Swarnabh Ghosh

The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable ...

Back from a break to share a new paper (with Neil Brenner) that just came out in Development and Change. An expansive energo-metabolic theorization of the geographies of capitalist urbanization: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In Detroit, what’s good? #aag2025

Welcome new followers! I post infrequently, usually about things related to my scholarship, which sits somewhere between geography and history, and deals with capitalism, imperialism, urbanization, infrastructure, and the environment. I also post about Palestine 🇵🇸

WATCH | Palestinians prepare for a large iftar, in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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Thanks, Jordan! Eager to hear your thoughts.

In addition to Banaji heads, this should be of interest to those that think about the history of capitalism (“new” and old), the Brenner debate, the modes of production debates, Lefebvre’s rural sociology and its relation to Sartre’s Marxism, the *dialectic*, among other things.

Thanks, Nick! That’s very kind of you.

I’ve long admired and learned from Banaji’s work. This paper is my attempt to work through his expansive oeuvre and systematically explicate its methodological and theoretical contributions to the history of capitalism.

New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Civil Rights Orgs Warn Pomona College Unprecedented Suspensions of Students Are Unlawful, ‘Punishes the Act of Protest Itself’ — Palestine Legal Five legal organizations including Palestine Legal, the Asian Law Caucus, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the National Lawyers Guild of Los A...

"This is the first university that Palestine Legal is aware of where students have been suspended without a hearing and without having a chance to see any evidence against them before the deadline for filing an appeal."

palestinelegal.org/news/2024/11...

So is this just Twitter but no one talks about the pesky genocide?

Once again, I find myself thinking about this diagram.

Due to the unyielding work of Palestinian journalists, Twitter still enables one to witness some of the world historical horrors unfolding in Gaza right now. This—the only reason for being on these apps—seems more or less absent here.

This place is like when you show up to a huge party and immediately head to the kitchen and hang out with the 3 other people you know.

Weird thing on here is that one both misses and does not miss the ostentatious “lateness” of the other app.

Slowly moving here

The grandpère of the American “progressive” movement can’t get himself to utter the word ceasefire. Shame on you for not doing even the bare minimum. And shame on me for having canvassed for you all those times.

This is evil beyond words. I hope my American comrades never forgive Biden and the Democrats for presiding over a genocide in full view of the world.

A depraved, world historical crime that will be remembered forever.

I may have just witnessed the most shameful episode in the history of my Union.

On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer - Dissent Magazine How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.

Words are weak in these times of genocidal brutality but I honestly believe Gabe Winant’s Dissent piece performs an invaluable service: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

The pictures coming out of London :’)

I don’t know how anyone on the “American Left” can ever justify voting for the Democrats again.

This is insane

Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...

For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways

www.thecrimson.com/article/1988...

From a time when important Harvard professors (including the great Richard Lewontin) stood up against oppression and occupation, and didn’t feed their students to a baying mob.

It’s 2002-03 again

And some people thought we’ve transcended the need for old fashioned ideologiekritik