anastasia c. wilson

The mirage of polycrisis: A symptomatic reading of Tooze - Callum Cant, 2025 The concept of the ‘polycrisis’ is communicatively potent. That potency partially explains why the term has made its way to the fore in debate after debate sinc...

Great systematic take-down of the polycrisis concept from a Marxist perspective.

Callum Cant shows how analyses of polycrisis repress structural explanations, analyse data from the implicit standpoint of the bourgeois state, and discount class struggle.
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"Top economist @delong.social to recent college grads: Don’t blame AI for job struggles—blame the sputtering economy"
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A new print run of Anarchy Works just came out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social and it's on sale!

Capitalism and the State are dragging us into an abyss of multiplying catastrophes, telling us we can't exist without them. Guess what? We already have and we can do so again!

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

i can’t stop watching ann abel’s unhinged rich lady tiktok and the fact that she’s married married to an economist is 🤌 chefs kiss

Are you a café worker? We invite café workers to respond to our inquiry at: www.workersinquiry.work

CLASS COMPOSITION IN THE CAFE SECTOR: Part 2 by Anastasia Wilson, Alex Pyne, Kevin Van Meter // What do cafe workers in the United States think and do while at work?

Take a read via @notesfrombelow.bsky.social: Part 2 (exploring how cafe workers are organizing at work): notesfrombelow.org/article/clas...

CLASS COMPOSITION IN THE CAFE SECTOR: Part 1 by Anastasia Wilson, Alex Pyne, Kevin Van Meter // ###What do cafe workers in the United States think and do while at work?

Take a read via @notesfrombelow.bsky.social: Part 1 (on what cafe workers think and do while at work): notesfrombelow.org/article/clas...

In ‘Class Composition in the Cafe Sector’ we hope that by presenting workers’ narratives alongside our analysis of the sector, we can develop a framework for how workplaces in the sector are structured and what tensions exist within them that can aid organising for class struggle.

it’s too hot to bike and i’m starting to feel sorry for my air conditioner

Galleys for Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me and with a foreword by Paula Varela) are here! Out in November… Please consider preordering from Pluto Press!

Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism.
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taking time away from work and just riding yr bike is really rad and i wish everyone could do so

my goal for the summer is to take a nap every day

paid off my surgery bills just in time to have student loans quadruple 🫠

yes super ideal for my third floor row house apartment, they’ll never know!

every few years i get that itch to buy a rock tumbler….until i realize how deeply impractical this childhood dream fulfillment is

George Caffentzis: Class-Warrior, Philosopher, Poet - New Politics At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems assembles George Caffentzis’s poetic output. The noted class-warrior, philosopher of money and work/energy, is now a published poet.

"At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems assembles George Caffentzis’s poetic output. The noted class-warrior, philosopher of money and work/energy, is now a published poet." Read my latest here: newpol.org/george-caffe...

i got my review materials done early 😇

went offgrid bikepacking for a week, and now i came back to a war and it's too hot to sit at my desk 🫠

The cover of the paperback Incarcerated Readers' Edition of A Continuous Struggle: The Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber. The cover features a large black-and-white photograph of Martin Sostre.

We've already sent almost 400 copies of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 to incarcerated readers, and are still getting lots of requests. Can you help us send more? Sponsor a copy here! www.akpress.org/a-continuous...

as i work on conference planning this morning, i'd gently like some of you to know that you write abstracts that are way too long

You should follow our work @interruptcrim.bsky.social if you are interested in interrupting criminalization. We have countless resources, tools, information on our website.

Riot. Strike. Riot Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

okay i sent it

it's not that i feel ready to submit this paper, it's that i've given up enough to just close my eyes and send it

one week until i start my olympic national park bike tour with friends and i can't wait

i went with the waterfall hike

grateful that the tough decisions im making these days are "should i hike a waterfall this morning, or go for a bike ride by the lake?"