Entrevista a Alyssa Battistoni - Corriente CΓ‘lida
Alyssa Battistoni Una sociedad poscapitalista tambiΓ©n tendrΓa que hacer frente a las transformaciones que ya hemos provocado y a las que estΓ‘n efectivamente integradas en el futuro. En este momento, n...
ENTREVISTA | Alyssa Battistoni π
@carloscorrochano.xyz entrevista a @alybatt.bsky.social a propΓ³sito de la publicaciΓ³n de su libro Β«Free GiftsΒ». Analizando la vigencia de Β«El capitalΒ» o el fenΓ³meno de Zohran Mamdani, Battistoni esboza los contornos de una teorΓa climΓ‘tica para nuestro presente.
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fresh audio product:
β’ Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
β’ Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
11.12.2025 17:36 β
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Facing the Limits
In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalismβs persistent failure to value the natural world. Yet the lesson of this exploration is much broader: that capitalism imposes fundamental limits onβ¦
Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.
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thank you so much!! loved talking about it
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Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social β we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
08.12.2025 15:24 β
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NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now π
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
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thank you so much Mikkel!
04.12.2025 14:56 β
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thanks for this terrific review Lukas!
02.12.2025 18:28 β
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Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and SΓΈren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
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thank you!
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What Can Politics Make of Nature?
Alyssa Battistoniβs 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 lifeβ¦
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?
24.11.2025 16:46 β
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come enjoy a free lunch with me, Kate, Corey, and Leah in a couple of hours!
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Free Gifts
A timely new critique of capitalismβs persistent failure to value nature
Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."
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taught @alybatt.bsky.social and the labor process chapter together, now I finally understand why labor takes a wage but natureβs free of charge
18.11.2025 13:53 β
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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 intoβ¦
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new bookβwhich, 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...
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In the Shadow of Commodification
While capitalism is typically said to commodify everything, much of what makes up our world isnβt commodified at all. It instead appears as a free gift: a social form that describes the condition ofβ¦
Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
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NEXT MONDAY: Join The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities in honoring Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by @alybatt.bsky.social. In-person at Columbia University or remotely from Zoom. November 17 at 6:15 PM. To register, please visit sofheyman.org/events/celeb...
13.11.2025 18:48 β
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tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!
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starting in an hour!
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absolutely my pleasure, thanks so much for inviting me!
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more UK events to come this week: an @histmat.bsky.social launch panel noon Thursday Nov 6 with an amazing lineup: @sorenmau.bsky.social, Andreas Malm, Lukas Slothuus, and @kathunfeld.bsky.social
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really bummed to be missing election day in NYC but doing my best to represent our mayor abroad
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Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar
A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.
really looking forward to discussing Free Gifts with the brilliant @vbivar.bsky.social tonight at Blackwell's in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...
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Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar
A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.
Very much looking forward to talking to @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book on capitalism and nature next Tuesday in Oxford. If you're in town, come join us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...
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