Burc Kostem

best recent works in feminist STS?

Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.

"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.

Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."

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giving the econ non Nobel to a (former) IMF shock therapist would crown this year's 'it's a conservative world' Nobel vibe

The Long Heat The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

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New Authoritarianism as Counterrevolution - Critical Times Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Reflections on Authoritarian Times What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to...

public research universities, holding on:
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

Academic Freedom and the Death of Charlie Kirk The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

AAUP's statement on the universities and their anticipatory obedience issue re: Charlie Kirk comments

www.aaup.org/news/academi...

A real Gabe Winant "little press secretaries" tweet day.

I know a history MA living in Durham who would love to help. Can I pass your email along? Happy to talk more over dms!

This is SO useful! Thank you! I feel like the earth liberation studios poster could be featured somewhere here as inspiration? earthliberationstudio.com/shop/abolish...

Mute Compulsion - Public Books The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

When we lost Jonathan Sterne last spring I had made this list of Jonathanisms. Now that I'm sitting down to prep syllabi, I thought of him a bit this morning. Anyway, sharing it here too. bonpourlorient.tumblr.com/post/7783226...

In my reading notes I have written down, OK does communism have a non-conscious at all? lol.

Agreed on both counts. I don't see why you can't have a concept of proletarian self-organization as communism without having to resort to a fully self-transparent/self-conscious collective subject. And yea, I'll always be partial to a concept like transindividual organizing.

At several points he describes the org of self org as a kind of "catalytic convertor" "transistor" "black box" etc. that allows that self org to critique and amplify itself. When I try to think of it in practice though I agree that it resembles plain organization. I'm not sure I fully get it either.

In the book, at least, self-organization is supposed to have a component of reflexivity. And the organization of self organization is trying to hold together both difference & distance and that sense of reflexivity.

Have you been reading The Future of Revolution? (Not to say you haven't asked/thought this question before haha).

Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the vanguard function Thinking with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' towards a stronger, relational, agroecological political ecosystem that supports its own vanguards

Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the 'vanguard function'.

A post that works with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' in relation to agroecology as a political ecosystem.

thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/growing-a-...

Neither Prophets nor Orphans: An Interview with Endnotes In the meantime, neither orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.

Interview on the history of @endnotesjournal.bsky.social .

chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

The Battle Over Los Angeles's Mansion Tax - Dissent Magazine The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.

The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

It's SO good! Both super clear and analytical & at the same time insightful and relatable. (Also, I really wish more of humanities writing would put the same effort into reflecting on methods.)

There’s a lot more that I want to do with this concept & I have a lot more material about it. I hopefully will get a chance to expand on the article in the book.

I didn’t feel equipped to write about the pavyon just because I hadn’t researched it and felt it probably deserves its own article. But it’s precisely the place where you might find a contractor/real estate developer type.

I borrow the concept of consummation from D&G’s work in AO. But the word konsomasyon actually exists in Turkish! It’s used in the Turkish version of a night club/strip club (pavyon) to describe the food and drinks that are brought to the table.

A lot of the research for this took place during fieldwork in İstanbul. One huge inspiration for me has been the work of several scholars from Turkey, working on radical critiques of political economy. This includes people like Bengi Akbulut, Yahya Madra, Ceren Özselçuk and Cihan Tuğal.

Another way to think of this is as an alliance between two complimentary notions of freedom as sovereignty (as in authoritarianism) and autonomy (as economic growth). A point I borrow from the recent Toscano book on Late Fascism.

In other words, it’s the subjectivity that attends to politics of economic growth. The consummative subject is pragmatic, gets things done, shakes on it, is a ‘finisher’. But in Turkey this subject is equally obsessed with sovereignty and imperial resurgence.

The consummative mood of authoritarianism, describes how this subjective enjoyment is mobilized in Turkish politics as the enjoyment one withdraws from the realization of value, the will to build that wall, construct that bridge etc. (so this is where a road will pass).