Mathew Abbott

always a good time to reread this classic

Critical Theory In Context Interviews Aaron Benanav About Multi-Criterial Socialism In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory in Context, Jacob Blumenfeld interviews Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy.

In this episode of the podcast Critical Theory in Context, Jacob Blumenfeld interviews Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about @abenanav.bsky.social's proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy. www.indep.network/critical-the...

Freud, 2026--er, 1915

Vision Speaker Series w Aaron Benanav (Cornell) YouTube video by Visions for the Future

This ist a great presentation of @abenanav.bsky.social condensing his idea of a multidimensional economics as described in his articles in the @newleftreview.bsky.social.

I really appreciate @dwallacewells.bsky.social's work, but this—green energy supplementing rather than replacing fossil fuels—seems to me the main story, not just a qualification to the story of the "green transition." GHG emissions keep rising—with 2025's projected to reach the highest level ever

Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators

“Tropical flowers are blooming months earlier or later than they used to because of climate breakdown, with potentially “cascading impacts across ecosystems”, according to a study of 8,000 plants dating back 200 years.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The PEOPLE’S choice

Communism of Spirits - Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy How can a social condition be criticized and transformed that only functions at the price of restricting and suppressing the freedom and needs of the people living within it? And how can a new form of...

speaking on Fichte and economic planning in the Anthropocene this week at the @cpkp.bsky.social

cpkp.net/event/commun...

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

“One of the most difficult, but important, tasks of our time […]: the task of preserving and of liberating thought from the notion of value.”

— Blanchot, “What Is the Purpose of Criticism?” (from the preface to Lautréamont and Sade)

(trans. S. and M. Kendall)

Listless Liberalism | The Point Magazine Where is liberalism’s “Fascinating Fascism”? Who is its Riefenstahl?

Really good piece on the stylelessness of liberals:

'There is no liberal Joe Rogan because his liberal equivalent would rather soliloquize and tweak a couple of ordinances than enter into an unscripted tête-à-tête for hours.' thepointmag.com/criticism/li...

Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism

www.patreon.com/posts/150947...

Vale Lionel Fogarty Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of poet and activist Lionel Fogarty. The following tribute was posted by The Yugambeh Nation on their social media feed. It is reproduced w…

Vale Lionel Fogarty

Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of poet and activist Lionel Fogarty. Please be aware that this article includes the name and images of an Aboriginal person who has died.

rochfordstreetreview.com/2026/02/16/v...

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

Melinda Cooper: “Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.”

www.equator.org/articles/eps...

🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NSW anti-protest laws were rushed through to keep the peace. They’ve failed NSW is now one of the most draconian anti-protest jurisdictions in the democratic world, with anti-protest rules that violate international law.

‘Under international law, the right to protest is particularly important for marginalised groups. These include the victims of Israeli violations in Palestine, whose families also live among us,

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis Click on the article title to read more.

My article “Regressing to Nature: Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis” is out in Constellations (open access)! It draws on Frankfurt School analyses of culture industry and fascism to rethink them as forces that obstruct responses to the climate crisis: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk.

And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."

Axed literary magazine Meanjin finds a new home after its axing Melbourne University Press closed the much-loved literary magazine last year, saying it was losing too much money.

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year.

This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.”

michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square

"There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising.

It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

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Powerful message in today’s SMH and Age.

🖤 arrived yesterday:
Bernhard’s early short fiction

— first published in English, selected and arranged chronologically by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social ✨

A Real Political Economy of Technology - The Ideas Letter Two technological futures are competing for political and material priority: generative AI and the green transition. Benanav argues that while AI is marketed as a world-reordering breakthrough, its pr...

What might we be able to build in the future that we can't build today? For the @TheIdeasLetter, I wrote about the political economy of technology and technological change in a world beyond capitalism.
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