Mike McCarthy

»Wir müssen BlackRock und Co. demokratisieren« Der Politökonom Michael A. McCarthy entwirft die Vision eines demokratischen Finanzsystems. Arbeitende sollten freie Tage bekommen, um über Investitionen mitzuentscheiden.

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For anyone that reads German, I had a great conversation with Maxine Fowé for @surplusmagazin.de about the politics of contemporary finance capital. The link to the conversation is now live.

A New Vision for Public Lands - Dissent Magazine Policy debates around public lands point to larger unresolved questions about the nature and function of the public trust. What should we do with this national resource at a moment of major transition...

Really great @dissentmag.bsky.social piece on the use of public lands by my friend, @hiangelo.bsky.social. A must read!

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cover of book, "The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)," by Michael A. McCarthy. Published by Verso Books.

“Capitalist democracies are beset by elite-driven, popular divisions that result in a hyper-sensationalized political culture.”

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My current read! 📕 Reminded yet again how so much of what passes for polijournalism stokes this sensationalism.

Financial democracy or democratic finance? With Mike McCarthy, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? The answer to both […]

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I will be at UC Berkeley later this moth to give a public talk: "Financial democracy or democratic finance?"

There must be, it was a big thing in sociology when it happened

For those that need extra content, the article argues makes the (sloppy and stupid) case that it is justified to fire professors for the because of the political implications and content of their work.

Shocking to see an editorial board with a political axe to grind completely destroy the scientific credibility of a journal in the name of...science! Theory & Society further sinks itself into the bog of bitter sociology in this latest one, an argument for the need to end academic freedom.

Aspirational Fascism When you see someone that lived an undeniably good life in the service of others executed by the state and to then have that murder justified by our federal government, it should put the extreme dange...

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excited to be chairing this upcoming free event on critical theory and psychoanlysis:

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I think we need to come to terms with the fact that many people have been so deeply interpellated by Trumpism that they genuinely want blood. It’s not masking some other hidden motivation, that is the motivation.

Never trust people who want to “de-politicize,” climate change. This has always been true but especially now. They will try to trick you into thinking they are the adults in the room but they are either disqualifyingly naive or in the pocket of fossil fuel interests.

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I started a substack and am calling it, Theory Decay. This is my first (and possibly last) post. Link below:

Is this equivalent to a postdoc

The first three rounds I was sure the fight was rigged, glad at least part of it wasn’t.

Dead link. I have a great student who just defended to apply for this. Can you point me in right direction of the listing?

Really casts the book in a whole new light.

Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

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

This piece at @lrb.co.uk by Amia Srinivasan is excellent. It speaks directly to the ways that the unconscious -- related to identity, desire, and fantasy -- relate to politics and therefore organizing. Organizers intuitively know these things, rational actor models less so.

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Interesting article on the sociological approach to freedom at @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social

I began to wonder if the whole "black people took all our jobs" anti-woke moment had finally passed, as it doesn't characterize any data I have seen or the conversations I hear people having irl. But I decided to go back to twitter, and I see it is very much so still alive with the media class.

In this special issue, Hammer & Hope commissioned the photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to show us the Trump administration's arrest and deportation campaign.
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‘A bird yearning for freedom’: Algerian critiques of Fanon after 1962 <p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1819e90">This briefing revisits Algerian debates on the writings of Frantz Fanon in the years following independenc...

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This is a really wonderful paper by Muriam Haleh Davis, laying out the key debates of the Algerian left that Fanon's work was central too. We could use more lively debates like this today, especially in the US.

utopia realized

Perception versus reality...social science differentiates between the two.

I feel bad for folks that went to grad school thinking they were learning truths to defend for the rest of their intellectual lives…because that is truly boring.