As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the
Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162
New article! 🎉
I argue that only labor-power produces economic value, even though, economically, it's just another commodity, and ecologically, it's just another source of energy. What makes it special? Its unique capacity to refuse the transition from ecology to economy.
doi.org/10.1177/0191...
In Behind Our Backs, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsion.
New: @histmat.bsky.social hosted a book discussion with Amy De'Ath, Colleen Lye, & Chris Nealon
#ReadUP
btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Excited to share this thoughtful review of Absolute Ethical Life by Charles Barbour in Review of Politics:
The video recording of the panel with @triofrancos.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, and myself, is now available on Youtube
Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_h...
Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.
single bite of an ice cold cosmic crisp right out of the fridge justifies modernity
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
Episode 17: Palestine
‘Resisting Erasure’ authors Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah joined to discuss their mini masterpiece.
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Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
This I think is a big part of the appeal of AI to the oligarchs. Not that it will replace labor or raise profits in general, but that it will specifically replace the labor whose autonomy impinges on them personally.
just namedropped @cominsitu.bsky.social at the bookstore
🚨new publication🚨
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆
in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.
Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...
"Against vexingly persistent elitist and transhistorical conceptions of art as existing outside the material conditions of its production, Routhier offers a 'categorical' critique of art."
- I have a new essay out, read it here:
www.e-flux.com/journal/155/...
"My decision is not primarily driven by fear of experiencing even a fraction of the humiliation that thousands of so-called 'illegal immigrants,' 'criminals,' or political dissidents—wrongly branded as 'terrorists'—have suffered over time. It is, above all, a political decision"
Some excerpts 🧵
Did he delete his socials?
I didn't know Josh Clover well, but we did get to do a panel together a couple years back. He said sth then that stuck with me, which is that we should resist analogies with the past to understand the present b/c we need to be open to what's radically new about the now...
There was one night where he was feeling sad & thinking about all the notes left on Marx's grave that said "Dear Karl, I'm sorry that we have not yet lived up to what you wanted for us, we'll keep trying, I promise."
I keep saying that to him now. We'll keep trying, I promise.
So is Carney gonna call in any airstrikes on the illegitimate junta ruling the restive former colonial outpost just across his country’s southern border? Surely a few well-placed smart bombs will alleviate the destabilizing threat of cross-border skirmishes and territorial encroachment.
might have to make this t-shirt for my girlfriend
I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.
will do this again today
L’arbre indique que tout est vie.
Jacques Camatte 1935-2025
have you seen Tooze’s review? would love for someone to volley a response…
