Burc Kostem
@bkostem.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Interested in ecology, affect, theories of value, Marxist thought, infrastructure, technology and media. Dungeon Master. He/him
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Burc Kostem
@bkostem.bsky.social
· Jan 20
The Consummative Mood of Authoritarianism: The Affective and Material Politics of Megaprojects in Turkey
This essay builds on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to outline a consummative mood of authoritarian politics in Turkey. It defines the consummative mood as the fetishization of effic...
www.tandfonline.com
My article is finally out w/ Rethinking Marxism! Thankful to all my colleagues who provided feedback at different stages including @kaibosworth.bsky.social & Uygar Baspehlivan. Super grateful to the editors too, they’ve been very generous and encouraging.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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best recent works in feminist STS?
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
best recent works in feminist STS?
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"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux
Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.
www.e-flux.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."
www.e-flux.com/notes/505443...
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giving the econ non Nobel to a (former) IMF shock therapist would crown this year's 'it's a conservative world' Nobel vibe
October 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
giving the econ non Nobel to a (former) IMF shock therapist would crown this year's 'it's a conservative world' Nobel vibe
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The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
www.versobooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
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public research universities, holding on:
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
New Authoritarianism as Counterrevolution - Critical Times
Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Reflections on Authoritarian Times What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to...
ctjournal.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
public research universities, holding on:
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
veronica gago wowed uic tonight with her forthcoming book, adapted here ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
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📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
t.co
October 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
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in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
t.co
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
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AAUP's statement on the universities and their anticipatory obedience issue re: Charlie Kirk comments
www.aaup.org/news/academi...
www.aaup.org/news/academi...
Academic Freedom and the Death of Charlie Kirk
The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
www.aaup.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
AAUP's statement on the universities and their anticipatory obedience issue re: Charlie Kirk comments
www.aaup.org/news/academi...
www.aaup.org/news/academi...
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my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
Mute Compulsion - Public Books
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”
www.publicbooks.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
When we lost Jonathan Sterne last spring I had made this list of Jonathanisms. Now that I'm sitting down to prep syllabi, I thought of him a bit this morning. Anyway, sharing it here too. bonpourlorient.tumblr.com/post/7783226...
bonpourlorient.tumblr.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
When we lost Jonathan Sterne last spring I had made this list of Jonathanisms. Now that I'm sitting down to prep syllabi, I thought of him a bit this morning. Anyway, sharing it here too. bonpourlorient.tumblr.com/post/7783226...
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Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the 'vanguard function'.
A post that works with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' in relation to agroecology as a political ecosystem.
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/growing-a-...
A post that works with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' in relation to agroecology as a political ecosystem.
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/growing-a-...
Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the vanguard function
Thinking with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' towards a stronger, relational, agroecological political ecosystem that supports its own vanguards
thestruggleforland.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Growing a stronger political ecosystem in agroecology through the 'vanguard function'.
A post that works with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' in relation to agroecology as a political ecosystem.
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/growing-a-...
A post that works with Rodrigo Nunes' 'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal' in relation to agroecology as a political ecosystem.
thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/growing-a-...
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The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Battle Over Los Angeles's Mansion Tax - Dissent Magazine
The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
www.dissentmagazine.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
My article is finally out w/ Rethinking Marxism! Thankful to all my colleagues who provided feedback at different stages including @kaibosworth.bsky.social & Uygar Baspehlivan. Super grateful to the editors too, they’ve been very generous and encouraging.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Consummative Mood of Authoritarianism: The Affective and Material Politics of Megaprojects in Turkey
This essay builds on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to outline a consummative mood of authoritarian politics in Turkey. It defines the consummative mood as the fetishization of effic...
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My article is finally out w/ Rethinking Marxism! Thankful to all my colleagues who provided feedback at different stages including @kaibosworth.bsky.social & Uygar Baspehlivan. Super grateful to the editors too, they’ve been very generous and encouraging.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5
December 11, 2024 at 7:53 PM
In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5
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@msteinbrg.bsky.social and my co-edited collection In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is out now (OA)!
Contributors analyze logistics, loan apps, cloud computing, water infrastructure, sex media, sleep apps, policing, AI ethics, and much more
networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
Contributors analyze logistics, loan apps, cloud computing, water infrastructure, sex media, sleep apps, policing, AI ethics, and much more
networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
November 27, 2024 at 2:27 PM
@msteinbrg.bsky.social and my co-edited collection In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is out now (OA)!
Contributors analyze logistics, loan apps, cloud computing, water infrastructure, sex media, sleep apps, policing, AI ethics, and much more
networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
Contributors analyze logistics, loan apps, cloud computing, water infrastructure, sex media, sleep apps, policing, AI ethics, and much more
networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
Really bummed I can't be with comrades to present at the Green Capitalism conference in Berlin due to stupid visa stuff.
Incredible group of people here.
Incredible group of people here.
The two-day program of our conference is now available criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/gre...
Keynotes: Thea Riofrancos & Brett Christophers
Co-organzing with Cannelle Gignoux, Hans Rackwitz, Gauthier Delozière, @cominsitu.bsky.social & @ueberdruss.bsky.social
Day 1 & 2 ⬇️
Keynotes: Thea Riofrancos & Brett Christophers
Co-organzing with Cannelle Gignoux, Hans Rackwitz, Gauthier Delozière, @cominsitu.bsky.social & @ueberdruss.bsky.social
Day 1 & 2 ⬇️
Green Capitalism – A New Regime of Accumulation? - KTB
Conference in cooperation with Centre Marc Bloch and Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig
criticaltheoryinberlin.de
November 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Really bummed I can't be with comrades to present at the Green Capitalism conference in Berlin due to stupid visa stuff.
Incredible group of people here.
Incredible group of people here.
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Hello butterflies! The brilliant & generous @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social spoke in my #Ecomedia class today about their fabulous new book. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear smart political people centre class in discussions of #environmentalism & #climate - thank you both!
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Hello butterflies! The brilliant & generous @vijaykol.bsky.social & @avansi.bsky.social spoke in my #Ecomedia class today about their fabulous new book. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear smart political people centre class in discussions of #environmentalism & #climate - thank you both!
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Mein Gott this cover goes hard!
November 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Mein Gott this cover goes hard!
Every time I sit down to revise something: "Ohhh, I think I know the next thing I want to write after this".
November 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Every time I sit down to revise something: "Ohhh, I think I know the next thing I want to write after this".
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Following in the footsteps of giants 🫡 popula.com/2019/02/18/h...
November 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Following in the footsteps of giants 🫡 popula.com/2019/02/18/h...
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In our latest, Beatrice & @city.bsky.social speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.
on.soundcloud.com/ny6qsdvGjBVb...
on.soundcloud.com/ny6qsdvGjBVb...
Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (11/14/24)
Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.
on.soundcloud.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM
In our latest, Beatrice & @city.bsky.social speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.
on.soundcloud.com/ny6qsdvGjBVb...
on.soundcloud.com/ny6qsdvGjBVb...