Rob Hunter

A Palace Of Illusions: Law and Alienation in India — Madhubala P and Gautam Bhatia ‘Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.’ Madhubala P and Gautam Bhat…

'Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.' Madhubala P and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social on dispossession, deportation, and the contested meaning of citizenship in India.

When Nature is Worthless Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

When Nature is Worthless Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen ‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…

In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.

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Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social

Tis a chunky tome.

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But por favor what, exactly? Not having to undertake a non-burdensome action in order to help the vulnerable and immunocompromised to participate in society alongside you?

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.

This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.

A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location

This piece is good but why on earth is Boston Review giving Macedo and Lee’s poor scholarship on this a forum in the first place?

Whatever it is, the wave of COVID contrarianism sweeping through places like the @NewYorker is troubling because so much of it is scientifically illiterate, representing clear-cut cases of motivated reasoning. 36/

Some of it was the fact that many of the well, laptop class, had their lives turned upside down like everyone else but had never had to think of their liberalism in terms of any real sacrifice before and they resent it deeply. 35/

I've tried to figure out why COVID contrarianism is catnip for some liberal commentators like Immerwahr, Macedo and Lee. It's baffling in the extreme and has sent at least the last two into the arms of a man who is helping to destroy American science. 33/

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

"It is the capitalist form of the state that underlies the political influence of capitalists, rather than vice versa." — Simon Clarke

Will it be recorded?

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow.

The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?"

When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

All the “just asking questions about metaphysics” philosophers who have helped bring about this current siege on trans people: you can still admit you were wrong and it was a bad project that has helped ruin peoples lives dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...

People are mostly not experiencing what Trump is doing yet so the problem is not the poll it’s this deeply dishonest framing.

German KPD initially opposed the general strike against the Kapp Putsch and only got on board by the time the strike was virtually over and the entire working class had mobilized

a lot of people act like trans participation in women’s sports is some kind of impossible needle to thread but it’s actually just great? everybody wins if we reject wholesale the idea that anyone should ever have to prove that she’s a woman! everybody gets to play sports! there is no down side

Legal texts don’t do things.

A huge indictment of how pathetic the Democratic response has been: even Doug Ford, a pea-brained rightwing lummox hoser who had to be shown how to use a laptop three years into his first term as Premier of Ontario, is doing a better job standing up to Trump (who is his hero!)

I knew university administrators weren’t prepared for this moment but “you can’t even send any emails about diversity, equity, or inclusion without permission from our lawyers” is even worse than I expected. Calling for anticipatory obedience that is also literally impossible to comply with!

anyways, me, I would simply build the whole plane out of the same stuff they use to make the black boxes, and the whole state out of the same substance that makes up the glorious ideal of its legitimacy. problems: solved

Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.

While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.

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They have names.

A custom BlueSky feed dedicated to coverage of local protests would be a good use of this site.

ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Its Already Vast Surveillance Apparatus ICE is investing massive sums in facial recognition, data surveillance, e-carceration and other repressive technologies.

Not only conducting mass raids, ICE has posted notices for contractors to provide surveillance tech to enlarge, transform, and modernize capabilities to track, monitor & surveil noncitizens.

Migrants are at nexus of surveillance tech & expansion of racial state power.

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It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience".

MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.