"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...
.@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Timothy Mitchell's Alibi of Capital a "paradigm-shifting critique of the logic that underlies the modern economy."
Out next Tuesday, March 10th.
Fabian Muniesa - 'Finance, technology, and fascism today' @ UC Berkeley 26/02/2026 besi.berkeley.edu/event/financ...
Six years after the ‘Be Water’ rebellion, in 'Forever Hong Kong' Ching Kwan Lee interrogates the historical conditions and precedents that precipitated the 2019 revolt, reinterpreting Hongkongers’ political resistance as acts of decolonial defiance. A conversation with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social.
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
I have an essay in The BREAK-DOWN: "Care Lessons for the Climate Endgame" - go subscribe (it's free) and read it (and all the other great stuff that's already there 🔥)!
I call Longevity Capitalism: a new regime of accumulation where longer lives become sources of profit. I explore how finance and technology are turning longevity into opportunities for investment and speculation and how fantasies of hacking death feed an economy built on perpetual postponement.
Check out my essay "Welcome to the age of Longevity Capitalism" now open access in @finandsoc.bsky.social
Thank you @aminsamman.bsky.social for endorsing the project, and to @jvtk.bsky.social for our great conversation on these ideas.
Picture credit to Harald Bergauer visual interpretation
Politics without Guarantees by Asad Haider, RIP thepointmag.com/politics/pol...
Asad Haider, my goodness will we miss your voice and your scholarship making sense of this cursed world of ours.
Today, Jed Britton-Purdy continues our symposium on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts.*
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
Sorry to hear that Paolo Virno has passed. I was engaging with his work a lot 10 or so years ago. publicseminar.org/2015/02/virn...
I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.
You can read it here:
"the Fed's primary concern is the systemic threat that [firm or sector risk] poses – even if stabilising measures benefit the too-big-to-fail constituency first & foremost. The administration ... is more interested in a discretionary, patronage-based approach."
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
China’s achievements at scale are undeniable—but scale is not system. Responding to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social’s call to judge by delivery, @messingschlager.bsky.social argues that durable performance depends on independent measurement, contestable feedback, and system integration, not size alone.
This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance, reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution.
And tomorrow, we'll be on general strike again #blocchiamotutto #globalsumudflotilla #freepalestine #generalstrike
#BLOCCHIAMOTUTTO #freepalestine #marghera #portodivenezia #scioperogenerale
#blocchiamotutto #scioperogenerale #freepalestine
Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand!
It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.
looks great!
#Venezia | Si è svolta questa mattina davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di #Venezia82 la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera”, in programma sabato 30 agosto al Lido.
www.globalproject.info/it/in_movime...
Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: “Stop a genocidio”
https://www.europesays.com/it/78257/
Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità…
Puntiamo i riflettori della Mostra del Cinema sulla Palestina!
I comitati di Possibile del Veneto aderiscono al corteo di sabato 30 settembre al Lido di Venezia, con partenza alle 17:00 da Santa Maria Elisabetta.
Vi aspettiamo numeros3!
‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’
Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’
Adam Shatz in Berlin:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
We asked Pete Hegseth if women should have the right to vote. The answer was unsettling.
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
connection is immediate ! living off others ;)
