Daniel Hartley

Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities.

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

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

Almost 5,000 (!!) UK university workers sign letter in support of Gaza students with UK university places. This letter shows the huge level of support for these students and the urgent need for the government to enable them to get here: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/open-le...

Please share this CFP for a special issue dedicated to the work of my late colleague Simon J. James.

Drop what you are doing and go check out Forensic Architecture’s important new report:

“The patterns we have observed concerning Israel’s military conduct in Gaza indicate a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life, conditions necessary for life, and life-sustaining infrastructure.”

Happy to share my latest journal article, “Development through Dispossession: Ghassana Kanafani’s *Returning to Haifa*, the World-System, and Palestinian Belonging,” in the latest issue of *Coils of the Serpent*.

coilsoftheserpent.org/2025/08/deve...

Happy birthday, mate!

This remains one of my favourite anecdotes from the English Civil War.

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵

Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Die Druckfahnen sind da! Mitte Oktober erscheint „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“ von @onachtwey.bsky.social & mir. Wir gehen hier der Frage nach, warum viele die Demokratie in Schutt und Asche legen wollen. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zerstoe...

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

"it seemed to us like this was almost like a game of target practice. We're going to shoot the head today. Tomorrow it'll be the chest. The next day it'll be the testicles"

British surgeon Nick Maynard on IDF soldiers shooting Palestinian kids.

Editorial | Penn descends into fascism The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

we will look back on this era and realize the student newspapers were the free press.

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Manuskript von Marx & Engels zu »Feuerbach«. Unten sichtbarer Mäusefraß. Quelle: Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers; Collection International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)

#marxengelswerke An MEW 3, dem zentralen Band für die Entwicklung der materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung, haben Marx & Engels krass herumgefeilt, Jux + Rants inklusive. Wir verlosen heute Abend 1 Paperback. Es kann mehr als zuvor, es enthält 100 magic Seiten mehr: dietzberlin.de/mew-marx-eng...

Entering monastic mode for the next 5 weeks to try and make headway with the book manuscript.

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

Will look forward to reading it! I hope the book has been well received. I was fortunate enough to be on Juliette's doctoral committee - amazing work. Wish I could have made it to HM Paris to catch up with you guys.

One of many great things about this excellent essay, which goes to the heart of a lot of what I've been thinking about in my own work recently, is that it might finally motivate me to finish reading this.

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

"The fact that a Labour government after Grenfell has decided that the regulation of construction is the problem and the thing they need to dismantle, I think is a fucking obscenity."

Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for mod…

If anyone's interested, my essay is in this volume:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...

Excerpt from the article: 2.4.2 Hartley on the Voices of Capital A valuable reflection on the multiplicity of voices in Capital has been produced by Daniel Hartley. He suggests that we should read Capital as a polyphonic work, invoking here the terminology which Bakhtin uses in his study of the voices in Dostoevsky's novels. In Hartley's view there are two main impulses...

The first, and no doubt last, time someone has dedicated a whole subsection of an article to an essay of mine.

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The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève - Northwestern University Press A fresh and vivid reappraisal of one of the most influential intellects of the modern era   Alexandre Kojève is one of the twentieth century’s most seduc...

"Kojève – the Russian-born philosopher of mastery and recognition, the French diplomat, the spy, prophet, and photographer of the end of history – has entranced and mystified intellectuals of the Left and the Right. In this towering biography, Filoni sets the discussion on entirely new ground."

Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.”

Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happening now in Camarillo, protesters are desperately facing off against ICE to try to defend America’s farm workers.

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say US-Israeli aid distributor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been widely condemned for possible complicity in war crimes

I'm sorry the food aid contained what now

www.middleeasteye.net/news/opioid-...

(Reissue of the 1981 original).

Cover of the forthcoming Verso reissue of G. E. M. de Ste. Croix's The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests.

Out next week from @versobooks.bsky.social

Hailed as "the only work in a Western language that has ever attempted to tell the story of the greatest part of the ancient world with the interests of the lower classes as its central theme."