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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16h

Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com

Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary fro...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 5d

It is made of a slightly different cover - less creasing-ification!!

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 5d

Whereas as *that* is how to do a trilogy and its associated texts.

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 5d

This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 6d

Now out! Although not got to Volume II yet and reckon I need to go back to reread the first in the trilogy to do it all justice @ianbruff.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III: A Novel

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social

Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 13d

Why the past, present and future struggle for political economy is so important, by Evan Jones
@albomp.bsky.social

Fifty Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In July 2025 the Journal of Australian Political Economy published a special issue (JAPE No.95) devoted to recollections and implications of 50 years of Political Economy courses at the University of ...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 13d

Frustrating. Theoretical propositions that are historical commentaries. Patchy, at best, analysis of class, the state, capital. Preferred her article in Viewpoint Magazine that has all the main points. Hard to see how her arguments go beyond what’s contained in Chp26 of Capital, Vol.1?

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly finished on this set of books.

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... @morton.bsky.social

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book.

In his recent book The Late Marx’s Revo-lutionary Roads (Verso, 2025), Kevin B. Anderson reveals Marx as a flexible, inquisitive thinker, w...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 30

Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 29

The first in the series by @chrishesketh.bsky.social focused on the state and passive revolution 2/2

The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 29

Second forum post on "Cultivating Socialism" by Kyla Sankey that engages with Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, discussing issues of class and dependency 1/2

Class and Dependency in Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty is an important book for understanding the agrarian dimensions of Venezuela’s socialist experiment and the ...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 25

JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 23

Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas - Springer, 2025
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
book launch in Sydney with @morton.bsky.social
gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland

This book uses the work of author David Ireland as a unique unique entry point into the spatial structures of Australian capitalism.

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 22

Further details on the forum are available here

Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 22

First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...

www.ppesydney.net

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 19

😊💥😊💥

Elliot Dolan-Evans @therealelliotde.bsky.social · Sep 18

Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with @brisunipress.bsky.social!

I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 18

Just received!
Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽
gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...
@stuartelden.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Odd that there’s seemingly less focus on Adventures of the Dialectic?

Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fascinating little-known story of an Australian man who fought and died supporting Jakob Marengo's uprising against German colonial rule in Namibia in 1905:

namibian-studies.com/index.php/JN...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now out:

Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City

Environment and Planning F

Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 6

“At a time when self-declared Nazis are using the internet to mobilise, new information systems are rapidly transforming the nature of work and traditional models of communication are crumbling, properly resourced sociology departments are what the public desperately needs”.

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear | Van Badham

It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 5

A fantastic opportunity to discuss economy and space in the literary work of David Ireland with Brett Heino @gleebooks.bsky.social on 31 October. Register here👇🏽

gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared?

Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social

Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 1

But what’s the image?

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 1

Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Turbocharging the sex trafficking trade
@sarameger.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

UK anti-slavery commissioner launches investigation into ‘pimping websites’

Eleanor Lyons will interview women who say they have been trafficked into sex work and advertised online

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*

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