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“For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower"
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Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work? Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

Some thoughts here from me on Ankara's peace talks with Öcalan and the sociopolitical imagination&desires behind it:

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

She's Gone Away

Sugar on my tongue

Görselde, siyah beyaz bir orman manzarasında, sırtında dev bir yılan taşıyan bir kişi yürürken görülüyor. Elinde büyük bir pala var. Sol üstte “Murat Türker yazdı”, sol altta “biamag cumartesi” logosu yer alıyor. Görsel, vahşi doğa ve insan ilişkisini çarpıcı biçimde yansıtıyor.

#biamag | XXIV. Dokufest’e buyurmaz mısınız?

✍ Murat Türker, 24. Dokufest’te Türkiye’den katılan yapımları ve festivalin öne çıkan filmlerini yazdı.

bianet.org/yazi/xxiv-do...

Coming from a denialist culture, I have a sense that once perpetrators begin to produce too many explanations as to what is going on is not a genocide, it is a sign that the process has already reached its highest stage.

Dr. Nisan Alıcı ile Kürt Meselesi, Direniş ve Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti Üzerine

“Barış inşa sürecini mevcut eşitsizliklerin ve güç ilişkilerinin dönüştürülmesi için bir fırsat olarak görmek mümkün.”

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Xavier Universitesinden akademisyen Dr. Nazan Bedirhanoğlu:

“Barış Müzakerelerinin Başarısız Olması, Statükodan Daha Kötü Sonuçlar Doğurabilir”

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Here’s the short intervention I delivered for the roundtable. Two main threads of the roundtable were on death drive and free association, but there were many other connections.

Barselona Otonom Üniversitesi Barış Kültürü Okulu’nun kurucularından ve eski yöneticilerinden  Vicenç Fisas:

"PKK’nin silahsızlanma süreci başladı ama buna eşlik edecek kurumlar hazır değil."

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This is happening on July 19th:

"The Communists Believe..."

For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

Tomorrow:

This is happening on July 19th:

"The Communists Believe..."

For more information & registration: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

I hope it’s become evident that corporate news will partner with fascists to attack the Left because literally our history is the story of how the wealth class use their political and media organs to ensure all Leftists are demonized and crushed.

That’s the whole ballgame.

A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it

NYTimes, how low can you go?

Ghouls.

Title: Post-capitalist politics contra mutations of neoliberalism: Persistence of value and class under postcapitalism Abstract: 2008 Crash marked the end of the halcyon days of neoliberal globalism. Its promises of unceasing economic growth and prosperity were crashed and replaced with a bold re-assertion of austerity and authoritarianism. The secular and internal limits of capitalist mode of production, namely its tendencies towards devaluation and increasing organic composition of capital, are joined by its "external" limits in the ecological crisis. Some theorists are making sense of this moment in terms of postcapitalism, but not as a transition towards socialism but rather as a regression towards a "techno-feudalism" (Varoufakis) or "neofeudalism" (Dean). Tendencies towards platform enclosures and sovereignty fragmentation together with the increasing importance of rent as a mode of extraction are identified as indicators of this transformation at the level of mode of production. While such inquiries on the transformations in the modes of production that are operational in contemporary social formations are most welcome, several questions remain to be explored. First, should we approach our conjuncture from a historicist perspective of a transition from capitalism to feudalism tout court or from a poststructuralist perspective of the articulation of multiple modes of production and extraction within a broader social formation whose adjective is yet to be determined? The latter perspective allows us to see the co-existence of wage labor, self-employment, and cooperative modes of production in various relations of articulation and subsumption to different modes of capital (industrial/productive, merchant, and financial). Second, to what extent do these material tendencies constitute a break from neoliberalism? Is it possible to think about these tendencies as the performative outcomes of a neoliberal episteme that has always been diverse and variegated (ranging …

Working title: Post-capitalist politics contra mutations of neoliberalism: Persistence of value and class under postcapitalism #SummerProject

Turkey’s political prisoner, Osman Kavala:

2.800 days behind bars.
In solitary confinement.

New paper, deepening the argument . Part IV: class analysis deepened, mutations of neoliberalism, rethinking governmentality, revisiting the transition question.

New paper, counter argument. Part III: Class analysis of the articulation of wage labor and self-employment

New paper, mapping the terrain. Part II: Capitalism in crisis: secular and cyclical

New paper, collecting materials. Part I: The proposition of post-capitalist feudalism

NYTimes meltdown is remarkable.

Whatever reservations one may have of Democratic Socialists (their reformism, electoralism, tailism, etc), Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy is a major win & opportunity for them. I cant think of a more high profile and strategic gain under the rise of *liberal fascism* than the municipal control of NYC.

He's been doing this for YEARS and not in front of cameras. That's why it comes off as authentic because it's true to what he's been doing all along.

Dozens of polls that showed Cuomo up on average about 15 points.

25-point polling error across the board for the first round of voting.

"İmamoğlu’nun tutukluluğu korkunç bir yanlış, Öcalan’ın hâlâ hapiste olması son derece mantıksız" "Sorunların temel nedeni, servet ve gücü azınlığın elinde toplayan son derece eşitsiz bu ekonomik sistemdir" diyen İngiltere İşçi Partisi’nin eski lideri Jeremy Corbyn, dayanışma ve adalet temelinde…

"İmamoğlu’nun tutukluluğu korkunç bir yanlış, Öcalan’ın hâlâ hapiste olması son derece mantıksız"

İngiltere İşçi Partisi’nin eski lideri Jeremy Corbyn, bianet'e konuştu.

bianet.org/haber/imamog...

Friday reading. Thanks for reminding.

O kadar çok şeye karşı mücadele veriyoruz ki… Neye sahip çıkacağımızı şaşırdık…