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Red flags and 'the six-word phrase': Queensland protest arrests are part of an Australian history of crushing dissent Australia has some form when it comes to criminalisation of symbolic dissent, stretching back almost a century before Queensland starting arresting citizens for pro-Palestine chants.

I wrote for @crikey.com.au about some parallels between repression now and in the past

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My article Coming Round to Ourselves is out in the new Thesis Eleven.

It gives a Hegelian-Marxist account of how the domination of labour is now expressed in Earth.

It extends an idea in Benjamin: our task is not to master nature but rather our relation to it.

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Habermas's Sins of Omission “One should not speak ill of the dead”, so the adage goes.  But philosophers aren’t bound by conventional wisdom and when the deceased is a serious philosopher of the first order, an honest reflection...

“The leader of the Frankfurt School’s second generation had little useful to say about two of the most urgent concerns confronting us: humanity’s headlong race towards an ecological cliff and the accelerating global spread of neo-fascist movements.”

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ETTE-SCLUSIVE: Data exposes The Australian’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah A sweeping data investigation reveals what appears to be a sustained, coordinated media offensive by News Corp's The Australian targeting Palestinian-Egyptian academic and author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah...

A data analysis by @ettemedia.bsky.social shows just how insane the Australian campaign against Randa Abdel-Fattah has been.

www.ettemedia.com/exclusive-me...

On the Ideology Critique of Pacifism in Anscombe and Schmitt (with a few remarks on Strauss) As regular readers know, I have a soft spot for Anscombe’s (1961) “War and Murder” In: Walter Stein (ed.), Nuclear Weapons: A Catholic Response (London, 1961), pp.

On the Ideology Critique of Pacifism in Anscombe and Schmitt (with a few remarks on Strauss)
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Oceanographers, simultaneously the most mild-mannered and the most terrifying people you’ll ever meet

Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊
AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Article: The Red Thread of Humanity: Review Article of Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, (2025) by Christoph Schuringa, by Alec Hinshelwood
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Qui Parle is inviting submissions for a special issue on renovations of humanism and new directions in the thematic of the subject. Please consider submitting, and share widely! I am coediting the issue, and would be happy to answer any questions.

Albanese pushes for ‘more certainty’ on objectives and de-escalation of war against Iran Albanese says he wants the de-escalation of war and more certainty over the US’ objectives over the war against Iran. "About the way Donald Trump is prosecuting this war, I want to see more certainty in what the objectives of the war are, and I want to see a de-escalation. At the beginning of the conflict, the objectives were outlined as one, stopping Iran getting a nuclear weapon – agreed and clearly has been achieved; secondly, degrading the opportunity that Iran has for engaging in military action, either overt or through its proxies in Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis – clearly there has been substantial degrading of Iran’s position. The third was regime change, and I think that, very clearly, history tells us that regime change imposed from outside is very difficult."

Aside from anything else, FWIW, on the 'US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond', I recommend listening to the latest episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social 'Economic Warfare' w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj & Nicholas Mulder thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester? Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work
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As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

The scale of Australian universities managerial & governance surrender/capture is ASTOUNDING

"Twelve of the 14 universities had council members, who had substantive roles as consultants from firms such as Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Boston Consulting Group"

Last night’s 4 Corners episode is recognition of our years-long campaign for Better Universities. We know what needs to be done - now it’s time for major action.

Read the full media release 👉 nteu.info/4corners

Conditions regarding protests: a response to the University of Melbourne - Overland literary journal What has been done cannot be undone. But a reversal of the current descent into barbarism begins with justice for Gaza. The University of Melbourne still has an opportunity to speak out against genoci...

“When the supposed guardians of liberal values remained silent — or, worse, sided with perpetrators against victims — during the most publicly-documented genocide in human history, they normalised the unthinkable, and we’re now facing the consequences they unleashed”

overland.org.au/2026/03/cond...

“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.”
- Nancy Fraser

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The illusions of Machtpolitik | Richard Seymour Get more from Richard Seymour on Patreon

"Realism is a theory of necessary restraint, Trumpian Machtpolitik is a fantasy of liberation from restraint. It depends on a structural impossibility, the idea of power without recognition."

