Me: “The lore says this is impossible.”

Story: “But it would hurt emotionally.”

Me: “…fine. ONE exception.” 😭🔥

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Me: “This magic system is very fair.”

World: *immediately exploits it*

Me: “Ah. So that’s the theme.” 😭✨

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Now available. Hierarchies at Work: Race, World-Systems, and Legal Distribution. Edited by Karen Engle and Neville Hoad. It includes a blurb from Craig Calhoun. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! HIERARCHIES AT WORK challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work. It offers resources to spur more just futures across local and global levels. buff.ly/kDFAx8I #Law #Inequality #FutureofWork #RacialCapitalism #WorldSystems #Distribution

The Rediscovery of Unequal Exchange In a recent working article, Nievas and Piketty (2025) deploy the concept of unequal exchange to examine global trade flows in the last two centuries.In a recent working article, Nievas and Piketty (2...

Check out this recent piece by our very own #DialecticAtWork Host @shahramazhar.bsky.social and T Sabri Öncü "The Rediscovery of #Unequal #Exchange: An Eclipse of #Imperialism"#economics #politics #inequality #colonialism #dependency #worldsystems #capitalism www.epw.in/journal/2025...

Comparing the South African and Brazilian student uprisings (2015–2016): Similarities, Circulations, and Distance South Africa and Brazil are notorious for having some of the highest levels of (racialised) inequality on the planet, and dysfunctional education systems failing millions in their aspirations for a...

New Publication: Comparing 🇧🇷 and 🇿🇦 student movements, and thinking about where, how, when and why movements connect across the Global South - and why they don't doi.org/10.1080/2152... #SocialMovements #WorldSystems #StudentMovements