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Writing about critical theory, political economy, and fossil fascism. retweet= reading list

Joined November 2022
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I have a review out with Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. Go check it out to learn why you should read the bilingual edition of Capital.
Marx & Philosophy@MarxPhilosophyAug 4
New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books: Jacob Spenser Wilson on Chris O'Kane's Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre marxandphilosophy.org.uk/rev…
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Sorely missed. Planet of Slums was so central to my intellectual journey a few years ago.
Jacobin
@jacobinOct 25
Mike Davis, one of the greatest socialist writers in American history, died on this day four years ago.
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A gentle reminder jhiblog.org/2026/06/08/towar…

Towards a Critical Materialist Analysis of Capital’s Translations

Chris O'Kane presents the latest edition of Marx’s Capital as yet another attempt by translators to crystallize a particular political interpretation of Marx—this time, the novel synthesis misappre...

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New online Jairus Banaji: Capitalism, Peasants, Family Farms: A Bibliographical Essay historicalmaterialism.org/99…

Capitalism, Peasants, Family Farms: A Bibliographical Essay - Historical Materialism

By the end of 2015 some forty percent or more of China’s rural workforce was thought to consist of roughly 250 million peasant migrants known as mingong, a cross between nongmin (peasant) and gongren...

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Replying to @JournalSpectre @SwarnabhGhosh @histmat
Hellworld was so massive, we've published two reviews of it. Read our own Zachary Levenson's ( @grundrza ) review in our new issue 13/14. spectrejournal.com/is-there-…

Is There No Exit? – Spectre Journal

In a probing review of Phil Neel’s Hellworld, Zachary Levenson calls attention to the hope and reality of class struggle in today’s global capitalism.

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Read Swarnabh Ghosh ( @SwarnabhGhosh ) review Phil A. Neel's Hellworld ( @histmat ). spectrejournal.com/alien-pla…
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Potentially very smart decision this. Lots of very good books hidden in the deep, underutilised L&W backlist — and then the Marx and Engels complete works!
The Bookseller
@thebooksellerSep 17
.@PlutoPress has acquired the books division of radical left-wing publisher Lawrence & Wishart (L&W). The deal, effective from 1st October, will see L&W’s book catalogue transition into an imprint under Pluto. 👇 ebx.sh/sOsrde

Pluto Press acquires radical publisher Lawrence & Wishart

Pluto Press has acquired the books division of radical left-wing publisher Lawrence & Wishart (L&W). The deal, effective from 1st October, will see L&W’s book catalogue transition into an imprint...

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Critics & theorists! We invite you to our discussion of “Excavations,” Vol. 2 of our Margin Notes: A Journal of Critical Theory, on Sept 19 (time TBD). This event will be held on Zoom and recorded for our Patreon. It will feature a brief presentation + Q&A buff.ly/VeXcPPU
Margin Notes: A Journal of Critical Theory. Volume Two: Excavations by the Critical Theory Working Group.

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@A24Sep 7
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.
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MARGIN NOTES 2 IS OUT! Featuring original contributions from J. E. Morain and CTWG alongside translations of texts by Georg Lukács, Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Julius Schaxel, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno—all appearing here in English for the first time! ctwgwebsite.github.io/projec… 👇🧵
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for Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, I wrote about what it means to do new materialism in 2026 by way of Kyla Tompkins’ new book, Deviant Matter. differencesjournal.org/writi…

Securitizations of the Self: Deviant Matter after New Materialism — differences: a journal of...

What does it mean to call oneself a “new materialist” in the year 2026? As supposedly unprofitable humanities departments are shuttered across the country, PhD programs curtail enrollments, tenure...

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Soon! Here is an excerpt from our editorial for Margin Notes Vol 2, titled "Excavations": "A volume of gravedigging, on the hope that the dead still breathe and yearn to be reborn to the surface through the shovels of digger-midwives."
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Thinking about this passage today: “The disappearance of the inescapable intermediary and rentier operations of FinTech capital into the background of people’s monetary and financial routines is, in fact, the dissolution of the final vestiges of market relations” (237).
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I am puzzled by the use of “market relations” which in this case I think could be glossed as voluntary exchange. There seems to be something else behind it that I can’t quite put my finger on.
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Should say this was a pleasant read. Clear sighted and cuts through much of the discourse on digital capitalism and finance.
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God review: marxandphilosophy.org.uk/rev…
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The critique of capitalism that has gained prominence in the last few years now has its own encyclopedia entry plato.stanford.edu/entries/c… wish I could have cited it for my new book…
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Picture of a book in the front of a garden.

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