Kanishka Jayasuriya

The Met live stream of Fidelio was excellent (esp Davidsen as Lenore. Peter Gelb intro focused on Ukraine, but the striking example is right in NY, is Mahmoud Khalil and his imprisonment for political speech.
@metopera.bsky.social

Excellent article that highlights the current state/elite adaptation to changing market/geopolitical context.

Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...

In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...

Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...

In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis.
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...

I would substitute 'totality' instead 😘

The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.

This is partly to do with the reclamation of the status of 'native', once doled out to colonized peoples all the better to govern them, but now repatriated back home under an altered and positive sign. This too is a kind of imperial boomerang.

Who is NUS trying to protect? Political leaders need to answer - Academia | SG Only ministers can answer whether NUS is right or wrong in its judgment that there will be a political price to pay if university administrators do not properly screen “controversial” or “sensitive” e...

Academic freedom is further curtailed in Singapore and at the National University of Singapore. On this US Ivy League universities and NUS seem to be converging
www.academia.sg/editorials/o...

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

The ADL steps in to explain that it’s not a Nazi Salute unless it comes from the Nazi Salute region of France.

With friends like these... - Pearls and Irritations It's possible that our great and powerful friend may cease to be a democracy, in anything but name, and that’s just domestic problems.

Mark Beeson in good form here :

johnmenadue.com/with-friends...

Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965* Abstract. In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia

A focus on the role of women in left-wing parties/movements would be good particulary in the global south but also broader transnational socialist and communist forums. For a flavour see
academic.oup.com/past/article...
With a Australian focus see here
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

FForget about Greenland or Canada—the defining feature of the Trump administration is the crisis of social reproduction—as the LA fires vividly demonstrate—alongside the ongoing political crisis.

Identity Politics Is Dead, and the Far Right Knows It | Novara Media People are tired of identity politics - and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Donald Trump proves it, writes Richard Seymour.

This is sharp on identity politics particularly on the politics of identity by the right. But we should be asking: why now ? how this shift relates to the hollowing out of mass politics and the intensification of crises of social reproduction.
novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...

"윤석열, 3월부터 '비상대권'"‥"8달 동안 비상계엄 구체화" 검찰수사에 따르면 윤 대통령이 비상계엄을 처음으로 입에 올리기 시작한 건 지난 3월부터였습니다. '비상대권', 즉 대통령이 비상조치를 취할 수 있는 권한을 반복적으로 ...

I don’t really feel like Han’s impeachment (appoint the CC judges, already) is the story of the day, but rather the details dripping out of the investigations into various figures that reveal the extent of martial law plotting over the last 8 months and the dangers it would imply if successful.

A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.

The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

the Hitler meme posting white guy from South Africa who routinely boosts neo-Nazis and white supremacists on his twitter feed and worries about white population declines openly supports Germany's far right party?

Quelle surprise

The New Old Warfare - Boston Review The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

Two reading recommendations for today: first, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social with a book review which makes some very incisive points on the tech sector's recent incursion into security and military matters here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Brazil currency sell-off piles fiscal reform pressure on Lula Investors issue warning after central bank burns through billions of dollars and lifts rates in attempt to prop up real

This will be the story of the next decade: increased fiscal pressure alongside a growing crisis of social reproduction, including ecological disasters and militarised neoliberalism. And in both the global North and South.
www.ft.com/content/1c67...

Crypto and its political imaginaries of the authoritarian neoliberalism of the far right.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵

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My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives

A lot of the problem is that these accounts valorise institutional failure without addressing the social forces that shape these failures. This might seem obvious, but the failure has to do with the marginalisation of structural theories and debates ( Weber and Marx ) in comparative politics.

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why. U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian.

NEW: The Biden administration has separated around 300 children from their parents or legal guardians — most at the southwestern border — in the past year, according to government sources.

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It is emblematic of deeper issue: the way liberal professional and academic institutions seem to articulate an explicit set of different standards for such issues as scholasticide or the media in Gaza.

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

What's with all the spy shows on streaming servics?