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'Extractive Capitalism' @versobooks.bsky.social), @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, 'Africonomics' (@thenewpassion.bsky.social) Bronwen Everill, 'The Cost of the Cloud' (@nybg.bsky.social) Ashley Dawson, 'Enshittification' (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) Cory Doctorow.

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Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...

‘“Hey it’s Sandra from the bar how are you?”

“Pig butchering” begins with a text message like this. Between 2020-24, an estimated $75 billion was swindled through the ancient art of feigning romantic interest.’

Alexander Clapp on cyber-slavery and the scam industry.

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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. For fifty years David Harvey has wri...

"October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works." @versobooks.bsky.social
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Patchwork is LAUNCHED! Here's an exclusive look at the tapestry I unveiled at The Cartoon Museum. It was epic! #janeausten #graphicbiography

Humanitarian Borders *Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? This book interrogates the pol...

For more about how racist borders create unsafe routes and how humanitarian solutions are not the solution read my book...

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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. For fifty years David Harvey has wri...

Cool offering from @versobooks.bsky.social: "October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works."
"His works are essential to understanding Marx's Capital, and the carnage of capitalism."

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why. In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

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'Patchwork' pieces together Jane Austen's personal life While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating work.

While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating work. n.pr/3Wp287a

'Patchwork' pieces together Jane Austen's personal life While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such artistry is the heart and strength of Kate Evans' delightful and illuminating w...

Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! For @npr, I reviewed a fantastic new graphic biography by Kate Evans, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen:

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Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro’s anthology of Gaza resistance Book Club: Sonia Faleiro speaks to us about ’Gaza: The Story of a Genocide,’ a vital anthology blending testimony and art to document Gaza’s ongoing devastation

Book Club 📚 In 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide', co-editors Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro have gathered around twenty writers, poets, journalists, activists, and illustrators to explore the genocide's immeasurable toll at both individual and collective levels 👇

Patchwork In her later years, Jane Austen made a patch­work quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs t...

Out today! A bold new graphic biography of the life of Jane Austen, from the author of Red Rosa and Threads

"A thing of beauty."
- Mary Talbot, author of The Dotters of Her Father's Eyes

This Week's New Titles New titles available this week: Patchwork by Kate Evans [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Patchwork and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be applied in cart. Books must be...

We have four new titles out this week: a bold reimagining of the life of Jane Austen, an award-winning historian on Britain's most contentious symbol: the high-rise block, a screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and spotlighting liberal civilization in crisis

Less Chatter, More Action: on Alexandre Kojève’s "Kant" - Cleveland Review of Books One has to reckon with a postmodern condition of meaninglessness and feeling of being too late to the party.

"Kojève’s reflections on the conditions of politically meaningful action and philosophy speak to our current zeitgeist where history seems neither dead nor alive."

Alexander Aerts on Kojéve's "Kant"

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Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)

New book review published at @jich.bsky.social

@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'

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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason' There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...

Weekend read?

In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.

Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂

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Oh, this looks good. Must read! @versobooks.bsky.social

"21st century society appears constitutionally incapable of solving any problem. All it can do is to expunge symptoms.”

Click to read an excerpt from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Andreas Malm’s new book, “The Long Heat,” published by @versobooks.bsky.social

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Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy [book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it.  The first reas...

"The ecological crisis does not push communism further away; instead, it calls for its urgent return."

Thanks @kmunro-econ.bsky.social for setting up this event at the New School. Very much looking forward.

Very excited about this event with @cedricdurand.bsky.social at the New School in New York City. We have distinct arguments about this tortured post-Late Capitalism we are living through, I’m genuinely curious to see where the conversation goes.

Cosmos, Production, and Anarchy [book-strip index="1"] In our era of climate change and global environmental catastrophes, is communism relevant anymore? At first glance, there are at least three reasons to doubt it.  The first reas...

"Communism must become ecological. And yet this argument is incomplete if it does not include its corollary: political ecology can become truly revolutionary only by becoming communist"

This Week's New Titles New titles available this week: Anthropocene Communism by Paul Guillibert [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Anthropocene Communism and get 30% off any of the selected titles below. Discount will be...

We have three books out this week - Paul Guillibert on how communism can inform the ecological revolution, Cédric Durand on the age of techno-feudalism, and Sophia Giovannitti on the worlds of sex and art.

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Anthropocene Communism In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological cr...

Out today - Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster by Paul Guillibert

attn NYC! We have a great event coming up at The New School on Nov. 4 at 4pm, @itsmccarthy.bsky.social &
@cedricdurand.bsky.social in conversation about their new books from @versobooks.bsky.social & the future of capitalism. Open to to the public w registration: event.newschool.edu/economicssem...

When you buy an ebook from @versobooks.bsky.social they add your name to the epub file you download, so I’m about to start reading “Enshittification for Javier Arce”.

If you happen to be in London at the start of next month this would be worth putting in your diary....

'Issue this book to every new MP': John McDonnell reviews 'The Fiery Spirits' John Rees has written a page-turning and powerful reminder of how Parliament and the people once wrested control from an arrogant executive

"This wonderful book is an essential reminder of the vitally important role popular protest has played in securing our parliamentary democracy"

📚 @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social reviews @johnwrees.bsky.social 'The Fiery Spirits' | @versobooks.bsky.social
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Ticket: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing c...

This new book by @cartoonkate.bsky.social is a breath-takingly beautiful thing: I'd go so far as to say a work of genius.

It's my privilege to be interviewing her about it at the East Gate Bookshop, Totnes on 23rd October. Please join us if you can:
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"For David, the principal focus of Marx’s Grundrisse is capital, defined as self-expanding value in motion."

Nancy Fraser described the importance and impact of A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by @davidharvey.org.

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