The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

The coming global food crisis - www.ft.com/content/3634... via @FT

Reminder that this is on Tuesday next week. Still places available.

I've just donated. If you can afford it, you should too.

Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024 Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read...

Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934.

To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.

Front cover of Joseph Andras's novel, Tomorrow They Won't Murder Us.

Hadn't intended to read this tonight, but once I started I couldn't stop. Incredible novel.

What a shame! Hopefully we'll cross paths elsewhere soon.

Slide showing event key info: Event: Symposium Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question Date: April 21 Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m. Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004) Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology. Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley, Amanda Herbert, Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas Spencer

Slide showing programme schedule: 10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley) 10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’ 11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’ 12.45-13.45 – Lunch 13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’ 14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’ 15.45-16.00 – Break 16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’ 17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question A one-day symposium at Durham University exploring the intersection of culture and the 21st-century agrarian question.

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Slide showing event key info: Event: Symposium Title: Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question Date: April 21 Time: 10.30a.m.-6p.m. Location: Durham University (Waterside Building | Business School | Room: WB-0003-0004) Organiser: This event is organised by the Centre for Culture and Ecology. Speakers: Sourit Bhattacharya, Hannah Green, Daniel Hartley, Amanda Herbert, Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, Douglas Spencer

Slide showing programme schedule: 10.30-10.45 – Welcome and Introduction (Organiser: Daniel Hartley) 10.45 – 11.45 – Amanda Herbert (Durham University): ‘The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830’ 11.45-12.45 – Sourit Bhattacharya (Edinburgh University): ‘“Aesthetics of Hunger”: Mahasweta Devi’s Irreal Tales’ 12.45-13.45 – Lunch 13.45-14.45 – Daniel Hartley (Durham University): ‘The Cultural Logic of “Eating Well”: From the Early Marx to the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’ 14.45–15.45 – Hannah Green (Bristol and Aberystwyth Universities): ‘“This land is so much younger than ourselves”: 21st-century narratives of depeasantization in Jim Crace’s Harvest (2013) and Tom Branfoot’s boar (2023)’ 15.45-16.00 – Break 16.00-17.00 – Douglas Spencer (Iowa State University): ‘Crises of representation in the landscapes of end-stage capitalism’ 17.00-18.00 – Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (Architectural Association School of Architecture): ‘Planetary Landscapes: Architecture(s) in Climate, Care and Food Crises’

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

I recently ordered the English translation of Derrida's The Post Card, but for days now it's been "delayed in transit". Is this...destinerrance?

If you're an author: you're welcome to this prompt for a dead cert global bestseller. (2/2)

Maybe this is just end-of-term delirium, but a strange thought I've had more than once recently is: I'd love to read either a) a Bolaño-style novel whose protagonists are Italian specialists of Young Hegelianism, or b) a Wu Ming-style novel whose protagonists are Young Hegelians. (1/2)

Going to be publishing my book on Socialist Republicanism with Cambridge University Press. Should be out in both hardback and paperback next year.

Congrats! Can't wait.

Cover image of the journal Crisis and Critique special issue dedicated to Alain Badiou showing a blurred, brown image of Badiou behind the title "Alain Badiou: Philosophy, History, and the Transformations of the Dialectic".

New special issue of Crisis and Critique: "Alain Badiou: Philosophy, History, and the Transformations of the Dialectic"

www.crisiscritique.org

Though, for what it's worth, for me that doesn't negate the importance of other parts of her work (though I haven't read her most recent book or two).

I attended a conference on the "Mode of Production" debate at Nottingham in 2019, at which Federici was present. I recall the late Neil Davidson politely but firmly deconstructing the historical basis of her witchcraft arguments.

Call for Papers: Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, A Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism Speaking in 1980 amid the New Right upsurge, Raymond Williams noted that ‘cultural struggle is absolutely crucial, because this is the terrain on which the interpretation of the crisis had to be es…

🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨Fancy contributing to a special issue on Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social? Look no further... Details, including the deadline, at the link: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...

constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it

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The book reads Marx in light of the ideas, art and practices emerging from contemporary global peasant movements (e.g., La Via Campesina and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement), while revealing lines of thought in Marx’s work germane to ecological framings of land, food and agrarian politics.

Artistic image of an MST militant in traditional dress holding a scythe stood next to harvested crops with a slogan "MST 40 anos de luta e resistência". The art work is by Judy Duarte.

With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.

Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026 Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science/ Ecological transitions in/of Europe and the European Union.

Dear friends,

We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.

Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).

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Now with this rather lovely cover! Due to be published in April

Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud, with Patrick Bresnihan Patrick Bresnihan, co-author of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, joins us to discuss his new book.

@pbresnihan.bsky.social will be coming to Edinburgh to discuss his new book From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, co-authored with Patrick Brodie. 17 February, 3.30pm. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

single page syllabus on the dialectic

happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996

The US attack on Venezuela is rampantly and shamelessly illegal.

Donald Trump has repeatedly made it clear that the US wants to steal Venezuela's resources.

This gangsterism, trashing anything left of the 'international order', will pave the way for global violent mayhem.

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela.

This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.

It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵

Lukas Slothuus, Oil Futures — Sidecar Norway’s elections.

My essay “Oil Futures” is out now in @newleftreview.bsky.social's Sidecar!

Following Norway's September elections, ongoing struggles against fossil fuels in Europe’s only petrostate challenge incumbent fossil hegemony and its complicity in the Israeli occupation:
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...