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A staircase diagram with six levels rising from bottom-left to top-right. Each level on the left represents a stage in the causal chain of climate change, connected by a dashed arrow to a corresponding intervention on the right. From bottom to top: Root Drivers (economic system, fossil finance, colonial and historical structures, geopolitics) connects to Transformative System Change (economic restructuring, post-colonial redress, geopolitical shifts); Human Activities (consumption and production patterns) connects to Socio-technical and Behavioural Change (electrification, behaviour change, market incentives); Energy and Land Systems connects to Infrastructure Transition (renewables, grids, land-use redesign); Emissions connects to End-of-pipe Controls (CCS); Atmospheric GHG Concentrations connects to Carbon Dioxide Removal (including NETs); Earth's Energy Imbalance connects to Geoengineering (SRM). A diagonal arrow runs across the full diagram from Structural/Preventative at the bottom-left to Reactive/Compensatory at the top-right.

1/ Yesterday @wmo-global.bsky.social made Earth's Energy Imbalance a headline #climate indicator for the first time.

I think this could be a significant reframing of climate discourse, and it's worth paying close attention to why. 🧵

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Fighting for Intersex Liberation: A Conversation with Juliana Gleeson rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Juliana Gleeson argues for deep interconnected involvement between the intersex, trans and feminist movements, fighting against harms caused by the state, the medical establishment and families togethe

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Richard Seymour, Cognitive Dissonance — Sidecar On the Iran war.

‘The situation has moved on. They may once, two decades ago, have been useful to a violently adventurist, rightist administration going to war – but no more. The right no longer caters to, nor needs, its liberal outriders. They hang on out of habit.’

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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

“Zero-based budgeting rarely succeeds in cutting costs. Its real effect, in Musk’s hands, was the concentration of power. His approach assumed… that bad data – whether fraudulent contracts, useless staff or illegitimate people – could simply be deleted.”

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Inside the secretive Silicon Valley giant that is trying to reshape how the world fights wars Three new books distill Palantir's true vision: an unapologetically nationalistic attitude that sees constant, world-rending conflict in our future.

For Business Insider, I read three books about Palantir and wrote about how "Palantirianism" -- unabashed nationalism, tech building up the US security state, ready to commit violence on behalf of the US and our allies -- is ascendant in Silicon Valley.
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Construction workers shouldn’t earn less because teachers are paid shit. The question should be how construction workers have managed to win higher wages from their shitty bosses and why doesn’t Labor pay education workers more (Labor sets public school wages). The answer is industrial action.

"Birth rate problems are technocratic problems that emerge primarily out of the failure of neoliberal biopolitics to adequately organize reproduction for the needs of capital; pronatalism is an attempt to impose an ideology that will do so, ideally without significant [government] outlay."

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

Millenarian Fantasies In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

“In Lebanon, the barbarians are no longer expected at the gates but have seeped into the very atmosphere of a disordered world. Here, violence is not a singular event but something in the air one inhales, gradually learning to domesticate and contain.”

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'The fact that the worker, when the productivity of his labour has been increased, produces say ten times as many commodities as before, and thus spends one-tenth as much labour-time on each, by no means prevents him from continuing to work 12 hours as before.'

Book cover with a green gradient background for "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (MIT Press, 2026). The book series label “The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology” appears at the top. The title is set in large, bold lettering using three colors: white (“The” and “Pairing”), warm yellow (“Organism–”), and bright green (“Environment”). The subtitle appears below in smaller white text, and the author’s name is printed at the bottom. In the lower right, a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) rests on clusters of pink milkweed flowers. Behind it, a large pale-green butterfly silhouette fills the background; its outline follows the shape of a red lacewing butterfly (Cethosia biblis). The layered butterflies visually echo the book’s central idea of an organism–environment pairing.

What a joy to finally share the cover of The Organism–Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The 📗 will be out on May 12 📆! I look forward to the conversations it sparks among scientists, philosophers & historians! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #histsci #philsci #philsky #booksky 🌱🐋