Alyssa Battistoni
@alybatt.bsky.social
political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com
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fresh audio product:
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
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• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
fresh audio product:
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.
Facing the Limits
In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value the natural world. Yet the lesson of this exploration is much broader: that capitalism imposes fundamental limits on…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.
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My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
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@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more
live now!
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NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NEW EPISODE: Markets, Freedom and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
@adriennebuller.bsky.social speaks to @alybatt.bsky.social about value, the politics of nature, and how we might live freely in a finite world.
Listen now 👇
www.break-down.org/politics-of-...
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We did wind up recording this event, and you can watch it here: youtu.be/9QnHoi3GwLA
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We did wind up recording this event, and you can watch it here: youtu.be/9QnHoi3GwLA
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My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
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December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
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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?
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
What Can Politics Make of Nature?
Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts argues that capitalism limits our freedom to decide how to value the nonhuman world. Politics, as the domain in which we choose the terms of our collective life…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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?
To what extent, he asks, can a turn to politics make space for the ecological values that many of us want to take seriously?
come enjoy a free lunch with me, Kate, Corey, and Leah in a couple of hours!
Really looking forward to joining Corey Robin & Leah Aronowsky at @remarquenyu.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon to discuss/celebrate/gush over @alybatt.bsky.social's gorgeous and important new book FREE GIFTS
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November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
come enjoy a free lunch with me, Kate, Corey, and Leah in a couple of hours!
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Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."
Free Gifts
A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature
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November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Highlights in @alybatt.bsky.social's latest: the anthropocentrism of the wage; pregnancy as ecosystem service; "Critics of commodification have misidentified the problem afflicting the biosphere: not that capital has absorbed all of life, but that it has abdicated responsibility for so much of it."
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taught @alybatt.bsky.social and the labor process chapter together, now I finally understand why labor takes a wage but nature’s free of charge
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
taught @alybatt.bsky.social and the labor process chapter together, now I finally understand why labor takes a wage but nature’s free of charge
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I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
When Nature is Worthless
Under capitalism, the social domination of nature occurs through and is mediated by the commodity form. Certain portions of non-human nature can be valued, but only when they are transformed into…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...
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Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
In the Shadow of Commodification
While capitalism is typically said to commodify everything, much of what makes up our world isn’t commodified at all. It instead appears as a free gift: a social form that describes the condition of…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today, @alybatt.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on her book, *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature*
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
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NEXT MONDAY: Join The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities in honoring Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by @alybatt.bsky.social. In-person at Columbia University or remotely from Zoom. November 17 at 6:15 PM. To register, please visit sofheyman.org/events/celeb...
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
NEXT MONDAY: Join The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities in honoring Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by @alybatt.bsky.social. In-person at Columbia University or remotely from Zoom. November 17 at 6:15 PM. To register, please visit sofheyman.org/events/celeb...
tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!
a conversation with the incomparable @helenhester.bsky.social at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social on Thursday Nov 6 at 7pm: housmans.com/event/book-l...
BOOK LAUNCH: Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni (in conversation with Helen Hester)
Housmans are very excited to welcome Dr Alyssa Battistoni to the shop to discuss her vital work of political theory, Free Gifts: Capitalism and The Politics of Nature. Capitalism is typically treat…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
tonight at 7, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social!
starting in an hour!
more UK events to come this week: an @histmat.bsky.social launch panel noon Thursday Nov 6 with an amazing lineup: @sorenmau.bsky.social, Andreas Malm, Lukas Slothuus, and @kathunfeld.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
starting in an hour!
really looking forward to discussing Free Gifts with the brilliant @vbivar.bsky.social tonight at Blackwell's in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...
Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar
A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
really looking forward to discussing Free Gifts with the brilliant @vbivar.bsky.social tonight at Blackwell's in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alyssa-bat...
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Very much looking forward to talking to @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book on capitalism and nature next Tuesday in Oxford. If you're in town, come join us!
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Alyssa Battistoni FREE GIFTS with Venus Bivar
A timely new critique of capitalism's persistent failure to value nature.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Very much looking forward to talking to @alybatt.bsky.social about her new book on capitalism and nature next Tuesday in Oxford. If you're in town, come join us!
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In the new TMK, I chat with @alybatt.bsky.social about her excellent new book — Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature — and we get into capitalism’s strange relationship to the natural world: one defined by brutal extraction but also strategic neglect. www.patreon.com/posts/142206...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In the new TMK, I chat with @alybatt.bsky.social about her excellent new book — Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature — and we get into capitalism’s strange relationship to the natural world: one defined by brutal extraction but also strategic neglect. www.patreon.com/posts/142206...
Tonight! Come hang at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge with me and @katforrester.bsky.social!
Tomorrow (October 23) at 7:00pm EDT, head to @portersqbooks.bsky.social to see @alybatt.bsky.social in conversation with @katforrester.bsky.social, where she will discuss her book, Free Gifts, and capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature
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Learn more about this in-person event: buff.ly/I901vLh
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Tonight! Come hang at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge with me and @katforrester.bsky.social!
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Spanish translation of my @jhideas.bsky.social interview with @alybatt.bsky.social: "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @princetonupress.bsky.social
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La producción de la naturaleza (entrevista con Alyssa Battistoni)
Alyssa Battistoni ha publicado recientemente el libro Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton University Press, 2025), que propone un análisis teórico-valoral, más que moral, de l...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Spanish translation of my @jhideas.bsky.social interview with @alybatt.bsky.social: "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Extremely excited to be welcoming @alybatt.bsky.social to Ohio State University next Friday afternoon! Please join us for this conversation about her wonderful new book _Free Gifts_ - we’ll be discussing climate change, value theory, social reproduction, existentialism, and much, much more.
September 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Extremely excited to be welcoming @alybatt.bsky.social to Ohio State University next Friday afternoon! Please join us for this conversation about her wonderful new book _Free Gifts_ - we’ll be discussing climate change, value theory, social reproduction, existentialism, and much, much more.
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Looking forward to discussing this next week with @alybatt.bsky.social !
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September 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Looking forward to discussing this next week with @alybatt.bsky.social !
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