Sean O'Brien

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

Tomorrow at East Bristol Books (tickets are pay what you can):

EBB Climate Talks: Adam Hanieh's *Crude Capitalism* at East Bristol Books A conversation with Professor Adam Hanieh around his book *Crude Capitalism* (Verso). Part of EBB's Climate Talks series. *Crude Capitalism* traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism f...

Chatting with Adam Hanieh about his book Crude Capitalism at East Bristol Books as part of their Climate Talks series later this month. Tickets are pay what you can: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

My book comes out next month and I have some tour dates in the Pacific Northwest lined up:

Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm
Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm
Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm
Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨

📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!

Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Check out Sean O'Brien's @seanobrien.bsky.social full lecture on theHythe whether you'd like to read it or watch 🌿 Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism

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Marx and the Climate Crisis #4: Marx and Environmentalism by Sean O’Brien — the87press The second lecture extends our line of inquiry into societal nature relations as it pertains to the problem of energy. At the heart of the relation between capital and climate lies energy. Fossil fuel...

Fourth instalment in the lecture series on Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism available now from @the87press.bsky.social:

www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

This is out later today. Fourth and final lecture in the “Marx and the Climate Crisis” series, this one on Marx and environmentalism. Stay tuned!

Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
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Wrong Sean O’Brien!

Oi, wrong Sean O’Brien. This is gonna keep happening, isn’t it

Thanks for reading!

Domestic Violence Is a Housing Problem The processes of caring work, low pay, and domestic abuse are all intertwined. Women’s caring responsibilities and low income sometimes force them to move in with parents or other family members, or t...

An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024)

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“...the devilish outcome of a system of blindly asserted social averages and tipping points, is the nature of class domination under capital.”

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Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social.

via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social

The Law of Vale? 😭

A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.

www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital.

Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social

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Wrong Sean O’Brien! Lol this keeps happening to me 😩

Marx and the Climate Crisis #2: Marx and Energy by Sean O’Brien — the87press The second lecture extends our line of inquiry into societal nature relations as it pertains to the problem of energy. At the heart of the relation between capital and climate lies energy. Fossil fuel...

Thanks for watching! Parts 2 and 3 are out too, if you’re interested. Part 2 is here: www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents Mossbourne academy accused of bullying and damaging children’s mental health as local authority asked to step in

A hyper-carceral model of schooling has been championed by successive British governments as they've handed primary education over to the private sector with predictably horrifying results www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary YouTube video by britsoci

Here is the video of the BSA panel on The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary: Exploring Contemporary Critical Social Theory and its Critique of Political Economy I participated in alongside Stephan Lessenich, Cecilia Sebastian, and Esteban Torres.

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Assistant Professor in American Literature (Pre and Post 1900) - Department of English - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900.

WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.

Reminded of this dazzling feat of mental gymnastics:

The Blonde Bombsite: Towards a Cultural History of Working-Class Femininity in Britain We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture event with Jennifer Jasmine White.

The next Marxism in Culture seminar is this Friday at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Eventually will be a chapter in a handbook on environmental sf

lol love this series. Had the exact same thought reading this brand name last weekend. Good to see you!

I did a reading at Drop City Books in Stoke last month & it’s one of the finest & most worthwhile bookshops ever. A dodgy landlord has ruined their stock through flood damage so please get your book orders through them (online) for the foreseeable future t.co/kv1by7Y0r8

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/

Listening to the latest episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social I learned that more 1,000 people in the US have been dying of COVID every week since August. I knew that rate had dropped below 1,000/week for a bit, but didn't realize it was that high again—and staying that high!