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I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like few other mortals. The elegance of his argumentation and the sophistication of his critiques are legendary.…

Don’t sleep on this battle royale: @abenanav.bsky.social x @leifw.bsky.social x @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on AI and socialism

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www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna...

Extremely prescient article. Read it asap

Klimawandel und Kapitalismus: "Niemand sagt: Ich zerstöre den Planeten, weil ich Lust dazu habe" Alyssa Battistoni will Natur nicht länger als Gratisgeschenk betrachten. Aber lässt der Kapitalismus eine Wahl? Hier erklärt sie, ob wir seiner Logik entkommen können.

ich habe mit alyssa battistoni über ihr tolles buch "free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature" gesprochen und es hat sehr viel spaß gemacht (free link)
www.zeit.de/kultur/2026-...

The story of how I left the climate movement 5:35

Your daily reminder: the far right has never stopped talking about climate change.

"Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

illwill.com/lies

New paper in CNS:

'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'

This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...

An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

P151: Urgency in a polarized world This panel focuses on “urgency” as an analytical lens. How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a

CfP:
Urgency in a polarized world
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a mode of action? We scrutinize the multiple meanings, mobilizations, and consequences of urgency.
#EASA2026
#anthropology #anthrosky

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...

what a read, on the global political economy of online scams

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

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Imperialism anywhere increases the chances of imperialism everywhere

Marxism is foundational to the discipline of political ecology, and yet in the past few years there’s been a notable decline of Marxist perspectives in the discipline’s leading conferences and forthcoming handbooks. 1/5

US imperialism no longer operates within the post-WWII 'rules based order' it created with its (false) appeals to international rights, freedom, and win-win scenarios. It works through zero-sum calculations, violence, and misinformation. Palestine and Venezuela are front lines.

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism ‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

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 — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more

live now!

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...

‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.

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

The Ministry of Spatial Planning An institution with real power to shape land use, relegated to a meme

“Without structural conditions that enable alternative forms of land use, food production and nature generation, bottom-up initiatives risk remaining highly localised in their effects instead of aligning into a broader transformation of nature-society relations.”

Wrote this about the forgotten history of spatial planning in the Netherlands w/ my colleagues @adamcalo.bsky.social & Catherine :)

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!

Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen"

Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social

taz.de/!6122455/

International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’ - Inside Climate News An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fo...

“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.”

insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

“The interests of working-class communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to collective flourishing.”

Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...

»Wir können unabhängig von unseren Regierungen handeln« Judith Scheytt war Teil der Global Sumud Flotilla. Im Gespräch erklärt sie ihre Beweggründe, berichtet von den Bedingungen in israelischer Haft und teilt ihre Perspektive auf die Verfehlungen der Bund...

In ihrem ersten Interview seit ihrer Abschiebung aus einer israelischen Haftanstalt sprach die Medienkritikerin und jüngste Sumud-Aktivistin Judith Scheytt mit mir über ihre Beweggründe – und ihre Behandlung durch israelische Behörden. Online @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.de/artikel/sumu...

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

EXTRACT: The Long Heat An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

*EXCLUSIVE*

This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚

Read now👇

www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record.
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Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.