.bsky.social cup runneth over with this AND The Othered Woman arriving in the same week

#boardgame #boardgames

It's totally worth it - they're easy, joyful reads you can slip straight into and get carried away with

A collage of book covers collated by Storygraph Books as follows: Perfume by Patrick Suskind Guards! Guards!, Eric and Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett Data Grab by Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin This Dreaming Isle - Various authors First Principles and First Values by David J Temple The Far Right and the Environment edited by Bernhard Forchtner First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran

February reads
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A paperback book is held against a light blue background by a small, white hand. It is titled The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women, by Shahed Ezaydi. The cover text is black capital letters against an off white background with a pattern of blue and brown triangles.

Happy to finally get my hands on this after backing its journey to publication when it was still with Unbound - congratulations to Shahed Ezaydi!

The first chapter is already proof of what an impressive and vital piece of writing this is.

@plutopress.bsky.social
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Red Lines: Why we need Red Lines (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the need for red lines in the struggle against reactionary politics.

"It is time to accept that the far right doesn’t need to be in power to have far-right politics implemented, and that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises."

Great piece from @aurelmondon.com

reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

A meme in which a man ignores his girlfriend to whistle at another woman walking past. He is turning to look over his shoulder at a woman in a red top, while his girlfriend in blue looks at him in annoyance. The man is labeled 'me' His girlfriend is labeled 'sentences of reasonable length' The woman he is whistling at is labelled ','

Feeling personally attacked by this whilst chapter drafting... 🫠
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The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions!

Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics.

Submit your work below!

reacpol.net/publications/

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

I'd characterise extreme ecofascism as marginal but growing, and also linked to a number of problematic more mainstream narratives, and they mutually strengthen each other - which widens the Overton Window for harmful policies, but also reinforces and proliferates extremism

Good question - I would say being marginal does not necessarily mean something is not worth closer monitoring, so I'm not sure that's an either/or circumstance and we should be taking care to understand different groups within extremist movements to monitor growth, recruitment etc

Thanks for the share @scenor.at

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🚨New article w/ @kathleenthelen.bsky.social🚨

This paper examines how the cloud hyperscalers (Microsoft, Amazon, and Google) played a critical role in the transition from platform capitalism to the new AI economy. The cloud business model, we argue, also contributed to the new tech-maga politics.

Research shows that 9 in 10 people globally want more action from their governments on climate, and 7 in 10 are prepared to put their own money in to help.

On 14 Feb, South Yorkshire Climate Alliance are hosting a free event in #Sheffield on how we can mobilise this climate majority 🌎

Details ⬇️

Images of book covers generated by the Storygraph app of books completed in January Books: Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters and Pyramids Going Mainstream - Julia Ebner Ecofascism Revisited - Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk Geis Vols 1 + 2 - Alexis Deacon The Wicked and the Divine Vol 4 - Gillen et al The Queens of Sarmiento Park - Camila Sosa Villada

January reads

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"No kings" above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

And so it begins...

🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation?

Well now you have!

#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Considering a 2026 (re)read of the entire Discworld series because I need that joy in my life again!

#BookSky - what's your preferred order? Chronological? By character arc?

I'm also actively recruiting interview participants so if you work in any of these areas, I'd love to hear from you!

I'll be looking at how these narratives proliferate and are normalised online as well as thinking about how the monetisation of social media creates perverse incentives to keep making this content

Clickbait Climate and the Political Economy of Planetary Vibes: How Ecofascism Thrives in the Digital Substrate - VOX - Pol How ecofascist narratives spread on mainstream social media and how platform economics amplify and normalise them.

My piece for @vox-pol.bsky.social which came from their excellent Next Gen conference in September on ecofascism and the political economy of social media

voxpol.eu/ecofascism-d...

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That ratio 🔥

"Publish or perish!"

"Our high profit margins are how we maintain high editorial standards!"

Urgh.

Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI

If Lord Rothermere's DMG Media takes control of the Telegraph, he would own nearly 50% of the UK's national newspaper industry - and a huge share of all online news reach.

Britain's media is rapidly being Orbanised: government must act to protect media plurality www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Shocked I say.
Shooketh to my very core.