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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books Zone Books

My book is now available for pre-order!

Everyone - "Wow, that's like the definition of fascism, right here"

Informed commentators - "No this is not actually fascism, you see, because historical fascism of the 1930s and 1940s blah blah blah blah blah"

Ecologies of Collapse Ecologies of Collapse explores overlapping crises of the family, property, political imagination, and planetary futurity from a materialist perspective.

Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?

by Larry Summers

Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.

Interview with me about service sector stuff in advance of my book release next year! truthout.org/articles/imp...

Now it is time for the Cph book launch, a double whammy if you will!

"Finance Aesthetics" (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social) and "The Birth of the Financial Thriller" (@edinburghup.bsky.social)

Sep 23, at Uni of Cph, 3-6 pm.

Readings, conversations, wine!

Please come, no registration needed.

I guess someone asked GPT-5 how its dissertation was going

◼️NEW DOSSIER PUBLISHED◼️

KORSCH/SCHMITT - including 7 new translations, and 2 interpretative essays

endnotes.org.uk/dossiers/kor...

.@adamtooze.bsky.social on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:

À la pointe extrême de la société du spectacle, il y a le génocide à Gaza, et aussi celles et ceux qui le regardent en bouffant du popcorn.

Elsewhere in the interview, Dr Maynard claimed Israeli soldiers are shooting civilians at aid points "almost like a game of target practice". The IDF said it "categorically rejected" claims of "intentional harm to civilians, particularly in the manner described". Dr Maynard claimed he has operated on boys as young as 11 who had been "shot at food distribution points" run by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. "They had gone to get food for their starving families and they were shot," he said. "I operated on one 12-year-old boy who died on the operating table because his injuries were so severe."

A British surgeon returned from Gaza says Israeli soldiers were shooting at aid-seekers “almost like a game of target practice".

He also said formula doctors had packed to bring with them was the only item confiscated by Israeli authorities before entry.

Formula.

news.sky.com/story/almost...

The thing about all these fucking statements now from world leaders calling for the food to be let in to Gaza: you have the ability to impose sanctions on Israel and every second you spend talking instead of imposing them is a collaborationist lie.

I want to write some book reviews again soon. I find it a great way to sharpen my own arguments and keep me writing. But since I quit the fascist platform I find it hard to keep up with cool new titles.

Friends and foes: what should be on my radar this summer/fall ?

With and Against No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International. But beyond the clichés about its purported leader Guy Debord, the "society of the spectacle," dét...

My book about the Situationist International is on summer sale for those of you who are looking for something to read on the 'beach beneath the streets'

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

This is happening in Berlin this week: pro-qm.de/event/financ...

Berlin book launch for Finance Aesthetics (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social)

Thursday, July 10, 7.30 pm, at @proqm.bsky.social

I can't believe that Tom McCarthy AND Quinn Slobodian are part of the line-up!

Come say hi and buy the book

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat...when the riot becomes fully i...

"we see a rift traversed by new diagonals, as kids in keffiyehs throw barricades in the path of ICE. To the rift corresponds also the swerve cutting across these divisions. Here, in the limits of the riot, we see its overcoming and its passage to revolution."

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/f...

Berliners!

Berlin book launch for "Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary"!

July 10, 7.30 pm at Pro qm - with Quinn Slobodian, Tom McCarthy, Emma Sofie Brogaard and me!

Come say hi!

@proqm.bsky.social
@goldsmithspress.bsky.social

WSJ: “In twist, US diplomacy served as cover for Israeli surprise attack”

What twist??

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Are there any good critiques of the Draghi report?

Today at Uni of Cph: @kmunro-econ.bsky.social !

A hand, holding a copy of the book 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,' edited by Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius.

’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/

Come hear @kmunro-econ.bsky.social talk about her exciting research in Copenhagen✨

The talk is free and open to everyone!

Torsten Andreasen–The Day the Music Died: Finance Fiction and the Affects of the Long Downturn This article was published as part of the b2o review‘s “Finance and Fiction” dossier. The Day the Music Died: Finance Fiction and the Affects of the Long Downturn Torsten Andreasen All About that Base...

It seems only fitting that this piece by @polemologos.bsky.social - so influenced by Joshua Clover's work - has just been published in the b2o dossier on Finance & Fiction that Arne De Boever and I are editing:
www.boundary2.org/2025/04/tors...

New open access piece!

I trace how financialized capitalism seeps into our emotional lives via William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, a novel where Homo economicus meets burnout, uncertainty, and what I call “speculative fatigue”. Speculation isn’t just economic—it’s existential and affective.

Review of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary - Notes - e-flux Andreas Petrossiants reviews a new edited collection from Goldsmiths Press on the aesthetic dimensions of financialization.

Check out my review of the new Finance Aesthetics glossary www.e-flux.com/notes/661679...

Finance Aesthetics A Critical Glossary

'Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary' is the latest publication from the @goldsmithspress.bsky.social PERC series, with a stellar lineup of contributors www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...