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Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice. πŸ“Philadelphia πŸ“NYC www.commonnotions.org

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graphic with the text "an of the moment critical look at social organizing and the fight against gendered and racialized capitalism. it not only offers up strategies to fight the power, but it also jabs its finger in our collective chest, saying: you are complicit!

graphic with the text "an of the moment critical look at social organizing and the fight against gendered and racialized capitalism. it not only offers up strategies to fight the power, but it also jabs its finger in our collective chest, saying: you are complicit!

DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS is "an of-the-moment critical look at social organizing and the fight against gendered and racialized capitalism." β€”Chris Conti

Edited by Andreas Petrossiants and Jose Rosales, this book is available now: commonnotions.org!

06.08.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œrevolutionary disciplined optimist” dig it.

this, i fear, will be one of those reads that gets the blood boiling β€” necessarily so.

05.08.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wednesday, August 6th at 7 EST, @haymarketbooks.org hosts a roundtable on our latest title, AFTER ACCOUNTABILITY, with editors and contributors joining online. Register for free here: www.pinko.online/after-accoun...

04.08.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

Do you support radical literature? Do you want to see more worldbuilding in the vein of @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com's EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE?

Help us build PROJECT 2052! Make a one-time donation today: www.commonnotions.org/project2052

04.08.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Project 2025? Nah, help us imagine and launch Project 2052: A collection of speculative fiction and art in the world of Everything for Everyone!!

We need your help pay authors and artists! You can give whatever feels doable or sign up as a monthly sustainer in the link below.

04.08.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

Do you support radical literature? Do you want to see more worldbuilding in the vein of @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com's EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE?

Help us build PROJECT 2052! Make a one-time donation today: www.commonnotions.org/project2052

04.08.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Eman Abdelhadi
August 21, 2025
6pm ET virtual
Benefiting Palestinian refugees in Cairo
Writing Liberatory Futures: a workshop on speculative fiction

Eman Abdelhadi August 21, 2025 6pm ET virtual Benefiting Palestinian refugees in Cairo Writing Liberatory Futures: a workshop on speculative fiction

What if we won?

Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social) will offer "Writing Liberatory Futures: A Workshop on Speculative Fiction" on August 21st to benefit Gazan refugees in Cairo.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

30.07.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! πŸˆβ€β¬›πŸ“š

@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social

29.07.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

Pitch submissions will open soon, but first we ask for your support. We're asking for one-time donations of any amount to help us pay honoraria.

If financial support is not possible at the moment, you can help us by spreading the word!

Learn more & donate at www.commonnotions.org/project2052

24.07.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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image of an ereader with free ebook information

Don't forget to claim your free ebook!

THE HOME AS LABORATORY shows how what was historically considered an β€œunproductive space” became a crucial laboratory for capital and new financial technologies.

Visit our site and use HOME-AS-LAB at checkout: buff.ly/Y3pOj6d

26.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

Pitch submissions will open soon, but first we ask for your support. We're asking for one-time donations of any amount to help us pay honoraria.

If financial support is not possible at the moment, you can help us by spreading the word!

Learn more & donate at www.commonnotions.org/project2052

24.07.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our press has joined forces with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com to build PROJECT 2052: REVOLUTIONARY DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!

This will be a website of speculative short fiction, visual art, and poetry, set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE.

24.07.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excerpts from At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems - New Politics Throughout George Caffentzis's poetry runs the desire for a different world and staunch refusal to compromise with the injustices of the past and the present.

Read an excerpt from At the Edge of Everything, recently published by @commonnotions.bsky.social , via @NewPoliticsMag here: newpol.org/excerpts-fro...

23.07.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe strike record is at base a form of active participation in a struggle...one that tends to focus on popularization, clarification of political stakes, & circulation...”

STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT authors Josh MacPhee & Kennedy Block on @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social: buff.ly/wCONUgj

22.07.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Graphic with a yellow background and blue mountain silhouette. There's an image of the book cover and text saying the book is available now

BORDERTOWN CLASHES, RESOURCE WARS, CONTESTED TERRITORIES by John Redhouse is a lyrical & fast-paced memoir of the frontlines of Native liberation.

The first book of its kind to be published by a native revolutionary & participant in the Red Power Movement of the 70s.

Available Now: buff.ly/VnLIfnw

20.07.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks for sharing!!

21.07.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Free ebook of our book The Home as Laboratory available until the end of the month. I still think it offers important insights for understanding how the home has become a laboratory for new forms of value extraction and authoritarianism and continues to be a crucial battleground today.

19.07.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic with a yellow background and blue mountain silhouette. There's an image of the book cover and text saying the book is available now

Graphic with a yellow background and blue mountain silhouette. There's an image of the book cover and text saying the book is available now

BORDERTOWN CLASHES, RESOURCE WARS, CONTESTED TERRITORIES by John Redhouse is a lyrical & fast-paced memoir of the frontlines of Native liberation.

The first book of its kind to be published by a native revolutionary & participant in the Red Power Movement of the 70s.

Available Now: buff.ly/VnLIfnw

20.07.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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We're celebrating DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS Sunday 7/27 at the lovely P.I.T.!

Join co-editor @apetrossiants.bsky.social, contributor Shellyne Rodriguez, and writer @natashalennard.bsky.social for a conversation on the intersection of social movements and artist production.

buff.ly/HQrWg2P

18.07.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you’re in NYC on 2/27, come to the launch of this beautiful book of collected conversations, β€˜Diversity of Aesthetics’ @commonnotions.bsky.social press (book info: www.commonnotions.org/diversity-of...). Sunday 7/27, 4pm, The P.I.T, Bk

16.07.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.
www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...

17.07.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Labor Resistance On Vinyl (with Kennedy Block and Josh MacPhee) | The Final Straw Radio Get more from The Final Straw Radio on Patreon

Patrons from $3+/month can check out a preview of our chat with Josh MacPhee & Kennedy Block on strike records and their new book "Strike While The Needle Is Hot" @commonnotions.bsky.social , 2025

www.patreon.com/posts/labor-...

17.07.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

We're raising funds for PROJECT 2052: a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art & poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone!

Funds will go to authors and artists who contribute; help us by becoming a sustainer here!

www.commonnotions.org/project2052

@commonnotions.bsky.social

16.07.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ–€ What did you like about it?

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Project 2052 β€” Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

30.06.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 182    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10
pink graphic promoting a free download of the home as laboratory ebook.

pink graphic promoting a free download of the home as laboratory ebook.

Free download of THE HOME AS LABORATORY with HOME-AS-LAB.

Through key insights into transformations in the home, we see how this historically "unproductive space" became a crucial lab for capital and new financial technologies.

Get your free ebook at commonnotions.org through 7/31.

16.07.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Notes Toward A Digital Workers' Inquiry β€” Common Notions Press First-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labor movement as artificial intelligence gains ground in every facet of our lives.

We turned in the final copy edits for our new book @commonnotions.bsky.social Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, out in November

Capacitor Collective = @enda-b.bsky.social, Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & me. Thanks to all our contributors/interlocutors!

10.07.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So honored that @deanspade.bsky.social shared such kind words about our book! ❀️❀️

07.07.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're in New York, come and join me and other tech workers in a discussion of Why We Fear AI - we'll talk all about knowledge and power, how AI interacts with that, and what that has to do with workplaces and class power!

05.07.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I loved this book! DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS...contends with the thorniest, most important questions that emerge from our forced entanglement with colonial institutions."

Some book love from @deanspade.bsky.social!

Ask for DIVERSITY OF AESTHETICS at your favorite bookstores and public libraries

07.07.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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