Happy birthday, hope to see you soon in Edi!

Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus ‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…

Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

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This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Resisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice — Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …

Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri critiquing the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence: legalform.blog/2025/07/05/r...

Big thanks to @acelg-uva.bsky.social for the fellowship and feedback on the paper
Thanks also to @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social, Dimitrios + Maria

Link to @europeanlawopen.bsky.social is here: doi.org/10.1017/elo....

Abstract below 👇

The picture is a screenshot of the title of the paper (The de-politicisation of decarbonisation through climate rent: a Marxist critique of the EU emissions trading system) on the online website of the European Law Open journal

New publication 🙌

It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social

Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....

Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
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Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.

Hello there, is there a recording or related paper? Sounds fascinating! You should also consider writing about your research for @legalform.bsky.social!

hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.

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Headline: Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says.

Absolutely fucking brilliant: students use AI to write their assignments, and then teachers use AI to grade them.

David Graeber wrote an entire book on "bullshit jobs," but I don't think even he could foresee how rapidly we would all run off this cliff together.

Be aware of the invisible baggage of poverty your students carry We need to acknowledge the realities of poverty and inequality, and the trauma it leaves our students with. Here are six principles to make higher education more inclusive

We need to acknowledge the realities of #poverty and #inequality among students, writes Jordan Donnelly of @uniwestscotland.bsky.social‬. He shares six principles to make #highereducation more #inclusive: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/be-aw... #EDI #edusky #education

We need to talk about class some more. On First View, Dimitrios Kivotidis on state power, capital accumulation and democratic deficits. The second paper in the Marxism symposium by @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social and @pashukanist.bsky.social

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Next up in our (@nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social) Marxism and EU Law Symposium: Dimitrios Kivotidis takes on the EU's 'democratic deficit' . He shows us that beneath the liberal surface of this debate, lie the social relations of capitalism.

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Brilliant, devastating article on Israel’s appalling starvation policy by @jessicawhyte.bsky.social

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Jobs at all levels at the new Loughborough Law department. Here is the prof. advertisement. Reader/SL/L all on jobs.ac.uk.

First early bird view article by Maria Tzanakopoulous from our symposium is out! @pashukanist.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social

Let’s not kid ourselves: the repression of pro-Palestinian activism is not an exclusively Trumpian attribute – Eva Nanopoulos As Harvard University is leading a rebellion against the Trump administration’s far-reaching intervention into university practices under the pretext of fighting antisemitism on campus, Heyleh Dout…

'It might be tempting to see what is happening to pro-Palestinian activists in the US as an exclusive attribute of the Trump administration… But that would be a mistake.'

Eva Nanopoulos on the international repression of Palestinian solidarity.

So looking forward to this at QMUL on Tuesday 13th May! Sure to be a tour de force in feminist and Marxist thought as informed by the plural radical analyses of social reproduction in the Global South

Some reading for context here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Capitalism is not harmonious, it’s conflictual. Very rarely is there a ‘capital’ or a ‘capitalism’ acting in a unified way. Even a system-wider threat has trouble compelling this.

There are many capitals, in constant competition, seeking to maximise their own accumulation and fend off their rivals.

One thing that does deserve more attention, though, is how it came to be that reading and writing for oneself should have become tasks whose alienation and automation appear so desirable to so many. Generative AI did not create the conditions for its own appeal; the world we made was ready for it.

This looks great!

Spot on as usual!

A flyer about a York University lecture

Tomorrow!

We stand in solidarity with our colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social

To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".

We are so happy and excited to have you!!