couldn‘t help thinking that this is so much smaller than the space it occupied in my head. there’s a relief in the objectification of thought: however troubling or obsessive, every idea can take the form of a handy, well-folded paperback.
William J. Chase et Olga Novikova-Monterde - The Many Faces of Antifascism
Interwar Marxist Militant Networks and the Divided Response to Fascism
À paraître en août aux Oxford UP
Michael Denning - The Twofold Labors of Marx
How Karl Marx Invented the Modern Theory of Work and Workers
À paraître en janvier chez Verso
Thanks to Martin Mulsow and Melanie Sehgal for putting this together!
Title of my paper:
»Die verschwenderische Hand der Natur« –
Bevölkerungsgesetze, Produktionsweisen und ökologische Tragfähigkeit vom langen 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Kalten Krieg
🎥 Ne manquez pas la conversation entre le chercheur Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social et Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social, directeur du programme Dénis Climatiques, aux côtés de notre co-directeur, le philosophe Michel Feher @michelfeher.bsky.social.
Iran has accepted terms of ceasefire, per NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Sad to miss this (and your comment)!
Tooze: "The most obvious path for the US, as a much larger and more sophisticated economy than either Russia or Saudi Arabia, would be to opt for the same mixed economy model but with a different balance i.e. an increasingly green electrostate with a large hydrocarbon sector. "
the era of rationing!
www.ft.com/content/a9f5...
🚨Avis aux parisiens, save the date! 🚨
🚨Avis aux parisiens, save the date! 🚨
Voilà!
Btw O‘Connor too went to study with him and Offe at Starnberg at the time
Thank you!
“Historically, every US‑driven energy shock has been followed by a surge in new drilling, new LNG terminals & new fossil‑fuel infrastructure. This war risks hard‑wiring another generation of carbon dependence.”
@pmbigger.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com 👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Though Habermas’ left-Weberian state theory was refuted in the state derivation debate (and by J. O'Connor), his early reading (1973) of the Club of Rome is striking: ‘Capitalist societies cannot limit growth without abandoning their organizing principle.'
Well Fressoz has a point
In French and English. Dossier written by yours truly
Hobsbawm's trilogy in French ⬇️
Voici l'article
@diagrammes.bsky.social dans @lemonde.fr ⬇️
"Savant et engagé, le média en ligne « Diagrammes » propose chaque mois des d’entretiens fouillés avec des chercheurs du monde entier afin de comprendre les mutations économiques, géopolitiques, écologiques et idéologiques en cours."
www.diagrammes.fr/fr/
80% du commerce mondial passe par voie maritime, contrôlé par moins de dix entreprises. Le capitalisme ne se limite pas à l'extraction de ressources, mais crée un système où la circulation des marchandises dépend de la captivité des corps et des territoires.
laviedesidees.fr/Laleh-Khalil...
thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!
Picture of Jürgen Habermas in front of books
Did Jürgen Habermas just die on the same day as Karl Marx?
end of an era
⚒️🌲Soviet Ecology paper alert: Marco Vianna Franco, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, and Joan Martinez-Alier write about the Podolynsky-Vernadsky connection link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Doppelrezension of Fressoz and "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon“ edited by @ueberdruss.bsky.social & Thomas Turnbull
thanks, I didn't know that one. Thats a quite Malthusian critique though! There is no positive correlation between population growth and explosion of carbon emissions in the late 20th century, quite the opposite actually
my own
"When adopting an immanent critical approach, one wonders why the social conflicts around mining described in Chapter 3 are absent from his reflection on the climate problem [...]".
laviedesidees.fr/The-Accumula...
