Giulia Dal Maso

What Can Politics Make of Nature? Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…

Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.*

To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?

RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

Virno and History - Public Seminar “Hear the sound, not the music, hear the speech, not the words. Death is the imminent thing. My fire is...Read More

Sorry to hear that Paolo Virno has passed. I was engaging with his work a lot 10 or so years ago. publicseminar.org/2015/02/virn...

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.

You can read it here:

Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar Trump and the Federal Reserve.

"the Fed's primary concern is the systemic threat that [firm or sector risk] poses – even if stabilising measures benefit the too-big-to-fail constituency first & foremost. The administration ... is more interested in a discretionary, patronage-based approach."

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Scale Is Not a System: Learning from China without Mimicry A reply to Kaiser Kuo that weighs China’s achievements against the limits of performance legitimacy and the value of democratic institutions.

China’s achievements at scale are undeniable—but scale is not system. Responding to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social’s call to judge by delivery, @messingschlager.bsky.social argues that durable performance depends on independent measurement, contestable feedback, and system integration, not size alone.

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance, reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.

And tomorrow, we'll be on general strike again #blocchiamotutto #globalsumudflotilla #freepalestine #generalstrike

#BLOCCHIAMOTUTTO #freepalestine #marghera #portodivenezia #scioperogenerale

#blocchiamotutto #scioperogenerale #freepalestine

Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand!

It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.

looks great!

Venezia: conferenza stampa davanti al Red Carpet, sabato 30 agosto grande corteo “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera” | Global Project Si è svolta questa mattina, mercoledì 27 agosto, davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – ...

#Venezia | Si è svolta questa mattina davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di #Venezia82 la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera”, in programma sabato 30 agosto al Lido.

www.globalproject.info/it/in_movime...

Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: "Stop a genocidio" - Italia Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità internazionali”. La questione palestinese

Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: “Stop a genocidio”

https://www.europesays.com/it/78257/

Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità…

Puntiamo i riflettori della Mostra del Cinema sulla Palestina!

I comitati di Possibile del Veneto aderiscono al corteo di sabato 30 settembre al Lido di Venezia, con partenza alle 17:00 da Santa Maria Elisabetta.

Vi aspettiamo numeros3!

Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation From the late Middle Ages all the way to Pasolini’s 1971 film, Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably...

‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’

Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the lesson...

‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’

Adam Shatz in Berlin:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling. We really, really didn't expect this.

We asked Pete Hegseth if women should have the right to vote. The answer was unsettling.

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

connection is immediate ! living off others ;)

Know your parasites
For a healthier society ;)

The biological transhumanism and digital eugenics promoted by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley amounts to pro-extinctionism, @xriskology.bsky.social‬ writes. www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Another SI contribution now out!

Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale. The academic life can actually prevent intellectuals [from] doing serious intellectual work. —Stuart Hall

Free Markets and Fixed Natures - Boston Review How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

“Over the past two decades, the self-avowed libertarian’s melding of genetic pronouncements with bootstrapping family-values talk has served as the bridge spanning divergent factions of the racialist right, from its IQ-obsessed, DEI-hating Silicon Valley wing to its white nationalist fringes.“

No space for Bezos
Venice strikes back
#venice #bezos #nokings #nospaceforbezosl

No Kings No Besos
Amazon = Cazzon

NO KINGS IN VENICE
@no space for bezos
@mttpsq.bsky.social

NO KINGS in venice !